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The Top 10 PR Tech Vendors by Familiarity and Favorability

Sword and the Script

If you are a vendor that was not mentioned, and you have a focus on PR and corporate communications, contact me and I’ll add you to the list here and put you on the list for this survey question next year. . The ever-evolving nature of the PR/social/corporate reporting structure [Arik Hanson]. Image credit: Unsplash.

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Our Industry, Your Answers: Breaking Down the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Waxing UnLyrical

Corporate communications and PR can be a lonely business of sorts. As communicators, we are sometimes holed up in self-imposed exile creating content for others to deliver on ever-shrinking budgets. Corporate communications is a fire marshal and not a fire chief. Guest Post by Scott Kaminski. Or are we? Let’s hit it.

Survey 74
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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. You have to keep in mind, big corporations can have hundreds of law firms on what they call a “panel.”

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Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder

Sword and the Script

Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. content marketing (64%). 3 PR Trends in Tactics, Measurement and Organization.

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Survey: Most PR Pros Say that Media Relations is Getting Harder – Here’s What You Can Do About It

Deirdre Breakenridge

3) Augment media relations with content marketing. As I wrote for an IABC feature in Communication World , my epiphany with content came years ago, when a pitch I thought was timely and relevant fell on deaf ears. This isn’t just a tactical application. If you are involved in media relations, studying the media is imperative.

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Forget “Better PR” — The PR Industry Needs Education

Doctor Spin

Let me explain: Table of Contents. After the dot-com bubble in 2000-2001, the Internet slowed down. Today, SEO (like SEM) is considered a form of marketing instead of earned and owned communication. And the list goes on: There’s inbound marketing , not inbound communications. But we’ve already messed up.

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The PR Industry Needs More Than Just Better PR

Doctor Spin

After the dot-com bubble in 2000-2001, the Internet slowed down. Today, SEO is beside SEM considered a form of marketing instead of a form of earned and owned communication. And the list goes on: There’s inbound marketing , not inbound communications. There’s email marketing , not email communications.