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This Semrush Acquisition of Backlinko hits PR, SEO and Content Marketing Trifecta [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Semrush did the inverse: the SEO software company acquired the European PR software Prowly in 2020. He joins the newly formed company from the data site Statista which grew to 1,200 employees from just five in 2009 while he was employed there. OnePitch lists some of the major communications conferences for 2002. * * *.

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Selfish Altruism: Ned Lundquist on Origins of the JOTW and an Appeal to Take the Annual Comms Survey

Sword and the Script

It seemed like any ordinary day in August of 2002. It was a nascent consulting firm I had joined just four months earlier as the second or third employee (I can’t remember which). If you’d like to see the results of previous surveys, you can find them on SlideShare: 2018 edition , 2019 edition , 2020 edition and 2021 edition.

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Mirror Review Magazine: Maxim Behar's Great Success from a Machinery Worker to a Global Entrepreneur

Maxim Behar

Maxim too was awarded the Best PR professional in Europe in 2020. In 2002, M3 Communications Group, Inc. He changed the way business operated so that no client was lost and no employee was laid-off. Great recognitions which mark successful stops on the journey to the top, which is different and higher every year, ” he continues.

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Look up, don’t look down. Think ‘reputation in the round’

PR in High Definition

I wish I’d known that in 2002 but it was still a useful learning in 2012. Reputations are largely built by the experiences and interactions we hear from others — customers, partners, media, investors, employees, candidates… even through trusted ‘robots’ fuelled by the sentiment of others, like Google search, Alexa and Siri!