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The State of Social Media: a new eBook from SHIFT

Shift Communications

Few things matter more to digital marketers than social media. In just a decade, social media has become one of the dominant marketing and communications channels. We’ve mined insights for marketers and communicators about changes in the social media landscape. Marketing Analyst. What new innovations arose?

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3 Signs You’re Hiring a PR Agency Rock Star

Polaris

If your business is hiring a PR agency , you’ll want to hire a rock star—not a PR wannabe. When hiring a PR agency look for an inquisitive team who asks about your objectives, the competitive landscape, your marketing plan (including creative executions), and your customers. 3: Ability to work with other agency partners.

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Borrowing Trust: The Surprising New Marketing Role of Citizen Influencers

Cision

Digital marketing success is fueled by creating great content and building a targeted audience, but there’s a third piece missing from that equation—ignition. The key idea here is that the economic value of content marketing does not come from content. Aligning a brand with a celebrity is the oldest type of influence marketing.

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How Snowden Changed Security Communications for the C-Level

Shift Communications

SHIFT has had the pleasure of representing a variety of security vendors (both public and startup) over the years, and we’ve noticed a significant change in the market temperature over the past 12 months. The very nature of security, its definition and importance to every enterprise and global markets, has fundamentally changed.

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What Challenges Do Comms Professionals Face Going into 2018?

Cision

The organization type and discipline also impacted this metric: PR agencies are seeing the biggest budget cuts, followed by marketing agencies, in-house teams and communications firms. It’s a bigger problem in China and Sweden, as well as with PR agencies, according to the survey. So what’s the solution?

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PR and marketing: What’s the difference?

Public Relations Sydney

As PR professionals we are often asked how public relations (PR) differs from marketing. Target audiences : Marketing aims to reach current and potential customers, whereas public relations is all about maintaining positive relationships with anyone who has an interest in the organisation or brand.

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PR and the Marketing Technology Skills Gap

Shift Communications

Keeping pace with the rate of change in marketing technology has become a full time job. We started to notice the move towards more widespread marketing technology adoption in our client base in the last 18 months. In order to arm our staff with the necessary skills we designed our Marketing Technology Immersion program.