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PR Lessons From The Biggest Failures of 2023

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

By Monday, most of OpenAI’s rank-and-file employees were threatening to follow them. Target found itself in a somewhat similar situation when anti-LGBTQ customers criticized its Pride Month displays, in some cases trashing store merchandise and harassing employees. It was a lose-lose.

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How The Right PR Makes Better Business Deals

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Although some call it “free advertising,” public relations isn’t free. Some executives are reluctant to share their end game, due to the unpredictability of market conditions or because they don’t want employees to be unsettled. The campaign issued a call-to-action for users to “Break Up With Your Bank.”

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PR Golden Turkey Awards, 2022

Flack's Revenge

For Sam Bankman-Fried and his crypto exchange FTX, the simple answer is that a leaked balance sheet leads your biggest rival… to instigate a sort of “bank run”… exposing billions of dollars in shortfalls you apparently created by riskily investing money that wasn’t yours. And he really does know what he is doing here.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons for Leaders

Reputation Us

Whether or not Musk succeeds remains to be seen, but behind those headlines is a mission-oriented strategy, a performance initiative, and a customer plan that bank and credit union leaders should learn from. Bank and credit union leaders are looking on — perhaps in horror, perhaps in amusement — but they do look on.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

Year of the employee. 2022 is going to be known as the year of the employee. Qualified employees are scarce, and companies recognize that they need to be seen as great places to work and thrive as well as strong brands. But it’s employee retention and engagement that will take priority. Fast-vertising.

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Helsinki, Finland – Growth Path Ahead

Landis PR

According to the Bank of Finland’s March 2024 interim forecast , GDP will contract by 0.5% It is not advisable to have an employee of a communications firm present in the interview situation. Finland’s most listened-to radio channel is Yle Radio Finland , which is not an advertising-funded channel.

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PR Touts The Season’s Top Turkeys

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The bank had pressured salespeople to cross-sell to customers. Management compounded the bad news by seeming to blame employees. Now the bank is clawing its way back into the public’s good graces beginning with folksy new advertising. Ultimately, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf stepped down under intense pressure.