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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. I’d say that sums it up pretty well.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

I believe when people write predictions, they aren’t just saying what they think will happen but revealing a reflection of sorts. As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. To put it another way, predictions are equal parts analysis and aspiration. Blogger outreach gets personal.

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Traditional Link Building Approaches that Work in 2024 with Aaron Anderson

Buzzstream

When ideating content to pitch for link building, the content needs to be appealing to those who can actually give you links (not just appealing to your readers.) When pitching, never lie. It’s generally OK to pitch to sites that accept guest posts or contributors, but avoid sites that advertisewrite for us” all over the site (e.g.,

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Stu Opperman, APR

Solo PR Pro

After a decade in radio, Stu was in the market for a professional life that offered more stability, and made the leap to PR pro, eventually working his way up the ranks at an advertising-dominant agency based in South Florida. I didn’t have money in the bank or a fancy business plan.

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12 Things You Should do to Amplify a Media Mention Once You’ve Earned It

Sword and the Script

Even the advertisers are aiming for a bigger investment in PR. This is easy fodder to write a blog post on the same topic from a different angle and yet also weave in the story you worked so hard to earn. I suggest writing different headlines and freshening up the copy with new data where applicable. It probably does.

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Will humans have to re-write AI’s draft of history? 42 marketing and communications predictions for 2024

Sword and the Script

Traditional journalists and publishers still chafe at such practices, but as the economics of publishing become ever more challenging, particularly for niche industry trade publications, editors will increasingly turn to this practice in order to attract advertisers and pay the bills.” ~ Tom Pick , Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity LLC 12.

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Meet the Media: John Baxter, Freelance Writer

Bianchi Biz Blog

I work out of my home and call my freelance writing business Baxter TechWrite. Today, the majority of articles I write are for Transport Topics , but I have also worked on four different Confidence Reports for NACFE , the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. Hence my desire to write such a piece.

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