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Up Your Intel With LinkedIn

Shift Communications

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of our latest eBook, ‘LinkedIn for Businesses & Brands.’ Our eBook walks through seven core ways brands can use LinkedIn, from the very first steps to utilizing groups, advertising and more. Local Business Prospects and Networking Opportunities. See the image below.).

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Your PR Campaign is Too Short

Doctor Spin

To mitigate this weakness, the mass media had to rely on various forms of advertising to enable their editorial efforts. So, the audience pays for content with their attention, advertisers pay for attention with their money, and the editorial outlet pays their staff with ad revenue. It was a great time to advertise.

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Email Newsletter Subscribers or Blog Subscribers: Which is Better?

Polaris

Perhaps the best example of “interruptive” marketing (or outbound marketing as it’s also called) is the call you received from the local duct cleaner just as you’re sitting down to dinner. You can’t blast out a link to your latest ebook. You can’t email an invitation to a local speaking gig.

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Shep Gordon: “Make Parents Angry”

Doctor Spin

It was an overt challenge to advertising and public promotion norms, fitting perfectly with the rebellious and boundary-pushing brand that Cooper and Gordon were building. Alice Cooper and the snake “Yvonne.” 3 SickThingsUK. The Billboard Incident. Sickthingsuk.co.uk.

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Borrowing Trust: The Surprising New Marketing Role of Citizen Influencers

Cision

In an era where paid advertising access to consumers on television, radio, and print is drying up, influence marketing may become a primary source of consumer connection. In the 1920s, Charlie Chaplin and Babe Ruth became the first celebrity advertisers. 19 percent were piloting a program. 32 percent planned to implement one.

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8 Great Linked Tactics for Communicators

PRSay

To translate this for communications purposes, if the brand is using billboards or other outdoor signage, try finding local bloggers in that neighborhood and pitch them a story or some custom content. The combination of outdoor and a local online presence is quite powerful.

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PR and the Marketing Technology Skills Gap

Shift Communications

In one year, 25% of the junior staff has participated in our MT the program which gives them hands on experience with tools ranging from Google Analytics to Social Advertising, survey best practices and keyword/SEO research. In order to arm our staff with the necessary skills we designed our Marketing Technology Immersion program.