Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 8, 2017

Almost four in 10 respondents to a survey of corporate communications, marketing and industry leaders for CommunicationsMatch’s new PR and Communications Agency Search Report said they were looking to hire new agencies in 2017. That’s a lot of new agencies being hired, but it also means other agencies will be dropped.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Bringing on an external PR agency , or really any outside firm, is an investment of time and budget for any company, no matter its size. Naturally, things will go better for both parties if the agency team gives their all, and the client manages for the best possible outcomes. Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels. Here are some of ours.

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Wadds Inc.

APRIL 26, 2023

Some observations and suggestions for public relations agency managers from our wheelhouse. Public relations agencies have either narrowly hit Q1 business targets or missed them by a small margin. The agency market has switched from being relatively buoyant at the end of Q3 2022 to a slowdown. The slowdown is impacting payments.

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Reputation Us

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As we move toward a new year, ReputationUs encourages keeping your organization’s good reputation at the forefront of your business initiatives. Our annual list of Eight Reputation Enhancement Actions to Take offers guidance for the year ahead. Looking back, 2022 brought in the Year of the Tiger. See our blog for more details.).

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Strategic PR builds reputation Public relations is sometimes mistakenly placed in the marketing bucket. While marketing is focused on driving sales, PR is designed to build trust in a brand or company and grow its reputation. Reputation is also invaluable at the individual level. You need both.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

width="1/1" tablet_width_inherit="default" animation_type="default" bg_image_animation="none" border_type="simple" column_border_width="none" column_border_style="solid"][vc_column_text] Originally seen in Harvard Business Review Over the last year, there has been no shortage of avoidable PR nightmares for leading corporate brands.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

Corporate Communications. Corporate communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates. Corporate communications regularly involves interaction with senior leaders and HR departments. . Internal Communications. Media Training.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s always instructive when PR teams entrusted with managing the reputations of major corporations run into reputation problems of their own. Mega-agency Edelman recently made waves by resigning a lucrative engagement working with for-profit corrections company The GEO Group, a top contractor for ICE.

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5W PR

MARCH 18, 2023

Corporate communication is essential for effective branding and securing external funding. Here are a few tips for using corporate communications to increase investment. To qualify for this, businesses must cultivate a strong reputation and make themselves known to investors through corporate communication.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As any ad or PR agency knows, our budgets are vulnerable when the economy turns soft. PR has unique advantages and challenges, and a suspension can cost more in brand trust and reputation than it saves on paper. Dropping proactive media relations can also pose a reputation risk. Research data offers a more objective view.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 6, 2017

Most companies hire PR agencies to help them get out positive news. What, if anything, can a PR or corporate communications expert do to turn things around? But for ordinary organizations, trivial leaks of internal conversations or information can be problematic. Consider Uber’s rough ride of late. Look at the White House.

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5W PR

AUGUST 23, 2023

Professionals in this field shape and maintain organizational reputations, manage communication strategies, and engage with stakeholders. Public relations specialist PR specialists develop and implement communication strategies to promote and protect client or organizational reputation.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In the workplace, CEOs say, a culture of incivility threatens employee morale and productivity, corporate reputation and revenue. Creative PR, media and internal communicators are qualified to create campaigns based on acts of kindness; communications that go deeper into the human heart.

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Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

We spoke to the leaders of marketing and public relations functions working in agencies and in-house to understand the opportunity for the integration of marketing and public relations. There are different priorities for corporate and financial public relations relative to consumer and trade public relations. That doesn’t make sense.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 24, 2022

The negative reaction caused by unplanned events can quickly snowball into a full-fledged mess, but that’s where a PR agency comes in to provide documentation, analysis and actionable advice to help companies handle their most sensitive high stakes situations with professionalism. For a free consultation, please call 0113 430 4160 now.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We help build and manage reputations. Most of all, we’re a strategic resource for internal and external clients. Prospective clients often tell us that their agency is hard-working, smart, and collegial, but that they simply don’t prioritize top-tier media coverage. We’re counselors to our clients.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 28, 2020

On the agency side, it’s sometimes because the team overpromises in their eagerness to win a new client. Yet corporate PR officers also fall victim to inflated or impractical expectations when their internal clients don’t understand what’s possible. Our job is to educate them in advance about what media need and want.

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PR in High Definition

JULY 21, 2020

It will take a while for eBay’s reputation to recover. Reputations are lost in a flash of lightning and are glacial to move in a positive direction, but progress can be made. I hope eBay appoints a chief reputation officer or an agency to manage and measure the reputational progress forwards.

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Onclusive

APRIL 12, 2018

She joined UL in 2015 and is responsible for brand and marketing strategy, communications, public relations and crisis management, corporate social responsibility, events, customer experience, digital marketing and social media, as well as the marketing organization at large. Kathy: I am the SVP, Chief Marketing Officer at UL.

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Stephen Waddington

APRIL 6, 2022

Societal discord has become a significant risk factor for business, posing a threat to corporate reputation, employee recruitment, and organisational morale. The public relations function has an opportunity to help navigate these issues with activist groups and other internal and external stakeholders.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 16, 2021

Organisational leaders turned to internal communication teams because they recognised the critical role of communication in engaging with staff. According to a poll by the IoIC two-thirds of internal communicators said that leaders looked to them for more guidance during the crisis. Your expertise has never been more in demand.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 5, 2019

Still, the decision to hire a PR agency can be a controversial one for a cash-strapped startup. Yet even if the PR program is executed internally, public relations and influencer marketing can help put a tech company on the map. Credibility is like money in the bank for brand reputation. News creates a market presence.

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5W PR

AUGUST 27, 2021

Public relations, at its core, is a communications industry that strives to maintain a positive public image for brands and corporations, to create brand awareness, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between clients and their audiences, and more. Interns in Public Relations. Crisis Managers. PR Managers.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 22, 2023

For the vast majority of companies, the only announcement that will top a corporate transaction…is another corporate transaction of greater value (or a terrible crisis). Over my career, I’ve worked on internal and external communications – both on the in-house and agency side – for dozens of corporate transactions.

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PR in High Definition

JULY 31, 2020

It will take a while for eBay’s reputation to recover. Reputations are lost in a flash of lightning and are glacial to move in a positive direction, but progress can be made. I hope eBay appoints a chief reputation officer or an agency to manage and measure the reputational progress forwards.

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Landis PR

OCTOBER 11, 2023

By Sean Dowdall Landis Communications is proud to be hosting the Public Relations Global Network’s (PRGN) international membership conference, representing more than 50 communications agencies from around the world in San Francisco from October 18 – 20.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 12, 2018

the concept of two-way internal communications to improve the company’s image after a mine strike massacre. He started the PR agency that still bears his name in 1952. But Edelman really thrived later when his agency built a reputation for creating product marketing events and stunts. Lee also proposed to John D.

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Corporate Mobile Energy Public Affairs 178

Wildfire

JUNE 15, 2018

On Wednesday night I attended the first panel discussion for the PRCA International Communicators Group, which looked at managing multi-market communications programmes from the UK. Successful international campaigns rely on local knowledge and simply translating your company’s messaging or strapline isn’t enough.

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PRSay

JUNE 28, 2021

The truth is that I had been thinking of leaving the corporate world and starting my own firm long before the pandemic hit. My years of experience working in business development and client acquisition at global PR agencies would serve me well over the coming months. Was I too optimistic, or a little bit crazy, after all?

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Working with a PR agency can help you better understand your market, expand your network of valuable connections, bring in fresh ideas and extra resources, and, as a result, run a more successful communications operation. Onboarding your PR agency, and establishing the optimal scope and budget.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 15, 2017

You only get one shot at making a good first impression – and that’s true for corporate apologies too. Somehow as we grow up, those principles we learned as kids are beaten out of our collective corporate being. This is true of messaging, positioning, press releases and corporate apologies. 1) The incomplete corporate apology.

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Landis PR

OCTOBER 11, 2023

By Sean Dowdall Landis Communications is proud to be hosting the Public Relations Global Network’s (PRGN) international membership conference, representing more than 50 communications agencies from around the world in San Francisco from October 18 – 20.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 3, 2019

Senior executives who do not make themselves available for internal reviews, or who don’t participate as corporate spokespersons where needed are sending a message that the program isn’t important, which can hamstring the PR team’s efforts. See our earlier article on how PR agencies set budgets and billing.

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Stephen Waddington

AUGUST 31, 2020

Internally it will focus on the balance of home and office working. Agencies and in-house organisations in smaller organisations started to return to the office before the summer. The has already given rise to a series of new agencies and models. The next four months are likely to be as chaotic as the last eight.

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Wadds Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But as no communicator can be on red alert all the time – as Hartley, founder of crisis training agency Polpeo, points out – being able to tell a short-lived social media controversy from a major real-world business risk is essential. No-one should be surprised that “perma-crisis” was declared Oxford English Dictionary word of the year 2022.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 8, 2017

A few years ago I dropped in on a client’s booth at an industry conference, and the company CEO introduced me – the founder of his company’s public relations agency – as the “publicist.” ” It’s all part of PR’s mixed reputation. ” Who, me, a publicist?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 11, 2020

One reason the press release has a bad reputation is that it’s often drafted by a PR agency or internal officer but touched by many hands along the way, from marketing to legal counsel. Quality writing rises to the top. As a result, some releases are stuffed with jargon and confusing language and read as if written by committee.

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