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Guest Post: 4 Reasons #PR Pros Need Customer Service Skills

Deirdre Breakenridge

During my career, I have noticed that one particular skill is often overlooked when it comes to training new PR pros and that is customer service. You might wonder what has customer service to do with PR? 4 reasons PR pros need customer service skills: Put yourself in their shoes.

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8 Surprising Reasons To Raise Your Internal Communications Game

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It can be easy for a corporate PR team to neglect a critical aspect of business communications — internal PR. 8 reasons to invest in internal PR. Internal communications initiatives that foster engagement become even more critical when colleagues are spread across the city, or even the country. Employees have great ideas.

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The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

Owned Media & Content Strategy Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. Messaging & Positioning Having a clear brand established, along with representation of your values and mission statement, has never been more important.

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The 21 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. Having a clear brand established, along with representation of your values and mission statement, has never been more important. Internal Communications. Media Training.

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The 20 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

The flipside of earned media is owned media: publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, Medium publication, and the like. A subset of corporate communications work, developing, documenting, and disseminating overarching corporate messaging is key to building a strong brand with a consistent message.

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Purpose Driven Branding

5W PR

While some brands like Ben & Jerry’s, Timberland, and Nike have been espousing various causes for years, recent events have greatly accelerated this movement, among many others. 93% believed that brand purpose would increase consumer trust and loyalty, while 88% felt doing so would differentiate them from their competition.

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More on PR2020: social media activism, internal comms resurgence, storytelling and professionalism

Stephen Waddington

There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. Social media activism: brands don’t listen In 2012 Steve Earl and I wrote a book called Brand Anarchy. Brand shaming has become commonplace. I’ve developed each of these themes below.