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5 Reasons You Might Need to Issue a Press Release

PR Fuel

They get picked up by local and national publications, help journalists, and allow you to control your messaging. Often, this is announcing a new product, service, or opportunity. This may be a new line of clothing, an expanded list of services, or the release of a brand-new product that you’ve been working on for months.

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How to Prepare a PR Crisis Plan

Prohibition

A PR crisis is a negative story about your brand that threatens the reputation of your organisation, causes reputational damage, or negatively impacts sales or stock value. In today’s world, a negative story about your brand or organisation could go viral in an instant. Your brand could be dragged through the mud.

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Hopes, Dreams and Sage Advice: 40+ Marketing and PR predictions for 2023

Sword and the Script

a) Many community newspapers going away and hopefully still being available in some kind of online format. They enable consumer brand marketers to connect with influencers who have large followings on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, in a straightforward transactional manner. My own predictions are listed at the very bottom.

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Taking the collective temperature of Italian females in PR

PR Conversations

Within common PR parlance, this frequently implies female practitioners spend much of their time participating in high-profile events (such as product-launch dinners and cocktail parties), including being typecast as bubbly and even flirtatious. However, PR people can play a leading role in the process and give voice to the cause.

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5 Lessons Marketers Can Learn from the Popeyes/Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich Twitter Wars

MaccaPR

Not since Wendy’s lambasted rivals McDonald’s and Burger King with its “Where’s the Beef” TV spots has brand vs. brand combat so entranced consumers. Notably, the chain’s African-American fan base responded spontaneously, celebrating their affection for the brand. 5 – Prepare For Success While Your Brand Gets Ready for Disaster.

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Blogging vs. Press Releases vs. Coverage; Unscripted Marketing Links

Sword and the Script

Earlier this week I used two free online tools test a hunch and audit the social shares and traffic to three communications vehicles used as part of the announcement: 1) a CMI blog post; 2) a UBM press release; and 3) traditional news to coverage in a highly credible local business publication. The brand is the gatekeeper.