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7 Lessons Every Marketer Can Learn From The CrossFit Instagram Crisis

MaccaPR

The gym owner insisted these acts were “light hearted and fun” and defended his posts on radio as “we were having fun.we One defender of the gym owner protested: "it was never intended to be posted to Facebook or go ‘viral.’" What about a local gym owner posting photos of members stretching upside down in their black spandex?

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6 Pro Tips to Create Bigger Buzz for Your Business

Cision

The Betamax was a better quality product than VHS, the Zune had better features than the iPod, Ani DiFranco is a qualitatively better songwriter than nearly everyone on the radio today. For the uninitiated, Pump It Up is a franchise of locally-owned inflatable gyms, each with unique ancillary features. Something else was going on.

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How to Spy on Your Competition & Steal Their Secrets

Cision

The global digital economy has produced an avalanche of content and the battle for mind and market share is no longer local. In the past (I am talking pre-web), it was hard to know unless you asked your customers, poached a competitor’s employee or searched through their garbage bins. Implement viral marketing tactics.

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Lake Forest Chamber of Commerce Livecast talking Crisis PR

The Stalwart Blog

If you’ve been watching any of the local media, you know that PR crises can take place. Maybe it’s an employee claim against the supervisor, or maybe it’s an errant rogue, a Yelp review. I listen to a few radio stations throughout the day, and they always do this. They’re just looking for news blurbs.

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

MaccaPR

Fried Chicken Sandwich battle went viral on Twitter — and led to a complete sell-out of the sandwich in all 2,400 Popeyes stores across the U.S. Marketing and PR professionals marveled at how Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen turned an online duel with rival Chick-fil-A into $65 million in “free" advertising this past August when its.

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The Top 50 Social Media Influencers on Twitter

Cision

7 Ways to Make Your Tweets Go #Viral – [link] by @douglasi #twitter pic.twitter.com/dfyOaIOiuf. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. CEO of Likeable Local. Influencer, marketing & social media pro, social selling expert, speaker, author, radio show host.

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5 Business Press Hits & The PR Strategy Behind Them

Shift Communications

A CEO who gives his employees $2,000 to go on vacation says people are more productive than ever , Business Insider. A brief mention in a local blog, where client SteelHouse’s $2,000 vacation stipend was referenced, immediately struck me as PR gold. This Business Insider article was a matter of that.