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Survey: Most PR Pros Say that Media Relations is Getting Harder – Here’s What You Can Do About It

Deirdre Breakenridge

3) Augment media relations with content marketing. As I wrote for an IABC feature in Communication World , my epiphany with content came years ago, when a pitch I thought was timely and relevant fell on deaf ears. This isn’t just a tactical application. If you are involved in media relations, studying the media is imperative.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? I’d like to believe, PR agencies that specialized in crisis communications can identify here.

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2021 Solo PR Pro Premium Member Accomplishments

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The agency beat Atrium Health and another smaller comms firm to take top honors in the category for their work on a three-month campaign for Pat's Place Child Advocacy Center. When she started her business in the summer of 2001, she was pregnant, had just been laid off following the dot-com crash, and had no idea what the future would hold.

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Forget “Better PR” — The PR Industry Needs Education

Doctor Spin

Let me explain: Table of Contents. After the dot-com bubble in 2000-2001, the Internet slowed down. Today, SEO (like SEM) is considered a form of marketing instead of earned and owned communication. And the list goes on: There’s inbound marketing , not inbound communications. But we’ve already messed up.

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The PR Industry Needs More Than Just Better PR

Doctor Spin

After the dot-com bubble in 2000-2001, the Internet slowed down. Today, SEO is beside SEM considered a form of marketing instead of a form of earned and owned communication. And the list goes on: There’s inbound marketing , not inbound communications. There’s email marketing , not email communications.

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Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder

Sword and the Script

It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work.

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New Survey Identifies the Hottest Trends in Corp Comm and PR; Announcing the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Sword and the Script

Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. Ned is a retired senior naval officer who launched the “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR pros looking for work. The 2018 JOTW Communications Survey from Frank Strong.

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