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

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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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Remembering D. Parke Gibson, a Passionate Advocate for Race Relations and Public Relations

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Says Terrie Williams, president, the Terrie Williams Agency in New York: “D. Williams, a 2001 recipient of the D. He was brilliant of mind, very creative. “At that time, there were very, very few African Americans operating their own business in communications.”. 1956-59; and promotion director for Sengstacke Publications, 1960.

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

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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. 5) planning and strategy (37%).

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Whose Ideas are Whose? Protecting IP

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Ethical Considerations: Protection of Intellectual Property in Client & Agency/Consultant Relationships. The professional relationship between clients and agencies/consultants often begins with the development of a request for proposals (RFP). One idea is to have an agency or consultant help you develop a strong RFP for bid.

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

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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. Interestingly, a separate study of 400 in-house creatives and marketers by inMotionNow * put award programs at bottom of the list of results that matter. Click To Tweet.

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A Brand Is a Business Risk to be Understood and Managed; Off Script No. 40: Brianna Carroll Boyle

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3) You’ve worked both on the agency and the client side in PR. When I got out of school in 2001, for instance, few of my clients cared about mentions in online outlets. While communicators require creativity and freedom, they also need to be managed and measured against specific objectives.

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