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

Sword and the Script

It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. For example, there have been numerous surveys and a pile of anecdotal evidence that CMOs are bringing more marketing work in-house. So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? The In-House Effects on Law Firms.

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How the APR Changed My Future

PRSay

As co-chair of PRSA’s marketing committee for Accreditation in Public Relations, I receive many questions from peers about the credential: How does the APR make you a better communicator? We sold Eos to a regional marketing organization. Elyse Hammett, APR, is co-chair of PRSA’s Accreditation Marketing Committee.

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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. There are a lot of PR myths about content marketing , but the fact remains, it’s a genuine opportunity to fill an information gap and build an audience. In other words, well-executed content marketing helps you develop an additional platform to communicate with reporters.

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

PRSay

Says Terrie Williams, president, the Terrie Williams Agency in New York: “D. Williams, a 2001 recipient of the D. Gibson published The Gibson Report , a marketing guide on the Black consumer market, and Race Relations and Industry , a periodic report on equal-opportunity compliance, publications that Dukes found invaluable. “D.

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Public Relations and COVID-19: Studies Surface Challenges, Changes and Optimism  

Sword and the Script

Several surveys offer a glimpse into the collective thinking of the public relations community – and that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links (UML). About: Ragan surveyed 315 PR professionals across organizations including corporations, agencies, non-profits and government. How will it change PR and communications?

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Meltwater Quietly Goes IPO [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

The If my exchange conversion math is right, the company raised about $400 million and had a market capitalization of roughly $1.4 However, the exchange posted an announcement and YouTube video , which contained some interesting facts: Jørn Lyseggen founded Meltwater “in shack number 15 on Tjuvholmen, Oslo in 2001.”.

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2021 Solo PR Pro Premium Member Accomplishments

Solo PR Pro

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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