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7 Important Principles Of Media Coverage Every Business Needs To Know

Polaris

If you want editorial coverage for your cereal brand, first target the media who typically write about food. When something major happens, such as the Boston Marathon bombings or 9/11, media are totally consumed. In September 2001, I was working on a credit card launch for a Canadian bank.

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Notified by Intrado is a Promising PR Software Tool that Supports 5 Central Duties in Public Relations [PR Tech Briefing]

Sword and the Script

Its parent company has re-branded, rolled out integrations to other PR tech products it has acquired, and formally launched Notified in the US at a PR conference late last year. If you spend a lot of time in these systems, a little thing like clicking around becomes tedious and time-consuming. 2) Listen: simple searches and monitoring.

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Our Industry, Your Answers: Breaking Down the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Waxing UnLyrical

Regardless of the organization or industry you serve, corporate communications and PR can be a time-consuming, workday-busting affair with little or no set schedule. Anything is Easy if You Try Hard Enough. And while powerful tools are constantly being developed for our trade, some things are just becoming much harder to accomplish. “For

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Putting PR on the Table for Minority Students

PRSay

After a lot of persistence, I was offered a PR internship with the San Francisco 49ers during their 2001 summer training camp. He’s likely most known for being hired by Coca-Cola in 1948 to lead the company’s postwar advertising campaign to target African-American consumers since it wasn’t a popular beverage among them at that time.

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6 Pro Tips to Create Bigger Buzz for Your Business

Cision

Birchbox has a cascade of triggers to perpetuate the consumer relationship. The samples (and email campaigns) trigger her to buy (Birchbox sells consumer products online). Over 900,000 Reserve and National Guard troops have been mobilized to active duty status since 9/11/2001. Who doesn’t want to talk about that?

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CSR Trends for PR and Media Relations Professionals

Cision

In 2001, France was one of the first countries to require CSR reporting, though initial compliance was low. In the 1990s, consumer and advocacy groups aggressively targeted organizations about CSR in their supply chains, and this trend has only intensified since then. Governments and stock exchanges are even requiring CSR reporting.

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

In a paper for the Journal of Public Relations Research[v] Michael Karlberg makes the case that the Excellence Theory is overly concerned with consumers as a primary audience. In fact head to Google, or any other search engine, and type the name of your favourite brand of tea or coffee. I’m a PG Tips drinker myself.