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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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7 Important Principles Of Media Coverage Every Business Needs To Know

Polaris

It was a sad story that pretty much went viral. 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. So there was a happy ending … at least for the workers.

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My Segway Ride

Flatiron Communications

Basically, an obscure mention in a book proposal about a miraculous invention called simply “IT” led to an unimaginable media frenzy at a time when Facebook, Twitter and Instagram could not be counted on to fuel such a viral buzz. This very well could have marked the epochal start of the tech media echo chamber.).

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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. But devising an idea that is meme-friendly that inspires an audience to develop and share so that it goes viral is as tough as it gets.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Those who do not often choose not to own them - either because they do not consume TV media or because they prefer web streaming - rather than for economic reasons, though there are certainly those homes who do not have them purely due to poverty (20). Sets are relatively cheap, and it is estimated that 96.7%

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