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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. The in-housing trend in PR isn’t entirely surprising. The In-House Effects on Law Firms.

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Paying for the destruction of public relations

PR Conversations

In 2001, a British installation artist, Michael Landy, won a commission for his work, Break Down, that involved the destruction of all his possessions as a reaction to the consumerist society. Fifteen years later, as Davis has noted, promotional practice has become ubiquitous.

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Weekly Roundup: The Magic of Discovery

Waxing UnLyrical

Youre right: blogrolls are static backwaters and I tend to favor those whove been blogging about public relations longer (I started in 2001) - and miss out on some new and interesting voices. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Wanna Subscribe? Shall We Tweet?

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Forget “Better PR” — The PR Industry Needs Education

Doctor Spin

After the dot-com bubble in 2000-2001, the Internet slowed down. On the Internet today, everything is marketing and paid — except perhaps for Wikipedia and a few remaining journalists not hiding behind paywalls. How Marketing Kicked Our PR Ass. And the list goes on: There’s inbound marketing , not inbound communications.

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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. On the Internet today, everything is marketing, and everything is paid—except perhaps for Wikipedia and a few remaining journalists not hiding behind paywalls. Why Marketing Over Communications? There’s email marketing , not email communications.

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How to Spy on Your Competition and Steal Their Secrets

Beyond PR

The global digital economy has produced an avalanche of content and the battle for mind and market share is no longer local. If you want to see who are seen as the best both by data and peer review, then typing a search term, such as “Top Content Marketers,” will be revealing. See how they market online. Don’t just stop there.