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

Sword and the Script

Similarly, and though we don’t use the terminology, big businesses hire panels of marketing agencies too – PR, creative, SEO, social, digital, advertising. Ned launched “ Job of the Week ” (JOTW) email newsletter in 2001 as a free resource for PR and communications professionals looking for work.

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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. Mark as read Approve comment Thanks for the link - but even better, thanks for making contact through the link.

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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. Today, SEO (like SEM) is considered a form of marketing instead of earned and owned communication. PR is in constant flux, and our industry must evolve. But we’ve already messed up. But we can fix everything — by educating ourselves online. We had a window.

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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. Today, SEO is beside SEM considered a form of marketing instead of a form of earned and owned communication. You and I must save the PR industry. PR is in constant flux, and our industry must evolve. But we’ve already messed up. We had a window. And we missed it.

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How to Spy on Your Competition and Steal Their Secrets

Beyond PR

So what does Movoto focus on for SEO? On-page SEO such as keyword research, URL slugs (keywords in the URL), and titles. The rise of the robots has been predicted since we watched HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey” in what was another world in 1968. Search engines keep providing free traffic after the sharing frenzy has died down.