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Forget “Better PR” — The PR Industry Needs Education

Doctor Spin

Let me explain: Table of Contents. Social media began to emerge with behemoths like Facebook, founded in 2004 and Twitter in 2006. How Marketing Kicked Our PR Ass. Today, SEO (like SEM) is considered a form of marketing instead of earned and owned communication. But traditional education is slow and time-consuming.

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The PR Industry Needs More Than Just Better PR

Doctor Spin

Social media began to emerge with behemoths like Facebook founded in 2004 and Twitter in 2006. Why Marketing Over Communications? Today, SEO is beside SEM considered a form of marketing instead of a form of earned and owned communication. And the list goes on: There’s inbound marketing , not inbound communications.

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Addressing the talent challenge in PR – finding stability in volatile times

PR Conversations

Calculating a demography for public relations is incredibly unreliable, but data for 2004/2005 suggested two percent of PR practitioners in the UK work in small consultancies or self-employed. Scope volatility. Given the forms of volatility we spoke about earlier, the answer is to make better use of independent practitioners.

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