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Junk Mail, Junk News

Bad Pitch Blog

For years, many COMPANY locations have relied on their local Valpak franchise to create and deliver advertising campaigns to area consumers. In 2006, over 17 million COMPANY savings offers were mailed to consumers through the familiar blue Valpak envelope. With that in mind, we are very proud to count COMPANY as a part of this program.”

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

It’s hard to believe, the company’s roots can be traced back to those old Bacon’s books printed in Chicago, or even a press clipping service out of Sweden, before that. based provider of briefings for corporate and government executives, for $71.8 9) June 19, 2017: Capital Acquisition Corporation III. Capital Acquisition Corp.

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Marketing has Gotten Better as a Profession; Off Script #29: Tom Pick of Webiquity

Sword and the Script

He’s been an independent consultant since 2006 and helps B2B companies with online marketing. Advertising was extremely expensive. Early on, I worked at a printing technology company where we had a big poster on the wall that said, “Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” A second constant is messaging.

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PR in 2015: The Trouble with Authenticity

Mark My Words

For some of the great blunderers of the year -corporates and celeb-prats- PR’s magical powers were unsurprisingly limited. There was nothing remotely authentic in Thomas Cook ’s eventual pay out to the parents of two children poisoned by a faulty boiler at one of its Greek resorts in 2006. PR can’t polish a turd. A PR success?