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On January 17th, the #PRStudChat Community Discusses How to Get Strategic With Owned Media

Deirdre Breakenridge

How has pitching media changed? How has that changed agency work? What’s your best pitch-gone-wrong story? Spin Sucks was started in September 2006 by Gini Dietrich , the founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich, an integrated marketing communications firm. How do you ensure that owned media is ethical? Its mission?

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One IPO, One M&A and the Best Media Monitoring Solutions for 2021 [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Linkfluence was founded in 2006 has 150 employees in seven offices, with headquarters in Paris. However, this month, its agency admitted in writing it pitched this blogger on an announcement using Muck Rack, which, in my opinion, is a competitive product. Its software is sold as a subscription-based service.

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Why Every Business Owner Needs to Know a Little Something about SEO

Polaris

Before Penguin, Google ranked my company either at the top, or near the top, of search results for almost every public relations keyword: Toronto PR firm, Canadian public relations agency, top PR firm Ontario, and on. In 2006, we started working with a reputable search company. And we’d held those positions for several years.

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Batter Up: The Bad Pitch From HR!

Bad Pitch Blog

We all know that PR folk are not the only ones who send bad pitches! As we are aware, our HR colleagues pitch all day, every day. When they recruit, what are they doing: they''re pitching. When they announce inevitably negative changes to benefits packages, that''s really a pitch. You get the idea. department lately?

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When Is Your Independence Day?

PRSay

He had been working at a big Los Angeles agency, and when the university recruited him, he told them, “Only if I can surf every morning and not come in ’til 10.” Because 2006 was the year I resolved to get on a path to independence — first in where and when I work, and ultimately if I work. They said yes, because he was that good.

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Ethical Issues in Merging the Science and Art of Public Relations: Aaron Kwittken

Ethical Voices

I spent the last 30+ plus years, mostly in agency PR. I worked for multiple agencies over the years and eventually found my way back to New York. Back in 2010, I left what is now HAVAS as their CEO of North America and I started something called Kwittken, a PR agency. And I’m chair of the agency today.

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There's The Pitch From HR

Bad Pitch Blog

Turns out that PR folk are not the only ones who send bad pitches! As we know, our HR colleagues pitch all day, every day. When they recruit, they’re pitching. When they announce inevitably negative changes to benefits packages, they’re pitching. You get the idea. For assistance, contact your system administrator.