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

Sword and the Script

However, the company did raise $140 million in cash, minus expenses, according to Seeking Alpha. Either way, every PR pro should want to know when their company or client earns a new backlink. Linkfluence was founded in 2006 has 150 employees in seven offices, with headquarters in Paris. million of red ink on $92.01

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

Polaris

If you don’t, your company could be burned, as mine was when Google’s Penguin update came along in 2012. 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.

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Times' Hansell Turns to Bad Pitch For a WTF!

Bad Pitch Blog

New York Times'' Technology reporter Saul Hansell sent us a worse-than-usual pitch that we have been baffled by. Something got us thinking: “Does anyone read what they write?!” So anyway, think about this: Now someone who gets pitched EVERYTHING will have an opportunity to say “Look what I have” on his own blog.

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

Ethical Voices

I founded Kwittken in 2006, sold it in 2010 to MDC Partners, which is now Stagwell. Then a couple years ago with Stagwell and Mark Penn, I founded a company called Prophet, which is the first SaaS platform for PR people that uses AI to predict media interest, sentiment and spread before you pitch. I’m not a developer.

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Creative Use of ProfNet Gets Ink

Bad Pitch Blog

The Bad Pitch Blog is awarding Glinda, our good pitch badge of honor, to The Morris + King Company for turning ProfNet’s value add into a publicity opp for their firm. Here are excerpts from the news release: THE MORRIS + KING COMPANY ISSUES BEST PROFNET QUERIES OF THE YEAR Plumbers and Paparazzi Photographers Unite!!!

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Burrito Pitch Makes Star Tribune Reporter Sick

Bad Pitch Blog

Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Randy Salas has sent us two bad pitches. Wade is now a health enthusiast who shares extensively researched principles that can make a significant difference in the lives of your audience, too! ### If you wish not to receive future e-mails from COMPANY, click here: URL Why does it suck?

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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

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. While that’s arguably true, depending on when you start the timeline, the reality is there were several more involved in the formation of the company as it stands today. 2a) June 2, 2014: Vocus + Cision.