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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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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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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.

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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. ” Great question.

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Corporate PR Index: Two Cool New Indices Track Corporate Reputations and Risk Exposure to Misinformation [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

He told me the company has been in business for roughly 9 years, has 220 employees, 750 clients and has raised $100 million in funding. As I write this the brand most exposes to misinformation risk include Tesla, JP Morgan, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Disney. It was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2006. Content picks.

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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. Vocus had, in years prior, acquired brands including PRWeb for $28 million in 2006, Help a Reporter Out, aka HARO, for an undisclosed sum in 2010 , and iContact, for $169 million in 2012. Terms are not disclosed.

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How to Get On in New Communications: Be Nice

ZudePR

Enlightened Self-Interest: The Pitch Email. For me, as a local government employee, there are clear political boundaries. Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author (Everybody Writes), keynote speaker, and the world’s first chief content officer (MarketingProfs). “Writing makes me aware. I wrote: 1.