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Agency metrics for sustainable growth and profitability

Stephen Waddington

What does good management look like in an agency? to help entrepreneurs to build and grow sustainable agencies. We’ve built a small portfolio of owner managed agencies. Financial metrics Turnover – headline revenue number typically made up of fee or project income Staff costs – the most significant cost in operating an agency.

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Meet PRSA Board of Directors Nominee Jeff Wilson, APR

PRSay

Current title : Vice President, Agency Marketing and Promotion, Padilla. The agency I work with has always been extremely supportive of PRSA. I finally joined the Richmond board in 2007, when the president that year, Jill Vaughn, APR, asked me to chair the Diversity Committee. Name : Jeff Wilson, APR. Location : Richmond, Va.

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What’s Trending for 2023?

PRSay

ESG and your agency. As more companies realize the benefit of DEI in hiring and work groups, so should your agency. Agencies must start at the internship level. Most agencies know nonprofit organizations that could benefit from some initial pro-bono PR or social media assistance. How can you boost your staff’s diversity?

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How This PRSSA Chapter Virtually Connected Recruiters With Students for Annual Career Fair

PRSay

The City College of New York’s (CCNY) advertising/PR program and our PRSSA Chapter faced a parallel challenge this month in recreating our annual Building Bridges career fair to connect talented ad and PR majors with agency recruiters seeking a pipeline of diverse talent for jobs and internships. It was a formidable team effort.

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The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

1906–2007 The one-time ubiquitous emblem of classic PR, the press release, has technically been dead for a while now. An admittedly arbitrary but still plausibly precise date pinpointing the press release’s death might be November 6, 2007 — the day when Facebook launched its then vastly obscure, and today vastly dominant, Facebook Pages.

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Join #PRStudChat on February 22nd for a Career Day Twitter Chat

Deirdre Breakenridge

ET, the #PRStudChat community will gather to discuss the different opportunities in PR from owning your own business to agency PR and in-house communications for an organization. Joe attended Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey where he graduated with a degree in Marketing in 2007. On Wednesday, February 22nd, at 8:30 p.m.

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“Join the conversation”–officially a dead internet phrase

Communications Conversations

” It’s a phrase that’s been ubiquitous since social media blew up in 2007-2008. It’s been used in countless agency pitches. This is what Twitter was like from about 2007-2010. “Join the conversation.” It’s been used in marketing campaigns. And, as of Sept. You share ideas. In real time.

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