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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Susan Stoga

Solo PR Pro

It was in that role where she had her first experience owning crisis communications for a major brand, when the retailer came under fire on Black Friday by an anti-fur demonstration group. Since then, the firm has withstood the test of time, making it through The Great Recession from 2007 to 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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6 Twin Cities women with amazing PR, comms and marketing career journeys

Communications Conversations

Her start : Public relations intern with Fleishman Hillard. Her start : Talent resources intern at Fallon. Holly is now the vice president of corporate branding and partnerships at Polaris. Her start : Special events intern, Science Museum of Minnesota. Thomas in 2007-2008. LeeAnn Rasachak. Holly Spaeth.

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Meet the Media: Erica Schueller, Editorial Director, Commercial Vehicle Group at Endeavor Business Media

Bianchi Biz Blog

The Endeavor Commercial Vehicle Group is comprised of six CV brands: FleetOwner, Fleet Maintenance, Trailer/Body Builders, Bulk Transporter, Refrigerated Transporter, and American Trucker. I work with the lead editors of each CVG brand to support implementation and continuation of consistent internal processes.

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PR Rock Stars: Trane’s Heidi McGuire

Communications Conversations

That work ended a couple years ago, but I knew I wanted to stay closely connected with Heidi so I invited her to be a part of a corporate communicator mastermind group I manage. Many jobs in the comms world require you to manage a broad mix of internal AND external communications. Let’s hear more from this Rock Star.

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How Elon Musk built global brands with zero marketing

The Hoffman Agency

We live in a world where the success of huge brands is pegged to high-functioning marketing campaigns, well-thought out slogans, and witty, heart-warming advertisements. Again, another organisation would probably have brought up the customer complaint internally, discussed it over weeks, formed a solution to the problem, and implemented it.

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

Table 1: James Grunig and Todd Hunt’s Four Models of Public Relations (1984) Excellence Theory The so-called Excellence Theory[ii] developed over the next decade as a result of a research programme commissioned by the Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 1984.

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From classroom to boardroom – crisis management lessons from the auto industry

PR Conversations

As a result, crisis communication becomes international” That’s what interested me, because although such major disasters are relatively rare, it is now possible for a single social media update (Tweet, photograph or video) to cause a global crisis for any organisation.