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Board members with marketing experience improve shareholder returns by 3% [benchmark]

Sword and the Script

of boards have directors with marketing experience, but 100% have directors with finance experience Companies that have board members with marketing experience outperform companies that do not. That’s the high-level finding of an academic study titled, When and How Does Board-Level Marketing Experience Impact Firm Performance ?

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Part 2: The Risk and Value of Corporate Reputation

Reputation Us

Later series will explore 3) influencers and marketing; 4) customer loyalty; and 5) staff retention. PART 2 (of 5) – Reputation Value and Risk Insurance companies increasingly recognizing a solid corporate reputation as a valuable and insurable asset. Next Part…Influencers & Marketing.

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Did we blow our chance to change the marketing world with social media?

Communications Conversations

Army blog, one of the early and powerful case studies for transparency and authenticity in “corporate” blogging, and a case study I remember well from the early days. After all, consider the following: MySpace was the dominant social media platform in 2007. YouTube was just two years old! Transformative, for sure.

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Don’t Miss The Gen-Z Driven PR Opportunity In 2024

The Hoyt Organization

Understanding The Gen-Z Market Advertisers and marketers will need a unique approach to capture the attention of this tech-savvy audience. The lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic changed their social behavior and interactions, and the great recession between 2007 and 2009 impacted their views of money and fiscal responsibility.

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The Magical PR Strategy Question

Doctor Spin

The Magical PR Question keeps your strategy laser-focused on what truly matters—differentiating your brand in the market. “Competitiveness is derived from permanent infrastructural characteristics of organizational design, rather than just relying on temporary strategic assets.” Source: Strategic Change 1 Connor, T. Drive creative solutions.

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Unlocking the strategic potential of internal communications

Wadds Inc.

It supports an organisation in dealing with a range of operational issues depending on its geographic location, market sector, operating context, as well as societal and political issues. The ECM has been conducted annually since 2007 and is the largest of its kind worldwide. It’s measured by means of employee engagement. At Wadds Inc.

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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.