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What Shadow Banking Means for Your Financial Services PR Program

Shift Communications

According to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the market share of shadow banks in the mortgage market nearly tripled from 2007-2015. Shadow bank origination shares as a fraction of total originations for all mortgages in HMDA between 2007 and 2015. Take small business lending, for example.

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How Can Professional Speakers Perfect PR to Book More Gigs?

wiredPRworks

A PR pro's pro for leading agencies, Barbara hosted Ultimate PR Secrets, the world's first virtual PR conference, in 2007. Barbara leads CoryWest Media and publishes wiredPRworks.com , a top 50 PR blog with over 1200 free marketing and PR articles. She loves to entertain, especially in front of audiences.

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The Volume of Bad PR Pitches is Out of Control

Sword and the Script

Since 2007 or so I’ve managed blogs professionally – PR has changed – and eventually starting this one here. Next I blamed well intended but misguided small business owners. A Blogging Perspective. In that time, the volume of bad PR pitches I receive has grown to epic proportions and these tend to be disproportionately awful.