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Crenshaw Communications Joins Digital Marketing Agency Mod Op

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That’s the question I heard from clients, friends, and PR colleagues when I told them that Crenshaw Communications, the PR firm I founded in 2009, had become part of Mod Op, a leading digital marketing and communications agency. So, I’ve had to spell the name once or twice. ” They take this mantra seriously.

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Why It’s Important to Maintain Marketing and PR Budgets in a Recession

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When the economy goes south, that room goes quiet which offers a marked advantage for businesses that maintain their marketing and PR budgets. . I hope she’s right, but either way, businesses are budgeting for it now, so marketers and PR need to be thinking about how they make the case for their budget. It’s hard to communicate.

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Priorities of B2B Marketing: Owned, Shared, Earned, Paid – in that Order

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And it’s not instructive for setting priorities in marketing. To that end, and assuming there’s a business strategy and marketing strategy in place, those priorities should be as follows: Owned – website, blog, newsletter. Because when marketing invests invest time and budget into owned media, you are building two assets.

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Meltwater acquired as private equity tightens grip on PR software market [PR tech sum no. 47]

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This means they don’t use PR and comms and therefore don’t really understand the market. The company was founded in 2009 and was bootstrapped until 2022 when it closed a $180 million Series A round. Do you need help with B2B tech marketing and PR? PE lacks PR savvy. Is all this PE activity in PR tech good for the PR community?

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Why Tech Is Important To PR

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I saw this firsthand at my last agency, where the early adoption of marketing technology for PR helped our team differentiate and win business, as well as during my time at Propel PRM, a SaaS solution that provides a CRM for public relations. For the most part, the PR industry’s slow approach to technology adoption has worked fairly well.

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13 Leadership Lessons for PR Pros (Taylor’s Version)

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For Swifties of a certain age, the image of Kanye West interrupting Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 VMAs is unforgettable, but she came back stronger than a 90s trend. Album: Fearless) Katie Neal is vice president of communications and marketing at TimelyCare and president of the PRSA Thoroughbred Chapter in Lexington, Ky.

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This Semrush Acquisition of Backlinko hits PR, SEO and Content Marketing Trifecta [PR Tech Sum]

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In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. Semrush is focusing on building up their marketing education,” wrote Backlinko founder Brian Dean in a LinkedIn post. And I have a massive library of SEO and content marketing material.”. PR tech mentions.

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