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What Shadow Banking Means for Your Financial Services PR Program

Shift Communications

However, since the financial crash of 2008 and the coinciding rise of AWS, iPhones, and frictionless services, non-banks are finding creative ways to fill financial needs for both consumers and businesses across the country in a phenomenon known as shadow banking. Take small business lending, for example.

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PR Is As PR Does

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali PR Is As PR Does October 28th, 2010 Tweet Just a little bit crazy This has been a bit of a crazy week for me (actually, it’s been a bit of a crazy last few weeks for me, but who’s counting?).

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How Google Instant Might Impact Your Small Non-Profit

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. Bing, Nielsen recently reported , received nearly 14 percent of search traffic in August 2010. received 13 percent.

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The Extra Mile PR Strategy: Wow Your Customers

Doctor Spin

A Few Extra Mile Activity Ideas Going the extra mile and forging strong customer connections are essential in today’s competitive business landscape. Here’s a list of creative PR activities that can help your organisation stand out, engage customers, and encourage them to share their positive experiences with others.

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Weekly Roundup: Trick or Treat

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: Trick or Treat October 31st, 2010 Tweet Today’s Hallowe’en. How to run a fearless small business by Taylor Lindstrom at Copyblogger. Take heart, not howls.

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Weekly Roundup: The New Year Edition

Waxing UnLyrical

5 New Year’s resolutions for your small business , by Thursday Bram at Grow Smart Business. If you’re in the business of PR, these are things to keep in mind. Image: Eric Magnuson via Flickr, Creative Commons Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! Glad thats over with.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

It is not known whether such creative works were disseminated widely as it is unclear how literate non-Elite Egyptians were. Even if limited to society's wealthiest people, then the audience would have been relatively small: Ancient Egypt had a 5% literacy rate (4).

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