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I Sold PR 20/20, but That’s Just the Start of the Story

PR 20/20

I started PR 20/20 in November 2005 out of a spare bedroom in my Cleveland home with a $25,000 loan and a belief that there was a better way to build an agency. Fueled by a mix of youthful exuberance, adrenaline and caffeine, I set out to redefine the marketing agency model with a focus on standardized services and value-based pricing.

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More Human

PR 20/20

At the time, the Clevelander was wrapping up his first book, The Marketing Agency Blueprint , in which he laid out the disruptive path he had blazed through the marketing industry since founding his agency, PR 20/20 , in 2004. Roetzer posited that the traditional marketing agency model was broken.

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I Sold PR 20/20, but That’s Just the Start of the Story

PR 20/20

I started PR 20/20 in November 2005 out of a spare bedroom in my Cleveland home with a $25,000 loan and a belief that there was a better way to build an agency. Fueled by a mix of youthful exuberance, adrenaline and caffeine, I set out to redefine the marketing agency model with a focus on standardized services and value-based pricing.

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The Marketing Power of Wikipedia: 8 Tips for PR Pros

MaccaPR

However, Wikipedia has basically told company representatives (whether they be PR agency or in-house communicators) NOT to edit their companies’ pages. This will set yourself apart, as a full 25 percent of communicators surveyed in a 2012 Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) study were not familiar with their own Wikipedia pages.

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Stalwart Interns. Where are they now?

The Stalwart Blog

Melina Destein , Stalwart summer 2012 intern. I admired the team at Stalwart for their work ethic and dedication they have to their clients. Interning with a small PR agency allowed me to learn how a PR agency functions and how client relationships are established and maintained. What I learned at Stalwart?

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Double-dipping exposes reputation risk in blurred boundaries of PR and journalism

PR Conversations

Both his equity stake and regular participation in the agency, not to mention profile and participation of clients, were apparently concealed from both his employer and the viewing public. For public relations practitioners committed to ethics and professionalism, the natural first instinct was self-righteous shock.

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Double-dipping exposes reputation risk in blurred boundaries of PR and journalism

PR Conversations

Both his equity stake and regular participation in the agency, not to mention profile and participation of clients, were apparently concealed from both his employer and the viewing public. For public relations practitioners committed to ethics and professionalism, the natural first instinct was self-righteous shock.