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Blogger Outreach Versus Media Relations: What Marketers Need To Know

Polaris

According to a 2013 Technorati study , blogs are one of the most important online sources of purchase influence. While independent bloggers often have lower audience reach than legacy media, their communities are typically more involved. Media Relations' It’s all about building relationships.

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The Two Most Effective Media Relations Tactics for 2013

Journalistics

For many of us, it’s what attracted us to media relations in the first place. In this post, I’ll share what I believe to be the two most effective media relations tactics for 2013 (hint: it’s all about inbound and real-time). If you work in media relations today, you have to be always on as well.

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CSR Trends for PR and Media Relations Professionals

Cision

In 2013, a KMPG survey of the top 100 largest businesses in 41 different countries found that 71 percent of these companies report on their CSR performance and more than half include CSR in their annual financial reports. By 2010, more than half of all Fortune 500 companies reported on their CSR activities.

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Are we still over-relying on media relations?

Communications Conversations

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: Are we over-relying on media relations in PR? I’m talking about the broader scope of PR here–media relations, content marketing, social media marketing, community relations, etc. Just give this shocking post a read.

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Less publicized but more interesting takeaways from 3 reports on marketing and PR

Sword and the Script

The top metrics for marketing communications leaders: 46% lead generation; 45% web traffic; 45% social media engagement; 35% conversion rate; 33% sales; 30% brand share of voice; 24% followers/social media; 18% ad impressions/ reach; and 11% SEO rankings. What exactly is that?

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Behind the Headlines with Yvonne Lorie

Cision

Yvonne Lorie, the founder of ReFresh PR and a recipient of the 2013 HPRA Premio PR Achievement Award, has been elected president of the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) national board for 2017. In general, PR is having a more profound impact on overall marketing initiatives and has come of age, much like Hispanic consumers.

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Public Relations Strategies: Redux

Shift Communications

A few years ago we published a blog post titled “ Public Relations and Media Relations: What’s the difference?” The post highlighted how to differentiate between public relations and media relations – essentially explaining that media relations is just one of many public relations strategies.