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8 Ways to Make Your Press Release More Effective

Cision

According to a survey of the releases distributed by (a certain PR firm) on one day: 78% of public relations people spend extra money to dress up their releases with printed letterheads and color…the 78% broke down into 34% on a simple black letterhead, 16% on a one-color letterhead, and 28% on a letterhead with two or more colors.

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Is Your Press Release or Media Pitch Guilty of Information Overload?

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

A 2014 study on media usage and ad exposure revealed a typical adult’s daily media consumption was nearly 10 hours. Try to get it down to 6-12 words or less (about 55 characters), keeping in mind that Google’s search results only display the first 63 characters , according to award-winning writing coach Ann Wylie. Write simply.

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What’s New In B2B Tech PR For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Ad tech clients want to speak to marketing decision-makers, 3D printing clients target prospective partners in medical or architectural sectors, and so on. Between 2012 and 2014, organic social reach dropped from 16% to 6% –and wise PR counselors know they have to bite the “paid” bullet if they wanted to maximize social content.

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

I am the Planning Section Chief for our agency so I write all the incident action plans for planned and unplanned events which I really enjoy. It seems so long ago that I was at EMI and working on my Masters (Confidential personal correspondence, 2014) 2. 1 (Printed in Wikipedia, “Lorne M. Retrieved September 2, 2014.

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Maxim Behar's Experience as an Author

Maxim Behar

The book now is on sale by Simon & Schuster in all Barnes & Noble book stores across the US, in practice, all Universities have in their libraries, many of them included it in their educational programs. What was the most challenging aspect of writing this book? I do not know.

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Behind the Headlines With Lauren Kaufman

Cision

For as long as I can remember, I have loved art, writing and being creative. While I excelled at all my classes, I would always rather write an essay than take a multiple choice test. In this interview, Lauren discusses how to multitask effectively, her exciting plans for the Harley-Davidson Museum and the challenges brands face today.

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PR and SEO. No Longer a Match Made in Hell.

Ishmael's Corner

Paid search has essentially given Google a license to print money to the tune of about $45 billion in 2014. If a company makes software for shipping packages, and the same company wants a paid ad to appear for the term [online shipping software], the mere action of clicking on the ad qualifies the person as a sales prospect.

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