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PR and Marketing in 2015: The Road Ahead

Shift Communications

The challenge in 2015 will be for you to build relationships first through effective engagement so that when you have something worth sharing, your preferred audiences will be receptive to you. Social media used to be a shiny object, a channel unto itself. Social media is now part and parcel of ordinary communications.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. The tactic still matters, but PR pros and writers will need to step up their game to cut through the clutter. Social media livestreams will become acceptable as mainstream ‘news.’.

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3 Reasons Small Business Needs Social Media

Shift Communications

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media.

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3 Reasons Small Business Needs Social Media

Shift Communications

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media.

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3 Reasons Small Business Needs Social Media

Shift Communications

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media.

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Monday Roundup: Looking Ahead

Waxing UnLyrical

It seems like only yesterday we were ringing in 2015. That does not mean we are left without resources to help define PR success and set the agenda for an even more data-driven PR program in the New Year,” writes Derek Lyons for Business 2 Community. Uber-Targeted Social Media Strategies.

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PR and the Google Customer Journey to Online Purchase

Shift Communications

In 2015, Google released its Customer Journey to Online Purchase insights tool and there was much rejoicing. Marketers and communicators found great value in Google’s generic models for how customers made decisions with marketing inputs. What if a company’s data doesn’t exactly map to the generic model?

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