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Crisis Management 101: Shark Week Case Study, Pt. 1

Shift Communications

Thanks to Google Trends , we know interest in the term “shark attack” is set to increase drastically as searches for “shark week” do: According to The Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File, 2016 saw 84 unprovoked shark attacks, which is on par with the average 82 incidents a year. is suffering a crisis.

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The Death Of A PR Firm, By Bad PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Can you imagine being the guy running a public relations agency that “perished in a public relations fiasco”? That’s the unhappy fate of James Henderson, the former CEO of now-defunct PR and crisis management powerhouse Bell Pottinger. Choose your clients wisely. Don’t tarnish your profession.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer states that out of all the people they surveyed, over 60% trust Google rather than news outlets. Google search algorithm updates in 2016 , for example, included a number of integrated changes in order to unify mobile SEO and local SEO along with paid and organic results. Image Source: [link].

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Leeds PR Agency Prohibition PR is looking for a PR Executive – is it you?

Prohibition

While we do ‘the traditional stuff’ very well indeed, we’re constantly pushing the boundaries of what you would expect from a PR agency. So that involves lots of exciting things like online community building, social media listening, brand audits, online crisis management, content marketing and video seeding.

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20 Insightful PR and Marketing Predictions for 2018

Sword and the Script

Similar to what is currently going on as a result of the 2016 election in social media, I feel there will be an increased and possibly dramatic focus on message attribution across all channels. Lou Hoffman | The Hoffman Agency. 9) Crisis management grows exponentially. Susan Kostal | Stet.

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Maxim Behar for the Polish Magazine PR Manager: Modern PR Globally

Maxim Behar

Advertising agencies usually work with marketing directors, digital agencies, most often with brand managers or lower-level professionals. Only PR agencies communicate directly with the CEO and this is our undeniable advantage! In the past, crisis management was very easy.

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Digital PR spend increases significantly, but still not enough investment in training

Stuart Bruce

The PRCA Digital PR and Communications Report 2016 reveals a sharp rise in digital PR budgets, but continuing concern over the lack of investment in training. This might partially explain why 19% claim not to use their PR and communications agencies for any areas of digital and social. The lowest ranking is Foursquare at 4%.

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