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5 Ways PR Beats Paid Advertising

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

PR , advertising, and marketing should be working together as well-oiled gears in a powerful machine that propels a brand toward success. For smaller firms, PR can reduce marketing spend. If you’re a scrappy startup or an early stage tech company, you may not have the capital for massive advertising budgets.

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Advertising is Dead—Exploring the Future of Paid, Owned and Earned Media

Cision

If advertising as we know it is truly dead, what’s next for paid, earned & owned media? While the event covered a wide range of topics, one common theme was the shifting balance of the marketing mix between paid, earned and owned media. As a veteran of the marketing industry, Akeroyd argues that it is all about attribution.

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Top Tech Trends That Affect PR: Mary Meeker 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Last month Mary Meeker of Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield, Byers released her Internet Trends report for 2017 , and all 355 slides are well worth a read for anyone in tech public relations or digital marketing. But this threshold crossing is a sign that major advertisers can no longer give short shrift to digital ad budgets.

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Getting Marketing Decency Done

Mindful Marketing

by David Hagenbuch - professor of marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing “When is it okay to swear in an ad?” ” This headline from one of my favorite marketing publications surprised me as thought, ‘Isn’t the answer obvious?’

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A PR Wish List For Holiday 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

In a nutshell, a good PR program can be most effective at packaging a company’s story to resonate with reporters, even creating news during quiet periods; augmenting a sales and marketing effort; and helping shape and manage an executive’s public image. But PR is not a substitute for advertising.

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Five PR Predictions For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

With the year dwindling down, it’s time to start looking ahead to 2017. Public Relations Skills and Competencies Will Need to Expand Both Vertically and Horizontally in 2017. Influencer marketing will be front and center. Yet public relations is not scaleable in the way that digital advertising and direct marketing are.

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The Influencer Marketing Measurement Enigma

PRSay

However, now that public relations is overlapping with marketing, you’d think demonstrating a return on investment (ROI) would be getting easier. If there’s anything marketing has a lot of, then it’s metrics. However, most recently, EMV is used to evaluate ROI for influencer marketing campaigns. How Soulmates.ai