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PR Goal-Setting For 2018

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Where is your company in its public relations planning for 2018? It’s best to begin by looking at the big picture to see where PR fits in the overall marketing scheme of things and then take a look at the following steps to help put together a successful 2018 PR plan. How To Plan PR in 2018. Audit the past year.

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Why Communicators Should Expect a Year of Disruption in 2018

PRSay

Our firm has conducted a number of studies in this area in collaboration with Dr. Bruce Berger at The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations at the University of Alabama. In 2018, I won’t be surprised to see even more of a willingness to consider outside-the-box candidates from different fields or industries.

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Media Relations Keeps Getting Harder; Here are 6 Dynamic Techniques to Adapt

Sword and the Script

75% of PR and comms pros say media relations is getting harder – up 25% over three years; here are some practical techniques for adapting A majority of public relations and communications professionals say media relations keeps getting harder. That’s an increase from 68% in 2019 and 51% in 2018.

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18 Marketing and PR that Read Like a Meta Description for the Year 2018

Sword and the Script

As we close in on the year’s end, I looked back over these marketing and PR statistics in an effort to surface those points that in some way, shape or form, help to summarize 2018 as a year. 10) Growing challenges of media relations. Read more: Is Media Relations Getting Harder? Statistics about content marketing.

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The Volume and Variety of Communications Work is Shifting, Finds 5th Annual Survey of Comms Pros

Sword and the Script

” In open-ended comments, respondents cite digital, internal comms and a greater focus on comms by leadership as among the underlying reasons. Some of those comments include the following: “Significantly more related to internal comms and recruiting.”. 2018 JOTW Communications Survey. It’s hard to predict.”

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Our Industry, Your Answers: Breaking Down the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Waxing UnLyrical

A recent survey conducted by Ned Lundquist’s Job of the Week (JOTW) in partnership with Sword and the Script Media, LLC sought to find out the true status of our industry. The most popular trends recognized by the survey for the next 12 months included storytelling at 79%, content marketing (71%) and thought leadership (67%).

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Message in a Bottleneck: How to Reach Your Fragmented Audience

PRSay

million in 2018. Here are some topics I’ve identified that you will want to educate yourself about if you want to reach your audiences in this new divided news landscape: How to educate your leadership about these changes and recalibrate their expectations about what really matters. What was the most-watched TV show in 1998?

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