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More thoughts on the banking rep meltdown

Mark My Words

PR expert Mark Borkowski said bank bosses were guilty of using ’20th-century PR to deal with 21st-century crisis issues’ He told MailOnline: ‘Every crisis that leads to problems that will bring down people is down to hubris and the advice these people are getting. ’ .

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More thoughts on the banking rep meltdown.

Mark My Words

PR expert Mark Borkowski said bank bosses were guilty of using ’20th-century PR to deal with 21st-century crisis issues’ He told MailOnline: ‘Every crisis that leads to problems that will bring down people is down to hubris and the advice these people are getting. ’ .

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Convergence of Marketing & Comms: Insights From E*Trade, Dolby, BitGo,  Bank of the West

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At the recent Growth PR Conference from AirPR, leadership from E*Trade, Dolby, BitGo, and Bank of the West shared their personal experiences and thoughts on what works… and what doesn’t. Ben Stuart, CMO, Bank of the West. “I Becky Saeger, Board of Directors, E*Trade Financial. “I

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PR Lessons From The Biggest Failures of 2023

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Tap professional PR expertise: Silicon Valley Bank Unlike the Open AI fiasco, the trigger for Silicon Valley Bank’s well-documented collapse was actually a pure PR mistake, and a huge one at that. SVB put out a fatally flawed press release that was meant to strengthen its financial position but had the opposite effect.

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What Shadow Banking Means for Your Financial Services PR Program

Shift Communications

The Rise of Shadow Banking. As expected, the “big” banks offer something in all of these areas. According to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the market share of shadow banks in the mortgage market nearly tripled from 2007-2015. What does Shadow Banking mean for a financial PR program?

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Trust and the Unlikely Reinvention of Advertising [UML]

Sword and the Script

Use PR to build a brand and advertising to defend it. The point of that philosophy used to be that, while you can build a brand with advertising, it’s very expensive. More recently, fake news has laid the groundwork for a new-found trust in advertising. 1) In advertising, we trust. PR is less expensive than advertising.

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11 Shrewd PR and Marketing Predictions You Can Bank On

Sword and the Script

The audience kills advertising. In 2016, marketers will absolutely need to get better at native advertising as well as explore new ways of generating top of the funnel awareness – from sponsored podcasts and influencer partnerships with bloggers, vloggers and Instagrammers through to a renewed commitment to experiential activity.”.

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