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Ensuring Ethical Advertising

Mindful Marketing

Advertising gaffes, which may reach millions, are much more damaging and difficult to roll back, so why do some of the world’s most creative companies and brightest people continue to make promotional faux pas, and what can be done to avoid them? Fortunately, a personal apology can often atone for such individual indiscretions.

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Don't Be Naïve About Native Advertising

Mindful Marketing

.” Slipping commercial messages into media content is nothing new, but digital media have exploded that potential with more and more companies trying to make their ads look like they're something else. Today's native advertising is much more stealthy. time spent on the site, page views) for purpose of appeal to advertisers.

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Our Top 6 Favorite (FREE) Online Digital Marketing Courses

PR 20/20

Much of the work is done for you, thanks to ample online digital marketing courses and certifications. Check out five of our team’s favorite online digital marketing courses, all for free, below. Once you’ve completed the courses, you’re given a 75-minute, 50-question exam that requires an 80% passing grade.

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How Does a Business Press Release Differ From Advertising?

PR Fuel

Every enterprise needs to create a brand around which business advertisements will revolve. Another popular way of marketing your brand is through advertising. To use both business press releases and advertisements effectively, you need to understand how the two differ. What Is Advertising? billion in 2021.

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PR Tips For Cybersecurity Companies

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

We’ve seen companies like British Airways and T-Mobile fall victim to extreme ransomware and cyber breaches in the past year, and the worst thing about it is that most companies are woefully unprepared to deal with the threat. Everyone from KPMG to startup firms need to invest in digital advertising and smart public relations. .

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PR Tactics To Show Company Values

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Because earned media confers credibility, it can be decidedly more powerful than marketing and advertising. With the public too cynical to buy into ads trumpeting a company’s inherent beliefs, public relations offers that all-important third-party acclaim. Here are five PR tactics to get the word out on an organization’s values.

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Reaching Your Audience: Which Online Marketing and Advertising Tactics Actually Work?

Buzzstream

It could be an influencer talking about an affiliated company or a prompt to download a free ebook in exchange for your email. . We decided we wanted to pit a few advertising/marketing approaches against each other. It could be a pop-up prompting us to subscribe to a newsletter or an ad playing before a video. Would You Rather?