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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

The in-housing trend in PR isn’t entirely surprising. It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? The Role of Technology on the Legal Market. for demand to come back, technology innovation accelerated.

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$100 Million M&A for Internal Comms Tool: What’s Older is Still News in Marchlyjunetember [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Though I do my best to keep tabs on news from PR technology providers for these roundups, I occasionally I miss one. For a size comparison, Cision reported $730 million in revenue with a net loss of $24.4 Onclusive appointed Patrick Liang as chief technology officer; Liang is a company co-founder. Or thereabouts. year-over-year.

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Writing The Killer PR Plan

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The beauty of public relations, in comparison to traditional advertising and even some forms of direct marketing, is that it is built for flexibility. Changes might include “newsjacking” to take advantage of topical events relevant to your brand, or homing in on an emerging market segment or trend. Make it flexible.

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What Do You Get When You Cross Media Trends with Customer Support and Investor Relations? PR Tech Sum: Business Wire, Meltwater, Onclusive, Cision, TrendKite

Sword and the Script

I call it the PR technology summary ( PR tech sum ) and here’s what I found over the last 30 days. The press release doesn’t spell out any specific technology initiatives, so it seems this is merely an agreement allowing each business to sell the others’ products. “Q4 Here we go…. The company has raised a total of $66.3

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5 PR-Friendly Brands For 2018

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

We like Bulletin’s PR positioning, because it taps into two important trends – female empowerment and the shared workspace. These include moves to integrate the technology into vehicles, with BMW and Ford , opting to add Alexa, for example. Both are movements that resonate with media and customers.

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The Old “New Media” and Marketing Tools with Novel Twists [UML]

Sword and the Script

Disruptive opportunities like the chance to rank first for voice search in search engines: “Beyond playing into trends, voice interactions with chatbots, virtual assistants and other IoT technologies have the potential to upend traditional search and display advertising models in the near future, even for giants in the space like Google.

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Marketing Budgets to Grow: 5 Datapoints from the CMO Survey for B2B Marketers

Sword and the Script

This latest survey polled 362 senior marketers and I’ve culled through the 95-page report to review the data from B2B product segment and the technology vertical, which are the markets I serve. In the technology vertical, budget growth is expected to grow even more – to 12.4% As a vertical, technology companies invest 9.7%

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