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Encouraging Creativity Among Marketing Employees

Ronn Torossian

For some reason, it seems that pitch meetings and brainstorming sessions are more full of awkward silence than buzzing ideas. For those in creative fields, such as advertising and marketing, this plunge in morale can be a death sentence for successful campaigns and a return on […].

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What to Pitch in October

PR for Anyone

What are you going to pitch the media in October? Employee Ownership Month. Pick one of these and start pitching the media today! what you can pitch your local media for the month of October. Think about what you can pitch in October. It’s almost October. Church Safety and Security Month. Co-op Month.

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Dirty Little Secret: Your Marketing Department HATES media pitching, so they don’t do it

Axia PR

Pitching the media can be daunting, especially if it isn’t something your employees do regularly as part of their job. The dirty little secret that no one in corporate america – no one in your company – wants to talk about is how much corporate marketers hate pitching to the media.

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PR Golden Turkey Awards, 2022

Flack's Revenge

And revealing yourself, in the process, to be a very new kind of financial villain — one who pitches not just the prospect of profit but also deliverance from the corrupt speculative system in which you “made” your “billions.”. I’d say that sums it up pretty well. And he really does know what he is doing here. Yeah, I am not so sure.

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one. It was a very humbling experience.

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Journalism statistics: 7 media relations takeaways from the 2023 State of the Media Report by Cision

Sword and the Script

When you pitch a story, you need to be credible too. When you pitch a story, you need to be credible too. Make it clear who or what you are pitching. Draw a correlation between your pitch and their prior coverage. This company makes the key cards that many corporations use to give employees office access.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. Year of the employee. 2022 is going to be known as the year of the employee. Qualified employees are scarce, and companies recognize that they need to be seen as great places to work and thrive as well as strong brands.

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