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What PR Success Looks Like In A Data-Driven World

PR Insiders

Sometimes the confusion lies around these same people’s very good understanding of the value of direct-response advertising, which is designed to get instant results by encouraging people to take some sort of action right now. The ROI of publicity isn’t as instant or as cut-and-dried as advertising. PR doesn’t work that way. .

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Will India See a Rise in Digital PR?

Waxing UnLyrical

Apart from the usual layoffs, cost reduction, and restructuring, we have seen newspapers and magazines getting thinner, TV stations cutting back on programming, and several publications and channels are on the block. Business Standard sold its motoring magazine to Delhi Press. 2,260 crore (~ $364.5M) and is expected to touch Rs.2,938

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Paid Social Media as Surround Sound in B2B Marketing; Off Script No. 39: Betsy Hindman of the Hindman Company

Sword and the Script

My employer launched a print magazine, website and social presence telling stories about health and community to business audiences, which is still going, BetterTennessee.com. Facebook would distribute it widely and your followers would share it with their friends. Additionally, it’s not all about Facebook anymore.

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Back to the future of PR at FutureComm15

Stuart Bruce

The reality (as I see it and experience it) is that PR has always been more in the truth business than advertising has. Advertising makes stories up and shares them.” ” The problem is that advertising is often better at telling stories, but that today people prefer the truth so PR needs to tell its true stories better.

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Why You Should Master The Art of Storytelling

Masters in Communications

A recent study in Science magazine furthers this idea, by concluding that reading novels "uniquely engages the psychological processes needed to gain access to characters' subjective experiences." Over two-thirds of marketing professionals responded that branded content is better than press releases, direct mail, or print advertising.

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How To Get Your Blog Project Approved

Waxing UnLyrical

When I built a case for creating it, I focused on showing how the site would be a greater asset to our institution than the internal print publication I managed. By switching to a blog we saved printing and distribution costs. But that was the case even with the internal print publication… unearthly, jaw-dropping amounts of it.

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Journalism and News Trends for PR Pros

Cision

Subscriptions and advertising are down for most media, and there is no single model that can replace them across the sector. Vice magazine, originally a local magazine in Montreal and best-known for local coverage and shock journalism, grew into Vice Media. Layoffs and restructuring are still common practices.