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What Your PR Agency Won’t Tell You (But Maybe Should)

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So, when PR agencies in particular are called out for lying or covering up, it makes us all look bad. The agency was busted when the foundation filed its tax forms. Here are some examples. There’s an unwritten agency code to treat every client like y our only client — or at least there should be.

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A Toast To Independent PR Agencies

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Lots of ad and PR agencies tout their independent status in their marketing. Early in my career, after stints at two very different independent PR firms, I worked in the PR unit of a large ad agency. Traditional ad agencies like the one where I worked have been badly disrupted. But what does the label really mean?

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5 Tips For First-Time PR Agency Clients

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The role of a PR agency in this alignment, and in building an organization’s reputation among customers, employees, and stakeholders, is central. After selecting an agency partner, it’s imperative to lay out expectations, deliverables and success metrics for both sides. So how do you get the most out of the PR firm relationship?

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6 Things PR Agencies Should Never Say

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PR agency teams, like all creative services people, love to keep our clients happy. In PR, we of course want to get as many quality stories as possible, and we typically have a good idea of what will result when we’re managing a news announcement, for example. But playing the numbers game isn’t a good idea. PR is about getting hits.

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Five Benefits of Working at a Small Agency

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PR agencies come in all shapes and sizes. Other agencies — often described as “boutique” — are smaller and less known, yet capable of producing work of the highest quality. Smaller agencies are often less formal and can be less organized when it comes to personnel matters. A small PR agency is like a small town.

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7 Signs You’re Not Ready For A PR Agency

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The PR investment could be squandered if goals aren’t clear, or if the client and agency aren’t aligned on what they need to achieve. A common aspect of the fuzzy-goals problem is a lack of internal alignment on the agency role or goals. There’s no one to manage the agency. Your goals are fuzzy. Or changing.

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What PR Agencies Should Be Thankful For

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As a PR agency team , we also have a lot to be thankful for at our firm. Holidays like Black Friday, Cyber Monday and holiday shopping (for example) present both B2B and B2C PR teams with strong earned media opportunities. The post What PR Agencies Should Be Thankful For appeared first on Crenshaw Communications.

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