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PR Agency Search: Priorities in a PR Expanded World

Deirdre Breakenridge

Almost four in 10 respondents to a survey of corporate communications, marketing and industry leaders for CommunicationsMatch’s new PR and Communications Agency Search Report said they were looking to hire new agencies in 2017. That’s a lot of new agencies being hired, but it also means other agencies will be dropped.

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This Semrush Acquisition of Backlinko hits PR, SEO and Content Marketing Trifecta [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

SEO vendor that dabbles in PR technology buys an audience and adds an influencer to their team. In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. There was even an SEO angle: in its heyday, HARO was a backlink magnet and from high-quality new sites. Case in point?

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Class of 2020 UK PR agency entrepreneurs on growth footing

Stephen Waddington

The story of PR agency start-ups in the UK market is an uplifting one of innovation and new business models. It is easy to focus on the challenges that the pandemic has created in the industry but there have been more than 15 new PR agency launches in the UK alone in the past six months. Traditional agencies have always sold time.

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Crisis & Reputation Management Top Financial Services Concerns

The Proactive Report

Financial Services PR execs and agencies are still struggling to combat an industry peppered with regular fines, lawsuits and other scandals. Many a financial services firm has discovered that when a search for the company or brand name returns 8 or 9 negative listings it adversely affects revenue. ONLINE NEWSROOM.

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Press Release Newswire Services – Worth The Cost?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For a fee, any organization can upload their press release to a newswire service that distributes it directly to news organizations, much like the original news agencies like Associated Press fed reports to newspapers in the early days of electronic journalism. What is newswire distribution?

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5 Reasons Not To Cut PR In A Recession

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

As any ad or PR agency knows, our budgets are vulnerable when the economy turns soft. Pulling an entire team off a PR program, whether through an outside agency or internal layoffs, means that team may not be available once PR resumes. Already, Facebook parent company Meta has warned of an advertising slowdown.

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How Paid Advertising Can Expand Your Brand’s Reach

5W PR

This is in contrast to organic methods, where visibility is earned through non-paid efforts such as se͏arch engine optimization͏ (SEO) or social ͏media posts. The post How Paid Advertising Can Expand Your Brand’s Reach appeared first on Public Relations Blog | 5W PR Agency | PR Firm.