ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 16, 2018

Agency teams may think they’re in constant touch with clients as the emails fly back and forth, but that’s not enough. Misguided media relations strategy. With a print interview, there are opportunities to reach out to a journalist and add or amend statements. Learn and benefit from PR missteps.

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Skype Interviews Crisis Communications Crisis 170

Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

In an interview on this blog in 2021 , Propel Co-Founder and CEO Zach Cutler said as a former PR agency owner, he couldn’t find software that met his agency’s growth needs. The company says it has “150 business and agency customers, including Real Chemistry, Textron, Insurify and many other unicorns.”

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Software Pitching Measurement Enterprise 89

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Each December public relations agencies spend time crafting pitches and byline articles capturing clients’ takeaways for their particular industry. As well, we conduct quarterly consumer surveys that look at everything from millennial housing fears to consumer shopping habits. 2017 PR Takeaways.

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YouTube Training Video Survey 136

Cision

DECEMBER 4, 2015

At my first agency job in New York, I worked alongside a media relations specialist who wanted each of his annual coverage reports to be as thick as a phone book. I’m not sure an announcement about online survey results warrants a press conference,” I once suggested to my manager. Will it run in print?”.

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Print Interviews Pitching Conference 120

Stephen Waddington

MAY 19, 2020

The freelance PR market shut down in the first week of April as agencies and in-house teams reacted to the markets they serve and cut costs. Media relations has been impacted by a decline in advertising and the reduced distribution of newsprint.

Crisis 151

Crisis Government Energy Community 151

5W PR

JANUARY 17, 2017

Market Surveys–Typically this will involve before-and-after surveys regarding awareness of your brand. For instance, if your company or product was mentioned on a television show that had 1 million viewers, that would count as 1 million media impressions. The post How to Measure PR?

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Measurement How To Television Analysis 90

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 18, 2016

His responses were usually pretty insightful, concise, and often became a source of a trend pitch we’d send to media covering the story – the components proactive media relations. In the financial media at that time, frothy was one of those words. Survey: 5 Top Ways Reporters Find Sources and Stories.

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Financial Pitching Banking Trends 60

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The greatest of these is the shift away from media relations as the dominant means of public engagement to working across all forms of media. PR leads with earned and owned media but also uses paid and shared media for amplification and targeting. And then there are areas of practice that have moved more rapidly.

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Government Education Print Ethics 103

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 15, 2017

This fee will cover an expanded profile in print which will run even sooner – within 30 days of purchase, in addition to an online listing,” according to the publisher’s message [emphasis added]. Can your agency bring big ideas and execute? With any luck, it’ll be published in the next 30 days. Give our services a try. Talk to Us!

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Journalism Brand Branding Advertising 64

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Many of the blog posts published here are based on survey research, analytical studies or other sources of data. Every entry links to both the article I originally wrote – and to the underlying source, report or survey. Some 68% of B2B professionals surveyed say it takes longer to complete B2B sales cycles compared to a year ago.

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Survey Marketing B2B Study 176

Stephen Waddington

JULY 11, 2017

European researchers have spotlighted challenges facing public relations agencies and teams in the eleventh edition of the European Communications Monitor. The ECM 2017 survey is based on responses from 3,387 communication professionals in 50 countries. 4 Channel shift from print to social exaggerated. 5 Hypermodernity.

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Communications Publicity Survey Newspapers 115

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Compared to digital marketing and advertising, which has only become more automated over time, our methods — particularly the generation of earned media — are exquisitely inefficient. Even top PR and media relations professionals need to refresh their methods with new tools and technologies. Use new tools.

Television 120

Television Interviews Engineering Tools 120

Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

One thing that separates PR, and specifically media relations, from marketing and advertising is third-party validation: there’s nothing you can say about yourself that’s as powerful as someone else saying it about you. The announcement pitches this as enabling “PR agencies to sell robust guaranteed placement packages to their clients.”

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Software Case Study Advertising Advertising 119

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In PR, where users spend hours researching contacts and monitoring media placements, the need to streamline processes is always at a premium. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role. Or a food journalist for print media.

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Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In PR, where users spend hours researching contacts and monitoring media placements, the need to streamline processes is always at a premium. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role. Or a food journalist for print media.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 6, 2019

But before we dive in, please allow me a quick plug: Richard Carufel , the longtime editor of Bulldog Reporter , moderated and recorded the session on media relations in challenging times. It’s all part of the Earned Media Mastery online summit that Agility PR Solutions is hosting on August 22, 2019 – which just a few weeks away!

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Marketing Pitching Corporate Tools 63

Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

With print becoming less important to audiences, telling stories in more visual ways is critical – and public relations professionals can help. Download the 2018 Global State of the Media Report. Plus, with print likely disappearing one day, media companies will need to find other ways to tell their stories.

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Infographics Print Video Real Estate 54

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 16, 2024

This PR software company was started by a former PR agency owner; pitch analytics is where Propel really shines I have a soft spot for startups because I’ve been employed or consulted with many of them over my career. So, he sold his agency and started Propel. click any image for higher resolution) 1. They employ 20 employees.

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Software Pitching System Analytics 138

Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The highest skills gaps were reported as measurement (53%), budget management (44%), crisis management (37%), and digital communications/social media (35%). These skill gaps are roughly the same as they were the last time the survey was done. Source: PR Academy annual qualification trends survey. Kanban board by FINN.

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