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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. The agency was busted when the foundation filed its tax forms. When we tell clients that we have no problem working with other agencies, it may be a white lie.

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Crenshaw Communications Joins Digital Marketing Agency Mod Op

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That’s the question I heard from clients, friends, and PR colleagues when I told them that Crenshaw Communications, the PR firm I founded in 2009, had become part of Mod Op, a leading digital marketing and communications agency. The agency’s tagline is “Accelerating Growth Through Data, Human Creativity + AI.”

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Can PR Agencies Protect Their Ideas?

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But how does a PR or ad agency avoid it? His final tweet concluded that “no agency could have done this ad.” Except according to Martin Agency CEO Kristen Cavallo, an agency did. Every agency person has pitched to a prospective client, only to see their idea executed months later – by another firm.

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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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The Best PR Agency Asset: Flawless Media Contact Lists

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For a PR agency team, few things are more important than having media contacts at the ready. In fact, a media placement strategy with the perfect balance of quality and quantity is one of the unsung secret of great PR and media relations. Media contacts aren’t magic….they’re But media contacts aren’t magic.

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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. We can definitely generate XX earned media placements. Nothing in this world is for sure, and we shouldn’t treat media interviews and articles as such. In the first place, quality usually beats quantity when it comes to earned media.

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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. In media relations, timing is everything.

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