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5 Tips to Get in Your #Creative #PR Groove

Deirdre Breakenridge

Years ago, I was a PR person working at a creative marketing communications agency. The company had three distinct divisions: PR / Communications (that was my area), Creative Marketing & Advertising and Web, Multimedia & Video. We shared ideas, concepts and I was able to watch how creative ideas came to life.

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3 Landmark Studies that Sum Up the State of Creativity for the CMO [UML]

Sword and the Script

I sense we are reaching that point in marketing, with respect to data and creativity. This is the role of creativity in marketing: to drive an emotional connection and feeling of belonging. Where every business has data, perhaps even the same data, we cannot have, by definition, the same creativity.

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How Creative, Agile and Metrics can Sing in Marketing Harmony [UML]

Sword and the Script

Limited is the operative word, because while measurements are important, you can’t directly measure everything, like the impact of creativity, and yet we know these things have value. 1) Creative and analytics as whole-brained partners. Is Creativity a Skill or Talent? That’s why attribution models are so vexing.

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7 Digital PR and Marketing Tends for 2023

The Proactive Report

Download the full PDF version of the infographic here . Adding data visualizations , infographics, images, and videos to your text not only makes it more interesting and attractive, but it can help your message to be absorbed better too. 2023 is right around the corner. Affinity and Trust. Now would be a perfect time to do that.

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Is Creativity a Skill or Talent and Can it be Lost and Learned? [UML]

Sword and the Script

Is creativity a talent or a skill? It seems to me if creativity is a talent it can be fine-tuned, like a natural athlete trains to compete in professional football. On the other hand, if creativity is a skill, it can be taught in the same way, we might teach our children to throw or catch a football. Or it might remain elusive.

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4 Lessons Learned While Managing Creative Marketers

Beyond PR

Creative people are the heart and soul of marketing and communications. Having managed both creative and analytical people over the years has taught me a few things. Having managed both creative and analytical people over the years has taught me a few things. They can imagine that which isn’t there.

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Confidence in Analytics: Reporting, Referral Spam and Trust in Data [UML]

Sword and the Script

The focus on measurement in marketing has become so intense that some argue it’s choking creativity. Web analytics have played a pivotal role in the advancement of measurement. Just as the content management systems have made it easier to create and publish, web analytics platforms have made it easier to measure and report.