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For Better or Meta-worse:  Promoting Early-Stage Tech without Getting Burnt

Flack's Revenge

(This article originally appeared in O’Dywer’s PR.). This article explores the stunning rise of the Metaverse buzz and offers tips to PR professionals working in this area and in other early, frothy markets. How do you promote something so intangible, so nascent, and avoid getting burnt by backlash? How Soon is Now?

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Ensuring Ethical Advertising

Mindful Marketing

Advertising gaffes, which may reach millions, are much more damaging and difficult to roll back, so why do some of the world’s most creative companies and brightest people continue to make promotional faux pas, and what can be done to avoid them? ” “Couldn’t anyone see the probable PR crises and pump the brakes?”

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PR & Media Relations: Top 22 Posts from a Decade of (Really) Bad Pitches

Bad Pitch Blog

But, as we mark the 10th birthday of the award-winning Bad Pitch blog, we wanted to lead with swagger, good news and bad news. Thanks to buzzwords like big data, the cloud, social media and more, it’s harder than ever to send a bad pitch. The bad news? And we even saw a deadly trend of bad pitches.

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Tools Rule – Except When They Don’t

Solo PR Pro

A version of this post ran on the Cision blog. For those of us who’ve been working in MarCom and PR for a while, it’s truly unbelievable what one person can now accomplish versus the days of yore (Remember standing at the fax machine? Avoid shiny object syndrome. Avoid analysis paralysis. Tools are for tactics.

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How to be a PR Pro Without Losing Your Soul

ZudePR

Similarities to PR. And the more I read the more I realised that a graphic design consultant’s life bears an uncanny resemblance to that of the PR man/woman/pro. Adrian (and Dave’s) 21 Golden Rules for Designers (and PRs). So here are 21 tips from the author, Adrian Shaughnessy, for any graphic designer (or PR).

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Not Your Typical Ice Bucket Challenge Post– For Me, It’s Personal

Solo PR Pro

Because the Ice Bucket Challenge was truly a grass roots phenomenon, as a PR pro I thought the ALS Association initially seemed less than prepared to handle all the attention. Despite a plethora of blog posts stating otherwise, it was lightening in a bottle that no one can predict or replicate. I find that understandable. Kellye Crane.

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Ken Lay’s Dead? Let’s Pitch the Client!

Bad Pitch Blog

Visions of really bad headlines flashed into our head. Since Fine already outed Dave Overton, we’re awarding him with Slick, our badge of dishonor. They''ll craft all sorts of psychological defense mechanisms to avoid shouldering culpability. The Bad Pitch blog stands by its position on dead pitches. This is worse.