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Every company should have a crisis handbook

PR in High Definition

There’s also the personal brand of Elon Musk, who continuously seems woefully unprepared for responding to criticism aimed at X (formerly Twitter). Mistakes are inevitable, and the effects can either be short-lived or they can have the potential to cause long-term damage to a brand’s reputation.

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What Your PR Agency Won’t Tell You (But Maybe Should)

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

We preach it to our clients and put it in our company handbooks. But earned media success doesn’t happen overnight, and building brand reputation requires ongoing effort, strategic planning, and consistent engagement. In PR, as in most businesses, transparency is a good thing. It’s not sexy.

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Data-Driven Strategies for Public Relations Professionals

Solo PR Pro

While “data-driven strategies” sounds like something out of the corporate jargon handbook, you may not realize how you can apply it to PR. To understand how this works in the real world, let’s say that you are a PR consultant for a health and wellness brand. Your data shows a particular segment is interested in yoga and meditation.

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Cognitive Dissonance: Mental Harmony Above All Else

Doctor Spin

Source: Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology 1 Cooper, J. Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology : Volume 1, 377–397. Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology: Volume 1, 377–397. Cognitive dissonance theory. ANNOTATIONS [ + ] ANNOTATIONS 1 Cooper, J. Cognitive dissonance theory. link] 2 Harmon-Jones, E.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Doug Levy

Solo PR Pro

The handbook guides new or experienced public information officers on best practices for communicating life-safety and other urgent information during an emergency. to San Francisco to cover this brand new thing called the internet, he started covering a lot of startups, interviewing CEOs of companies large and small.

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Letter from BETT

Stephen Waddington

Community teaching and newsjacking tools, Edelman on trust, putting the paid in PESO, a how-to book for 2019, Amazon data driven brands, Instagram marketing offline, and more. Help me write a new handbook for 2019 I’m working on a new how-to book for marketing, PR and SEO for 2019. It’s intended as a practical handbook.

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Three FTC Social Media Disclosures You Should Know

5W PR

Social media has grown from a simple place to connect friends and family to a marketplace for brands of all sizes. Various social platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have allowed brands to reach consumers through engaging content, low-cost advertising and influencer partnerships.