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5 Reasons Not To Cut PR In A Recession

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The HBR co-authors divided corporate behavior in an economic downturn into four groups, from most reactive (“preventive-focused”) to an “optimal combination” of offensive and defensive strategies. What stands out is how poorly the “preventive-focused” companies fared in comparison to others. All recessions aren’t alike.

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A New Era for Measuring Communications Campaigns

PRSay

With 36 percent of executive teams being briefed on PR and communications activities on a daily basis, improving our industry’s comfort level with quantifiable measurement, is a worthy quest even against the backdrop of the pandemic. True behavior change doesn’t happen overnight,” Grant said. Rooted in the Barcelona Principles 2.0,

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Study Reveals Gaps Between the CEO and PR in Communications Goals, Issues and Technology

Sword and the Script

But a new survey out of the Center for Public Relations at USC Annenberg shows that isn’t happening among some PR pros and corporate communicators. The annual survey polled 210 CEOs, 1,583 PR professionals and 378 students with an eclectic mix of questions to develop the 2019 Global Communications Report.

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Infographic: Where Institutional Investors Read News and Earnings Releases

Cision

With last week’s Question 3 of the 2017 Shareholder Communications 365 Study, we learned that 95% of institutional investors visit your investor relations website as part of their initial due diligence prior taking (or not taking) a position. More to the point, where do they want to consume it? Read question 3.

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Three lessons brands can learn from the Hockey Canada Scandal

NewsWhip

Guest blog by Lloyd Rang, a Canadian communications and crisis management expert. For comparison, Hockey Canada had a mere 143 articles written about them with just 14 thousand interactions in the same period the year before. Good crisis communications teams stay prepared for these kinds of events.

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Why the ‘Cheaper’ PR Agency Is the Worst Value

Bianchi Biz Blog

To start with, most corporate clients – marketing directors and procurement executives alike – don’t know many PR agencies … if any. Corporate buyers tell us all the time: “PR agencies all look the same. It’s a fast and easy way to make a comparison. And frankly, they don’t care about PR agencies. A sea of sameness.

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Stockholders in the Corporate Family – or contemporary activists?

PR Conversations

At the time of authoring this chapter, he was Public Relations Director at General Foods Corporation before taking up the same role for in 1952 for Eisenhower (and subsequently serving in his presidential administration). ” Sadler in 2008 concluded: the corporation is not always responsive to social activist shareholder resolutions.