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What’s Trending for 2023?

PRSay

We’ve all seen users tweet about poor customer service, but via Twitter brands can offer to resolve those issues faster than any other method. Beyond words: adding multimedia to story pitches. According to Cision’s 2022 Global State of the Media Report , nearly half of all journalists receive up to 50 story pitches per week.

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From Being Told He Was “Too Gay to Pitch” to Leading an Award Winning PR Agency: Steve…

The Resolution Blog

From Being Told He Was “Too Gay to Pitch” to Leading an Award Winning PR Agency: Steve Strickland’s Story We got the chance to talk to Steve Stickland, co-founder with Gary Wheldon of new award-winning PR agency Talker Tailor Trouble Maker , about starting an agency, standing out, and creating campaigns that have the “wow” factor.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public relations (PR) professionals”. The answers are starting to feel repetitive and formulaic.

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How to Create a Media Kit

5W PR

Media kits used to be presented following a pitch at a press conference or other large event, but starting in the early 2000s, the best practice shifted to individualized pitches via email. How to get in contact, links to social channels, and the availability for interviews or consultations (if applicable).

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How To Monitor Social Media Like a Boss

Cision

Customer Service (Social Care). Social media has been a disruptive force to a lot of different aspects of our lives, perhaps no more so than for customer service (often referred to as “social care”). You don’t necessarily have the option to provide social care to your customers; they increasingly expect it.

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8 Questions with PR, Marketing & Social Media Powerhouse, Peter Shankman (Part 1 of 2)

Critical Mention

In this two-part series, we chatted with the entrepreneur and highly sought-after keynote speaker about the three essentials to pitching media, his unconventional way of preparing for media interviews, his ADHD, love of skydiving and, of course, fake news. You are known for your best-selling book on customer service, “Zombie Loyalists.”

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7 Signs Your Company Is Ready To Step Up Its PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

These early arrangements can include a junior in-house employee or possibly a “shared” situation where the PR function is wedged into marketing or even customer service. Before a PR firm was hired, unfortunately, an assistant to the president gave an interview full of inaccuracies which haunted the company for years.

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