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From PR to Marketing: Why You Should Expand Your Skill Set

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Creating content – whether it’s a white paper, an Infographic or original research – can help make news for us. The post From PR to Marketing: Why You Should Expand Your Skill Set appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. It means it’s time to get creative.

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The Top 5 Skills That Young (And All) Communicators Should Develop

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By understanding how to think about and interpret data, communicators need to be able to draw inferences and understand trends by providing insights based on what they observe. Visuals : Traditionally, communicators have been trained in writing. Video, photos, infographics and the like are necessary in a mobile and digital world.

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What PR Professionals Should Have Learned at IBM World of Watson

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Our work is often undervalued because our industry fails at reporting data. Moreover, when we do actually have data worth reporting, most of us skimp on analysis. Instead, we toss out a chart, an infographic, or a good quote and hope no one notices that we haven’t done our homework.

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{PR}edict: Predictive Analytics and the Future of PR, Part 3

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we take this data series and project it forward, using the existing 5 years’ data as the training data. What Would PR Do? I personally don’t have a PR agency for my blog, but if I did, I would provide them this data. What would a data-driven PR agency like SHIFT do with it?

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