Rock the Status Quo

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When you think of the biggest changes in the move from traditional #PR to #DigitalPR, what comes to mind? After decades of media relations and pitching, everything is suddenly changing. It’s also brought a wider variety of marketers and entrepreneurs into the fold as newbie PR pros. I think of HOW FUN our job has become.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Excellent advice from Pattie Lovett-Reid, chief financial commentator, CTV News – 5 ways to grow your personal brand on social media. ANALYSIS: Are you narcissistic if you’re on social media? Watch Pattie’s interview with BNN’s The Street. I found myself defending […].

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

MAY 27, 2014

Last year, I wrote an article for Jaffe –the legal industry’s full-service PR and marketing agency, entitled Come Out from Behind the Brand. I guess you can call me a traditionalist; I am a huge proponent of staying true to what social media actually means, and how it was originally developed to connect people with people.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

APRIL 30, 2014

One of the advantages of using social media networks for creating new business opportunities is the ability to share great information without having to rely solely on the traditional sales pitch approach. Good information is the lifeblood of social media networking.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 17, 2020

Key findings: Journalism matters again – there has been a sharp uptick in the use of TV and digital news due to the pandemic. Sadly, this renewed interest in the media has not brought more revenue and a further drive towards digital subscriptions is expected. PR Takeaways: There is a growing interest in the news.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The falling rupee has hit many Indians, and seems to have caught up with the Indian media in the past few months. It is rightly said that PR and journalism are interdependent. However, I believe that the PR agencies should take this as an opportunity rather than a challenge. Image: Amit Kumar via Flickr, CC 3.0.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

AUGUST 18, 2015

Excellent advice from Pattie Lovett-Reid, chief financial commentator, CTV News – 5 ways to grow your personal brand on social media. ANALYSIS: Are you narcissistic if you’re on social media? Here are a few things I found helpful as I embarked on this brand building social journey.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

AUGUST 18, 2015

Excellent advice from Pattie Lovett-Reid, chief financial commentator, CTV News – 5 ways to grow your personal brand on social media. ANALYSIS: Are you narcissistic if you’re on social media? Here are a few things I found helpful as I embarked on this brand building social journey.

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PRSay

MAY 22, 2020

Every year, Muck Rack sends out our State of Journalism survey, when we get the chance to ask journalists of all beats and backgrounds how, when and where they want to be communicated with by PR professionals. The State of Journalism is part of our larger mission to help build stronger relationships between PR and journalists.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

APRIL 30, 2014

One of the advantages of using social media networks for creating new business opportunities is the ability to share great information without having to rely solely on the traditional sales pitch approach. Good information is the lifeblood of social media networking.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Once upon a time, emailing journalists meant buying a list of media email addresses and blasting out a generic pitch. Media Database Tool Media database tools like Cision or Muck Rack can get you access to large lists of journalists. Some call this the “spray-and-pray” technique. Ultimately, this approach worked…OK.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 20, 2015

The Internet has changed the way we connect and communicate – not just with one another, but also with the media. Writing a press release and posting it on the wire doesn’t get your media coverage anymore. In fact, according to the 2015 Cision Social Journalism Study only 6% of PR pros still do that.

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Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 11, 2014

Creativity counts when it comes to a media pitch, the headline of your press release and share-worthy blog posts. This month’s issue of PRSA Tactics has an article by Business Wire’s Ibrey Woodall called “Delivering News That Media Can Use.” I’d also suggest adding social media feeds to it.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Print news media under threat is not an exclusive. We consume news through TV, mobile apps, PC and social media. Print new media challenge Ad-funded newspapers such as The Evening Standard and The Metro are the exception, not the rule. The print is dying debacle is an issue for people working in media relations.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

’” says Andy Bechtel, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill. So, write web heads that don’t get truncated by Google, social media channels and mobile apps or else you’ll lose your readers’ attention. appeared first on Laurie Pehar Borsh Digital PR.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

PR professionals craft compelling narratives and critical messages that resonate with stakeholders , influencers , and publics , and they disseminate these through various channels, including traditional media, social media , and direct communications. Source: Journal of Communication 1 Botan, C., & Taylor, M.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

However, it also comes with the unique challenge of delivering results in digital PR on a lean budget. Tips for Doing Digital PR on a Low Budget Based on our chat, here are some great tips for doing digital PR on a small budget. Tip: We have a whole post on building media lists for free. Vince: Yeah.

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Buzzstream

AUGUST 16, 2024

Even though journalists are still getting laid off at a high rate, pitching your story directly to a journalist is still the best way to get media coverage. Finding the right journalists for your story is key to securing a media mention. The main problem with media databases is that they get dated quickly.

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Buzzstream

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Bekki Ramsay, Digital PR Manager at UK agency RVU , posted about how she re-angled a piece of existing content. It’s a very detailed post with really great tips for digital PRs. She was full of unique insights and tips for re-pitching your content and digital PR in general. Bekki: Yeah. Yeah, that.

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wiredPRworks

JANUARY 13, 2022

Scott is the author of Why They Follow: How to Lead with Positive Influence , the co-author of Rainmaker Confidential , and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, The American Lawyer, Above the Law, The Huffington Post, Selling Power Magazine, Business Insider, and many more.

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Doctor Spin

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Social media. Having social profiles is one thing, but are they optimised? Expand automation to more areas—invoice processing, lead nurturing, social media scheduling—and eliminate human error wherever possible. Examples of Needs: Social media engagement. Journal of Management Studies.

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Hats off to investment research and rating firm Morningstar and their marketing and PR staff for doing just that today. The Wall Street Journal published an article this morning with the headline The Morningstar Mirage. The article takes issue with the Morningstar rating system of mutual funds that many investors rely on.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

MAY 7, 2018

’” says Andy Bechtel, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill. So, write web heads that don’t get truncated by Google, social media channels and mobile apps or else you’ll lose your readers’ attention. Make […].

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

MAY 7, 2018

’” says Andy Bechtel, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill. So, write web heads that don’t get truncated by Google, social media channels and mobile apps or else you’ll lose your readers’ attention. Make […].

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Email is the best way to contact reporters, though social media is a close second. For some in the social media space, these are influencers. For some in the social media space, these are influencers. In the digital PR world , journalists and reporters promote our content. We’ll show you how.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

During that time, we have also dealt with many changes in the traditional and digital media and public relations environments. And we have also heard many opinions, presumptions and theories about the relevance and the impact of automotive PR. Will your company come to the top of those searches?

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Landis PR

JULY 10, 2023

Photo courtesy of Pixabay Note: This is a reposted blog by our Public Relations Global Network Partner, David Wills – Media Profile Inc. Check out the Doubt It and Keep Truth Well campaigns by the Canadian Journalism Foundation. For the original blog, please visit here. First, consider the source of the information.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Tools and Tactics Public Relations: PR uses tools such as press releases , events, community involvement, web- and social media publishing, and interactions with the news media to earn public attention and goodwill. It also involves crisis communication to mitigate damage to the company’s reputation. That’s marketing !

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PR Conversations

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Although the accelerating decline in the influence of national and local media signalled an end to the dominance of a journalist-to-PR career pathway, it also weakened the established case for the importance of PR in the C-suite (boardroom). After all, publics were enabled to act as equals and amplify crisis situations.

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Solo PR Pro

AUGUST 11, 2015

Many of the featured speakers at this top-notch conference are Solo PR Pro members, including: 21 st Century Media Relations: From “Buzz” to “Cha-Ching” – Shonali Burke, President and CEO, Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Three Really Is The Magic Number.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I was clueless about the world of Digital PR and what it entailed – until I landed in the industry myself. Unlike its traditional PR counterpart, Digital PR is also conducted with SEO in mind and one of the key aims of outreach is to gain linked coverage on online news publications.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 17, 2020

From pitches to landing coverage and everything in between, Digital PR can be done without a single tool. Ruth Barrett , Head of Content and Digital PR at Inspired Agency , has another use for the tool, too, utilising it as a way to fine-tune pitches and angles before outreach.

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Buzzstream

APRIL 25, 2024

For example, when I was with Siege Media, we could offer it as an ongoing service for some brands, like Shutterfly, because they received 5-10 weekly mentions. Search Engine Journal has a great breakdown of this topic.) For instance, social media marketing is still digital marketing, a space we play in.

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Norton's Notes

JULY 17, 2014

Today the BBC announced that it is cutting almost 500 jobs but reinvesting in a further 195 posts to back what it calls ‘digital journalism’. So I think we can safely say that digital journalism is where the BBC believes the future of that industry is headed. The future of online media is niche media for me.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 4, 2016

GUEST POST by Mike Falkow, Creative Director of Meritus Media. Social media has become the elephant in the room when it comes to business nowadays. Social media today is about visual storytelling and each platform has developed its own shorthand, a unique language if you will. Follow us on Twitter. mikefalkow.

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Norton's Notes

MAY 14, 2015

I have argued in my digital PR lectures at Leeds Beckett University that SEO is harming the PR industry up here in the north. I have noticed several SEO firms, hiring PR executives and some attempting to poach our staff, and paying them big salaries to join their teams and help them develop their in-house PR abilities.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

Today, the company is perhaps the largest of its kind, and I think understanding how it got to the place it is now, offers an interesting window into the world of PR and the evolution of technology for the digital PR community. Newly combined Vocus-Cision acquires Visible Technologies , a provider of social media analytics.

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