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How To Get The Most From PR Freelancers

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Depending on the length of the engagement, it’s often advantageous to include a contract employee in relevant team and company meetings. Because a freelance employee will sign an NDA and in most cases a non-compete agreement, the agency team shouldn’t worry that they’ll disclose confidential client information or try to lure the client away.

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How To Onboard New Team Members – Virtually

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Traditionally, onboarding for new employees would entail face-to-face meetings, all-company lunches and even an after-hours happy hour. New employees who went through a structured onboarding program were 58% more likely to be with the organization after three years. — What are some ways you have onboarded new employees virtually?

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How To Work Across Multiple Time Zones

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

As a result, how and where we work has been transformed. As an East Coast employee now working on the West Coast for the past eight months, I don’t face the kind of challenges as teams who span several time zones across many global regions. If an employee in Sydney is working while EMEA and U.S. Productivity levels are higher .

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Social Issues And Executive Communications: When And How To Respond

Stern + Associates

What Will Current and Potential Employees Think? Organizations are used to worrying about customer and investor sensibilities, but an emerging area of concern is the opinions of current and future employees. The post Social Issues And Executive Communications: When And How To Respond appeared first on Stern Strategy Group.

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How to Level Up from Media Relations to Strategic Communications

Solo PR Pro

Despite popular belief, public relations is not synonymous with media relations. True public relations is the process of establishing and maintaining effective relationships between an organization and its publics. No business can survive without strong relationships with employees, customers, vendors and other audiences.

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8 Common PR Mistakes And How To Avoid Them

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

We see this most often in the art of media relations, where a PR pitches a story idea to a journalist who’s just posted a similar piece, or when we’re too late offering comment on a hot topic. That’s natural, because execution is the fun part, and clients are often impatient for media relations or content outcomes.

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Top Media Relations Challenges & How to Solve Them

Shift Communications

As an account executive on the account services team at SHIFT, my role is focused primarily on media relations as it pertains to my client roster. Although media relations is a blast, it has its fair share of challenges – the PR struggle can be very real. Which leads us to our next media relations challenge….