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Propel is a viable alternative for all-in-one PR software [PR Tech Briefing]

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This PR software company was started by a former PR agency owner; pitch analytics is where Propel really shines I have a soft spot for startups because I’ve been employed or consulted with many of them over my career. Yet now and then a software product comes along and makes an impression.

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Competition Among All-in-One PR Software Tools Heats Up [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Onclusive adds features, becomes all-in-one PR software tool; Agility PR Solutions adds AI; Q4 releases IR event hosting tool; an odd rebrand by SocialChorus and Dynamic Signal; Intrado rebrands as Notified; Meltwater Q2 earnings. It also allows for pitching through the platform, which checks off distribution. Critical Mention.

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

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The founding HARO was founded by Peter Shankman in 2008 as a Facebook group for journalists in need of sources. Acquisitions PR software company Vocus acquired HARO in 2010 for an undisclosed sum. It was among the first cloud software companies, and almost certainly the first ever SaaS model for PR technology or comms tech.

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Cision’s New CMO Lands In Perfect Storm of Media and Software Worlds

Cision

Although editorial rooms were being gutted and print revenue was dropping, it was an opportune time to be young and cheap labor. Because I had editors who believed in me, I covered new players like Google, Facebook and Twitter before they went public. In the process, I became a software product nerd.

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Using Tech Tools for Maximum PR Coverage

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Meltwater tracks from 275,000 online news sources and has partnerships for print and broadcast monitoring. Furthermore, it can track social media coverage as well, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and over 300 million blogs. Google Trends. Google Trends is underutilized in our view. Radio Guest List.

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Another PR Tech Startup Gets Venture Funding [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

It has since been acquired by an SEO software company. The company caught my eye when it said it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze a reporter’s pitching preferences. The idea is helping PR understand how reporters prefer to be pitched and improve your chances of coverage. It raised a Series A round of funding for $1.1

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Is Public Relations Management a Technology? [PR Tech Sum]

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A handful of companies that make software for public relations are staking a claim on the term. Around 2010, I worked for a PR software vendor that occasionally rattled the CRM idea, but it never really got traction in the market. Most draw analogy to customer relationship management, or CRM. The concept of CRM for PR isn’t new.