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Going Beyond Media Relations: Other Services Solo PR Pros Can Offer

Solo PR Pro

A big misconception about public relations is that the only thing PR pros do is media relations. Here's how the Public Relations Society of America defines public relations : “Public relations is a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.”.

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Big Business Must Help Us Heal

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The past five years have seen an erosion of confidence in our major institutions – government, faith groups, and media, among others. Citizens and media respect and listen to them, and elected officials count on their support. There’s just not much that brings us together these days. Large companies are mostly bipartisan.

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Public Relations vs Marketing

Doctor Spin

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.

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Controlled Chaos: 86 Comms Pros Explain How Communications Work Has Changed

Sword and the Script

“Now need to produce videos and podcasts in-house – something that used to be a once-in-a-while activity and was outsourced – in addition to providing content for every social media platform and continuing all other ‘old school’ communication duties.”. Digital is no longer an afterthought, social media has gained prominence.”.

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Unlocking Revenue Potential With The Power Of PR

Landis PR

Metrics such as web traffic, page views, bounce rates, time spent on the website, and SEO ranking, all rely on PR tactics. Other ways to measure brand recognition is through share of voice in media or on social media. PR and content play vital roles in managing and accelerating the sales funnel.

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Six social media and digital communications trends for 2015

PR Conversations

The reason is that we have been able to incorporate a lot of contemporary thinking around ways of learning as well as the emerging field of digital communications and social media. The input of students also helps us to develop the course, and their engagement and reflections benefit my own understanding and practice.

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How PR and corporate communications can use animated gifs

Stuart Bruce

However, many PR professionals are put off the idea of using gifs because their main knowledge and experience of them are the the humorous ones they see on social media with brief clips of characters from popular films or TV shows. Mobile friendly and work across platform including social media, web sites.