Best Practices
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Corporate Social Responsibility
[VIDEO] PRNEWS Live Discusses the Power of Presidential Endorsements
Should PR firms also offer their own endorsements? How does that impact mission and clientele?
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Crisis Management
Kellogg’s Food Dye Controversy: A PR Misstep with Lasting Consequences
In an age where transparency and trust are crucial to brand loyalty, Kellogg’s recent food dye crisis has left a sour taste in the mouths of consumers.
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Crisis Management
Media Training and Intuit’s Communications Disaster
The Intuit fiasco brings to light four key lessons/pillars for communications professionals when media training company stakeholders: interview preparation, post-interview communications, media relations and crisis management.
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Email
[VIDEO] Trigger Marketing Best Practices for B2B and B2C Marketing Success
Chief Marketer and payment solutions and technology company Deluxe explore how to implement trigger marketing strategies that resonate with clients and prospects at key moments.
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Media Relations
Looking in the Mirror: When Client Issues Are the PR Pro’s Fault
Misunderstandings about client expectations for media placement are often the result of PR professionals’ failure to help decision-makers understand what would be necessary to achieve success long before the contract is signed. Here’s how to turn such challenges into trust-building opportunities and prospects into long-term clients.
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Acquisition
Moving at the Speed of Growth: 5 Steps Toward Rapid Innovation in a Volatile Market
Five key capabilities that businesses must develop to unlock and sustain growth in today’s volatile and ambiguous marketplace.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: McDonald’s Bad Week, Google and Political Ads and Generational Differences in Advertising
PR Roundup looks at the communications responses of McDonald’s after several chaotic appearances in the news, Google’s ban on political ads and a new report on how different generations respond to advertising and messaging.
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Media Relations
How to Pitch Media in an Election Season
As the U.S. election approaches, PR professionals face a dilemma: surrender to a sea of politically-dominated coverage or navigate onward and continue pitching media?
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Branding/Marketing
New York PR Wizard, Now 100, Looks Back—And Ahead—At How Media and PR Have Evolved
Morty Matz, a PR pro who just turned 100, offered his insights into how the news media and public relations business landscapes—as well as the symbiotic dynamics between the professions—have changed.
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Data Driven ROI
Why Performance Marketers Should Lean Into Brand Marketing
Many performance marketers are questioning whether they can afford to spend on direct-response campaigns to grow or maintain revenue. But for smart performance marketers, it’s not a question of whether to spend or cut. It’s a question of allocation—and of revising the old marketing practice of separating branding and performance campaigns. To get real traction with a more integrated funnel approach, consider these seven steps.