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Want To Boost Yourself On Media? Avoid These 11 Fatal Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

by Paul Blanchard, author of founder and principal consultant of Right Angles and author of “ Fast PR: Give Yourself a Huge Media Boost “ Here’s the surprise about PR: getting great media coverage is as much about knowing what not to do than it is about knowing what to do. So here are 11 PR mistakes to avoid: 1.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). What are the risks and rewards?

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15 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Inspirational Business Quote

Hearpreneur

This year alone we have had six fortune 500 companies ask us to provide them with proposals who then decided to go with a less expensive option only to come back a few months later asking us to save their campaigns. Steve Jobs- Stanford Commencement speech 2005. Thanks to Anabelle Alarcon, Alarcon PR. #14 Don’t settle.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

crowdSPRING Blog

But for every successful PR stunt that is launched by a wide-eyed marketing team, there are dozens of unsuccessful efforts littering the road. Here are 5 legendary examples of PR efforts gone horribly, terrible, awfully wrong. PR Destroyed It. fail has never had better friends than these! We Built This City.

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10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

mashable.com

10 Essential PR Tips for Startups. Sign up for her course on “ PR for Startups ” to learn more about getting media coverage for your fledgling business. .” While pitching individual writers sounds more promising to many PR folk, you should always determine the official pitching method for your preferred publication.

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The Five Most Engaging Podcasts of the Year

Duct Tape Marketing

I’ve been recording podcast interviews since some time in 2005 and it’s one of my favorite things to do. 2) The New New New Rules of Marketing and PR. The Five Most Engaging Podcasts of the Year This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. The show has opened some pretty cool doors and allowed me to meet some very cool people.

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

The following chart compare the impact of the tsunami in 2005 on the website traffic vs. the viral marketing campaign that they launched in 2007 with Popular Media. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. UNICEF USA used their solution and the results have been fantastic. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2).