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Elevating Your Business Profile: The Strategic Value of a PR Company

The Startup Magazine

For business owners seeking to elevate their company’s profile, engaging with a PR company can be a game-changing strategy. Amplifying Your Brand Message One of the primary roles of a PR firm is to amplify your brand’s message. Unlike direct marketing or sales efforts, the impact of PR can be less tangible.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

There was the usual cogent presentation by Brian Solis on the future of PR in which he implored us to get beyond the echo chamber of Silicon Valley and Techmeme and focus on staying on the radar screen of real America. He displayed a deep mastering of the power of the Internet, direct marketing and Twitter to manage his business.

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6 Clever Strategies to Grow Your Real Estate Business

Up and Running

After all, you never know when someone from your network of friends, acquaintances, or relatives will approach you for help, either for themselves or on behalf of someone they know. Join networks like the Rotary Club and Business Network International. See Also: 20 Networking Tips from a PR Expert.

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[Review] Uprising

YoungUpstarts

From the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street , hand-crafted bamboo bikes to Pepsi’s “Refresh” Project , Goodson explains that citizens and companies alike are leveraging on the ease of starting any movement big or small through a mix of online social networks and offline gatherings. source of image ).

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. I’ve previously documented that early-on in IMVU’s life, we made the mistake of building an IM add-on product instead of a standalone network. Let me illustrate.

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Optimized Is the New Integrated

Duct Tape Marketing

Some years ago smart marketers latched onto the idea of something they referred to as integrated marketing. The idea behind this concept was to make all aspects of marketing such as advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and direct marketing work together as a single force, rather than allowing each to work as a stand alone.

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Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool

crowdSPRING Blog

In the past year you have probably handed out and received literally hundreds of these tiny leaflets – an ongoing marketing effort that we don’t often think of as marketing. The exchanging of business cards id probably the most effective networking method there is.

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