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Watching Church and State Slide Down the Slippery Slope

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In exchange, all we ask is you provide us with a list of partners we can contact to see if they’re interested in purchasing advertising in the issue. The worst scenario is when a reporter is interested in a story but is only willing to run it if you buy ad space, too. Why wouldn’t they?

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What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

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For years, marketing, advertising, and public relations folks fought over budgets, scopes of work, ownership, and talent. The traditional buckets of marketing, advertising, and public relations seem so quaint now. Weber Shandwick created MediaCo , a new unit focused on content marketing, native advertising, and digital media buying.

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Public Relations Isn’t the Cherry on Top

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PR isn't: Some transactional activity that's thought about only after the advertising campaign is created. Yet, businesses continue to try to take the easy way out clumsily advertising, optimizing, and marketing to these people like they're switches that can be turned on and off if we hit the right levers.

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

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According to a recent Advertising Age article , Facebook reports: “Content that is eligible to be shown in news feed is increasing at a faster rate than people’s ability to consume it.” Increasing reach.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

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It is a method of communications, a channel not unlike or more or less important than public relations, customer relationship management, advertising, corporate communications and the like. 101 , buy-in , marketing , social media , web 2.0 For example, Aberdeen recently published a report on Sales 2.0 brief summary: [link].

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An Interview with Blogger Bob From TSA's Evolution of Security.

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Yet, they have a very open blog that’s advertised on the official TSA website and in airports around the country. From what I’ve heard and read, one of the largest hurdles to clear is getting leadership to buy off on Web 2.0, I was beyond intrigued – I was also excited and curious. That made things much easier.

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Identify the Right People to Manage Your Social Media Initiatives.

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We talk often about what department should lead social media, how to get leadership buy-in for social media, or what technology should be used, and while those are important discussions to have, you should be focused on identifying WHO should be leading the social media initiatives. . Billable hours and reporting is not everything.

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