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Creative Communications: Lessons from Health and Wellness Brands

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Yet, health and wellness brands refuse to let them go. The following examples focus on health and wellness brands, but the takeaways apply to any industry. Where is your industry going? Positioning: Lärabar as a Lifestyle Brand. Lärabar, a snack bar company, has successfully positioned itself as a lifestyle brand.

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A Heart to Heart with My Industry: Five Ways to Improve the Business Consulting Industry

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But it’s not uncommon for marketing professionals and other business consultants to get creatively and occupationally stuck on a hamster wheel, partly as a result of things we do to ourselves and our industry as a whole. If we don’t pay each other on time, we are letting ourselves starve and disrespecting our industry as a whole.

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Will India See a Rise in Digital PR?

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Look at these examples to understand the changes that the Indian media industry has been going through in the past few months: In May, NDTV Profit cut back on all non-market-hour programming, which meant the channel only needed a handful of anchors and reporters. It’s time for the next big leap in the way PR agencies work in India.

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Bringing Open Community To Public Relations

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When I was at Blogworld this year, listening to Todd Defren and Dave Fleet talk about how social media for PR has to be about building engagement year-round with people, around your brand or organization. I got up and asked them, “if that’s the case, why do we need PR agencies?” Thanks, Maddie and Lindy, for stopping by!

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You Should Really be Using Instagram Stories in Your Marketing Mix

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It’s estimated that around 50% of businesses which are active on Instagram leverage Stories to facilitate brand recognition, brand awareness, customer engagement, and brand loyalty. A total of 1 million advertisers currently leverage sponsored Instagram Stories for further brand enhancement. 3% are redirected to an app.

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Like Stuff On Facebook? Say Cheese, You're An Ad!

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This is what Ad Age had to say about it (and thanks to Kathy Moore for tipping me off): The ubiquitous “like&# is currency for brands, and Facebook is giving them a new way to collect: an ad unit that shows up on the right-hand side of the screen it calls “sponsored stories.&# It’s just commonsense.

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Automation in Public Relations Measurement: Yea/Nay?

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November 18th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Seth Duncan As a researcher in the PR industry, I couldn’t be more excited about some of the advances I’ve seen around automation in media measurement over the past several years. Tracking sentiment around a brand and its competitors might be important for a product manager. Seth received a B.A.