Social Media Strategery

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Omnichannel Marketing is the First Step, Not the End Game

Social Media Strategery

True omnichannel marketing is about understanding how the dominoes fall across the entire organization, not just in marketing. Congratulations on your integrated marketing plan, your omnichannel marketing strategy, your paid-earned-shared-owned media strategy — you’ve now completed the bare minimum of what customers expect.

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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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Listening for Change in Public Health and Social Marketing

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If you’re interested in learning more about Jacque, Don, or about digital health issues, Don, as well as several other members from the Booz Allen team, will be participating in CDC’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media next week.

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NHL Skating on Thin Ice With Many Supporters Post Lockout

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After the last lockout, the NHL launched the “My NHL” campaign which portrayed hockey as a battle and its players as warriors. What the NHL faces isn’t simply a PR, marketing or image problem. At this point, over-communicate – not with marketing messages, but with contrite honesty. Create a space for fans to vent.

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Public Relations Isn’t the Cherry on Top

Social Media Strategery

PR isn't: Some transactional activity that's thought about only after the advertising campaign is created. Those users, demographics, markets, and audiences that you and your analysts always talk about? " Smart organizations are realizing that marketing and advertising can only take them so far.

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Customers Don’t Want Ads, They Want a Conversation…Just Not the Conversations You Want to Have

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In another Fast Company article from January, they state that “brands, marketers believe, ought to start acting less like things and more like people, and they should engage traditional humans, their consumers, in dialogue.” In it, they debunked three common social media marketing best practices -.

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Watching Church and State Slide Down the Slippery Slope

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The convergence of PR, marketing and advertising has only worsened the issue. While I may view these quid pro quo arrangements between advertising and editorial as abhorrent, many of my colleagues with marketing or advertising backgrounds celebrate it. It’s marketers who view this as another extension of native advertising.