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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

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In 1999, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger said the Internet would turn markets into conversations, audiences were actual human beings, and companies would come down from their ivory towers to create meaningful relationships. No one talked about social “content.” Social media” became less social.

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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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Create Better Content by First Creating a Better Relationship with Your Lawyers

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And so on we go, back to our desks to create content that will get approved. How did lawyers gain so much control over what we do and the content we create? You see, their job isn’t to create engaging content. Here are three key takeaways for anyone creating content for their brand: Do your own research.

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Omnichannel Marketing is the First Step, Not the End Game

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

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For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. In reality, social media marketing has never been free. Most brands now know the real costs of social media marketing are not as great as the opportunity costs of bad social media strategy. billion industry.

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PR Pros: Start Thinking Bigger Before It’s Too Late

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I recently had the pleasure of speaking at PRSA Pittsburgh’s Professional Development Day where I spoke about some of the changes that integrated marketing is having on the PR industry. Before launching into your PR ideas, strategies and tactics, ask to see the overall marketing plan.

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Watching Church and State Slide Down the Slippery Slope

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No, the more concerning consequence of this mixing of church and state is the audience no longer knows the provenance of the content they’re consuming. If the public is OK with pay-for-play content, then why wouldn’t we offer more of it? The convergence of PR, marketing and advertising has only worsened the issue.