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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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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

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You can read multiple books for marketing your business on Pinterest. There are more than 5,000 books on social media marketing. When I first started using social media professionally back in 2006, it was because I recognized that these new tools could fundamentally change the way organizations communicated and collaborated.

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Who Will Become the Tesla or AirBnB of the Home Category?

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In a world where people don’t aspire to own their own homes or even openly despise the idea of owning a car, where does that leave the tool, yard care and appliance markets? Milwaukee Tools has a program where you can trade in old tools and get $100 off new ones. Give customers the ability to rent your products directly.

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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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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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Klout for Enterprise 2.0 Networks is a Bad Idea

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Unfortunately, despite all the criticism of tools like Klout on the open Internet, there seems to be a demand somewhere for tools that reduce actual people and relationship to numbers. So, I have no doubt that we will begin to see influence features embedded into internal social networks with increasing frequency.

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The Future of Branding is About Making Friends, Not Ads

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What is first required is to embrace social relationship-building not as the latest marketing fad, or even as a new reality that has been forced upon you, but as a means to revaluate who you are, what you stand for and why you are in business in the first place." Ads alone aren't going to win you many friends.

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