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What a Sandcastle Reminded Me About Strategy

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After all, there has been no dearth of “hooks” in the past couple of weeks to kick off the new year + decade with musings on innovation, strategy, new directions… the kind of thing one expects to be reading (and writing about) when a New Year rolls around. Sandcastle as strategy. Smart strategy needs to be flexible.

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#measurePR Recap (August 2017): How Measurement Affects Strategy Development

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In August, #measurePR focused on incorporating measurement from the start of your campaign before even thinking of implement your strategy. On measurement’s role in developing strategy: A3 – B If you don’t understand what you are getting into you can not set a good strategy, plan, message etc #measurepr.

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Your Strategy Will Not Produce in 2019 Without These Two Steps

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This is not your typical post about planning and strategy because that would be a waste of your time. The core of this is to recognize that you are THE KEY to the success of any planning or strategy you put into place. Your best winning strategy begins in your mind! Guest Post by Kathy Vaske. You aren’t a computer program.

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What Does Blood Have to Do With Internal Communication Strategy?

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, many businesses overlook the impact of a successful internal communications strategy. An effective internal communication strategy : Ensures your message is carried to all parts/extremities of the business. He can be found on Twitter and LinkedIn. Builds trust and engagement.

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5 Strategies to Build a Network of Bloggers and Journalists

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Twitter and LinkedIn are great ways to get introduced to gatekeepers. Interact with them on Twitter, comment on one of their blog posts, or even just retweet one of their tweets to let them know you are paying attention. Twitter is a great platform to find and connect with gatekeepers. Utilize Social Media.

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Three Keys to Blueprinting Your Social PR Strategy

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It was an intense couple of days, but absolutely essential to mapping out and implementing their social PR strategy, which is what we’ve been retained to do. It starts to become a beautiful, never-ending loop, that also allows for pivoting the strategy when needed ( I talked about this with Rebekah Iliff recently ).

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Map to Business Strategy: Geoff Livingston on #measurePR

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Last week, my friend Geoff Livingston joined us for the bi-weekly #measurePR Twitter chat. Yes, that was a lot to cover in an hour, but you know what Twitter is like – going here, going there, flowing here, flowing there. And on Q5 (what PR pros *must* start doing when it comes to measurement): A5: Map back to business strategy.

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