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How The Right PR Makes Better Business Deals

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Although some call it “free advertising,” public relations isn’t free. For a regional credit union, we built upon an existing educational campaign to promote financial literacy for member companies and their employees through seminars and collateral materials. It’s not even cheap.

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What The Best PR Strategies Have In Common

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Yet that’s meaningless until you have the media pitches, seminar opportunities, or content to support and show off that expertise. Your core strategy to differentiate and promote your accounting firm may be to position its partners as experts in personal financial planning, for example. They include a contingency or crisis plan.

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PR’s Top Tech Events For Executive Speaking Gigs

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Advertising Week NY, September 23-26, New York. AW takes over New York City each autumn as almost 100,000 marketers, advertisers, technology, and brand professionals descend on the big apple to check out over a thousand speakers in four days of networking. Mobile World Congress LA, October 22-24, Los Angeles. Deadline is May 1.

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Behind the Headlines with Yvonne Lorie

Cision

HPRA provides year-round programs, professional development seminars and networking among other services. . Although my college education was geared towards advertising and then broadcast journalism, I ultimately gained my first real job opportunity in PR and it all went from there. When I was young I wanted to be ….

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7 mostly free professional development ideas that PR and comms pros can start today

Sword and the Script

Most of the social media platforms have courses you can take on their advertising products. For a time, I served as treasurer for my HOA, so I paid $100 for an 8-hour seminar that taught me how to be a good board member. From time to time, some of the SEO vendors open up courses for free. These arent the only courses.

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6 Ways To Use PR To Build Brand Marketing

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Advertising offers the benefit of repetition – we hear a tagline or brand promise often enough, and we start to believe it – or at least, remember it. It sponsors a series of Financial Learning Seminars, underwrites research about the cost of financial stress in the workplace, and raises funds for financial wellness causes.

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Best PR Uses For Video Content

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

As much as video content has grown in advertising, marketing, and PR , data shows that it continues to expand. Executives can reach out to shareholders or investors through video, as Nestle shows in this message from a 2017 investor seminar. WebpageFX predicts that by next year, 90% of online content will be video.

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