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A Toast To Independent PR Agencies

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Lots of ad and PR agencies tout their independent status in their marketing. Early in my career, after stints at two very different independent PR firms, I worked in the PR unit of a large ad agency. Traditional ad agencies like the one where I worked have been badly disrupted. Breakthrough creative.

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Can PR Agencies Protect Their Ideas?

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But how does a PR or ad agency avoid it? His final tweet concluded that “no agency could have done this ad.” Except according to Martin Agency CEO Kristen Cavallo, an agency did. Creative minds can think alike. Creative minds can think alike. A recent Twitter dustup highlighted the dilemma.

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6 Things PR Agencies Should Never Say

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

PR agency teams, like all creative services people, love to keep our clients happy. The best PR specialists know how to use creative tactics, research, and data to create newsworthy stories. While a big part of what our clients ask of us is generating media coverage, what any agency team does will go way beyond that.

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Five Benefits of Working at a Small Agency

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

PR agencies come in all shapes and sizes. Other agencies — often described as “boutique” — are smaller and less known, yet capable of producing work of the highest quality. Smaller agencies are often less formal and can be less organized when it comes to personnel matters. A small PR agency is like a small town.

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Crenshaw Communications Joins Digital Marketing Agency Mod Op

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That’s the question I heard from clients, friends, and PR colleagues when I told them that Crenshaw Communications, the PR firm I founded in 2009, had become part of Mod Op, a leading digital marketing and communications agency. The agency’s tagline is “Accelerating Growth Through Data, Human Creativity + AI.”

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What PR Agencies Should Be Thankful For

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As a PR agency team , we also have a lot to be thankful for at our firm. From Slack to Zoom, PR pros have gotten creative about how to stay connected in a remote environment. The post What PR Agencies Should Be Thankful For appeared first on Crenshaw Communications. Tech tools for staying connected .

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Strategic planning for creative agencies

Wadds Inc.

tool supports business planning for creative agencies. As professional advisers to creative agencies and comms teams, we have done some of the work here at Wadds Inc. Strategic planning and crisis preparedness: A guide for creative agencies. We’ve published a strategic planning tool for creative agencies.