There's no sign of pricing yet, but there is PR and a video after the break.
Social media is PR 2.0 according to Ian Sigalow, based on the start-ups and intensive focus on marketing automation today he is seeing.
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Thought leadership is not PR, it is all about leading the sector in a new direction.
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While this may be the case, PR continues to take a larger bite of the marketing pie, through social and while there is a struggle for ownership, PR is much better positioned at the strategy table.
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And yet, in a world where any PR is deemed to be good PR, can Target lose when scarcity sets off a firestorm?
Beyond that, it is a PR and fundraising battle over new laws banning the so-called assault rifles and high capacity magazine clips.
The Saudi plan is more PR exercise than peace mission.
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Alex Honeysett is a PR Director in New York City.
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But as I argued in my post a while back, Why Amazon is the Best Strategic Player in Tech, PR is their Achilles Heel (they could learn from Zappos, which they acquired).
This, however, is not something PR companies and the media find very compelling as they search for eye-catching stories when genuine news is thin.
This job is basically a PR post, but none the less important for that.
And yet, over and over again, this is exactly what PR statements actually are.
The second springboard, I hope, is the Chicago PR and marketing community itself.
Rajaratnam, who is on trial for charges related to receiving insider information, is using his PR team, CounterPoint Strategies, Inc.
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Potter has a book coming out this fall called Deadly Spin: How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care And Deceiving Americans.
It should be noted, of course, that injecting satire into PR is a delicate balance as the humor must be effective without damaging a company's brand.
He lacks the natural articulateness that is such a PR asset in Tinseltown and that the marketers so cherish in professional sports players who are their pitchmen.
That Apple talks to the WSJ and not to the tech press could be taken as an indication that their PR is directed at the financial markets not geeks.
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Hanging with Kevin and Lauren was Janet Janjigian, an Emmy Award winning television news and documentary journalist for NBC Nightly News, ABC News Nightline and CNN in Los Angeles who is now a PR pro.
If the goal of the company is to get a 1 day pop to make a PR splash , that is a completely different strategy.
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The VCs are the new kingmakers, and the PR professional is given relatively short shrift.
This is exactly the crowd borro is targeting, their PR contact informed me.
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Speaking of that, the tour stunt itself is turning into a PR fiasco.
The PR giant is now reported to be representing the Saudi Royal Family.
Certainly not least among Grenache's PR problems is just that it isn't a grape from Bordeaux or (except surreptitiously) Burgundy.
This is not just shrewd PR by Apple, but also an acknowledgement of the importance of the Chinese consumer market.
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