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Why Most B2B Companies Don’t Use Earned Media (Public Relations)

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A significantly smaller number of those websites, however, contain any publicity (earned media) that showcase the company’s intellectual capital, success stories, products and services, or people. They don’t know how to generate positive coverage. They don’t appreciate the power of earned media.

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How To Make Marketing An Invaluable Function

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In my experience, the sales team typically forgets to ask prospects how they’ve learned about the company or product. To survive and grow in their current position, they need to invest more time on tasks that will affect the company’s top-line revenue and less time on what amounts to window dressing.

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7 Signs that You’re NOT a Thought Leader

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If you’re unwilling to provide insights, information and recommendations without making yourself the hero, or without directly plugging your firm’s products / services, then you’re not really practicing Thought Leadership. You lack original or interesting ideas. Consistency is the most significant hurdle in the quest for Thought Leadership.

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Make the Short List…Or Die Trying

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For most B2B companies, there’s no reliable way to predict when a prospective client will purchase their product or engage their services, regardless of what their “marketing automation” expert promises. The effort to generate top-of-mind awareness is a means to an end, not the goal. Or ideally, as the only firm under consideration.)

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Should PRSA Sanction Public Relations Practitioners?

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But because the press can deliver exposure and credibility that PR craves, journalists have always been in a more powerful position. It’s a dance that both sides understand. Public relations has fought for decades to be recognized as a bona fide profession, similar to medicine, law or accounting.

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Your Marketing Content: Is it Fake News?

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Our client was overjoyed with the media exposure, but we felt less than honorable, and resolved that we would never use market research to promote a client’s product or service unless we believed the supporting methodology had sufficient rigor. And over the years we’ve lost client work as a result of that position.

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Survival Skills for the Hedge Fund Apocalypse

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There’s an increasing volume of negative news regarding the “exodus from hedge funds,” in favor of less expensive alternatives such as liquid alts and “engineered equity” products. It’s difficult to believe that any fund manager would be so short-sighted as to report performance when it’s positive, and then go silent when it’s not.