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Death by Content: How Press Release Abuse Killed Public Relations

Marketing Craftmanship

Self-serving Press Release Content Has Killed PR. The origins of the press release are unclear, but in the not too distant past, this communication tool was called a “News Release.” Flacks began using the press release as a marketing and propaganda tool, and this was a bad thing. And over time, it will make you irrelevant.

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4 Media Relations Lessons…Learned the Hard Way

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Media relations (or press relations) involves risks and consequences that can quickly derail any career, either as a corporate executive or PR agency rep. Here are four lessons I’ve learned from working with the press: 1. Press relations is always a crap shoot. A misquote can sink a company’s stock price. Then she hung up.

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Research Integrity: The Achilles Heel of Content Marketing

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With good intentions, but given no budget or time to perform proper market research, we interviewed a total of 6 corporate CEOs and board members to provide some validation to the underlying premise of our press release. The headline read: “Most Corporate Directors & Officers Believe They Are Not Protected Properly from Legal Risk.”.

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Your Marketing Content: Is it Fake News?

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With good intentions, but given no budget or time to perform proper market research, we interviewed a total of 6 corporate CEOs and board members to provide some validation to the underlying premise of our press release. The headline read: “Most Corporate Directors & Officers Believe They Are Not Adequately Protected from Legal Risk.”.

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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. Over the past decade, three developments have upset the already rocky relationship between PR and the press: Email, and “blast email” in particular, has become PR’s most frequently used communication device.

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No-Cost, Cornball Marketing Can Drive B2B Top-of-Mind Awareness

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eReleases competes with dozens of electronic news distribution services, all seeking to charge companies and PR agencies hefty fees to put their press releases in front of journalists, in hopes of capturing the media’s attention and coverage. Missing: Nimmi, the acrobatic dog. All of our editors pick up the phone.

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First Aid for Media Burn

Marketing Craftmanship

Regardless of how well a company communicates with the press, it stands a good chance of being “burned” on occasion. Unfortunately, no standard methodology exists for redress of grievances with the press. Que Sera, Sera.

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