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Designing Your Agency Training Program, Part 2

Designing Your Agency Training Program, Part 2 | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Ok, so you’ve asked for and gotten a commitment for active support from the top (and if you’re the agency leader, you’ve committed to giving it), and done your research so that you can build the program around the agency’s strategic and professional development goals and client performance on agency feedback.

 

You’ve probably started to lay out an outline of key must-haves. You might even feel that you’re ready to go deep. Stop right there....

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It’s Hot in Here—Results from the Council’s Latest Industry Survey | Council of Public Relations Firms

It’s Hot in Here—Results from the Council’s Latest Industry Survey | Council of Public Relations Firms | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The Council just completed its Q4 survey of public relations firms, and the results are hot enough to warm even the chilliest January board meeting.

 

First thing’s first: A full 70% of firms report that final 2011 revenues will be higher than in 2010. Only 13% anticipate lower revenues. In the context of a still-uncertain overall economy, the council is projecting about 10% year-over-year industry growth. About half of our members experienced double-digit growth, figures consistent across all revenue categories....

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What We’re Wondering about Social Media—Eight Burning Questions | Council of Public Relations Firms

With all the writing that has swirled around social media in recent years, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and also to assume that all the good, stimulating, provocative questions have already been asked. Yet judging from last week’s Critical Issues Forum, the discussion around social media is far from stale. Panelists, facilitators, and audience-members alike raised an impressive array of burning questions surrounding the use of Facebook, Twitter and the like by companies. These issues touched on the strategic and the theoretical; on political life as well as business implications. Taken together, they represent a coherent agenda for how to think creatively about social media for the next six to twelve months....

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And then the PR guy called me “a fucking bitch”. I can’t even make this shit up.

In the annals of 'no frigging clue why I'm in PR, this one is right up there...recounted uproariouslyby The Blogess...

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Client Growth Workshops, Your Key To Growing Business Organically | Ken's Views

Client Growth Workshops, Your Key To Growing Business Organically | Ken's Views | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

There’s an important action you can take to build more business from existing clients: hold regular client business-building workshops. Here are seven tips on making them successful...

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Do PR Firms have the leg up in terms of their ability to manage the measurement of social media? – Agency New Business

Do PR Firms have the leg up in terms of their ability to manage the measurement of social media? – Agency New Business | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Do PR Firms have the leg up in terms of their ability to manage the measurement of social media?
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WPP reports first half like-for-like PR revenues rise by 5%

WPP reports first half like-for-like PR revenues rise by 5% | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
WPP, owner of Hill & Knowlton, Cohn & Wolfe and Finsbury, has reported first half headline revenue growth of 6.1% to £4.7bn, while its PR business grew 5% on a like-for-life basis.
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Maintaining Momentum: Five Tips for Managing the Challenges of Growth | Council of Public Relations Firms

Maintaining Momentum: Five Tips for Managing the Challenges of Growth | Council of Public Relations Firms | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

What should growing public relations firms do to manage their success most effectively? We queried three executives who have experienced growth first hand—Brandon Edwards, President of Revive Public Relations; Mark Eber, President and Partner of IMRE; and Matthew J. Harrington, CEO of Edelman U.S.—and compiled the following five tips...

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Global Survey Shows Independent PR Firms Experiencing a Surge in New Business

Independent communications firms worldwide are starting off the year in better business shape than 2011, according to recent results announced today from a Worldcom Public Relations Group (Worldcom) survey. As the world’s leading partnership of independently owned public relations firms, Worldcom reported most partner agencies polled, forecast hiring new staff and have already experienced an increase in business and budgets as they begin the new year....

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The Lure of the ‘Big Name Client’

The past few months have witnessed increased media interest in the motivations of public relations professionals when it comes to accepting consulting opportunities with governments whose actions are, at best, questionable.

 

The focus has been primarily aimed at the former Libyan government’s ham-handed efforts to spruce up its image while it was under the control of deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi....

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PR Firm President to Staff: 'You Will Be Fired For Not Replacing the Milk'

PR Firm President to Staff: 'You Will Be Fired For Not Replacing the Milk' | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Keith Zakheim is the president of Beckerman PR, a multimillion-dollar public relations firm in New Jersey. Keith Zakheim is also a big fan of milk. Don't test him!

 

Below is a real email that Keith Zakheim sent his lazy, selfish, milk-sucking staff yesterday....

 

PR leadership? Not so much!

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Behind Every Responsible Company . . . Is a P.R. Agency - Forbes

Behind Every Responsible Company . . . Is a P.R. Agency - Forbes | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
They say, behind every successful brand is a P.R. agency. How about: Behind every responsible brand is a P.R. agency?

 

At least for Ruder Finn, that's the new mantra. The renown agency recently announced that it would set up its “CSR experience” as a separate practice devoted to corporate social responsibility....

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WPP 1H 2011 Results: PR Again Outpaced By Other Disciplines - The Holmes Report

WPP 1H 2011 Results: PR Again Outpaced By Other Disciplines - The Holmes Report | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
The Holmes ReportWPP 1H 2011 Results: PR Again Outpaced By Other DisciplinesThe Holmes ReportLONDON--WPP, the owner of numerous PR agencies including Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton and Ogilvy PR, has reported that PR earnings grew by five...
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