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Bulldog Reporter's PR University presents a new Master Class Webinar
SEO Press Release Boot Camp: New Power Tips for Boosting Reach and ROI with Company News Thursday, June 6, 2013
SEO can seem like a cheap and easy way to push your press releases to the top of the search listings, but it's not as simple as it looks. Google, Bing and Yahoo constantly tweak their algorithms so you have to keep up with them, and besides, SEO is not a one-size-fits-all deal. Different audiences need different SEO strategy. To see how you can become or remain an SEO power user, join Bob Varettoni, Executive Director, Corporate Communications, Verizon, Warren Lee, SEO Manager, Adobe, Sally Falkow, President of Meritus Media and "The Leading Edge" blogger and Sarah Skerik, VP Social Media at PR Newswire/MultiVu.
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Bulldog Reporter's PR University presents a new Master Class Webinar
The PR of Pain: Crisis Communications in Tough Times---How to Announce Layoffs, Shortfalls and Other Bad News While Preserving Your Reputation Friday, June 7, 2013
At some point to every organization there comes bad news. Layoffs, financial shortfalls, cutbacks—whatever form it takes, wouldn't you want to be ready now with a confident and focused response that addresses the problem head on, but still preserves your reputation? And who better to learn about crisis communications from than crisis master James Lukaszewski, president of The Lukaszewski Group Division of Risdall Public Relations? His years of front-line experience will help you ready yourself for the day Bad News strikes.
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NEW FROM BULLDOG REPORTER
Introducing "The Ultimate PR Agency Financial Management Handbook—How to Manage by the Numbers for Breakthrough Profitability of 20% or Greater"—Download Now |
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If you're the president of a PR firm and you're not generating consistent net profit of 20% per year, isn't it time to take control of your business once and for all? Isn't it time to give your people—and yourself—the benefits of prosperity and predictability that you deserve? If you're ready to run your PR agency using today's best practices of disciplined financial management, you'll want to own and use this fundamental guide, written by renowned PR agency financial guru Rick Gould. Discover inside strategies, techniques, ratios and hard-won wisdom that are certain to increase your PR agency's profitability to 20% or even 30%—no matter what the economic environment. Download Now! |
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Bulldog Reporter's PR University presents a new Master Class Webinar
Using Social Media for Media Relations: New Methods for Generating Story Placements and Online Buzz Thursday, May 16, 2013 Just about every journalist is on Twitter these days. Or they're using Facebook or Google+ or LinkedIn or some other social media. You may be spending a lot of time on social media sites with journalists as friends or reliable contacts, but are you using these valuable media contacts to get your stories placed and create buzz, or are you just sharing cat videos? You can learn to use these contacts to mutual advantage, but there is a fine art to approaching so you intrigue and don't repel. Join PR University and the President and Founder of Affect, Sandra Fathi, and learn up-to-the-minute methods how you can use social media to get coverage and generate buzz.
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NEW FROM BULLDOG REPORTER Introducing "Breakthrough Press Releases for the Digital Age: How to Write Press Releases That Skyrocket Media Coverage and Search Visibility"—Download Now If you want to ensure that your news releases deliver the powerful punch that rivets editors' attention, plus the magic elements that search engines love, make sure your releases follow the advice and rules you'll find in Bulldog Reporter's new handbook on writing press releases for the digital age. Discover how to pack your releases with compelling words and real news, how to use multimedia tools correctly, how to write for SEO, and how and when to use wire services—plus 10 danger signals of a bad release, 10 worst grammatical mistakes in press releases and 10 most misused words in PR. All staff members who write press releases should have a copy of this essential guide on their desks. Download Now! |
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Bulldog Reporter's PR University presents a new Master Class Webinar How Compelling of a PR Writer Are You? Media and PR Vets Show How to Write Like a Journalist in Six Steps Thursday, May 9, 2013 PR and marketing success need good communication. And good communication must have good writing behind it. How valuable would it be to sharpen your writing skills and learn to write even better, more compelling releases and pitches? Join PR University's exclusive webinar that will show you how to write like an expert journalist. Come and pick the brains of our master panelists Don Bates, APR, Fellow PRSA; Assistant Clinical Professor, New York University, and Founding Director, Master's Degree Program in Strategic Public Relations, The George Washington University, Tom Hallman, Senior Writer (and Pulitzer Prize winner), The Oregonian, Ken O'Quinn, Corporate Writing Coach, Writing With Clarity, Nancy Brenner, CEO, Nancy Brenner Communications LLC and Laura Sturaitis, Executive Vice President, Media Services & Product Strategy, Business Wire, and take your skills to the next level. |
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| Final Deadline: Wednesday, May 15 Announcing the new 2013 Bulldog Stars of PR Awards—the ultimate recognition for Communications Professionals and Agencies: Go here to win |
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This year some 95 Bulldog Stars of PR Awards will be granted—more than ever before, more than any other competition for communications professionals and firms—honoring the best and brightest in our industry. Why should you enter? First, because the Bulldog Awards competition is the only one in the industry judged by working journalists—some of the most critical and objective communications practitioners and some of the people we work hardest to please. When they say you're the best, you know you are. Second, because when you win a Bulldog Stars of PR Award, the world knows about it—winners receive more coverage, more publicity and more visibility than with any other awards program for communications professionals. Third, entry is easy and inexpensive. For complete details, print out the six-page brochure |
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NEW FROM BULLDOG REPORTER! If you only add one book to your professional library this year, make it the "Treasury." This collection of the best digital/social PR campaigns of the past three years is guaranteed to ignite your imagination, turn on your team and push your creativity to exciting new heights. Pull the "Treasury" out before you plan any digital/social campaign: Use it to review brilliant campaigns that match your product type, your communications challenge or your creative strategy. The "Treasury" gives you in-depth outlines of 100 award-winning digital/social PR efforts that earned unparalleled online visibility. Get online details, print the 2-page brochure or call 1-800-959-1059 to order. |


Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially dangerous, according to a consumer watchdog group. A survey of 1,400 sunscreen products by the Environmental Working Group finds that most products meet new federal requirements put in place last December. The rules from the Food and Drug Administration ban terms like "waterproof," which regulators consider misleading. Also, one in seven products reviewed by the watchdog group boasted SPF ratings above 50, which have long been viewed with skepticism …
Kenshoo Social recently published The Key to Successful Social Advertising, a new report that evaluates how marketers are using social advertising, with the goal of educating marketers on how to develop social media strategy and activate the most effective tactics. Based on a survey of large social advertisers the study found that, while social advertisers use a wide range of organic and paid strategies across a variety of social sites, more than one in three are not satisfied with their efforts. "Generally, social advertisers get what they pay for. They are more satisfied with the results they achieve from paid advertising than the results they achieve with less costly organic tactics like branded pages …"
More than two thirds of Americans prefer to shop in traditional, brick and mortar stores than online commerce sites, according to a survey conducted by Instant.ly on behalf of Synqera, a global technology startup that uses big data to bring personalized digital experiences to the physical retail store. The survey found that shoppers gravitate towards retail locations that offer customized shopping experiences but that checkout remains the number one pain point for 73 percent of U.S. consumers. "We discovered that coupon usage increases if they were immediately accessible and personalized to each shopper that walks into the retailer's store. If the consumer is actively engaged the entire time they are in a store, the better they feel …"
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