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Published on www.prweek.com: Broadcast PR firms’ survival hinges on innovation Tonya Garcia October 08 2009 The once-dominant broadcast PR industry has faced serious challenges over the past few years. That has never been more evident than in recent weeks, as The NewsMarket completed its acquisition of Medialink and On the Scene Productions (OTSP) filed Chapter [...]

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I just returned to my desk in an office building on Broadway in NYC and got a sad but stark reminder of the state of customer service in today’s business climate as I rode the elevator up to my floor.  Standing in front of me were two twenty-something waif-thin glam girls – you know the type…professional [...]

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I post the following with sincere apologies to Bob Dylan, who I imagine might laugh about the lyrics of one of his most well-known balads about social change being used to provide advice and guidance to marketers.   In 1963, Bob Dylan recorded The Times They Are a-Changin’ and today it once again reflects Dylan’s [...]

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                “I don’t consider myself political and I seldom interview politicians. So when I decided to talk with you [Barack], people around me were like, ‘What’s happened to you?’ I said, ‘I think this is beyond and above politics.’ It feels like something new.” — Oprah – From [...]

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Back in June of this year, I became aware of a new search engine called Cuil (pronounced “cool”) that, according to members of the Cuil PR team, was being touted as the next Google killer.  For as long as Google has been at the top of the search engine mountain there have been challengers looking [...]

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