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Sally Falkow - Social Media Strategist

Digital PR: What You Need to Know

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There's a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR.  If you've been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Believe me, there is a lot to learn.  And while some of it is tactical, if it's done in a vacuum it's likely to fail. Learning how to devise and implement a strategy … [Read more...]

Digital is Driving PR Industry Growth

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Over the past couple of years companies have been spending more of their marketing and communication budgets on digital and social media.  72% of the PR firms polled by the 2015 Holmes Report rated digital and social as one of their top three growth drivers. Statista predicts that by 2019 spend on social and digital media will grow to $17 billion in the US alone.  In 2013 … [Read more...]

Visibility is More About Social Than Search

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Guest post by Chris Abraham, Digital Strategist at Gerris Corp. Google Penguin and Panda have changed the face of search forever. Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. Sites that have dominated search in the recent past are being penalized or de-indexed, going from the first page to page twenty or being … [Read more...]

Working with Influencers #ViralChat Q&A

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#viralchat is a Twitter chat hosted by Post Planner on Thursday at 9 pm ET. Last night's  topic was working with influencers.  Here are the questions and my expanded answers. Q1:  Why are influencers important to a business wanting to grow a Twitter presence? A1:  Let's first define an influencer - if you have influence it means that you can create an effect, you can … [Read more...]

Why the Quality Content Bar is now 10X

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  Watch the video An excellent explanation of how to research and create the kind of content that Google loves.  Note his comment about how visual content can make the difference.  There are several ways you can increase the quality of your content.  See the Google Quality Checklist. Digital PR is about writing for the web, keyword research, SEO, visual content and … [Read more...]