Can your communications business survive an economic downturn? - Inside PR 531
Release Date: 12/27/2018
Inside PR 557: Looking Ahead to 2022
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Can you believe it's mid-December and another year is almost done? That can only mean one thing ... it's time for our annual episode where we gaze into the proverbial communications crystal ball ...
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Inside PR 556 (Nov 10, 2021)
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On this episode of Inside PR, Martin Waxman, Joe Thornley, and Gini Dietrich discuss the importance of protecting your intellectual property, even for new business decks and website verbiage.
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Inside PR 555: Facebook, decaying from the inside?
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In the wake of Facebook's bad news month, we discuss the communications challenges the company faces. A blip? Or a step on an irreversible path toward becoming the new MySpace? The necessary impetus to increased regulation? And would a company with an army of lobbyists ever see a regulatory regime that actually curbs its freedom of action in any meaningful way? Is it really becoming the new Tobacco? And, most importantly, is its community decaying from the inside?
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Inside PR 554: Content Meets the Sound of Silence
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Have you noticed your brand is no longer getting the type of engagement on organic social media or on your blog? Perhaps the digital world has become even more pay-to-play. Gini, Joe and Martin discuss Rand Fishkind's blog post, ‘The Incentives to Publish No Longer Reward the Web’s Creators‘.
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Inside PR 553: Ethically, Legally, Responsibly
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In this episode of Inside PR, we talk about the PR Writer's Code of Conduct and ethical communications. An evergreen topic.
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Inside PR 552: Imagining Your New Workspace
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Are you ready to go back to the office or would you prefer to work remotely or in some type of hybrid situation?
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Inside PR 549: When PR People Do Bad Things
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This week's podcast is based on a Washington Post story about a site that bills itself as an investigative blog. Turns out, it has financial ties to a PR firm and seems to focus on stories where the agency's clients have a vested interest.
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Inside PR 548 (Jun 16, 2021)
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Gini, Martin and Joe talk about mistakes that employers are making in the post-lockdown period. Success in bringing employees back to the office will turn on effective communications. And effective communications starts with listening, understanding others' interests and objectives. And then speaking to their concerns, not just blustering forward with what you want and care about.
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We Are Back - IPR 546
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We're happy to report that after a hiatus of around 20 months and all the things that have happened between then and now, Gini Dietrich, Joe Thornley and I are back recording Inside PR.
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Autumn Intent - IPR 545
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Yes, it's been a long time coming, a long time behind episodes. But we're back with Inside PR for another year. And we're getting back into the groove by discussing the things that we are looking at in the waning months of 2019.
info_outlineThe past month has brought market and economic turmoil the likes of which we have not seen since 2008. And only one thing is certain. There will be many businesses that do not make it through the downturn.
So, what's the smart agency head doing? Definitely not going all in with a bet on a single business line. Smart leaders are diversifying their revenue stream during this time of uncertainty. And as they do this, they have the best chance of identifying the most promising areas for growth and also being able to exit the business areas without a future.
That's exactly what Gini Dietrich did following the crash of 2008. And since then she has built a very different business - a business that depends on a network of professionals with the range of skills necessary to drive multiple revenue streams. Diversification has been a successful strategy for Gini. And this week Gini Dietrich, Martin Waxman and Joseph Thornley pick up on a recent episode of Gini and Ghip Griffin's Agency Leadership Podcast to talk about Gini's strategy and what others can learn from her experience.
Also on this episode, Joe asks Gini and Martin for advice on how they would respond to a pitch that struck Joe as ethically challenged and also how they react to being pitched on pitched on LinkedIn within minutes of accepting an invitation to connect with someone.
We'll be back on January 1 with a New Year's Resolutions episode.