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Press Releases Are My Secret to Marketing on a Small Budget: Here’s How I Do It With No PR Background

Buffer Marketing

When my sister and I started Vinat to make buying wine online more accessible, I thought that any kind of PR was going to be prohibitively expensive for our small brand. Previously, I had worked in corporate finance, so I knew exactly how much the companies I worked for spent on engagements with PR firms.

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5 ways to incorporate trends into your SEO content strategy

Search Engine Land

Trends for wider activity, such as digital PR and influencer marketing Trending means something is widely popular or a constant topic of online discussion. Connecting digital PR with emerging trends can help gain links, build authority, and increase revenue through media attention.

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Every Team Should Know Its Earned Media Value — Here's Why

Hubspot Marketing

They pour money into ads and PR, hoping to buy attention. Its free exposure from media coverage, social media mentions, shares, and good old-fashioned word-of-mouth. Channels That Drive Earned Media Value Public relations (PR): Getting your brand featured in news articles, magazines, TV, or radio through strategic outreach for free.

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Social Media PR Playbook to Build Trust & Avoid Brand Disasters

SocialPilot

billion global social media users sharing and shaping opinions daily, social media is a crucial channel for PR. However, one wrong move, and you will find yourself in a PR crisis receiving instant backlash from large audiences that may even trigger a brand boycott. Community building: This is the heart of PR.

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SearchGPT: What you need to know about OpenAI’s search engine

Search Engine Land

” Google is regularly updating its algorithm, AI is getting smarter by the day and new tools are entering the market faster than fashion trends, which go in and out of style. However, brands that are not invested in earning high-quality media coverage and links through digital PR should consider adding this to their 2025 budget.

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Most celebrity endorsements are expensive mistakes

Martech

Social listening, sentiment analysis and even good old-fashioned surveys can surface mismatches early before they become headlines. What started as a halo effect turned into a PR firestorm. For example, Fashion Nova built an empire by partnering with thousands of influencers across sizes, styles and regions. The lesson?

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Is influencer marketing the new PR?

Sprout Social

The would-be crisis became a PR triumph. From there, we lined up morning shows, brought on a PR team to help field opportunities and quickly transitioned the message from lactation cookies (which we don’t even sell!) Here are all the ways your brand wins when you integrate your influencer marketing and PR strategies.

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