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The credit reporting agency and Yahoo have been slammed after both companies revealed that their hacks had hurt even more consumers. The reward for Equifax: $7M in taxpayer money.
Rio 2016 is off to a somewhat smooth start—and perhaps even smoother for marketers and advertisers. Despite restrictions and reservations, here’s how much NBC stands to make.
Readers don’t want to see big blocks of words in the content they read. They want things to be broken down in a way that can be scanned.
Print continues its death spiral as digital accelerates; so sayeth the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Here are the implications for the public relations industry.
If this doesn’t make you want to run out and post something to Mitt Romney’s Facebook page, nothing will.
Fortune 500 companies have slowed or stopped blogging, and using Facebook and Twitter, a new study reveals. Here’s a closer look at the numbers.
FC Barcelona boasts 10.3 million Facebook fans; Manchester United has fewer than 10 million. However, Man U bests Barcelona—its fans are more engaged.
A useful tool for knowing how to express numbers—plus one bonus tip from CEO Mark Ragan.
“Too much fluff and not enough valuable content” is a serious problem with social media these days, Christine Perkett wrote on the PerketPRsuasion blog. “I have over 10,000 followers on Twitter today but I wouldn’t tout those numbers as the value in a new business pitch,” she blogged. “Rather, I would tout that I know how to identify and communicate with the specific followers within that number that would matter to the prospect.”
So you’re just not that into math. Well, you should be if you want to make it in this business, said PR pro Dave Fleet. “If you work in communications and you break into a sweat at the first sight of a graph, you need to study-up FAST if you want to progress,” Fleet blogged. “No, just being able to create a graph in Excel does not cut it. Data alone does nothing. You need to be able to analyze that data.”
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