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Marketing News

Advertising Revenues Are Set To Grow in 2010

Magna has revised its media advertising revenues forecast for 2010 from a ‘1% decline’ to ‘3% growth’. This year will be as good as it gets until 2015 it warns but what will the effect be on Manchester PR agencies?
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How much is a social media connection worth?

There’s a lot of talk about how to evaluate social media but less so about how much an individual connection is worth or even how much you’d be willing to pay for one. How often have you picked up a gem of a business tip, a sales lead or bypassed a gatekeeper to start a … Continued
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Northern Digitals Meeting

Most people are aware that Manchester is a bustling hub of creativity, and always ready to embrace the future, and tonight sees the monthly meeting of a group who embody this concept completely, the Northern Digitals. Northern Digitals is a monthly meeting of the digital creatives from in and around Manchester, allowing them to get … Continued
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What is hyperlocal and why should we care?

A lively discussion took place at Social media Cafe around the role of hyperlocal news. Read more here and what effect this new media channel will have to play for PR and social media including some exclusive questions posed by Smoking Gun PR.
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Manchester Social Media Cafe, April event

The always informative Social Media Cafe takes place on Tuesday 6 April at the BBC, find all the details and links in the blog
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Social Media

Can Twitter save the relationship between footballers and their fans?

Can social media offer the tools to rebuild the fast burning bridges between professional footballers and their fans?
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PR News

If it’s all about the conversation, who’s doing the talking?

Smoking Gun has been born in the week that Nestle joined the growing list of organisations who just don’t seem to understand that MadMen is set in the sixties and that the picture of a mute, obligingly passive consumer has been false for decades.
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Social Media Surgery Offers Manchester Businesses £5k Worth Of Free Social Media Help

An event offering free social media advice to all businesses large or small in Manchester.
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Smoking Gun PR launches with a bang

So we finally lifted the lid off our new agency and were thrilled with the response from the media and the industry at large – thanks everyone! We won’t let you down. We won’t put all the coverage here but thanks in particular to Simon Donohue at the Manchester Evening News for this lead story … Continued
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Marmite, we love it, some hate it

Marmite has launched a fantastic new marketing campaign that really gets to the heart of its brand proposition; love it or hate it
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What's in a word?

Fed up of jargon? The Local Government Association has published its annual list of terms not to be used. Here here.
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The Cultural Quarter's own man on the door

Now Manchester is renowned for it's own fashion sense and the Northern Quarter is the spiritual home of the city's creative types. We are pleased to acknowledge this fantastic mural, the cultural quarter's very own door picker perhaps? Just check out that tache. Quality.
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UK Advertising to clear recession in Q3 2010

A new forecast predicts that the UK advertising market will return to growth in the UK in Q3 2010. Will this be good news for the PR industry?
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