Summary

  • Social, technological, environmental, legal and economic factors have demanded change to the way we go about marketing and PR
  • The Cluetrain Manifesto and Permission Marketing signalled the cusp of this change in 1999
  • Advertising has, possibly, come under the most pressure
  • Experts don’t agree on what precisely marketing and public relations are, let alone how they should co-exist.

We’re now going to see if we can bring some clarity to this situation by stripping it back and asking ourselves: What exactly are we trying to achieve here?

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