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Clearly explains the basic concepts, strategies, and tactics of today’s public relations practice Public Strategies and Tactics uses real-world case studies and examples to explain the basic concepts and theory behind modern public relations practice. This comprehensive text is grounded in scholarship and includes references to landmark studies and time-honored public relations techniques. The writing is geared to undergraduates, and many colorful charts and photos are used to enhance major concepts.
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598 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

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September 22, 2011
The ultimate in PR handbooks, providing one of the best descriptions of public relations and the expectations of practitioners in the field. The book also makes use of practical study aids and has templates on press releases, media alerts and campaign planning tools,. A must read!
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October 31, 2024
(The English review is placed beneath the Russian one)

Разумеется, PR является частью маркетингового процесса и, следовательно, трудно написать учебник, не касаясь тех тем, которые затрагивает учебник по маркетингу. Однако даже с учётом этого эту книгу читать скучно и не интересно и в принципе, её можно спокойно пропустить. Дополнительно скажу, что все главы в книге рассмотрены максимально поверхностно. Даже не читая других книг по бизнесу можно понять те вещи, о которых говорит этот учебник. К примеру, целая глава посвящается такой теме как этика в PR. С моей точки зрения, это всё самоочевидные вещи и если человек ещё в детстве не усвоил основы этики, то ни эта книга, ни какая-либо другая ему в этом уже не поможет. Поэтому я всегда воспринимаю такие главы как трату времени и сил читателя. Если и включать тему этики в бизнесе, то только при условии, если этой теме посвящается не более 2-3 страниц. Этого вполне достаточно для объяснения такого очевидного материала.

Что касается смежных с маркетингом тем, которых в этой книге огромное количество, то это маркетинговые исследования, включая первичные и вторичные, объяснение которых подано здесь довольно поверхностно. Правда и учебники маркетинга подают этот материал таким же образом, поэтому это не является критическим. Оценка PR мероприятий в этой книге повторяет всё то, что говорится про оценку эффективности рекламы, только с соответствующими изменениями. Плюс, эта тема так же включается в стандартный учебник по маркетингу. И да, тут тоже всё подано в экстремально поверхностном стиле. Обзор печатных и электронным медиа, что так же включается в стандартный учебник по маркетингу. Информация в этой книге напоминает текст из Википедии. Процесс коммуникации, включая знаменитый рисунок на котором нам показывают, что любое сообщение, будь то реклама или PR акция, сначала кодируется, а потом раскодируется потребителями, плюс шумы, которые могут препятствовать получению сообщения. Этот рисунок, как и сама тема про процесс коммуникации так же присутствует в каждом учебнике по маркетингу. Короче говоря, чуть ли не половина этой книги, это стандартные темы любого учебника по маркетингу, что означает, что читать эту книгу, этот учебник просто нет смысла. Намного практичней прочитать учебник по маркетингу. В этом-то и главная проблема этой книги - она просто не нужна, т.к. все кто занимается PR, по определению должны знать основы маркетинга.

К сожалению, книга слишком много внимание уделяет также таким бессмысленным темам как история PR, роль PR в современном мире и так далее. Текст книги писался таким образом, что подразумевалось, что книгу будет читать человек, который совершенно ничего не знает ни о сегодняшнем бизнесе, ни о маркетинге, ни о менеджменте. Проблема в том, что такого человека найти сегодня просто невозможно, ибо даже школьники знают для чего нужен PR и как он примерно работает, т.е. как с помощью PR решаются проблемы кризисного менеджмента, однако именно этому вопросу в книге посвящено очень мало внимания, да и в целом, всё ограничивается поверхностным объяснением. Так что куда не посмотри, а книга просто бессмысленная.

В заключение добавлю, что, несмотря на то, что я читал глобальное издание, в книге присутствуют такие темы как законодательное регулирование PR в США и описание крупнейших PR компаний США. Эти две темы актуальны только для жителей США и только в момент издания этой книги, т.к. некоторые законодательные акты могли измениться. Когда в книге давалось описание потребителей, т.е. давалась характеристика людей проживающих на определённой территории, то речь шла непосредственно о США. Поэтому в книге даётся описание таких групп как латиноамериканцы, афроамериканцы, белые американцы и так далее. Для читателя, живущего за пределами США такая информация не релевантная.

Of course, PR is a part of the marketing process therefore, it is difficult to write a textbook without touching on those topics (i.e., PR) that are covered in a marketing textbook. However, even taking this into account, this book is boring and not interesting to read, and it can be safely skipped. Additionally, I will say that all the chapters in the book are considered as superficially as possible. Even without reading other business books, you can understand the things that this textbook talks about. For example, a whole chapter is devoted to such a topic as ethics in PR. From my point of view, these are all self-evident things, and if a person has not learned the basics of ethics in childhood, neither this book nor any other will help him. Therefore, I always perceive such chapters as a waste of time and effort for the reader. If the topic of ethics in business is to be included, it should be only if no more than 2-3 pages are devoted to this topic. This is quite enough to explain such obvious material.

As for the topics related to marketing, of which there are a great number in this book, it is marketing research, including primary and secondary research, the explanation of which is presented here rather superficially. Marketing textbooks indeed present this material in the same way, so it is not critical. Evaluation of PR activities in this book repeats everything that is said about the evaluation of advertising effectiveness, only with appropriate changes. Plus, this topic is also included in the standard marketing textbook. And yes, it's also presented in an extremely superficial style. An overview of print and electronic media, which is also included in a standard marketing textbook. The information in this book is like a Wikipedia text. The process of communication, including the famous drawing that shows us that any message, be it an advertisement or a PR campaign, is first encoded and then decoded by consumers, plus the noises that can interfere with the message. This figure, as well as the topic of the communication process itself, is also present in every marketing textbook. In short, almost half of this book is the standard topic of any marketing textbook, which means that there is simply no point in reading this book (this textbook). It's much more practical to read a marketing textbook. This is the main problem with this book - it is simply unnecessary because everyone involved in PR, by definition, must know the basics of marketing.

Unfortunately, the book also pays too much attention to such meaningless topics as the history of PR, the role of PR in the modern world, and so on. The text of the book was written in such a way that it was assumed that the book would be read by a person who knows absolutely nothing about today's business, marketing, or management. The problem is that it is simply impossible to find such a person today because even schoolchildren know what PR is for and how it approximately works, i.e., how crisis management problems are solved with the help of PR, but this very question in the book is devoted very little attention, and in general, everything is limited to a superficial explanation. So, the book is just pointless.

In conclusion, I would like to add that even though I read the global edition, the book contains such topics as legislative regulation of PR in the USA and a description of the largest PR companies in the USA. These two topics are relevant only to US residents and only at the time of publication of this book, as some legislation may have changed. When the book described consumers, i.e., characterized people living in a certain area, it was directly about the United States. Therefore, the book describes groups such as Hispanics, African Americans, white Americans, and so on. For a reader living outside the United States, this information is not relevant.
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124 reviews21 followers
April 27, 2012
This book was very technical, but thorough. A good book if you are at all interested in PR.
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June 10, 2016
Universitetui, bet pakankamai pasenus informacija
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October 31, 2018
This book educates readers on each of the KSAs required to become an accredited public relations practitioner. However, I found "Cutlip and Center's Effective Public Relations" more enjoyable. One reason is "Public Relations: Strategies and Tactics" favors one case study; that of The DoubleTree by Hilton's chocolate chip cookie campaign. Frankly, I grew tired of hearing about it; so much so that I can't help but wonder if the book was subsidized by Hilton. For this reason, I believe prospective APRs would benefit more so from other texts offering a wider array of case studies. The one exception to this opinion is candidates working in the hospitality sector. If you counsel a large corporate hotel chain then this book is for you.
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June 12, 2018
When working in this field, I read it as my first book about PR. It introduces PR very clearly and interestingly. I recommend it to whom want to have overview of PR.
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August 20, 2023
thật sự đọc vì cô không dạy chi nhiều. muốn giỏi hơn thì đọc nhiều hơn chứ cuốn này chưa đủ, hay nhưng còn khái quát chung chung, chưa đủ vững cho người đọc thực hành lắm ~
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February 9, 2012
i like this one bcoz shortly i'v majored in business, but wut's special about it is that it's more of a practical rather than theoritical,as the authors of this book are jouranlists and they really knew how to put it ina practical way.
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November 30, 2010
i really need this book n this is really a good book
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