Media Relations - Ten Essential Tips to Use The Media to Market Your Business

In the 'Age of Scepticism' gaining media coverage is one way of cutting through the ever increasing noise to get your message across.Research shows the average consumer receives between 1500 and 3000 marketing messages a day.Editorial generated by media coverage is more credible than advertising and can help cut through... Read More

Getting Free Publicity with Radio Interviews

Imagine that you are a radio producer. You have to fill three hours a day, five days a week, every single week. You need topics that inform, enrage, entertain, educate, motivate, and otherwise engage your audience. How do you find those topics, and the guests to make them come alive?Radio... Read More

Dealing With Reporters in Your Small Business

It behooves you to know and remember the names of reporters. Reporters know everybody. They talk to and interview people constantly. Because of their job, they usually size people up in a matter of minutes, sometimes without even meeting them face-to-face. If first impressions ever count, this is one first... Read More

Why PR Packs a Punch

Done right, it delivers the key, target audience behaviors you know you must have to achieve your organizational objectives.I refer to perceptions of your organization, and resulting behaviors such as:customers making repeat purchases;prospects starting to do business with you;employees really valuing their jobs;suppliers doing all possible to expand your relationship;community... Read More

Free Radio Publicity for Marketing-Minded Financial Planners

Radio is a powerful publicity tool. Most stations offer news and talk programming. Those shows are put together not necessarily by the voice you hear on air, but by people called producers.Getting to know producers, and giving them reasons to showcase you on air, is a very doable for most... Read More

Media Training - Essentials for ALL Office Professionals

Often the first point of contact the media has with an organisation is with the front desk or receptionist. Although designated people within a company may have the training and skills needed to interact with the media, the first point of contact within an organisation can make or break a... Read More

PR: Short Form for Managers

Experience tells me that too many business, non-profit and association managers pursue their goals and objectives largely without the insights, behavioral strategies and sheer power public relations can bring to the table.Here's what I believe they're missing, i.e., the essentials that flow from the fundamental premise of public relations, namely:... Read More

How To Get Press To Come To You

Have you ever noticed how the same people's names always seem to appear in magazines and newspapers articles which quote them as a source of info and advice on their own particular subject, whether it is web functionality and design, cosmetic surgery or investment banking?They don't just get there by... Read More

The Art Of Persuasive Pitching

Media placement is an art. Practicing it often requires as much attention to approach and style as it does to the focus of your story. While it's important to know how to use creative formatting techniques that can enhance editorial reception to a story (see article, "Using Publicity As A... Read More

Getting to Know Your Local City Council Members

The easiest way to meet city council members is to meet them at an event. Usually city council members have a phone number that is listed. Many will not ever answer the phone, but events they must be cordial and open to all. Explain who you are and your business... Read More

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10 Secrets to Get Your Press Release Noticed

It's difficult enough running the day-to-day aspects of a business,... Read More

Public Relations: Toast?

Could be, when unit managers in businesses, non-profits and associations... Read More

A Great Way to Do PR

As a business, non-profit or association manager trying to get... Read More

The Press Release is Dead (Now Will Somebody Please Tell the Clients?)

In competing for a piece of business not too long... Read More

Advertising and Community Relations -- Get the Best of Both Worlds

Have you ever noticed that in communities without big universities,... Read More

A Winning Public Relations Game Plan

You want to sell your products or services, and that... Read More

Publicity - Use This System to Track Publicity Progress

Tracking your correspondence with reporters, via phone or email, is... Read More

For Marketing-Minded Financial Planners, Small Publications Can Have Great Publicity Impact

Just because a publication is small doesn't mean that getting... Read More

When Managers Play the PR Card

The payoff for business, non-profit or association managers can be... Read More

Publicity: Marketing-Minded Financial Planners, Never Say These Words to a Reporter

Everyone has something that drives them up a wall. You... Read More

Same Old, Same Old PR Still Tops

Like human nature over time, the power of good public... Read More

Managers Who Tap Into PRs Value

Business, non-profit and association managers get a ton of satisfaction... Read More

Publicity: When Calling a Reporter, Keep it Short

When you are planning to call a reporter for the... Read More

Media Relations - Ten Essential Tips to Use The Media to Market Your Business

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A PR Question For Chinese Managers

As the practice of public relations in China continues to... Read More

Media Training - Essentials for ALL Office Professionals

Often the first point of contact the media has with... Read More

10 Tips for Tantalizing News Releases

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Dont Waste Money on Public Relations

Demand that it pull its own weight in your boat... Read More

Crisis Management

The Internet may have opened worlds for businesses and consumers,... Read More

Leveraging Your Reputation - Making PR Work for You

We rely on all kinds of tools and advice to... Read More

10 Tips to Give Your Press Release The Edge It Needs to Make the News

Writing a press (or media) release is quite an art... Read More

Right PR Empowers a Manager

Business, non-profit and association managers are in a stronger position... Read More

Publicity: Show a Reporter You Care by Inviting Them to Fact-Check

Just like a financial planning client fears not having enough... Read More

Making Your Own News

Getting a press release published in a newspaper or magazines... Read More

A Guide to Optimizing Public Relations Content

This guide to "SEOing" your PR efforts can help you... Read More

If I Were Coaching You

If I were coaching you as a business, non-profit or... Read More

Make Sure Your Media Room Rocks

If a reporter was writing a story about you and... Read More

Getting to Know Your Local City Council Members

The easiest way to meet city council members is to... Read More

The Press Pack Is Chasing You - Give Them Room

There's good news for public relations execs, marketing professionals and... Read More

Press Releases

How do press releases or interest stories have an effect... Read More

Effective Public Relations: Why Did Bec And Lleyton Do It At 3:15AM?

If you are in Australia at the moment, it is... Read More

Tough Times, Tough Tactics

When times are tough, it's no time to ignore those... Read More

Managerial Survival Key

For business, non-profit or association managers like yourself, survival pretty... Read More