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  1. December 16, 2008

    Public Relations and Entrepreneurs: The Perils of Personality PR

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    Public relations professionals working with entrepreneurs often find themselves in a bind. Do you pitch the idea or the person behind the idea? It’s easy to see an entrepreneur’s backstory as a ready-made angle when it comes to drumming up publicity. But a public persona can quickly become tarnished, and personality PR can often lead to avoidable headaches. (Read more…)

  2. December 1, 2008

    Four Media Outlets Offering Unexpected Public Relations Opportunities

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    Clients often have lofty expectations, pushing for “big hits” instead of a steady stream of solid media exposure. In doing so, they may miss out on important public relations opportunities by ignoring the possibility that a magazine with a circulation of 30,000 can do as much for them as an article in a national newspaper. With this mind, here are four media opportunities–two specific media outlets and two types of media outlets–that I believe should be on the pitch list of anyone who works in public relations. (Read more…)