How to Not Get Screwed When Hiring a Freelance Writer

We’ve discussed the positives associated with hiring a freelance writer. The right person can handle not only your press release writing, but all your content needs — from blogging to brochures and more. (Read more…)

10 Ways to Improve Employee Relations

With the New Year upon us, now is a great time to resolve to improve employee relations – the manner in which your organization’s administration interacts with employees. The better you get at employee relations, the happier your staff will be. The happier your staff, the more productive they will become. And as you can imagine, this will directly affect your bottom line. (Read more…)

10 Ways to Improve Employee Relations

With the New Year upon us, now is a great time to resolve to improve employee relations – the manner in which your organization’s administration interacts with employees. The better you get at employee relations, the happier your staff will be. The happier your staff, the more productive they will become. And as you can imagine, this will directly affect your bottom line. (Read more…)

Tailoring Your Press Releases to Specific Outlets

We’ve all been guilty of it at one point. We write one press release and distribute it to a range of media outlets — newspapers, TV, radio, blogs, etc. And when we don’t get the results we hoped for, we wonder why. (Read more…)

5 Things You REALLY Need to Know about the Competition

Are you following your competitors? I don’t mean visiting their website occasionally to see what changes they’ve made to their shopping cart, I mean REALLY following them. They’re no doubt doing the same to you, as they want your business for their own. (Read more…)

Public Relations and the Technology Sector: After the Bust

At the turn of the decade, you couldn’t open a newspaper without reading a story about some high-flying dot-com or tech company. The coverage of these companies bled from the business pages to the feature sections to the front-page. And when the dot-com bust came, the coverage faded back in the opposite direction — the downfall of a tech company went from the front-page to a small mention in the business section. Coverage of the technology sector has stabilized, but it has also shrunk. Some newspapers eliminated entire sections or supplements. The media is still a bottom-line business; fewer ads mean less editorial space. Which makes public relations for tech companies that much more difficult. (Read more…)

PR Web Detective

During the last week of 2006, when things were slow on Wall Street, I spent some time surfing around the web, playing public relations detective for my company. I was on the lookout for two things: 1.) people or companies infringing on our copyrighted material, and 2.) people writing things (good or bad) about my company. What I found should send public relations professionals to their search engine of choice immediately, just in case they think no one is writing about (or stealing from) their company or clients. (Read more…)

Public Relations Tips: How to Deal with Journalists’ Egos

I recently received an interesting email from a PR Fuel reader that serves as an interesting public relations talking-point: “I recently emailed a press release to a newspaper writer and then followed up with a call. The writer said she doesn’t pick up email but was interested because of the telephone pitch. (Read more…)

Ask Mickie: Newspapers No Longer Accept Press Releases

Nina writes:

I was told at a recent marketing seminar that newspapers will no longer accept press releases due to space constraints. Comment? (Read more…)