Online PR Page Tour Better Second Time Around

Last week, I stumbled upon the website of Kaydon Corp., a maker of ball bearings and industrial shock absorbers. The company is not very well-known, but it has a market capitalization of about $1.5 billion and it churns out more than $400 million in sales annually. Kaydon’s website, on the other hand, looks like it took all of ten minutes and $5 to create. (Read more…)

PR Versus the Experts

By any measure, Barry Diller makes a lot of money.

The chairman and chief executive officer of InterActiveCorp. (“IAC”), Diller hauled in $295 million in compensation in 2005, according to The Corporate Library, a corporate governance research firm. The figure put Diller at the top of the list of highest-paid CEOs, which brought plenty of attention from the media – none of it positive. The figure is also misleading. (Read more…)