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August 9, 2011
5 Key Lessons from a Reformed Publicist

A friend of mine used to be a publicist, and quite good at it. During his time, he learned how to get the word out about his clients in various ways. Sometimes, they were a little unscrupulous, but it got the job done! (Read more…)
August 3, 2011
Top 5 Non-Profit PR Blunders

When your funding depends on not offending the people who keep you afloat with their money, it’s important to keep your public relations dealings in check. Unfortunately, these five examples forgot to remember this during their big goofs. (Read more…)
March 9, 2010
Choosing the Target Audience for Your PR Campaign

Imagine your client is an opera singer who has been lauded for excelling at a challenging role. Right now she’s only famous inside her native country, but she has hired you to elevate her to worldwide fame. Or perhaps your company’s India branch has been accused of labor violations, and it’s your job to get to the bottom of the accusations and clean up the company’s reputation. An inexperienced PR pro would be tempted to pitch each story far and wide. But, in both cases, the first step in your publicity campaign is to choose a target audience. (Read more…)
January 20, 2010
25 Tips from 25 PR Experts

I always love reading what other PR experts are saying, and I think it’s important to get outside opinions and to learn from others. With that in mind, I present you with 25 tips from 25 PR experts. Enjoy. (Read more…)
May 13, 2009
Public Relations and Journalism: More Similar Than You Might Think

There’s an old joke among journalists: “It’s okay. If I lose my job, I’ll just become a public relations flak.” Believe me, every journalist has thought about it more than once, especially when freelance writing wasn’t paying the bills. After all, what company or public relations firm wouldn’t want a former journalist on the payroll communicating to the media? This point was driven home when I recently attempted to email a journalist friend. To my surprise, I couldn’t track him down. And guess where he turned up. (Read more…)
April 21, 2009
PR Media Coverage

It’s easy for public relations firms to overestimate the impact of media coverage. Unless you land your client on the cover of Time or the front page of the New York Times, it can be disheartening to see how little impact a single piece of media coverage brings. My own history with media coverage is an example of how difficult it is to quantify the benefits of media coverage in the public relations world. (Read more…)
April 9, 2009
A PR Fuel Reader Survey

Recently we conducted our first PR Fuel Reader Survey, and going through the responses has been an enlightening experience. This installment of PR Fuel will look at how public relations professionals responded to some of our questions. You might be curious to discover just what those in the public relations industry think about media credibility, the impact of technology on public relations jobs, and the perception of the public relations industry by the media, clients, and the public. (Read more…)
January 7, 2009
Public Relations Basics: Do Your Research

As a journalist, it wasn’t often that I listened to a public relations pitch. But then there were times when I was three hours from deadline and I still didn’t have a story. During one of those crunch times, I checked my voicemail and there was a new message from a public relations rep named Alyssa Shelasky, pitching me on a story that I would normally ignore. But Alyssa got me interested in a very easy way: she did her research. (Read more…)
December 30, 2008
Going “Off the Record” in Public Relations Communications

“Off the record” is gray area for journalists and public relations professionals alike. As a reporter, if someone tells me they’re going to talk to me “off the record,” I normally take that to mean they’re willing to give me information, but don’t want that informaiton attributed to them. (I usually ask if I can use the information. If I’m told no, I will reply, “Than why did you tell me in the first place?”) How can folks in the public relations industry know what they’re getting into when they decide to “go off the record” in a media interview? (Read more…)

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