4 Vital Elements to Include in Your Press Release

Think your press release is all sewn up and ready to go? Hold up! You may be leaving out some vital information in every one.  If you’ve ever wondered why your press releases aren’t getting picked up more often it’s possibly because they’re incomplete!

Check out the following four things that are abso… Read more

5 Easy Ways to Use Video Marketing for PR

Public relations is all about communication. These days, there are more ways to communicate with your audience — whether it be the media or customers — than ever before. One highly effective way to communicate is through video.

People spend hours each month browsing video sharing sites like YouTube, wat… Read more

5 Reasons People Hate PR Pros

Public Relations professionals have a PR problem of their own. While they work tirelessly to shape public perception for others, they often find themselves cast as spin doctors and manipulators. The irony isn’t lost on anyone, least of all PR pros themselves.

It seems like I can hardly go a day with… Read more

5 Unconventional Ways to Market Yourself as a PR Pro

Are customers not taking you seriously or flat out ignoring you and your message? Then you may have to change tactics when marketing yourself. There’s a lot of noise and buzz out there so you can’t really blame the general public for feeling lost and confused!

Try these five unconventional ways to adjust yo… Read more

How Google’s New Page Rank Algorithm Benefits PR Pros

Did you have your algorithms and SEO all figured out for Google? Too bad, it’s all changed, if you haven’t heard. Of course, Google changes their formulas and algorithms all the time to keep up with user trends. However, this change is destined to be a big one, and, for once, it’s positive news for all us PR pro… Read more

Do Journalists Make Good PR People?

How easy is it to jump from journalism to public relations? Some argue that it’s simple, while others say that it’s nearly impossible. Journalists do face some unique challenges when they want to make the leap to PR. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons.

Pros

Of course one of the major pros for journalists ma… Read more

Is Customer Service Now Part of PR?

Now that things like social media are part of a PR pro’s daily life, it may seem that the job is becoming almost a customer service career. Updating Facebook to calm nerves, responding on Twitter to put out fires. Is PR really heading toward turning us into glorified customer service reps, or is it still, bas… Read more

Top 20 PR Experts to Follow on Quora

Quora is quickly becoming the go-to place for folks seeking expert advice on a wide variety of topics, including public relations. There are a number of PR pros already creating great discussions and answering tough questions on the website, so it’s a great place to poke around and see what others in the fi… Read more

5 Inspiring TED Talks for PR Pros

If you haven’t poked around the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) website, you’re missing out on a veritable treasure trove of forward thinking ideas. The TED Conference is where people from every industry and mindset converge to inspire conversation about how to change the world. These tape… Read more

3 Ways to Pitch Stories Like a Journalist

Editors are simple people. It may not seem so to the hapless PR person who has pitched, pitched and pitched some more in the vain hope of snagging an editor’s valuable attention, but editors truly do have only a few basic wants. They want an easy day, a cordial working environment and, in the end, to put out a su… Read more