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Of Deviled Eggs and Delivering on Promises

One basic tenet of great public relations is delivering on promises. One way or another, if you make a promise to a client or customer, you must make good on that promise.

Last Friday night, I found myself unable to deliver on a promise … I was having some friends over for dinner and decided to [...]

O.J's Back in Court: What's the PR Lesson?

O.J.’s back in court. This time, his lawyers are trying to get his 4-year-old theft and kidnapping conviction overturned on what O.J. claims was bad advice from his then-lawyer. He’s claiming that the sport memorabilia he was convicted of stealing in Vegas were actually his to steal.

Fine, but the jury still found him guilty.

I watched [...]

6 Things You Need to Know About Google Adwords

One topic I continuously discuss with practitioners is advertising; lately, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about Google Adwords.

Of course I’m a bigger proponent of public relations in lieu of advertising – and there are times when you want to run a joint PR and advertising campaign – but does advertising work?

Certainly it does, [...]

A 5-Point Manifesto About Respect and Trust

I suppose there comes a time in everyone’s career when they have a Jerry Maguire moment. Here’s mine.

My Thoughts to Anyone Outsourcing Public Relations/Marketing

You’re very good at doing your job, so let us do ours. We would not propose to audit a company, complete a tax return or conduct a valuation on how much a [...]

Social Media During the Boston Marathon Tragedy

Ever since the bombings occurred during the Boston Marathon, I’ve been thinking about what I wanted to post to make some kind of sense of this with regard to public relations and social media.

My natural inclination was to post something about the important role social media played during the event, but that seemed too obvious [...]