Public Relations Strategy Archive

Head-In-The-Sand PR Apparently Is Trending

May 11th, 2012

With the volumes of resources, insights, and an entire industry built around crisis management, it’s amazing that even the biggest names in the news still fail to heed the basics. …

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Here Are Headlines for Future Invisible Children Campaigns

March 15th, 2012

Much has been said about the questionable tactics of Invisible Children, the advocacy group whose video on Joseph Kony’s Lords Resistance Army dominated the news cycle recently.  While some lauded …

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5 Signs Your Company Will Avoid a PR Crisis

March 1st, 2012

Our last post discussed five signs that your company will face a PR crisis.  Let’s turn lemons into lemonade, and share five signs that your company will instead avoid a …

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5 Signs Your Company Will Experience a PR Crisis

February 24th, 2012

Just about every company, regardless of industry, will experience an embarrassing PR episode.  Here are five signs one’s heading your way. • You haven’t created a crisis PR plan.  No …

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Strike While the PR Iron Is Hot

February 3rd, 2012

A while back this blog gave free PR advice to social network startup Diaspora.  The recommendation was to use strong privacy controls to distinguish itself from (and become an attractive …

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$7.2 Million Could Buy Awesome Crisis PR

January 17th, 2012

The controversy may be local to Washington, DC, but its PR lessons are certainly universal.  The University of Maryland recently announced construction of a new school president’s house, and adjoining …

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Things to do with a good new story

December 19th, 2011

Say you’re a business, brand, nonprofit, mom-and-pop, or other publicity-seeking entity. You’ve pounded the social media pavement, engaged bloggers across areas of interest, pitched reporters and editors across print and …

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Three Ways Target Can Avoid a Black Friday Black Eye

November 22nd, 2011

You’ve probably heard about the mega-criticism that mega-retailer Target is facing over opening its stores for sales at midnight on Black Friday.  Judging from an online petition that’s collected nearly …

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How To Apologize Via Twitter, Part… Ah, We Lost Count

November 16th, 2011

The Penn State sexual abuse scandal and tragedy will prove a significant moment in future crisis public relations case studies.  For now, nearly all the attention has rightfully focused on …

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3 Simple Ways to Make Your Content Marketing Work

November 7th, 2011

Editor’s note: We are once again honored to have a guest post from Mr. Dan Bischoff (his bio is at the end of this post).  Thank you, Dan! In online …

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