Public Relations

Public relations (PR) is anything to do with your business reputation. It encompasses managing a crisis, organizing a speaking opportunity, or pitching a story to a local reporter. Public Relations professionals are responsible for more than 65% of all stories you see in the media.

Good public relations involves pitching the right reporter at the right time for the right story, monitoring the news for stories on about you, and forging strong media relationships. Anyone can do PR if they take the time to learn a few tricks, practice some writing, and familiarize themselves with basic industry rules.

Bill Gates once said that if he was down to one dollar he'd spend it on Public Relations.

Public relations can make or break your business, but good products and services can sometimes succeed without good PR, and bad products and services will often fail even with the best public relations.

The difference between marketing and public relations is simple: Marketing involves ongoing financial output with initial results, while PR involves an initial financial output, with ongoing results. With public relations, you’re usually paying for a person (or some tools). With marketing, you’re paying for actual collateral.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Public Relations”

• How To Write A Press Release Headline

  
  bizSugar / Hot Topics — Authority: 139
  Every now and then we like to post questions we receive from our blog visitors and take the time to answer so that everyone can learn and also chime in with their own thoughts. Heres a question asking about how to write a press release headline. 10 Vote(s)
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• FTC Disclosure Day

  
  O'Dwyer's Blog: Covering PR, public affairs, marketing and the world of communications. — Authority: 132
  Happy FTC Disclosure Day. Here are a few links you may find useful as new rules go into effect today. In a quick primer from Josua Ross of OReilly Media (via Forbes), he discusses when to (and when you dont have to) disclose a client relationship on a blog or social platform like Twitter: "If youre being paid ...
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• Whatever Happened to Barack Obama?

  
  O'Dwyer's Blog: Covering PR, public affairs, marketing and the world of communications. — Authority: 132
  "Whatever happened to Barack Obama?" asks the cover of this weeks New York Magazine . Many Obama supporters will ask that same question tomorrow after listening to the presidents speech at West Point. Who would have thought that Obama would deepen U.S. involvement in Afghanistan? Obama did call Afghanistan a ...
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• Does Size Really Matter?

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 127
  Danielle Steele’s novels are automatically superior to Leo Tolstoy’s novels, right? That’s must be the conclusion if you adopt the logic of a common contemporary Republican talking point: Big documents are automatically inferior to short documents. Increasingly, it seems Republican pols and pundits love to ...
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• How To Write A Press Release Headline

  
  Understanding Marketing — Authority: 429
  Every now and then we like to post questions we receive from our blog visitors and take the time to answer so that everyone can learn and also chime in with their own thoughts. Here’s a question asking about how to write a press release headline . Q. Hi I’ve been trying to write my own press releases lately but ...
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• Frontier Communications Corporation to Participate in Investor Conference

  
  Your Story — Authority: 591
  STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Frontier Communications Corporation (NYSE:FTR) is scheduled to participate in the upcoming UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New
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• Rachel Uchitel, This Is Your Future [Advice]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 862
  Rachel Uchitel is a mess. Her reputation, that is! Her hairs fine. But the Tiger Woods Affair allegations are everywhere. As are other salacious rumors. And pictures. Youre not handling it well,...
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• 3 Things We Can Learn From Tiger Woods

  
  SPURspectives — Authority: 115
  I hate to say I told you so, but… Several weeks ago I wrote a blog post about transparency — telling your constituents what is going on, no matter how horrible you think the consequences may be, because they will invent something far worse on their own if you don’t tell them the truth. So, why am I saying I ...
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• Fairwell earns public relations designation

  
  TheState.com: Ron Morris — Authority: 570
  Adrienne Fairwell , public information director with the S.C. Department of Revenue, has earned the accreditation in public relations designation.
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• BillShrink

  
  One Day, One Internship — Authority: 130
  We’re officially in the Christmas season, and that means lots of good things. One thing that isn’t so good is all of the spending that comes with buying people gifts (whether you enjoy the consumerist aspects of the holidays or not). It feels great to be generous, but only until you look at your credit card ...
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• Riley Communications wins 2 awards

  
  TheState.com: Ron Morris — Authority: 570
  Riley Communications won the International Association of Business Communicators Palmetto Awards top communications honor, the Star of the Show Award, for its work on Columbia’s Viva La Vista food festival. Riley Communications tied for the second in communication management strategies in promoting ...
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• APEX Public Relations Hired Stephanie Engel To Vice President of Consumer Practice

  
  PR In Canada — Authority: 118
  APEX Public Relations has tapped Stephanie Engel to the role of Vice President of their Consumer practice where she will will focus on strategy development for the agency’s key consumer clients, including KAO Brands, Levi Strauss and Co., Yoplait, Kellogg’s, and LASIK MD. She will also be responsible for ...
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• Where black people and white people buy furniture

  
  Business is Personal — Authority: 125
  We’ve talked about having fun with your marketing, not just for entertainment but because you’ll stand out from all the stodgy, boring stuff out there These guys stepped out there and set quite an example. Do you think they generated conversation in their market? Are you having fun yet? I’d like to hear how ...
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• Tasha Huang Joins Business Wire as Regional Sales Manager

  
  Your Story — Authority: 591
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• Advice for Tiger from a Communications Consultant

  
  Building A Better Indiana — Authority: 131
  Communications consultant Fraser Seitel offered some useful advice for Tiger Woods regarding his current PR crisis. Whether you think Tiger’s dirty laundry should be aired or not, this advice could also be useful for any business that finds itself in a PR pinch: So, my friend, as much as you value your privacy ...
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• Business Club: Limelight PR aims to broaden client range

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Limelight PR is looking to quadruple income, but needs to broaden its appeal to a wider range of clients.
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• Business Club: Expert views on Limelight PR

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Three business experts offer their advice to Limelight PR.
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• The Proliferation of Online Video

  
  Brian Solis - PR 2.0 — Authority: 651
  Source: Shutterstock Online video continues to capture the attention of producers and viewers, with the market as well as industry leaders, leading us into a more pervasive form of video entertainment, communication and education. With YouTube quickly transforming from a user-generated video network into an ...
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• National cancers – are we looking for a cure?

  
  O'Conall Street — Authority: 495
  I have long believed that the cancer in Irish society was sectarianism. It is pervasive and unless tackled and managed will undermine the potential development of the North as a region and this island as a nation. Today in the Irish Times Elaine Byrne identifies another malignant disease lurking in our midst; ...
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• Blog For Your Business Instead of Blogging As A Business

  
  SlyVisions dot Com — Authority: 127
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  16 hours ago

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