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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• Social Media, Public Relations and the “new media” – ValueIreland’s experience

  
  ValueIreland.com — Authority: 421
  Through writing for ValueIreland.com over the past 6+ years, I’ve come into contact (online and offline) with many who do similar stuff – i.e. write online. Reading a wide selection of blogs brought me to the newer aspects of what’s now known as “social media”. Instead of publishing an html based website, I ...
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• Making the complete PR package: How to separate yourself from other professionals with social media

  
  Karens Public Relations Blog — Authority: 119
  In this tough economy, where jobs are not always available and the growing need for individuals to hold multiple positions is increasing – we need to do all that we can do to separate ourselves from the rest of the crowd.  This was definitely a lesson that I learned being a track and field athlete for ten years.  ...
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• Come and see In The Loop with us

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 704
  To mark Mumbrella’s first birthday, we’d like to invite you to join us for a drink and a movie. We’re holding an exclusive preview screening of political PR satire In The Loop on the night of Tuesday December 15 at the Verona Cinema on Oxford Street in Sydney. The event – which comes more than a month ...
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• Book Club: Putting the Public Back in Public Relations

  
  Brian Solis - PR 2.0 — Authority: 682
  After publishing Putting the Public Back in Public Relations with Deirdre Breakenridge , one of the greatest rewards was the ability to connect with wonderful people all over the world who are facing extraordinary challenges while also accomplishing amazing things. I’ve learned first-hand from their ...
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• Not on my watch – program against Health-Associated-infections

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 147
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• Press Release -- Dead or Alive?

  
  my 2 cents — Authority: 111
  A research brief from MediaPost this week brings up, yet again, the issue of the press release -- is it a dying dinosaur?  Nearly half -- 49% -- of the professional communicators polled said releases are "as useful as ever."   Ive said it before and Im saying it again: the news release is not dying.  ...
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• Mike Wood Firing a PR Nightmare For Packers, McCarthy

  
  Total Packers | Green Bay Packers news, analysis, commentary, and video — Authority: 139
  Ed. note: The following is a guest post from Ben Cooke, president of Lucid Public Relations. He has been a public relations professional for six years, and analyzes the ramifications the Green Bay Packers and Mike McCarthy’s firing of long-time employee Mike Wood. Ben can be contacted via the Lucid Public Relations ...
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• Guess How Many Tweets Fly Across Twitter Each Day

  
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  Source 1 million, 5 million, 10 million…? If you guessed 10 million, you weren’t even half right. According to new data from Pingdom , Twitter users are averaging 27.3 million tweets per day, with an annual run rate of 10 billion tweets. Just last month, Caroline McCarthy of CNET reported that the 5 ...
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• PR and Media, from Begging for to Earning Attention

  
  Conversation Agent — Authority: 573
  One of the reason why public relations firms are ill equipped to deal with bloggers and new media is that they were built to deal with traditional or mainstream media. Many agencies are still stuck in pushy mode . Dont be so quick to deny it, I get dozens of poorly targeted press releases a day - and from big name ...
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• A minimalist approach to PR outreach for Bing

  
  NevilleHobson.com — Authority: 604
  Microsoft formally launched their Bing search engine in the UK last Friday . I saw a number of reports in the mainstream media on the day itself and one or two posts in the blogosphere. But that’s largely it from what I’ve seen. Maybe there might have been more written and spoken about the milestone, including a ...
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• Little chance of accepting captaincy again: Younus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
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• On Why Public Relations Is Now Vital because of the Internet

  
  Not A Doubt — Authority: 130
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• Measuring Twitter influence

  
  Strive Notes — Authority: 413
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• Bookmarks for 11/14/2009

  
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  Understanding Marketing — Authority: 428
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  Seattle Greendrinks - Convening and growing Seattle's environmental community since 2003. — Authority: 431
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