You may be asking yourself, what exactly is a PR champion? Is that someone that knows everything there is to know about PR? Not necessarily. It wasn’t until after listening to a recent Vocus webinar, “The Eight Techniques of the New PR Champion,” that I …
Five Ways to Use Twitter for Better PR
There are many articles on how to use Twitter for business, and DJA takes full advantage of this social media platform to build community and to promote our clients’ news, activities, accomplishments and new product introductions. But I’ve also found that Twitter is an invaluable …
How to Maximize Your Media Relations This Trade Show Season
Trade show season – I know, even hearing the words is exhausting. The fact is, it’s that time of year where PR and marketing teams are busier than ever, booking travel, setting up booths, completing marketing collateral and press materials….the list of to dos is …
Advice: Finding Time to Blog
Type “finding time to blog” in Google and you’ll get more than 19 billion results. It’s something we often discuss with our clients – blogging is great, but requires a great deal of time. And as I sat down to write this post, it had …
Blog Post: Marketing Execs Prefer Small Agencies
Good news for those of us working in boutique PR agencies! A new study by the Horn Group and Kelton Research says marketing execs prefer to work with smaller firms who operate like collaborative partners and push for innovation. The study found that 86 percent …
Be Wary of New Crop of “Free” and “Unlimited” PR Distribution Services
Just this month, I’ve received dozens of emails and multiple phone calls from various press release distribution services offering “special pricing” for an “unlimited number of press releases.” As enticing as that all sounds for $49 per month, after years of following the Business Wires …
PR Implications of the America Invents Law
America invents and PR communicates. That’s how it used to be, but a recently signed patent law is changing how innovative tech companies are announcing their new products. Signed into law by Pres. Obama on Sept. 16, The America Invents Act is billed as the …
What Are Your Toughest PR Challenges?
I just finished an interesting article by Mickie Kennedy in PR Daily discussing three of the toughest challenges PR pros face. She lists battling stereotypes, getting heard and everyone thinking they know everything as her biggest hurdles—for the most part I agree, but for different …
Success Tips from a “Serial Cereal” Entrepreneur
Paul Shrater calls himself a “serial cereal” entrepreneur because cereal was the inspiration for minimus.biz, the successful e-commerce business run by Paul and his family. It was at the end of a family vacation when his family lamented having to throw away boxes of cereal …
Are You an Annoying, Pretentious and Useless Business Jargon User?
I ran across Forbes’ The Most Annoying, Pretentious and Useless Business Jargon the other day and I’m embarrassed to say I am uncomfortably familiar with quite a few of the top 45 items listed. In my defense, I never use jargon in written content meant …