Is it possible to NOT check your phone frequently? Between emails, voicemails, text messaging, black berry messenger, FB and Twitter, I always check my BB Storm when I hear my phone go-off.
Some of my clients call me. Some send me emails. Eric likes to send text messages and I BBM with co-workers (Mary [...]

In a recent client interview on-location with FOX , I had an interesting conversation with a camera man. I was shocked to learn many PR people he deals with on a regular basis don’t know about rule number 77 of PR: stay behind the camera!
So, attention PR people, new or old, when a client is [...]

“Media relations” is not clever ideas sent via e-mail blast to a crap-load of reporters. Again: media relations is not clever ideas sent via e-mail blast to a crap-load of reporters.
You must pick up the phone.
Yes, I know, I know. Journalists say—or at least their voicemails do—“I prefer to be pitched via e-mail” [...]

If you work in public relations then you have heard this AT LEAST once in your career: “Can you get me on Oprah?” Everyone believes their company, product, service or information is “Oprah worthy,” and in the past I have even had clients “sell me” on why they belong on the show.
While it does seem [...]

What are three ways to describe Eric?
1. Ridiculous multitasker (“Freakin’ seventeen screens going on and a Skype call! What the heck?”).
2. Tappening-fanatic (“He always related everything back to Tappening…For example, with Tappening [fill in the blank]. This reminds me of Tappening because [fill in the blank]. Ha ha!”)
3. Mr. Answer (“He has an answer for [...]

Sometimes videos are the best way to properly explain what we go through each day. This video does a great job of explaining the client-vendor relationship using real world scenarios. Reality is, it is sooo true!

I subscribe to Bulldog Reporter and one of the sections I follow is Journalists Speak Out. I check in every week to find out from journalists or bloggers first-hand how they like to be pitched or what they think of public relations. It offers good tips and inside information.
Today, after reading the newest posting [...]

With the insurgence of amazing technology over the last decade and a half, we were introduced to a neat little tool called “Skype” in 2003. Skype was a cure-all for long distance relationships (at least for the short-term), and it opened up a whole new world of communication for the masses. Today, business practitioners around the globe [...]