Tweet This post originally ran on PR Breakfast Club last week. However I wanted to share to readers of this site who may have missed it. Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying to get a handle on what PR had become to me. The industry is in a state of flux and evolution. Instead…
Tweet I have a friend who we’ll call “Steve.” Steve got an internship at a large online company and did a superb job. Steve is now an experienced, highly valued employee at a start-up in Manhattan. Steve and I got into a discussion about the “it’s who you know” argument when it comes to landing…
Tweet I recently landed my first big media placement at my new firm and one of my friends congratulated me and asked “what did your client say when you sent them the clip?” The client said nothing. They don’t need to. Unless there was some inaccuracy in the article, it’s not really necessary for a…
Tweet I recently made a follow-up call to a New York television news show regarding a weekend client event. A non PR friend of mine was with me and made an observation after overhearing the exchange. “I can understand why journalists hate PR people,” he said. After I scoffed in disagreement, I thought “meh, he…
Tweet This post originally ran on PR Breakfast Club earlier in the week. I added in some additional insight and I wanted to share to readers of this site who may have missed it. Two weeks ago, I received an email from the folks at Klout informing me that Fox wanted to send me a…
Tweet My typical answer to the interview question “where do you see yourself in 10 years?” I will absolutely be working in some facet of communications, hopefully PR, and gaining enough valuable experience to one day open a PR firm with my best friend @stina6001. Cute, right? Well, it’s more than likely that I am…
Tweet I’m going to need you PR people to tone down the personality just a tad As I recently explored birth order and how being the baby of the family can help you be a stellar PR pro, I am eager to take this discussion a step further. I am the last (allow me to…
