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It’s the thing every PR professional has encountered at least once and dreads: the time when a client leaves you in the dark as to what they’re planning on doing, or worse, already doing.  Sometimes it happens and there’s nothing you can do about it, but here are a few tips to help ensure you’re [...]

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Becoming a hero to disgruntled employees across the globe, JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater’s dramatic resignation has sparked a flurry of chatter around the power of PR and the effectiveness of crisis communications (and of course, how to become an overnight celebrity).
Steven Slater, being the savvy business man that he is, has hired high-profile publicist [...]

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Teen Entrepreneur Boot Camp (TEBC), a wonderful organization based here in NYC, has been nice enough to ask me to come speak to them about public relations. TEBC is a non-profit that teaches young people about entrepreneurship through the real life experience of starting a business. The program enables them to launch their own business [...]

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For this post, I thought I would share with you some of the Affect team’s favorite articles and blog posts that we have read in the past week. They cover a bunch of different topics in PR, marketing and social media and offer valuable insight into the latest trends and best practices in these industries. [...]

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This week’s latest tweet debacle comes to us from CNN’s former Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs, Octavia Nasr. She was fired from CNN after tweeting “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” Unfortunately, since Mr. Fadlallah was considered a controversial figure with ties [...]

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This afternoon I listened in on an excellent HubSpot webinar called The Science of Facebook Marketing which was presented by ‘social media scientist’ Dan Zarella. Dan’s presentation took a deep dive into how brands can effectively use Facebook to communicate with their target audience and what elements must be considered when using the platform. Here [...]

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In the past few years, social media has become so important to the public relations and marketing industry.  Rightfully so, it’s an amazing way to spread the word about your company and speak directly to the people that have a need for your products and services.  When I first started working [...]

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New PR professionals and even some of us old pros, often have trouble  managing clients and keeping them happy. Of course, there are some things you can’t control and other things that make your client unhappy that are just screw ups. But there are some simple basics for client management that will keep you and [...]

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Where do you find good ideas? Seth Godin posed this question in a recent blog post. Freelance writer Geeta Dayal offers tips for fellow creative types on how to stay fresh.
The idea of ideas has been on my mind a lot lately. All agencies are faced with idea generation on a daily, if not minute-by-minute, [...]

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Yesterday morning I rose bright and early to attend the New York Chapter of the Business Marketing Association’s panel discussion “The Mobile Dream:
The B-to-B Advantage” . The panel was comprised of:

Ben Edwards, VP, Digital Strategy & Development, IBM
Noah Elkin, Senior Analyst, eMarketer
James Gross, Vice President, Federated Media
Marc-Henri Magdelenat, Director, Microsoft Mobile Media

All of the panelists [...]

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