The Real Value in Getting Seen, Heard and Celebrated in Your Own Backyard...and Beyond

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to why business owners want publicity in the first place. It occurred to me that business owners don’t want publicity at all. What they want is to be seen, heard, and celebrated in their own backyards. When you earn recognition in the hometown media for your hard-won business success, expertise, and community contributions, more of the right people show up so you can do more of what you love to do. This is perhaps the most powerful benefit anyone can hope to enjoy from the credibility and impact that editorial coverage provides.

What You Need To Know About Press Releases

Press releases can help you gain exposure for your business, products or services and increase your visibility and credibility online. This article gives explains what press releases are and includes a sample press release.

Living In A Disruptive Age-Public Relations In A Rapidly Changing Era (The India Story)

Indeed, these are wonderful times we live in. I prefer to call this the Disruptive Age - an age where almost anything, anyone (and not to mention, any country) can disrupt even century old concepts, beliefs and businesses. An era where the old gives way to the new with ease, a time when anything is possible!

Media Training Tips for the Novice: A Guide for Those New to the Media Spotlight

Not everyone who deals with the media is a public figure, or used to being interviewed. The process can be an intimidating one, even for those used to speaking in public. If you're anticipating attracting some media attention for the first time, here are some basic tips you'll want to keep in mind to make sure all your interviews are successful ones.

The Branding Of The Park And Rec Professional As The Community Service Of Choice

The branding of park and rec professionals is a super tough task. We have created a solution that may go way beyond the park and rec professional but basically covers most professionals. Creativity is the name of the game...think outside the box to attract attention.

Enhance Product Awareness : Method and Steps to increase Product Awareness and Popularity

Enhance Product Awareness : Method and Steps to increase Product Awareness and Popularity

The Importance of Public Relations and Crisis Management Planning To Your Business

Are public relations and crisis management planning important to your business? The answer is simple and direct. Public relations and crisis management planning are not only important to your business, they are both CRUCIAL to your business, regardless of your type of business. In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, business is news. Plant closings, mergers and acquisitions, unemployment, strikes, labor negotiations, company expansions, building projects, construction-related accidents and catastrophes are often the lead story on the front page or the six o’clock news. Yet many organizations are totally unprepared or at least ill-prepared to handle the public relations and crisis management aspects of these events. This unpreparedness can lead to many negative and undesirable results for you, your employees, your clients and customers, your company and your business and industry sector.

India's Influential News Media

Going to be doing a media tour of India? Here is an overview of the most influential Indian newspapers, magazines, and TV shows.

Free Publicity Can Be Recycled

After you have written a press release and get it published, it is time to start over with a fresh one, right? Not so fast. You can recycle your press releases and still get very valuable free publicity.

The 21 Storylines Even The Most Cynical Media Will Love (part three)

What storylines do you use to hook the media to build your business and brand? If your engagement with the media were a boat, what boat would you use to float your ideas? Stories help build brands. Especially in a low trust world, so your stories must be both authentic and engaging. Most brands don't rely on just one storyline. They use several depending on the audience they are trying to reach. Here are the third (and final) seven of what I call The 21 Storylines Even The Most Cynical Media Will Love:

Healthcare Communications Set To Take Off

After the telecom thunder and the retail rush in India, Healthcare seems to be the next biggest bet for everyone. With promises of many billions of Indian Rupees, large diversified conglomerates such as Reliance, Birlas, Tatas are all betting their money in the Indian healthcare delivery space. As has been with other high growth sectors in India that witnessed a rapid meteoric rise, those who don’t jump into the bandwagon quickly are likely to miss the speeding bus completely.

Press Releases: Writing a Great Press Release

A press release follows a simple and fairly standard form. Those who receive press releases demand simple, straight-forward, and interesting releases and those who deliver such press releases stand the best chance of having their story become published.

Partnering with Non-Profits to Jump-Start your Publicity

A PR pro gives solid tips on how to achieve maximum publicity exposure for your good work with non-profit organizations.

Crisis Communications Done Right: How Jet Blue Will Weather the Storm

A winter storm spiraled discount airline Jet Blue into crisis, but crisis comunications may help repair the airline's damaged reputation. Crisis communications coach and media trainer Aileen Pincus discusses what the airline and its quick thinking CEO did right.

How To Give Great Media Interviews

Take responsibility for giving a great media interview. Here are five top tips to make your media interview outstanding and contribute to a great article.