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Giuliani’s PR Mistakes: Didn’t Manage Expectations; Created Must-win Scenario

For lawyers, the first rule is to never ask a question in court that you don’t know the answer to.For politicians, the first rule is to never leave yourself only one option. Rudolph...

Started in Common Sense PR • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: communication plans, event management, pr, persuasion, politics
Quick Tip: Create a Success Management Plan

You can’t go to a communicators’ conference without bumping into a session on Crisis Communications Management. But how many people offer to help you prepare for a runaway...

Started in Common Sense PR • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: checklists, communication plans, communication tactics, creativity, event management
Why We Choose Different Communication Tools

If I want to have a record of an interaction, nothing is simpler than an e-mail. You’ve no doubt received several confirmation e-mails that sum up a conversation, and clearly state the...

Started in Common Sense PR • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: communication tactics, social media, communication, business, friends
Basic but Useful Advice about E-mail

Not all advice has to be earth shattering. Lillie Amman goes over the basics of using e-mail, and some of her points are worth incorporating into a company style guide on communications.Some...

Started in Common Sense PR • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: communication skills, employee communications, sources, writing, business
Business Advice for Twitter Given and Taken

Though not on the same scale (or with as much anger) as Jeff Jarvis’ advice on customer service for Dell, there was a blip of discussion yesterday about social network cum instant message...

Started in Common Sense PR • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: audiences, communication tactics, customers, issues management, pr tools
Age of Persuasion Back for ‘Third’ Season

As an advertising guru, Terry O’Reilly rocks.The host of The Age of Persuasion is back for his third season of audio voyages inside the world of advertising, trends, and influencing...

Started in Common Sense PR • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: agencies, audiences, creativity, marketing, persuasion
Playing the Straight Man to Consumer Generated Parody

You have to admire the stiff upper lippedness of McDonald’s UK, as they respond to “questions” from “customers.”At what point should they just throw up their arms and...

Started in Common Sense PR • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: creativity, customers, humor, marketing, reputation management
Marketing and PR News and Ideas, January 23, 2008

Worth reading: The Mindset of Marketers on ROI and Engagement - Jonathan Trenn points out the convoluted logic of traditional marketers transferring their dollars to online, while ignoring the...

Started in Common Sense PR • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: linkage, marketing, news and ideas, sources, brands
Obama’s Goal: Getting Out the Youth Vote

Let’s take this as a given: it’s easier to get people under 30 interested in politics than it is to keep them committed through a lengthy campaign. Does that mean young people are fickle?...

Started in Common Sense PR • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: audiences, communication plans, event management, pr, persuasion
Best Business Advice Continues to Roll In

A few more words of wisdom from readers.Yuri Aksyonov, of the PRWeb blog (Russian language):Don’t try to be an “expert”.  Asking “stupid” questions is not a shame.  The shame is when you can’t...

Started in Common Sense PR • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: blogroll, linkage, work, sources, communication skills