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March 23rd, 2008

My Marketing/PR/etc. Blogroll, Revised

I’ve neglected my blogroll lately. It’s revised today, but still missing some of my favorite blogs/sites.   Still to come: podcasts.

Alice Marshall
Allan Jenkins
Andy Lark
B.L. Ochman
Bad Pitch Blog
Bob LeDrew
Brian Clark
Church Marketing Sucks
Colin McKay
Darren Barefoot
Dave Traynor
David Jones
David Parmet
Doc Searls
Geoff Livingston et al
Ike Piggott
Jeremiah Owyang
Joseph Thornley
Josh Hallett
Kami Huyse
Kevin Dugan
Lifehacker
Mark Evans
Matthew Ingram
Melanie Seasons
Michael Geist
Neville Hobson
Now Is Gone
Paull Young
Peter Himler
PR Couture
PR […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 6 comments

December 31st, 2007

Best Communications Tips - 2007

I dispense lots of advice for communicating in the business world. You decide how valuable it is!

Here are my favorite tips from 2007:

Don’t Edit your First Draft
Ask for the Business
Ask Open-ended Questions
Lose the Adjectives and Adverbs
Use Parallel Sentence Structure
Tip: You Can’t Push a Rope
No One Cares
Always Summarize
Include Lowest Common Denominator of Contact Information
Don’t Babble to […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 3 comments

December 31st, 2007

Best of Common Sense PR 2007

A totally subjective list of my best posts on this blog this year:

Appalling Behavior

Strumpette’s Amanda Chapel Calls it Quits
The Blog Reputation Fallout Continues

Business Advice

The Power of Blanding - It Takes Hard Work to Bore your Stakeholders
Nine Ways to Disengage your Employees
Getting Hired in the PR Business- My Advice
Make your Information Worth Paying Attention to, or […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 0 comments

November 30th, 2007

Top Public Relations Posts - September to November

Here are some of Common Sense PR’s most-read posts in recent months

Strumpette’s Amanda Chapel Calls it Quits
Taliban Winning the PR War - What Planet Am I On?
Lululemon Has a Secret that Undermines its Reputation
Second-guessing Virginia Tech’s Crisis Communications
Nine Ways to Disengage your Employees
Advice from a Tech Blogger about How to Pitch
Border Guards’ Casual Facebook Comments […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 0 comments

September 24th, 2007

99 of the Worst Things to Do in Business

Not just another mega-list, these posts by b5 media Business Channel bloggers sum up the worst possible advice we can think of if you want your business to fail.
Have fun reading some of the Dilbertesque ways managers can suck the potential out of a business venture. But hey, a lot of these tips can […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 3 comments

September 6th, 2007

A Business Plan Contest for Entrepreneurs

If you or someone you know is planning to start a new business, or has been in business for less than a year, take a look at the b5 media Business Channel’s contest.
Details about the Jump Start Your Business contest are on the TaxGirl blog, courtesy of our channel editor Kelly Phillips Erb.
With more than […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 0 comments

April 2nd, 2007

The Missing Links: Everything I Didn’t Comment on in March

Between my smart phone, del.icio.us, scraps of paper, Google Reader shared items, and a stack of small index cards, I make notes for way more blog posts every month than I actually write.
If I haven’t turned one of those into a post by the end of the month, I’m probably never going to. Here are […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 0 comments

March 5th, 2007

Top Posts of Common Sense PR

The 10 most-read and commented posts from the first three months of Common Sense PR, December 2006 to February 2007:

Getting Hired in the PR Business - My Advice

Franchise Conflict Goes Silent - Sinister or Reputation Management?

Barenaked Passion Leads to Music Industry Success for the Ladies

My Blog Faves from 2006 - Looking for New Additions in […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 4 comments

January 24th, 2007

What My Neighbours Are Saying - the b5media Business Channel

I’ve been posting to CommonSense PR for a few months now, and I haven’t really introduced my neighbours - the other b5 Business Channel bloggers.
To make up for that, let’s take a quick tour of some recent posts.
Ron Elizondo writes on Brand Curve about differentiation, a concept that scares some managers because of the uncertainly […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 7 comments

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