Common Sense PR

January 19th, 2008

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 understand what you’ve been told after discussion is finished.

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Ren Garcia, of Accounting Solver blog:

I find an Adidas slogan: IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING particulary […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 1 comment

January 16th, 2008

Best Business Advice - Short and Sweet

I asked for people’s advice, and it’s starting to flow in.
Here, via Twitter, are the first three four pithy bits of advice.
Paul Young, of the Young PR blog:

Friends first.  Work second.

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Jason Falls, of the Social Media Explorer blog:

Don’t be intimidated. You’re smarter than most people, you just don’t know it yet.
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Kevin Dugan of Strategic Public […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 2 comments

January 16th, 2008

Quick Tip: (Insert your Best Business Advice Here)

(Update)  Advice from Common Sense PR readers:

Larry Yatkowsky of the Yatter Matters blog:

Got cell phone.  Great. Why forward it to your office so that they (the office) can call you back to tell you have a message?  Just answer and make the customer feel like you care enough to take their call personally.

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Megan, of the […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 11 comments

November 21st, 2007

PR Voices Does a Decent Job of Scanning PR Posts

I check in on PR Voices every few days, just to see if it’s catching things I’m not seeing elsewhere. So far, it’s doing a good job of highlighting at least 2-3 good posts each day I wouldn’t have noticed otherwise.
Unlike some other sites that rely on people to submit their favorite links (or more […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 1 comment

October 15th, 2007

PR Chatter - October 15, 2007

Worth reading. Got some suggested reading? Add it in the Comments.
Blog This: Brian Solis links to nine solid posts about trends in social media and how public relations has to adapt or perish. Also check an earlier post by Brian on conversational marketing, and a post by Valeria Maltoni call Is ‘Conversation’ Overused?.
Twitter Is Paying […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 2 comments

October 4th, 2007

Yet another PR Blog Portal - MindValley’s PR Voices

I like to take a look around the PR blogs and see what’s worth reading. The problem is, I don’t have 2 hours a day to zap through everything that’s either directly or indirectly related to PR.
MindValley has launched PRVoices, an algorhythm-driven site that pulls together headlines and openings of the more notable PR-related posts […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 3 comments

October 4th, 2007

How I Used to Get My Daily PR Blogging Fix

Aside from subscribing to every public relations blog in the world, there has to be a better way of monitoring what the hot topics are.
When I first started reading blogs, I tried subscribing to Blogdigger, which sent me a list of posts that were tagged “PR” that day. It was helpful, but I got tired […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 5 comments

August 20th, 2007

A Plethora of PR and Marketing Blogs to Choose from

Apparently there aren’t enough lists of PR blogs out there.
The Friendly Ghost PowerPR List uses a similar methodology to the Ad Age Power 150, but replaces the questionable BlogLines subscriptions metric with some Technorati measures.
You could do a lot worse than spend an afternoon burning through some of the blogs on the list, if you’re […]

By Eric Eggertson -- 9 comments