Chuck Porter, one of the speakers at The Holmes Report Press Summit earlier in October (in London) is the co-founder and chairman of the advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B), and chief strategist for its holding company, MDC Partners. Porter serves as a current board chairman of the American
Daniel Palmier, President and CEO of UC Funds announced today the funding of a $30 million adaptive re-use bridge loan for the conversion of three vacant buildings and a parking garage into a 260-unit, mixed-use project with an additional 26,000 SF of retail and 6,500 SF of office space in
Whether you’re a sculptor, painter, illustrator, musician, or any other kind of artist, chances are you’re used to doing a lot of work yourself, including promoting your work. You’ve created a business, a website or blog to promote your work. But artists can benefit from the help of a good
Many of the biggest global players in public relations, such as Ogilvy and Edelman, have a strong presence in Australia. But Australia has no shortage of innovative and noteworthy PR outlets with roots in its own soil, ranging from specialized agencies to firms reaching across a wide range of industry
The city of Milpitas, California hired a PR firm based in San Francisco to develop a communications campaign including press releases, annual reports, newsletters, and more to positively promote the municipality. Tom Williams, Milpitas City Manager, cites Milpitas’ growing population as the reason for outsourcing work typically done by city
MD Insider, a fast-growing big-data healthcare platform that significantly reduces healthcare costs for employers and sets a new standard for transparency in physician performance has named New York based 5WPR as their PR firm of record. Earlier this year the company closed a $9.5 million investment from investors including leading
The survey by The Economist Group polled 500 business executives from around the globe and 500 global marketers. The questions were based on what the executives want from content providers and what marketers are doing to develop their content strategies. All of this was developed in association with Peppercomm. 93%
The Ben Barnes Group, led by Ben Barnes, the former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives has been hired effective October 15th, 2015 by a shadowy law firm based in the British Virgin Islands with close ties to Ukrainian Prime Minister Petro Poroshenko at the fee of $100,000 per
The Harbour Group is based in Washington DC and is a boutique PR firm. They focus their efforts in the three practice areas of public relations, crisis communications, and issues management. Their clients are in the corporate, nonprofit, government, and association sectors. The firm specializes in grassroots outreach, corporate crisis
There are many things you’ll do wrong and learn from during your PR career, let us save you a few steps with these behaviors to avoid. Ignoring Relationship Building This applies to every group of people you deal with in your job. Don’t think just saying or writing something is
