pr firms

For the past two or three posts here at Everything PR, I've been discussing the urgent need for PR firms and others who promote products or companies to keep up with the changing role of marketing and advertising in today's world. (Those who don't keep up will be left behind. . .) We've discussed the importance of: Blogging Social media Social media savvy PR If you noticed nothing else in the earlier posts, you've probably noticed that using new media and new technology effectively for PR takes a lot of work. That begs the question: who will do all of... Read More >

The Idaho PR community is raving about the decision of the Idaho Department of Commerce to withdraw the offer they made to a New York public relations firm to market Idaho to the world. Don Dietrich, director of the Department of Commerce, considers it inappropriate to hire an out-of-state company to do the work. “After thoroughly reviewing the contracting process and its result, I determined that it was inappropriate to hire an out-of-state vendor to help us revitalize and expand Idaho’s economy and produce Idaho jobs,” Dietrich said in a statement. “The intent letter sent to DCI is being withdrawn,... Read More >

The PR Goof of the day today is a rather high profile one. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has retained a Tampa PR firm, The Publicity Agency, to handle a media blitz campaign in light of upcoming impeachment hearings in his home state. From this writer’s perspective, this is the first I ever heard that TV network coverage supersedes the jurisdiction of a State court. From the news, it is clear that Blagojevich intends to skip the boring trial proceeding and head straight to Good Morning America, for his day in court. A quote from the ABC online variant states: "The... Read More >

Western Union has signed a deal with San-Antonio-based advertising agency Bromley Communications LLC (flash site) to manage all of the company’s US Hispanic marketing. Bromley represented Western Union in the past as well: from 1995 through 2002. “It’s a great honor to be brought back into the Western Union family of agencies,” says Ernest Bromley, president of Bromley Communications. Bromley is a communication agency that provides public relations, advertising, field marketing, promotions, interactive and direct mail. The PR department of the company is a joint venture established in 1999 between Bromley Communications and Manning Selvage & Lee. For its impact... Read More >

The PR Notable of the day is a Denver based public relations agency: Sage Public Relations Group. The agency has issued today a press release announcing that it has expanded its range of services, launched a new website and added four new staff members in Colorado, California and Washington, D.C. Sage Public Relations Group was founded in 2004 by Jon Pushkin of Pushkin Public Relations and Dan Christopherson of Christopherson&Co. Communications. The firm, apparently young, has however in its staff reputable PR professionals with year of experience in the field. We reviewed Sage’s new website and we can say that... Read More >

MarCom Awards has recently announced the winners for the international awards competition that recognizes creative achievement. The competition was tight: there were more than 5000 US entries and a few more from several foreign countries. In the end AdvanceMe has been presented a Gold award for the execution of a radio media tour that featured Glenn Goldman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Access Network. The tour supported by radio specialists of News Generation and Trevelino Keller Communications Group, had the objective to educate listeners of US national networks and stations in select markets regarding how small to medium... Read More >

Action Public Relations Action PR, a public relations company from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, celebrated on Wednesday its 16th anniversary. The company takes pride in being the first public relations firm in the Kingdom. Action PR offers a full range of public relations, from strategic planning, media relations, daily coverage monitoring, reputation and crisis management, to editorial services and creative copywriting. The agency has already won international recognition. One example is the winning of Coca-Cola's MENA Consultancy of the Year Awards for the region's most creative PR agency in both 1999 and 2000. Action PR is member of the... Read More >

This PR blunder comes from a PR agency in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. According to the Yorkshire Post, Weber Shandwick, a local PR firm, was hired by a paint manufacturer Tor Coatings to be their PR. Evidently the paint company did not need a PR firm that could write a press release, let alone provide a title for it, as the released title appeared like this: "PR Agency gains new paint contract" Evidently, Paul Bowers, director of this Weber Shandwick office, was so pleased he went on to toot the company's horn further by speaking of landing other key clients in... Read More >