public relations

Supporting Those You Like – CTRL ALT Delete Comes Out Next Week

My new book, CTRL ALT Delete, comes out next week.

It took well-over six months of concentrated effort to write my second book, CTRL ALT Delete, which comes out on May 21st, 2013. The thing is this: you would have never known it or felt it. In that ti…

Die, Thought Leaders, Die, Die, Die…

So, what do you think of my thought leadership?

Ugh. Really? When you speak or write in a forum that has audience and attention, the people who are giving you the platform have to sell you. In that, you have to be able to sell yourself to those people…

The Powerful Art Of Resilience

Let’s start with a premise:

Whatever it is that you do, say, sell, produce and/or put out into the world does what says it will do and delivers on its promise. Nothing happens when you have a sub-par product or service. Once that premise is out of the…

The Art Of Fake Familiarity For Better Sales

We (still) live in a world of really bad email pitches.

I recently got an email pitch from a public relations specialist that read something like this: “Hey Mitch, I work with Lame Corp. I’m a big fan of your blog and your newspaper articles. I know t…

Marketing Is Dead

It’s a great blog headline that will get a lot of attention, right?

The Harvard Business Review had a blog post today titled, Marketing Is Dead, written by Bill Lee. Beyond the irony that Lee used a traditional marketing tactic (solid copywriting) to …

Can Breastfeeding Save Time Magazine?

When was the last time you discussed Time Magazine around the dinner table?

I found myself giving a dissertation on mass media at dinner the other night. It all started when one friend leaned into the table and spoke (in an almost embarrassed whisper)…

A Social Media Master Class

If you have not seen the Kony 2012 video, you may be living under a rock.

It is, without question, the hottest viral video sensation the Internet has seen in a long time. Looking beyond the forty million-plus views that this thirty-minute documentary/…

Scenes From The Frontlines

A post Christmas story that is worthy of your attention…

I was in the market for luggage. Not the usual business travel, but a luggage set for the family. We decided that we were looking to invest to get something of quality. I went over to the stor…

Newsjacking Turns You Into The Expert

Newsjacking.

As news broke last week that Amazon started selling its long-awaited entry into the tablet (and iPad led) market (Kindle Fire), many eyes were raised, waiting to see what those who would get their fingers on it would think. Would this com…

A Basic PR Blunder That Most PR Professionals Make… Constantly

Public Relation professionals do the darndest things.

Some background first: I practiced journalism, worked in communications and did a stint in a PR agency before shifting full bore into marketing and communications. My journey (which includes this B…

Spamming Mechanisms

It used to be a very clear line between what was considered spam and what was not.

Things have changed over the course of the past decade. I’m with the Wikipedia definition of spam: "to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately," but I…