If you don’t have something nice to say . . .

“I’ve got two very expensive kids and a very expensive wife, and I’m building a 6,000-square-foot house in the country. But I don’t have any debt. The people who are in trouble are the people who can’t service their debt.”
Those are the, er, candid words of Brian Sutton, president, Cassels Brock Regulatory Consulting, appearing [...]

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The interrogative answer

Career public relations professionals inevitably consider media interviews with a different ear and eye than regular folks. It’s no secret that we help to prepare spokespersons to help them make the most of an interview. Only a gullible person thinks that they don’t need to prepare for an encounter with a journalist. After all, good preparation [...]

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Cobbler’s kids

A few weeks ago I noticed a half-page ad in a print newspaper placed by a public relations agency. The ad touted the PR industry awards that the agency recently won.
I swooned.
The irony of advertising agencies going after awards has been discussed many times before. The marketing value of winning industry awards is mainly in [...]

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