Comments on: Confession from a ‘long lost friend’ http://www.valleyprblog.com/advice/good-pr-people-journalists-long-lost-friends/ A (dry heated) group blog from Phoenix, Arizona on public relations, marketing and social media Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:02:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Valley PR Blog » Blog Archive » News needs to be actual news http://www.valleyprblog.com/advice/good-pr-people-journalists-long-lost-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-6039 Valley PR Blog » Blog Archive » News needs to be actual news Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:43:23 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1289#comment-6039 [...] I mentioned last week, we’re getting a lot of irrelevant pitches to the blog. Perhaps most frustrating is that many of [...] [...] I mentioned last week, we’re getting a lot of irrelevant pitches to the blog. Perhaps most frustrating is that many of [...]

]]> By: Dan Wool http://www.valleyprblog.com/advice/good-pr-people-journalists-long-lost-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-6024 Dan Wool Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:31:39 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1289#comment-6024 Richard - one of the pitches we got (from an automotive research company!) was so off that I tangled for several emails with the PR manager, who was trying to defend her strategy - i.e. to pitch a blog she's never even looked at. In the end, I really just wanted to go tell her boss, "Why are you paying this person to destroy your brand?" Instead I jumped up and down and screamed "I'm too nice, I'm too nice, I'm too nice!" What companies need to remember is that paying good money for a good pro will earn them 100X their investment. Richard – one of the pitches we got (from an automotive research company!) was so off that I tangled for several emails with the PR manager, who was trying to defend her strategy – i.e. to pitch a blog she’s never even looked at. In the end, I really just wanted to go tell her boss, “Why are you paying this person to destroy your brand?” Instead I jumped up and down and screamed “I’m too nice, I’m too nice, I’m too nice!”

What companies need to remember is that paying good money for a good pro will earn them 100X their investment.

]]> By: Ryan Keough http://www.valleyprblog.com/advice/good-pr-people-journalists-long-lost-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-6019 Ryan Keough Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:42:51 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1289#comment-6019 In this age when opinions and feedback spread like wildfire through blogs and social media, I can't understand the refusal of inadequate PR people to adopt good practices and continue their ignorance. Media are not expendible commodities -- they are precious resources, no matter how big or small. Such disservice those PR people are giving to the brands they are responsible for promoting! Don't they realize what they do actually does more to hurt their clients? "It's how we've always done it" is no excuse -- any other business using that as a rule is doomed to failure! (Unfortunately, airlines have done just THAT!) Perhaps I am biased -- the 80-year-old brand of the company I work with is too precious to risk with such a haphazard PR strategy. Approaches like you describe make me literally cringe. In this age when opinions and feedback spread like wildfire through blogs and social media, I can’t understand the refusal of inadequate PR people to adopt good practices and continue their ignorance. Media are not expendible commodities — they are precious resources, no matter how big or small. Such disservice those PR people are giving to the brands they are responsible for promoting! Don’t they realize what they do actually does more to hurt their clients? “It’s how we’ve always done it” is no excuse — any other business using that as a rule is doomed to failure! (Unfortunately, airlines have done just THAT!)

Perhaps I am biased — the 80-year-old brand of the company I work with is too precious to risk with such a haphazard PR strategy. Approaches like you describe make me literally cringe.

]]> By: Richard K. http://www.valleyprblog.com/advice/good-pr-people-journalists-long-lost-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-6016 Richard K. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:14:17 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1289#comment-6016 "ignorant PR folks, you completely suck at your job — and you’re an inspiration. That’s a nearly impossible task but you’ve done it" Is it me, or are these the same ones getting the $100,000+ per year jobs because this is what employers are seeking, while the skilled ones go unemployed and have their homes foreclosed upon and become homeless? Jaded? “ignorant PR folks, you completely suck at your job — and you’re an inspiration. That’s a nearly impossible task but you’ve done it”

Is it me, or are these the same ones getting the $100,000+ per year jobs because this is what employers are seeking, while the skilled ones go unemployed and have their homes foreclosed upon and become homeless? Jaded?

]]> By: Jim Veihdeffer http://www.valleyprblog.com/advice/good-pr-people-journalists-long-lost-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-6008 Jim Veihdeffer Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:10:49 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1289#comment-6008 For your penance say 5 Vandevredes, 5 Gutmans and watch 2 episodes of Mad Men (or 1 Office and 1 Factory.) For your penance say 5 Vandevredes, 5 Gutmans and watch 2 episodes of Mad Men (or 1 Office and 1 Factory.)

]]> By: Ania Kubicki http://www.valleyprblog.com/advice/good-pr-people-journalists-long-lost-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-6005 Ania Kubicki Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:21:47 +0000 http://www.valleyprblog.com/?p=1289#comment-6005 So very eloquently phrased. By far, the best Saturday morning reading I’ve had in a while. What comes to mind however is a quote from the late Will Rogers. Sometime in the 1930s he said “There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. “ yes, a disturbing similarity indeed. So very eloquently phrased. By far, the best Saturday morning reading I’ve had in a while. What comes to mind however is a quote from the late Will Rogers. Sometime in the 1930s he said “There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. “ yes, a disturbing similarity indeed.

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