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Does your job make you cry?
Today, I’m celebrating my 7th year in public relations. Sometimes I can’t believe I stayed so long in an industry I never meant to work in! 🙂 Some things I’ve learned: That thing people say that about business not being personal isn’t true. An organization is only as good as the people running it. If your … Continue reading Does your job make you cry?
3 Reasons why I miss agency life
I’ve been working on the client side of PR now for over 2 years. While I’m glad I moved to “the other side” — there are days when I miss the dynamic agency environment. So, to quell my ‘homesickness’ (and let’s face it: for many PR pros, the agency can be home…14h workdays notwithstanding!) here are the … Continue reading 3 Reasons why I miss agency life
PR Work is Grunt Work
Public relations is mostly unglamorous. It’s scouring through miles of spreadsheets to finish reports, it’s reading uninspired comments about your brand on blogs, it’s a mastery of screencaps — and most of all: it’s meeting deadline after deadline. There’s no such thing as working with the news cycle. You’re just either in it or out … Continue reading PR Work is Grunt Work
Just the Tip
Sometimes, the main difficulty of working in PR is the very thing you need to be good at it — people reading. When you’re trained to read people & decipher emails, you know when: Client is lying & hoping you don’t notice (meaning: he doesn’t trust himself). Client is only giving you half the story … Continue reading Just the Tip
Tish Martinez | The PR Parent 