by Wendy Alpine | May 15, 2013 | Media - Internet, Media - Newspaper, Media - Television, Public Relations, Wendy Alpine
As a boutique PR practice, we often get calls from start-up companies, entrepreneurs or small businesses saying they want public relations. They engage us, but in some cases, the process does not turn out the way either party expected. One of the reasons is that many...
by Wendy Alpine | Apr 17, 2013 | Advertising, Market Research, Media - Newspaper, Public Relations, Wendy Alpine
Nothing says boring like a press release that reads: “ABC company today announced its new thingamajig product at the Wizziwig expo.” ZZZZzzzzzzz. With Twitter forcing us to give the news in 140 characters and Instagram encouraging us to send a picture to say 1,000...
by Wendy Alpine | Apr 3, 2013 | Advertising, Market Research, Media - Newspaper, Public Relations, Wendy Alpine
Remember how your grandmother used to bake a cake? She would throw in a pinch of this and a dash of that, with no recipe in sight. It was all instinct and practice. Well, media relations is something like that. It takes a number of ingredients in just the right amount...
by Wendy Alpine | Oct 1, 2012 | Market Research, Media - Newspaper, Media - Television, Public Relations, Social Media
Update: While this post was written a few years ago, it is still a good example of a creative campaign to get the public’s attention about emergency preparedness. Since then, it was brought to my attention that there is a new link for information about emergency...
by Wendy Alpine | Sep 12, 2012 | Advertising, Media - Newspaper, Public Relations, Social Media, Wendy Alpine
Most people associate press releases with public relations. For years, the press release has been the most widely used tool that PR professionals have used to get their client’s message across in a timely and organized way. But is the press release no longer relevant?...
by Wendy Alpine | Aug 15, 2012 | Crisis Management, Media - Newspaper, Media - Television, Public Relations, Social Media
By now, we’ve all heard about the Chick-fil-A crisis and the resulting fall-out from CEO Dan Cathy’s comments about same-sex marriage. It sparked a big furor and an intense reaction across the country. Before that, it was the Ralph Lauren U.S. Olympic team uniform...
