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No, PR’s Not Dead Yet. Doing Just Fine Thanks! But Try Again Next Year

Flack's Revenge

First it was gripes about the press release, and in the latest example, a report that tech PR is dead, which I just read in Inc. I wasn’t trying to shoot the messenger, after all, a reporter said those words. Since Silicon Valley Watcher reporter Tom Foremski wrote Die, Press Release, Die in 2008. The appetite is there.

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Is Space Tourism an Unnecessary Splurge?

Mindful Marketing

On July 11, Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic and a variety of other Virgin companies, became the first of the execs to experience outer space when his corporation’s SpaceShipTwo carried him and a small crew to an altitude 9.5 Swiss bank UBS has estimated that space tourism could be a $3 billion industry by 2029.

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