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Use These Collaborative Exercises to Tone Your Idea Muscles

PRSay

Listen to radio programs and podcasts. When it comes to generating new ideas, one of the most effective actions we can take is to interview customers, clients, vendors, investors, and whoever has a stake in the brand. Interviewing customers to develop new ideas shouldn’t be limited only to those times when you need to move product.

Exercises 101
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PR Rock Stars: Life Time’s Dan DeBaun

Communications Conversations

But, as you’ll quickly see in this short interview, Dan is a whole lot more. And, he may be the first (and only) journalist to interview cats on TV! I was a radio news reporter for three years in St. I really appreciated my time in radio and print journalism. He’s a former journalist-turned-PR pro.

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The One Technique Your CEO Must Know To Ace The Next Media Interview

MaccaPR

Use bridging techniques to get the interview back on track.” All good advice for media interviews, backed by PR best practices. It can help them focus, recall important corporate information to relay during the interview, and even make better decisions about how to respond to unexpected questions. We advise, “Tell the truth.

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Lockdown letter: humanising business and media

Stephen Waddington

Was it really only three years ago that Professor Robert Kelly, an associate professor in political science at Pusan National University, became an internet sensation when his children walked into his study during a live BBC news interview? We’ve accepted a significant reduction in production quality in mainstream radio and television.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Jen Peterson

Solo PR Pro

She had a summer internship at a local station in Connecticut and discovered the job wasn’t the right fit for her after a particularly gut-wrenching day where she had to interview a grieving mother who had tragically lost her children in a fire. It seems like it’s just enough exercise for me to enjoy it and not hate it.”.

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9 Blogs To Make You PR-Smart

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

This brain exercise is touted as “a foolproof way to come up with new solutions and original ideas.” And it also features interviews with reporters to help readers gain a better understanding of how this kind of reporting impacts them. ” Learn to play here. Hmm, you might say, Buzzfeed? Smart PR people take note.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Cision

Podcasters, start thinking like a sound engineer or public radio news producer, and play with ambient and “found sound.” You don’t have to publish every day, but just like exercise, you have to do the work every day to improve. ” Try new lighting techniques or composition, or play with color. Do it every day.