Solo PR Pro

JUNE 21, 2016

Working with clients in your local area is a satisfying and viable way to run your independent consultancy. It can deepen your sense of community, reduce your need to travel and allow you to dominate your local market. Knowledge of the local culture and norms can also give you an advantage over out-of-area competitors.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Even just a little time each week to share thoughts with a student via Twitter or to schedule a Skype “coffee” chat is a fantastic way to show thanks. I remember sitting with a college student at a local Starbucks. I look forward to the PRSA International Conference every year for so many reasons.

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Barokas

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Internal emails, client emails, newsletters, coordinating with reporters, maybe the occasional email from your mom. And even when someone was out for a quick 15-minute food run, you could still count on them to respond to a Skype or email while they were waiting in line. PR often feels like a game of email ping pong.

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The Hoffman Agency

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

And yet, Airbnb has now become a verb (“ Let’s Airbnb for our Aspen ski trip ”) alongside brands such as Google, Kleenex and Skype, as the company boasts over 3,000,000 lodging listings in 65,000 cities and 191 countries. The San Francisco-based company is valued at US$31 billion as of August 2017 (image source: Unsplash ).

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PRSay

APRIL 19, 2016

To translate this for communications purposes, if the brand is using billboards or other outdoor signage, try finding local bloggers in that neighborhood and pitch them a story or some custom content. The combination of outdoor and a local online presence is quite powerful. Ask provocative questions – don’t merely post links.

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PR Breakfast Club

JUNE 29, 2014

It takes a special environment to enable employees to promote their ideas both internally and to the editors and others being pitched. She now heads up the Vantage Intern Program, or VIP, where she has revamped the intern training program and now serves as a go-to leader and mentor for all interns. Creativity.

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Norton's Notes

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The initiative is looking at devolution and how Westminster is going to shift some of the power from London to the regions, which made me think about our role up here and whether this would ever trickle down into our beloved industry of public relations. Or is that model now broken in 2015/16? Has the BBC started a trend?

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