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My Take Your Child To Work Dream
Arthur Solomon, Public Relations Consultant Maybe because April 23 is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day in United States, I had a dream about doing so last night. In the dream, I took my children to the PR office that has been my home away from home for many years. As we walked…
Read MoreWhy Sen. Sanders Is The Winner
(With Lessons Learned From Sanders That PR People Should Heed) Arthur Solomon, Public Relations Consultant Sen. Bernie Sanders, on April 13, officially endorsed Joe Biden saying “we’ve got to make Trump a one-term president.” “I will do all that I can to see that that happens, Joe,” Sanders promised. The quick endorsement came as a…
Read MorePivoting in a Pandemic
Dr. David Hagenbuch, Ethicist and Professor of Marketing, Messiah College, Author of Honorable Influence, Founder of MindfulMarketing.org “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Evaporating demand due to COVID-19 has caused many industries to sour, yet some innovative organizations continue to score in unexpected sweet spots. Thanks to creative thinking and agile adjustments of their marketing plans, certain companies have rapidly…
Read MoreDemocratic Debate # 12: Was it Necessary? Did It Happen? What Would I Have Written?
(Plus A Test And A Lesson To Remember For PR People) Arthur Solomon, Public Relations Consultant Because many Democratic primaries have been postponed because of the coronavirus epidemic, and former Vice-president Joe Biden’s has a seemingly insurmountable delegate lead, Democratic Debate # 12 was not scheduled during the first six days of April. But it…
Read MoreBonnie & Clyde & COVID-19
Thomas J. Madden, Chairman and CEO, Transmedia Group We got away with it. Pulled it off. It was like we were Bonnie and Clyde robbing a bank. We made off with not thousands, but trillions. And hehe, to this day they never caught us. And what did we do to feel like bank robbers? I’ll confess, Gov.…
Read MoreAs Good As It Can Possibly Get
Arthur Solomon, Public Relations Consultant My entire working life has consisted of newspapering or PRing. Both of these businesses are not known for dealing with the most forthright individuals. But I’ve been blessed. During my career, I’ve never been lied to, misled or harassed by people I reported to or worked with. Here are some…
Read MoreDiane Silberstein, Former Playboy Publisher, To Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni: “This Is A Time For Reinvention.”
The Mr. Magazine™ Interview… “I am very privileged. I’ve worked with some amazing people in my career, and it’s not over yet. I’ve met some incredible people… I’ve worked with some of the most incredible marketers around, people at agencies and on the client’s side. And my colleagues that have never failed to impress and inspire…
Read MoreOP-ED: Corporate America’s Coronavirus Failure
Arthur Solomon, Public Relations Consultant First, let me define myself before others do it for me: I am not a communist, never was a communist and never thought that communism had merit. I am not a socialist, never was a socialist, do not believe in socialism, even though I believe that some of what Sen.…
Read MoreThe Handling Of The Coronavirus Pandemic Provides A Lesson On How Not To Make A PR Crisis Worse For All Types Of Crises
Arthur Solomon, Public Relations Consultant As someone whose first PR job was with a political agency, where I learned on-the-job lessons not taught in communication’s schools about how to deal with the media and approach problems that changed on a daily basis, I have long said that paying attention to the happenings on the political…
Read MoreStanding Out Among the Election Crowd
Hamed Wardak, Entrepreneur With all the publicity and hoopla among candidates for office, how does a brand stand out in the crowd? As if the democratic presidential primary didn’t create enough chaos in the marketplace, the recent impeachment proceedings and subsequent fallout from publicity over it have created enough pandemonium to divert attention away from…
Read MoreDemocratic Debates Round-Up (And A Very Important PR Lesson From The Political Scene)
Arthur Solomon, Public Relations Consultant So now that Super Tuesday 2020 is history, how did the candidates’ performance in the Democratic Debate Debacles (DDD) affect their vote? The truth (except you’ll never hear it on cable TV) is “Who knows?” There are many factors in a voter’s decision. Pundits who claim they know really don’t…
Read MoreBody Language and Leadership Effectiveness – How to Achieve ‘Executive Presence’
Dr. Nick Morgan, Author Most of us think of charisma, or executive presence, as something mysterious and elusive that certain executives are born with or are trained to achieve in some executive school we haven’t been invited to. We all know we need that mysterious quality when we’re in front of an audience, or in an…
Read MorePut A Cap On Your Trash
To the Tune of ‘Show Me’ From My Fair Lady? Here’s ‘Unchoke Me’ From My Fair Mother Earth Caps! Caps! Caps! I’m so sick of caps! Blighting my beaches through; A bottle here, toothbrush there, is that all you plastics do? Don’t talk of love, shining above. If I’m planet you love? Don’t choke me!…
Read MoreDemocratic Debate Column #10: Biden’s Last Stand?
(And the Democratic Debacles Continue, Along with Some Important PR Lessons) Arthur Solomon, Public Relations Consultant For the better part of a year, maybe longer, former veep Joe Biden has been boasting of his ability to attract African-American voters, and has said that the Democratic primary on February 29 in South Carolina will validate his…
Read MoreHarvey Weinstein’s Conviction a PR Victory for the #Metoo Movement
His Lawyers Vow to Appeal But He Now Faces an LA Trial on Similar Charges The Undoing of the Poster Child for #MeToo Men Likely Means More Such Cases and a Continuing Change in Hollywood and Corporate America Andrew Blum No amount of spin can change the fact that Harvey Weinstein has been convicted and…
Read MoreDemocratic Debate # 9: Bloomberg’s Las Vegas Gamble
(Prediction: In Vegas More Losers Than Winners, As Usual; And Three Important PR Lessons) Arthur Solomon, Public Relations Consultant It’s appropriate that the February 19 debate, the first after the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, will be in Las Vegas, Nevada. Because it’s time for the two front-running candidates, Sen. Sanders and Pete…
Read MoreWear Masks for Protection, But Take Them Off Your Communications
Thomas J. Madden, Chairman and CEO, Transmedia Group Three things we crisis managers learn early on is the mantra: Tell It All, Tell It Early, Tell It Yourself, which has been repeated so often it’s almost a cliché, but it works! When a crisis rears its ugly head, like the humongous one in China now spreading…
Read MoreWe Use FinTech Everday Without Knowing It
Wendy Glavin, Founder & CEO, Wendy Glavin Agency Every year, companies like Deloitte, Gartner and IDC, and publications like Forbes, net magazine, Wired, Fast Company and others track and analyze technology trends. Throughout the last several years, cloud computing, data analytics, AR, VR, blockchain, the Internet of Things, AI, ML, digitization, data privacy, cybersecurity and…
Read MoreDemocratic Debate # 8: So Long, Iowa. Hello Mike? (With One Very Important Lesson PR People Should Remember)
Arthur Solomon, Public Relations Consultant The big news from the January 14 debate, the last one before the Iowa caucuses, was that there was no big news. Much to the disappointment of the cable political pundits, reporters and anchors, it was a mostly a Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum debate (or if you prefer, a peas in a…
Read MoreA Big Flap in the 2020 Democratic Iowa Caucuses – Blame It on the App
First Presidential Contest Kicks off with a New PR Crisis: How to Respond? Andrew Blum It didn’t take long for the first actual voting of the 2020 primary season for Democrats to blow up in spectacular fashion. An app used to tally the votes failed to work and partial results were delayed into at least…
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