Palmetto PR Diva Dish – Bianca Crawford, Red Carpet Communications

I really want to first and foremost apologize to Bianca.  She completed the PR Diva questionairre seemingly eons ago and I told her a date that I would post her information and send her a link.  But this was right around when Liza and I went on a blogging vacation and it just got lost in [...]

Palmetto PR Diva Dish – Jacque Riley, Riley Communications

I had the fortune of meeting Jacque Riley, CEO of Columbia-based Riley Communications, at the SCPRSA roundtable event with Vince Hazleton last month. Apparently, if you want to work with an award winning agency – or get your client on the front page - Jacque is the woman to see! 
Read on to learn more…Oh, and Jacque, let us [...]

Palmetto PR Diva Dish – Amanda Brasier, APR, PR manager for CBM-US

Liza returns from the beach next week. Yay! I have missed our e-mails and phone calls throughout the week. Also, we might have the opportunity to work on a project together and I’m super excited about that – so I can’t wait to get an update from her when she returns!
This week’s Palmetto PR Diva [...]

Virtual firms and getting paid what you are worth

I attended a roundtable event in Columbia this morning where Vince Hazleton, a veteran in the public relations industry since 1978, spoke about his annual research on the independent sector of public relations industry.
Here are a few interesting points that came out of the conversation:

Virtual firms - By developing informal working relationships with other IPs (PR consultants, [...]

Palmetto PR Profile – Brett Turner with Jackson-Dawson

It’s Friday, and you know what that means! We are featuring a public relations practitioner to share thoughts about the industry, as well as provide firsthand suggestions to those just starting out. To be fair, Liza and I agreed to call the “dudes” PR Profiles. So here we go!
(Next week, we will feature Allison Skipper, [...]

One-minute coaching session – be prepared for the tough questions

O.K. So, a colleague forwarded me a link to a blog yesterday, and I thought the “One-minute coaching session” post was pretty interesting.
She’s right – you do have to be prepared to answer the akward questions. One of the golden rules of media relations is you better be prepared, because if there is a [...]

Palmetto PR Diva Dish – Tiffany Chepul

I am so excited to feature Tiffany Chepul as our first Palmetto PR Diva!  I have known Tiffany for seven years and have learned a lot from her, and I am excited to have her share her thoughts with us today.  In addition to being a savvy senior account manager for PR Newswire in Charlotte, she has a [...]

Saying “no” to being a “Yes Man”

Where there is another day, there will be another corporate, political or celebrity scandal.  Eliot Spitzer and Kwamee Kilpatrick are certainly bearing the grunt this week, but there are bound to be others.  This much I know. 
How is it that there are so many people who are talented, motivated and successful that fail in the [...]