PR Fish Bowl

PR Fish Bowl • June 5, 2013

To Friend Or Not? Best Practices For Connecting With Clients On Social Media

These days, it seems that everyone and their grandmother is on Facebook. For PR pros, embracing social media often means connecting with clients. Team members start friending client staff, and vice versa, but are personal social media accounts really the best way to communicate? What are the risks? Whether you’re a social media super user […]

PR Fish Bowl • May 31, 2013

PR Pros, Time To Unwind!

Feeling stressed? Not enough hours in the day? You’re not alone. A few months ago, PR manager came in at number 5 on a CareerCast survey listing the most stressful jobs in America. – PR jobs vary, but most certainly aren’t the lives of wining and dining that some imagine. While unpredictable situations, crazy deadlines, […]

PR Fish Bowl • May 28, 2013

PR Tips for Networking Events

“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” No phrase better captures the importance of networking, not only in public relations, but in just about any industry. It’s an essential part of getting ahead, yet there are many ways to self-sabotage. For some shy folks in the biz, networking can be absolutely terrifying. But […]

PR Fish Bowl • May 24, 2013

PR And Social Media Move Movies

Memorial Day is the unofficial kick-off of the summer movie season, marked more and more by social media-infused promotions. The goal is to drive interest among the typically young, male movie fans with a fusion of traditional and digital PR and marketing, increasing the hype and the ticket sales. Beginning in 1999 with the “found-footage” […]

PR Fish Bowl • May 21, 2013

Avoid Social Media Disasters

As PR and social media professionals who often share content on behalf of brands and company executives, we literally have their reputations in our hands…and on our dashboards. That’s why every PR pro must guard against the unscrupulous. Recent Twitter hacks of major brands like Burger King, Jeep and Chrysler show that no one is […]