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Mad Men and the Decline of America

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 9/11, America Decline, Consumerism, Mad Men, Pr, Advertising, Don Draper, Freud, American Dream, Jon Hamm, Entertainment News

As Don Draper reminds us again and again, love is something a guy like him creates to sell us nylons. We buy, we consume, we dream, but we need to build something real again.

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My Failure at SEO: A Writer's Confession about Internet Marketing: Or, Why You Probably Won't Find Me Easily Online

Tamar Chansky | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

Read More: Google, Joan Didion, Internet, Writers, Marketing, Malcolm Gladwell, Ann Beattie, Seo, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Pr, Key Words, Technology News

SEO is stealth, it's sleek; it's all about titles that are short, searchable and to the point. It doesn't cater to the clever book title or site name, it could care less about how erudite you are.

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When Karen Met Sharon

Karen Robinovitz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Style

Read More: Lip Plumper, Purple Lab NYC, Sharon Hirsch, Huge Lips Skinny Hips, Hoodia, Karen Robinovitz, Pr, Lip Gloss, Purple Lab, Style News

Just want to pause for a minute to tell you about Sharon Hirsch. She is Purple Lab's Communications Director and she kicks ass!

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Enter the Golden Age of PR: Exit Reality

Schuyler Brown | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Marketing, Marketing Trends, Pr, Journalists, Public Relations, Endorsements, Journalistic Freedom, Journalistic Bias, Advertising, Online Advertising, Advertising Age, Media Spin, New Media, Branding, Journalistic Ethics, Campaign Spin, Media News

Brands are ditching advertising, which is really pretty transparent in its intentions, in favor of spin and PR, which really is not. This shift is partly because advertising is failing and partly because PR is right for the times.

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"Brand Dubai" Aims to Polish Emirate's Image Following Negative Reports

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 07.14.2009 | World

The Gulf emirate of Dubai is on a PR kick aimed at polishing its image and repairing damage from negative reports.

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Keeping Beauty Relevant

Robyn N. Cohen | Posted 06.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Bankruptcy, Stila Cosmetics, Business, Style, Pr, Stila, Style News

Who out there is really talking about the business side of the beauty industry in terms of social technologies, engaging online with consumers, leveraging a brand online, etc?

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Time for the Military PR Folks to Come Up With a New Spin

Philip Slater | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civilian Casualties, Afghanistan War, Spin, US Military, Military, Pr, Public Relations, Politics News

A little more honesty from the PR folks might be appropriate. Something like: "Look, folks, we're the military. Our job is to kill folks. If you're going to get picky about who, send someone else."

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How Social Media Today and its Online Communities Reinforce Blogging

Ari Herzog | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Robin Carey, Jerry Bowles, Sales, Social Media Today, Bloggers, Venture Capital, Social Media Marketing, Online Community, Social Media, Enterprise, Governing, Marketing, Sustainability, Pr, Blogging, Business News

Disclosure: In late February, I was recruited by Robin Carey and Jerry Bowles, co-founders of Social Media Today and joined their team as a community ...

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The Real Problem with CNBC

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Access, Jon Stewart, Cnbc, Jim Cramer, Business News, Wall Street, Pr, Journalism, Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer, Jim Cramer Video, Media News

CNBC never did any exposés about the enormous risks our financial companies took because they didn't see that as their job. Jim Cramer is the least of the network's problems.

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4 Essential Marketing and PR Elements of a Chick Flick

Kathy St. Fort | Posted 03.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Breaking Entertainment News, Chick Flicks, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Entertainment, Movies, Entertainment News, Women's Movie, Marketing, Pr, Women's Movies, Entertainment News

How many of those essential ingredients of the Chick Flick stew have been thrown in the Confessions of a Shopaholic pot?

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The Week That Was

Richard Laermer | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Laermer.com, Hype, Punisher War Zone, Anheuser-Busch Purchase, Porn Industry, Pr, Business News

It's cold in this country. You can't blame George W. Bush either. I bring you The Bleak Economic Report: Surprisingly un-spared by effects of the recession is -- tada! -- The Porn Industry.

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Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing

Justin Callaway | Posted 01.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Joe Lucas, Green-Wash, Accce, Lame Duck Express, Clean Coal, Advertising, Greenwashing, Joe the Deacon, Greenwashies, Church of Clean Coal, Coal Carolers, Green-Washing, Pr, America's Power, Faith-Wash, Green News

Forget the ghost-written pontifications of Joe-the-Plumber, meet Joe the Deacon. That's Joe Lucas, the VP of Communications at the ACCCE, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy.

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What's a Little Marketing Between Friends? Two Years Hard Time

Lucas Conley | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Procter and Gamble, John Mackey, Steve Grover, Advertisers, NASCAR., Word-of-Mouth, Pr, Madison Ave, Marketers, Web 2.0, Marketing, Advertising, Flog, Public Relations, Consumers, Customers, Astroturf, Tremor, Wom, Vocalpoint, Business News

As lawmakers in the UK have figured out, when marketers mingle among consumers, the results are often more artifice than advertising.

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