How You Ask for What You Want Matters

Every now and then, I get a call from someone who needs PR in the worst way and asks for it in an even worse way. The conversation starts something like this: “I really need your service, I don’t have much budget to work with, and I need help right now....

Women’s Media Summit Podcast is Available Now

Did you make the Women’s Media Summit a priority? And, if the answer is “no,” are you wishing you could listen in after the fact? I am writing today to report that you can! You can access all of the podcasts from this event that featured some of the...

Are You on a Journalist’s Banned List?

What a powerful email to receive on a Monday morning from Shannon Cherry of Be Heard Solutions. She writes about an editor at Wired magazine who has compiled and published a list of banned PR people who can know longer connect with him by email because they have shot...

A Fabulous Thing Happened on the Way to the Blog

A fabulous thing happened on the way to launching this blog. My farewell column for the Snohomish County Business Journal appeared online on August 30. It offered a link to this new blog before it officially launched on September 1. That same day, I received a...