New York Public Relations

Sunkist will be needing some good old fashioned Public Relations solutions after the nationwide, voluntary Pistachios Recall . The recall was issued because of possible Salmonella contamination. Sunkist's public relations problem is most definitely only going to get bigger and worse as those same pistachios are in other packaged products. Some news sources are only pointing the finger at Sunkist and some are saying that it's a smart idea to not eat any pistachios until authorities get a better handle on the problem.

A month ago Microsoft filed a case against the company TomTom regarding their GPS car system and the software it uses. Microsoft said with an e-mail from its public relations firm Monday that TomTom has settled, agreeing to pay Microsoft for technologies in their navigation and file management system. Read the whole story on PCWorld .

Public Relations is proving to be Cost Effective Promotion during the latest economic downturn. Some companies have decided to cut back on public relations efforts, but according to Stefanie Guzikowski , you cant afford to not spend a good amount on your public relations budget. Public Relations Firms offer non-traditional and cutting edge marketing ideas. And we have found that a lot of the time, non-traditional and cutting edge methods mean they are cost effective ... until everyone else has figured it out.

Executive Compensation has already become a PR Nightmare for anyone involved in trying to make the economic mess get smaller. It doesn't matter that the public doesn't understand that the executives at AIG could have sued the government if they hadn't been paid those large compensation packages. It doesn't matter that it could have cost 2 times as much as it did to just pay them off. The public are drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon and clipping coupons, and the guys that helped put us in the whole are getting massive pay outs. AIG has already taken some PR advice and decided to change its name to AIU Securities or something like that. They also took their location down from the internet so people will stop chanting death threats outside the downtown New York office building. The Public Relations strategies have been narrowed down to changing the name of the company and hiding the bulding from public. That's about as bad a PR assignment you can get. There may be no mer...

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PR Assessment of Punch Drunk Obama - Barack Obama did seem a little " punch drunk " in his interview with 60 Minutes reporter, Steve Kroft. And Steve Kroft deserves a lot of credit for calling Obama on it. He definitely sized up the situation quick. To some, Obama seemed to be laughing a little nervously when discussing the economy. A few PR Gurus discuss their takes on the interview which has come to be called, "The Punch Drunk Obama Interview". Click Here to Read the article .

The writing is on the wall, and it's been there for awhile. Digital Media is quickly and most certainly taking over Print Media . Advertising in the Print Media has dropped by 23% in the last 2 years. Almost 1 out of every 5 journalists that were working for newspapers in 2001 are now not working for newspapers. Public Relations people are trying to monetize online media and divorcing themselves from the dying print media at the same time. Read the whole story here .

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on a PR Newswire press release that he expects New York to bounce back from the recession before other cities. Read all about it here .

Statistics are showing that magazine marketing and other print material advertising efforts have drastically decreased because of the struggling economy. Social Media PR is a cheap but very effective way of getting your message out. Read more about it here .

Rachael Maddow reported last night that the now 80% publicly owned AIG is using bailout money to pay for a Burston-Marstellar PR Firm . Basically using American's money to fool Americans in to liking them again. Video is below:

Social Media PR - Skittles, the 35-yr old candy company changed their homepage into an online portal that opens up into all the social networks they currently have a presence on. With ever decreasing marketing budgets, big and small companies alike are doing their creative best to make their presence known on Twitter , Face Book , etc... To read the whole story Click Here .

Gravity Event at Stanford. Gravity announces a Social Media Marketing for Business seminar. Read about the details here :

Social Media Marketing Social Media Marketing is the snowball rolling down the hill. Currently the snowball has reached the point of massive. To prove the point, New Zealand is holding it's first conference on Social Media Marketing . Click Here to read all about it . Now that New Zealand businesses are using and profiting from social media marketing, it's probably time to get your business involved. Start with Twitter and Face Book. Try and be creative. The more creative the strategy, the more likely it will hit big. There will be trial and error, just like anything else, but because of how new the medium is you have a good chance of cashing in, so to speak. Social Media Marketing is most certainly here to stay, at least for a couple years.