How to be evil, earn lots of money and make a difference

What organisations out there would you downright, outright, refuse to work for? Which companies do you consider ‘too’ evil to ever associate yourself with? Tobacco

My Biggest PR Mistake

Back in my days as a young, wide-eyed, PR Account Executive I once made a pretty bad mistake with a pretty important client. Our client

Would you add your name to a crap press release?

Here is a theoretical situation: You’ve just written a press release. You send it to the client for their approval. They come back with a

Would you read a cornflakes blog?

As a time-limited internet user, would you spend a moment of your spare time reading a cornflakes blog? Really, what if the cornflakes blog was

New Media Requests Blog

I’m sure all my feed-readers enjoyed that misplaced post. Sadly these are the problems you encounter when you mix your pages with posts. The problem

A terrible viral marketing idea goes wrong

I’m going to stick my neck out and say that this Guardian Travel blog, is a Viral Marketing stunt to promote E4’s teenage drama, Skins.

The truth behind the Wispa Bar…at the back of the sofa

I would love to believe that a mass community of people impulsively got together to bring back the Wispa Bar. Then Cadbury’s spotted this demand,

Carrot-wielding marketing opportunity going to waste

What if over 150,000 people wanted to buy your product on May 15? Better, what if they planned to buy as much of your product

Another mag dies, will a PR agency?

So New Woman and First, two popular women’s magazines featuring the usual Celebrity gossip and fashion/beauty/sex advice, have gone under. Well, they are “suspended pending

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