Charles Bukowski is my favourite author. His writing has this beautiful rawness to it. If you've never read Post Office or Women, do yourself a favour and grab both at your local library or bookstore. If you blog, there are two lessons you can learn from Bukowksi: 1) You have to…
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I chatted recently about a few things I wish journalists would stop doing. Got me some bones to pick with bloggers too. Before that though, let's again reiterate that I know a tonne of smart, cool people who also happen to be bloggers. This post is, by necessity, a generalization.…
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You know about the type of headline I am referring to above. I write 'em. You write 'em. There supposed to be hooky/linkbaity/make you wanna click through to see shit kinda headlines. They're REALLY popular these days on the ol interwebs. But I am getting frikkin tired of them. Here, to be…
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The other day a friend was asking me about sourcing PR help. Basic questions about what to look for when engaging the services of an agent or agency. The conversation got me thinking about how easy it now is to check out a potential agent or agency. Go to a…
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Call this a case study of sorts. A rough one, but a real life example no less... Last week, over at Made Here the FAIT ICI blog, we did a five part guest post series featuring a number of Montreal-based foodie bloggers. Hardly a groundbreaking initiative in terms of innovation, but one we're…
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I've been a contributor to Ragan's PR Daily for approximately 4 months. It has been an interesting experiment and, thus far, has panned out better than I imagined it would. This type of activity takes time. That's the output. It also generates returns; some easy to measure, some harder. I don't get…
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Awesome. I use it. You use it. It seems massive tracts of the blogosphere use it. It's damn versatile. If you need to describe something that is actually great you say 'awesome' (i.e. - 'I just had the world's best corndog. It was awesome!') If you…
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I work in PR for a medium sized firm. I also recently opened a small retail business with my girl. It has been a month and we have had success with our PR campaign. I thought it might be useful to share info about what we’ve done and why. Hopefully…
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I recently opened a small business with my girl. Seven days in, the best advice I've received is don't worry too much about sales in a day to day context. Sales will wax and wane based on a myriad of factors. While you need to monitor them VERY carefully you…
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When you manage people - especially remote teams - making sure your directives are understood is a huge part of the battle. This means making reflective listening part of the culture and also entails repeating instructions, often via multiple media. This way people don't screw up as much. However, the tendency…
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