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    Me in a Nutshell

    I've spent my entire professional life as a television network publicity and corporate communications executive at such places as Fox, GSN and Lifetime TV. I get a rush dealing with live broadcasts, tight deadlines and press conferences. I think I enjoy my job so much because I love working with the press. In addition to all that, I enjoy being an industry blogger and a social media expert and leading my own consulting firm in Los Angeles.

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    SUMMER TCA PRESS TOUR BEGINS

    If your newspaper and/or favorite entertainment online news portal all of a sudden starts to have gobs of information about the upcoming TV season, there’s a reason why. Over 200 television critics, reporters and journalists are transcending upon the Beverly Hilton for a couple of weeks to hear the latest news about broadcast and cable television from the horses mouth-the networks themselves. [...]

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    Business Plans and PR – A Necessary Ingredient

    Did you happen to watch the premiere of AMC’s “Mad Men” this week? If you did, you might have noticed that the premiere episode was titled “Public Relations.” And with that, executive producer Matt Weiner wrote an excellent episode that showed off the true power of Public Relations in the work environment. His writing prompted me to write this post to remind all business owners that when writing business plans – do not forget to add in public relations to gain attention. [...]

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    Great Business Advice from an Original Mad Man

    “If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.” Ad man – David Ogilvy [...]

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    Fairness on the Job?

    If I’m living in a glass is half full world, then I would say that I believe most companies try their best to be fair to their employees. But, at the end of the day, every employee knows that the HR department is there to protect the company and not the employee. There’s just no way around that fact. It’s written into the DNA of business. [...]

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    No Kin of Mine

    This post today is not necessarily about phones and why Microsoft’s Kin didn’t make it, but about how to handle PR when products shut down. [...]

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    Happy Social Media Day!

    So I hope you and your smartphone, computer, net book, iPad or kin are celebrating today for its SOCIAL MEDIA DAY. Yep, today you can be as geeky as you want – it’s allowed and demanded. So embrace your communities, friends, followers and twitter away to your heart’s desire. [...]

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    One More Try

    With the state of today’s job market and employment trends, it is a bit rough out there for us professionals who are used to working on a daily basis at the same company and performing the tasks that we love. This economy and new employment structure for consultants/freelancers requires one to have incredible amounts of patience, understanding and fortitude as well as flexibility and humor. [...]

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    Freelance Freedom

    With reductions of full-time positions, PR executives who were downsized are forced to become freelancers/consultants until something permanent does come around again. And this can be an exhilarating experience and not one to be dreaded if you allow yourself to dream, think differently, and diligently break from traditional work practices. [...]

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    The Power of Why During Job Interviews

    Why is “why” so important? If an interviewer asks you why you want the job and you don’t have a solid answer, you’re sunk. Therefore, answering “why” questions can make or break you in the interview process. A little three letter word could kill your chances at landing that job that you want. [...]

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    Tips to Recovering Your Email Account When Hacked

    Practical tips to ensure you will never be hacked. Do not have the same password on more than one account. I made the mistake of using one password for all my email accounts and a few others. So every account that had that same password was affected by the hacking. The hacker then got control of my email addresses on gmail, Verizon/Yahoo and Go Daddy and subsequently froze me out of each. Thank goodness I changed my online banking password just a week prior otherwise, the hacker would have had access to that. [...]

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