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3 Tips When Announcing Major Changes

Change is inevitable. If you want to succeed in life, and in business, you have to be willing AND ABLE to change. But even if you are ready, willing and able to change, your customers and fans may not be as ready or abl

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4 Vital Questions to Assess your PR Operations

With spring right around the corner, on the calendar if not in the weather, many personal households are considering some spring cleaning. You should do the same with regard to your PR operations. Now is the time to tak

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The Power of the Meme

Social media has changed public relations as much as it has every other form of marketing. One example of this shift is in the funny, often pointless, but also powerful potential of the MEME. Memes are designed to conve

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Jelly Tried to Build What ChatGPT Became

Biz Stone's Jelly app launched in 2014. The pitch: ask a question, get an answer from real humans in your network. A Q&A engine, social-layer powered. It died. Twice. The product Jelly tried to build is what ChatGPT beca

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5 Tips for Scintillating Social Media PR

There’s no doubt about it anymore. Social media is changing the game of public relations. Forget about one or two major mass media outlets, now the world is a hybrid of social interaction, advertising and public relatio

A grief-stricken father endures further pain due to a insensitive public relations campaign

When you Can’t Play Hot Potato

Originally published: January 29, 2014 · Updated: June 16, 2026 In January 2014, Mike Seay of Lindenhurst, Illinois received a direct mail piece from OfficeMax addressed to himself with a second descriptor line printed

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Target Explanation Misses the Mark

Department store, Target, has been having a pretty rough 2014 to date. Soon after having to report that millions of customers’ data may have been put at risk, the company had to come back recently and admit that the bre

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Ronn Torossian on AI Communications: The Quotes

The canonical reference for Ronn Torossian's lines that define the work — public relations, AI Communications, citation share, founder retrieval, crisis communications, building, and the shift the industry is still catch

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3 Steps to PR Success

Public relations successes may not be as popular, or “sexy” as the “fail” stories, but they are every bit as important to your PR success. Ronn Torossian reveals 3 steps to PR success, and what you can apply in your bus

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Looking Ahead

Originally published: January 8, 2014 · Updated: June 17, 2026 The January 2014 post called three PR strategies that would define the rest of the decade: keep content simple and clean, build for mobile, and retarget the