November, 2010

Chris Koch

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I don’t want to lose you!

Chris Koch

Here’s why this sucks. I have to shut down the original carcass of my blog at wordpress.com because it has been dead for more than a year now and it’s starting to stink. I noticed the other day that it comes up right next to my new website in Google search when you’re looking for my blog. Trouble with that is, I stopped posting on that blog more than a year ago, so it makes it look like I have given up on blogging.

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Stop doing PR. Start doing visibility.

Chris Koch

Thanks for the great comments on last week’s post, “Is the Era of PR Over.&# Okay, so if the traditional model for PR is failing, what do we do instead? Most journalists have discovered social media as an important research tool. And research shows that even the stodgiest C-level executive does at least three web searches per day. That’s why increasingly, PR is going to become a matter of simply allowing your subject matter experts to be found rather than enlisting armies of PR people to t

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Is the era of PR over?

Chris Koch

Among the many interesting ideas thrown around at ITSMA’s annual conference this week was that the era of PR is over. As in dead. Don’t do it anymore. First, let’s define what PR means from the perspective of the customer (i.e., a journalist) and the customer’s customer (i.e., the readers of the journalists’ publications). Looked at this way, there are only two types of PR: Guard dog PR and placement PR.

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