Tag: PR Firm

A Big Idea Can Come From Odd Places

So, you are challenged with coming up with the proverbial Big Idea for a new public relations campaign. Where to start? How to begin? Well, I for one have always fallen upon a Big Idea in the most unremarkable places. Sometimes I find that if I leave the tumult of the office behind, and remove […]

What is PR?: 7 Public Relations Definitions

For an industry that does so much to help define its clients and their industries, it is an unfortunate turn of events that our own industry has such a vague understanding among many audiences. When I first told my parents I had entered into the field of public relations they went about telling all of […]

Tips for When You Interview at a PR Firm

OK, story so you got yourself that interview with a public relations agency. Now what do you do? 1. Review their website. I can’t stress enough the importance of becoming familiar with the agency, its philosophy, client categories, client list and work samples. From this you’ll be able to discern whether this is the shop […]

New York PR Exec Launches Debut Non-Fiction Book

THEY SAY YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR FIRST. TJ Sacks,  award-winning writer and owner of a New York-based public relations/marketing communications agency that bears her name,  has self-published her first non-fiction entitled “Slick the Cat: The Adventures of a New York City Kitty, ” available as an ebook on Amazon Kindle. The last thing that I […]

8 Skills They Don’t Teach You as a PR Major

You’ve learned a lot in college, including algebra, U.S. history and how to text under your desk. But once you leave your beloved alma mater behind, you may realize there are some very important life lessons that you never learned. If you want to avoid that terrifying task of entering the real world without many […]

Do Your Parents Understand Public Relations?

So I had been working in public relations for about a year when my parents asked me, “What exactly is public relations? Is it like advertising?” If your parents or spouse don’t understand the difference, don’t be surprised. A recent survey of 1000 PR pros found 72% of them say their parents don’t understand what PR is, […]

Where Do PR Big Ideas Come From?

So, you are challenged with coming up with the proverbial Big Idea for a new public relations campaign. Where to start? How to begin? Well, I for one have always fallen upon a Big Idea in the most remarkably unremarkable places. Sometimes I find that if I leave the tumult of the office behind and […]

Marketing + Public Relations Newspeak

It’s been more than 15 years since I opened my own marketing/public relations agency and during that time I have come to realize that an entire new lexicon has developed while I was sleeping,  so to speak. I’m a pretty curious  gal, try so when I come across a new word I immediately Google it. […]

Five PR Leadership Skills I Learned From My Cat

I’ve been living with cats for most of my adult life and let me tell you, they are the consummate leaders of the house and sometimes of my life. The first year that Jonny,  my current 12-year-old cat, lived with me I hardly knew he existed. He hid from me, played hard-to-get, and really, quite […]