A Winning Public Relations Game Plan You want to sell your products or services, and that means
good money management, top quality products or services,
and hard work on your part. But, for REAL success, the
icing on the cake is public relations.
All Youve Got To Lose Is Everything Everything, that is, if you ignore those folks whose behaviors
have the greatest effect on your business.
Are You Sure You Know What Youre Doing? Because when it comes to public relations, non-believers can
produce a double-bummer -- missed opportunity AND a ton
of wasted money. It really is a shame because we do public
relations to change the behaviors of certain groups of people
important to the success of those very Doubting Thomases.
Can Newbies Avoid The Pitfalls? Yes indeed! If you are a young person who has decided
that a career in public relations will be your Caviar and
Champagne in life, here are four situations in which you
do not want to find yourself:
Can Your PR Game Plan be Salvaged? If, as is often the case, you are preoccupied with comm-
unications tactics instead of working a plan to actively
pursue those outside audience behaviors that stop you
from achieving your objectives, the answer is yes.
Dont Get Eaten Alive! If you don't have a grip on public relations, how your most
important outside audiences behave really CAN eat you alive.
Dont Waste Money on Public Relations Demand that it pull its own weight in your boat by working to
create, change or reinforce how your organization is perceived by
those vital, external audiences, those groups of people who
REALLY affect your business the most.
PR and the Small Matter of Results As a business, non-profit and association manager, how
satisfied are you when the public relations people assigned
to your unit spend the bulk of their time on someone's favorite
special event, brochures, press releases and talk-show
mentions?
Does the PR Blueprint Work? Managers, please take a minute and read two sentences:
People act on their own perception of the facts before
them, which leads to predictable behaviors about which
something can be done. When we create, change or
reinforce that opinion by reaching, persuading and
moving-to-desired-action the very people whose
behaviors affect the organization the most, the public
relations mission is accomplished.
Public Relations: Power Tool for the 21st Century I address this article to businesses, associations, non-profits and
public entity managers seeking a direct connection between
the money they're planning to spend on public relations, and the achievement of their organizational objectives.
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PR: Your 500 Pound Gorilla What else, for goodness sake, could you as a business,
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helper who does something REALLY positive about the
behaviors of those outside audiences of yours that most
affect your organization?
Do You Have an Exclusive Market Segment? You do if you're a business, non-profit or association
manager with important external stakeholders whose
behaviors affect your department, division or subsidiary
the most.
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