Gratitude
This Thanksgiving, I am truly grateful. Here’s a list of ten things I’m grateful for:
1. My family: husband Jay, two wonderful sons, mother “Oma,” two brothers, sisters in law, brother in law, nieces, in-laws, many cousins, aunts and uncles.
2. My business: I started Nancy Marshall Communications in 1991….it will be 20 years old in 2011. I feel like it’s my third child, and I am as proud of my business as I am of my children. I have great clients that I love working for, and I have great employees who work hard to keep the business strong and growing. Thanks to the employees and the clients, we are bucking the national trend of businesses that are shrinking in this bad economy. Continue reading
More On the Shoemaker’s Children
If you’ve been following this Maine PR Maven blog for any period of time, you have read about the process we have been going through to develop a new Web site for our own agency.
And you may know the saying “The Shoemaker’s Children Have No Shoes.” I understand why the shoemaker struggled to keep his own children in shoes. I feel his pain. When you have customers who want your products, you always feel that taking care of their needs is more important than taking care of your own. Continue reading
E-newsletters versus Blogs for new business and relationship building
We publish a monthly e-newsletter called The NMC Report that focuses on the intersection between public relations and the Web. Since my agency was founded in 1991 purely as a public relations firm, and has grown from there into a full-service Web site development, Marketing Communications and Internet Marketing agency, we use our e-newsletter to share our knowledge and expertise with our readers. Continue reading
Does Social Media Belong to PR or Marketing?
I just read a great post on AdRants about whether Social Media should fall under the domain of the PR people or the Marketing people. The more I learn about Social Media, the more I believe it is totally a logical extension of the PR function. Continue reading
Speaking about Branding and PR to Maine Women’s Network
Tonight I had the pleasure of speaking to a lively and energized group of women at the monthly meeting of the Maine Women’s Network at the Weathervane Seafood Restaurant in South Portland.
As promised, here is my list of ten tips on Branding and Public Relations. I encourage the women who were in the audience to leave comments with their own thoughts on branding and experiences in the realm of public relations and marketing.
Also check out my White Paper on “How to Build a Stronger Brand Image Through Publc Relations,” or my white paper on “Harnessing the Power of Conversational Marketing.” Continue reading
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