It seems like more and more companies want to keep us guessing - whether it’s Apple’s on-again/off-again product releases or GoDaddy’s sexual innuendo-filled ads that force us to the website...
Industry analyst relations are a critical component of most technology companies' external marketing campaigns. Ignore the analysts and you prospectively lose important third party endorsements,...
Every year since I’ve lived in NYC, I’ve cheered on marathoners running the streets of New York in the beginning of November. Every year I’ve said, I’m going to run it one day. This year,...
The following is a guest post by Matt Lerner, VP of product development and marketing for AllStar Deals. Mr. Lerner and his colleagues are about to launch a new enterprise. In the post below, he...
On Friday, in my rush to make a 7 a.m. train from Chappaqua to Manhattan for a partner breakfast meeting, I left my wallet in my car. I didn't know I was "naked" until we neared Hawthorne and I...
Warren Buffett and I had lunch together on Friday! We were joined by several hundred other clients, partners and guests of Business Wire -- all invited to lunch at the New York Stock Exchange and...
By Nicole Cimo, Towson University Class of 2012 Ever since I graduated high school, I’ve been told that college would be the most valuable learning experience of my life and I would ultimately...
Wednesday night our company assisted with the PRSA New York program, “A Book Publishing Double Header” hosted by Dow Jones at the beautiful Fox Sports Bar. The food and drinks were magnificent...
We all know the media environment has been on a roller coaster ride over the last few years as print and “traditional media” have been fighting (and losing) the incursions of the Internet,...
No one would accuse me of being a Luddite. My office “set-up” includes two monitors (one for e-mail; one for my “apps”); a CardScan business card scanner; a webcam; and an add-on...
I’m sitting at my desk trying to put a tape into the ancient walkman we have at the office, when my co-worker starts laughing hysterically. “What’s so funny? It doesn’t fit!” I said,...
Trust me, it was much better than a t-shirt! The 2010 PRSA International Conference, hosted by the D.C. Chapter, was an overload of information on all things PR, marketing and social media. Taking...
The ups and downs of social media, whether it be blogging, tweeting, playing foursquare or Facebooking really consist of two things: having something to say, and saying it effectively and...
Now that travel/vacation season is officially over (sniff, sniff) - I thought we’d reminisce about the summer and share all of the great things we experienced and conquered... Now, I'm not sure...
There’s nothing worse in the PR world than misinformation. The slightest variation of a word, a decimal point, or emphasis can make the difference between a positive message and a negative one....
Reason #1,486 why I love working with industry analysts – they tell it like it is! What other third-party resource knows your client’s industry inside and out? They know who the competition is...
Every so often, something will set off my Women’s soccer team (plug warning: the amazing NY Smoking Aces) to have an extensively long, usually hilarious, email chain. The last one was counted at...
Earlier this month during Internet Week in NYC, our very own Henry Feintuch organized a PRSA-NY panel discussion on how to get B2B companies to embrace social media. If you missed it (like I did),...
PR is EVERYWHERE! Even in South Africa at the FIFA World Cup (that’s the football – soccer for us Americans- world championship held every four years). And this year’s cup is a potential PR...
Standing in the infield with my big floppy hat, my feet caked with mud, and the tension spreading through the massive crowd of 150,000 people all rooting for the most exciting two minutes in...
May 2, 2010 Mr. Peter Walker Chairman PIELLE Consulting Ltd. Museum House London WC1A PL United Kingdom Dear Peter: I hope this note finds you well and rested after Thursday's memorial service for...
Last year, at the height of the recession while jobs were being shed and the PR industry was contracting, we launched Feintuch Communications. Many friends and colleagues questioned our timing;...
Dear God, I am writing this apology note because I feel I owe you an explanation for my failed attempt to give something up for Lent. While I tried to not log onto Facebook for 40 days and 40...
I’ve definitely come across some interesting information and requests working in PR. What follows is one of those times, when I was encountered with not one, but two bizarre and funny events...
It was the first month of my tenure here at Feintuch Communications as the brand new head of our brand new healthcare and life sciences practice, and one of our brand new clients needed to appear...