article thumbnail

Where to focus in 2012

Up and Running

The common tone going into 2012 is cautious optimism. Instead, focus in 2012 on your high payoff activities and leverage the abundance of low cost, no cost marketing tools available to you. Economies remain very fragile and so lavish spending on your marketing would be a high risk activity.

Video 75
article thumbnail

You Sell You: How To DIY Your Early PR Presence

YoungUpstarts

It is possible to do PR on your own — and it’s much cheaper and easier than you’d ever imagine it to be. Here are four ways to take a DIY approach to PR: 1. These early efforts will set your PR wheels in motion — and once you’re ready to work with the true PR pros, all they’ll have to do is hit the gas and steer.

PR 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Do You Really Require a New Business Plan Going Into 2012?

Up and Running

In the event that you have gotten away from your original plan, take the end of the year and starting fresh in 2012, review where you got off course, how such a move has impacted your business, and what are the options to regaining the ship. The reason you got off course may have been necessitated by finances etc.,

article thumbnail

Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Stepping back, it’s interesting to see this cultural shift among larger companies who are comfortable with these co-branding scenarios, which actually may provide better PR and future opportunities to add to their portfolios. vehicle listed on January 2012 in Crunchbase. Many tried and couldn’t get in.

article thumbnail

4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Even a minute of downtime means millions lost in revenue and tons of bad PR. When Bebo, the UK social network went down in 2012, users flocked to Twitter to complain. Now, with more and more people spending their days permanently online, companies can’t afford to go offline anymore. But how do you make millions of users read it?

Security 161
article thumbnail

Twitter Link Roundup #162 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials from 2012 | Speckyboy – [link]. The Absolute Best Fonts of 2012 | Creative Beacon – [link]. Round Up of Free Fonts of 2012 | Sharing Mantra – [link]. 10 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials 2012 – [link]. Top Free Vector Graphics Of 2012 - [link].

article thumbnail

28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Brandy Runyan, Black Diamond PR Firm, LLC ! #2- In 2011, I began learning about hair restoration and started North Atlanta Hair Restoration in 2012. Thanks to Niesha Kennedy, Kennedy Robinson PR ! #12- Ad and PR budgets were often the first to get the cut when companies needed to tighten their purse strings.