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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

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But for every successful PR stunt that is launched by a wide-eyed marketing team, there are dozens of unsuccessful efforts littering the road. Here are 5 legendary examples of PR efforts gone horribly, terrible, awfully wrong. PR Destroyed It. Of course the passes were only good for use on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas.

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What You Can Learn From the World’s Most Successful Business Owners

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Bert Doerhoff, the creator of this article, is the founder and owner of Accubiz, an accounting firm based out of Jefferson City, Missouri. He was also appointed to the Advisory Council to the Missouri Director of Revenue.

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What You Can Learn From the World’s Most Successful Business Owners

Up and Running

Bert Doerhoff, the creator of this article, is the founder and owner of Accubiz, an accounting firm based out of Jefferson City, Missouri. He was also appointed to the Advisory Council to the Missouri Director of Revenue.

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Starbucks As Race Uniter: P**s Everyone Off Equally

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It didn’t help when head PR honcho at the coffee purveyor, Corey DuBrowa, deleted his Twitter account after the deluge of negative reaction. I give you Starbucks leadership team… you can’t blame them for being so white, there aren’t many sunny days in Seattle. I can’t explain why they are predominantly men.

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Changing the Social Channel

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My hometown, Kansas City, was founded at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers and the visual of these two powerful channels coming together, to form something even more potent, suggests the perfect metaphor for how community prospers and grows. You must open up access points in social networks, email, advertising, and PR.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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Transcript of How to Attract and Hire the Best Talent

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John Jantsch: Well, I actually have a client in Kansas City, Missouri that did just that. If you get a bad review and you have plenty of positive PR going on about the company, it actually can be … kind of like what they say to us, John, about book reviews. They were a pretty good size remodeling contractor.

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