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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

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Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. Amanda Werner is a freaking Valedictorian of her college class and helps out around here with marketing and PR. Chris is focused, loyal, flexible, and kind to everyone around him.

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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. Two trains were designated to travel around Texas to advertise the event.

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Why You Shouldn’t Launch Your Startup at a Major Tech Event

Both Sides of the Table

That means a slew of companies will be preparing to launch their new products or announcing their companies at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. ” I get asked many PR questions which is why I started this stream of posts on PR at Startups. SXSW is where Twitter broke out in 2007. None of this matters.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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Many franchise systems who receive support from our sister company, iFranchise Group — a premiere franchise consulting group — would ask where could they find services in PR, SEO, and website development. And oftentimes, they would be paying for separate services at separate companies, spending more money than they should.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I saw five years ago that the traditional form of marketing and PR was going the way of the dinosaur if digital weren’t a huge component and direction of the business offering. I launched Parkopedia after I drove to a conference in San Francisco in 2007 and struggled to find any useful parking information online.