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Social Media is Excellent PR

We recently shared some knowledge with our class at the American Board of Certified Haircolorists (ABCH) Educational ‘Summit’.  For us it was a snapshot of 40 education-hungry colorists and what they knew about using social media to help them promote their business.  Only a few understood it much at [...]

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3 Hot Ideas to Make You Cool News

Early Birds Get the Worms

The media loves the ‘bleeding edge’.  News is about ‘new’ after all.  As always, it’s the ‘early bird that gets the worm’.  In this case the ‘worm’ is neighborhood, industry, and even national news pickup.  What’s the scoop?

Geolocation, and QR codes

… Smart Phone Technology and [...]

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Internet Press Release Distribution – A Primer

It Used to Be Simpler

Those of us in the PR game a decade ago remember when internet press release distribution was a paid service offered mostly by PR industry dominant media services.  Bacon’s & Burelle’s  (renamed Cision and Burelles Luce respectively).  These industry biggies offer PR professionals and companies full-service  media research, lists, [...]

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Do You Have OPSCOCC?

Thia Breen – President, North America, Estee Lauder Companies

I love meeting amazing and straightforward people like Thia Breen.  She lifts me up with her own phenomenal career success story but stops me cold with forehead-slapping simple solutions  to ‘OPSCOCC’ – other people’s self-created overly-complicated career challenges! (my term, not hers <g>) How [...]

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PR at its Best: Simple and Old-Fashioned

Today was unusual.

We got a hand-written card in the mail.

It stood out in the pile like a sore thumb.  Hand-written, imagine that.  Different … That took time.

We went back into the house where we usually toss the mail on the kitchen table for opening later, but not today.  We stayed together [...]

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Your Website is Your Best Long-Term PR-Part 2

Part 2 of a 3 Part Series on Website Design

This guest post is by Bruce Rigney, owner of Rigney Graphics, a full-service marketing communication design and branding firm, established in 1982, and located in Old Pasadena, California. Sharon and I have had several occasions to work together with them on behalf of our [...]

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A Twitter Guide for Salon Industry Professionals and Businesses – Part 2

Part 2 of a 3 part series Followers & Following

In Part 1, Twitter ─ your ‘Aha’ Moment we looked at how to Twitter with a salon industry focus.  This part 2 is about who to follow and how to find the people you want to follow on Twitter.

Who Do You Follow? [...]

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A Twitter Guide for Salon Industry Professionals and Businesses – Part 1

Part 1 of a 3 part series Twitter – Your ‘Aha!’ moment?

OK gang. Many of you have confessed to being Twitter ‘challenged’.  In our travels (and in the research) we’ve seen many who begin to twitter, then stop … their twitter names lying fallow with no tweets for months.  No surprise. Twitter itself [...]

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Authenticity, Transparency, Privacy and Our Public Persona

Reach Out & Touch Someone

We’ve written a number of blog posts on staying aware of your on-line legacy when participating in the social media  community (e.g. What Not to Do in Public Places and The World Wide Web is a Very Sticky Place).  The thrust of the posts was primarily to make you [...]

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HAIRCARE Live to Give – Damn Newsworthy!

Help for the Unemployed is News – Catch the Wave!

Maybe you should think about catching this wave. With unemployment a daily headline, human interest stories about people helping people who have lost jobs are sure-fire regional and local TV, print and internet news coverage.

Industry icon and former Vidal Sassoon Artistic Director Maurice [...]

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