• Public Relations for Commercial Fishermen

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Many environmentalists are concerned about over fishing our oceans and they scream bloody murder when whales or dolphins wash ashore and blame the sonar on Navy ships and submarines. They condemn our commercial fishermen as well. And yet these environmentalists live in the greatest nation in the World thanks to the military and they eat fish too?Read more…

  • Public Relations for Rent-a-Car Companies

    By: Lance Winslow
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    For those companies and corporations engaged in the Rent-a-Car Business it sure makes a lot of sense to develop a strong community good will strategy using a top notched public relations program. Many people may not realize this but after 911 the Rent-a-Car Companies saved so many stranded travelers.The commercial airliners were shut down for nearly a week, New York City was a disaster area and the whole world kind of shut down.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Bowling Alleys

    By: Lance Winslow
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    So often some types of businesses get a bad rap. We all know how the neighborhood water hole can get a bad rap from a fight in the parking lot turned totally bad. But this can happen to a relatively simple family business as well.Read more…

  • The Public Relations Profession

    By: Mary Anne Winslow
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    The delicate balance of public relations personnel is difficult at best. It includes a wide variety of responsibilities all which require a special type of skill and personality. Dealing with the public, is highly jeopardous position for any company.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Community Centers

    By: Lance Winslow
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    The local town community center is a place that the local citizens can gather and community groups can hold functions and this unites the entire town. Most community centers get the word out of the facilities availability and functions, but not all. In fact sometimes local banks with extra banquet rooms have more publicity about those facilities than an actual community center, which is much larger and has been there for decades.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Amusement Parks

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Amusement Parks all too often get a bad rap and negative reputation that they do not deserve. This is because often they attract so many people that they also attract the bad element too and this is said to bring in crime. Of course anytime you increase the number of people in an area you have to realize that the crime also goes up.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Racetracks

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Racetracks often make a lot of noise and bring in traffic to a city or town. Of course they also bring in revenue for businesses and customers who come to the area as well. Revenues coming into the city mean that this helps jobs and sales tax revenues to help the city remain strong.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Musicians

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Musicians and Artists need to maintain a strong public relations program to insure that their voice is heard in their music and they do not allow their words in interviews to be misconstrued. Of course all musicians know that controversy does sell publicity and the more publicity the more people may try their music. Selling CDs and exciting crowds is part of a musicians entertainment job description, but often it requires some extra consideration as well.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Artists

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Artists need publicity and most of the great artists are indeed brilliant and yet with that brilliance indeed comes a little baggage as well. Artists are different than other people, some say they have a gift. But artists need a good publicist and public relations person behind them to make it all work.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Authors

    By: Lance Winslow
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    It seems rather interesting that authors would need public relations, after all generally writers are set apart from society and often observers of the over all civilization studying human behavior, events and history. Yet once a writer writes some of note all too often there are those who are quite offended. Sometimes what they write addresses an issue that no one was willing to talk about.Read more…

  • Public Relations for County Board of Supervisors

    By: Lance Winslow
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    How can county governments maintain a better public relations image and keep up with the community goodwill necessary to enhance public support in their endeavors? How can county agencies and County Boards of Supervisors maintain the peace and yet also serve in an authoritative manner without being second-guessed on all the issues?It is well known is political circles that all politics is local and obviously you cannot always have an amicable solution to all parties of a hard to make decision and nothing is ever black and white or cut and dry.Read more…

  • Public Relations for The State Governor's Offices

    By: Lance Winslow
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    State Governors Offices need to work very hard to maintain their public relations because there are always choices that have to be made for the betterment of the common good, which will upset some people. You can’t please everyone all the time.Of course a little PR goes a long way at the Governors Office and as long as you do not spring too many surprises on the public they do indeed at least understand the other points of view even if they disagree or realize it may not be the best for them personally.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Building Material Supply Companies

    By: Lance Winslow
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    With the rapid changes in the real estate markets and housing prices falling some industry sub-sectors stand to lose a bit, but it is important to note that these businesses do not have to see a total drop in sales and experience the full brunt of the downward spiral of the normal negative sector rotation, which occurs like clockwork every decade.Let us look at a case study in a retail sub-sector, which tends to track real estate markets and is greatly affected by the trials and tribulations of the sales in homes. Building Material Supply Companies are on retail business, which can see problems when things in the real estate sector take a turn for the worse.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Optometrists

    By: Lance Winslow
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    All professional medical practices need smart public relations to maintain a strong community goodwill image. This is not always as easy as it seems and in larger cities it is so very easy to get drowned out with the many other businesses out there trying to do the same.Good public relations for a professional practice generally include membership in the Local Chamber of Commerce and perhaps involvement in one or more community service clubs.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Dentists

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Public relations for professional Dentist Practices makes a lot of sense, because it brings awareness of the need to take care of your teeth and it brings community good will to the forefront of the business. Designing a good public relations program is not easy for a professional practice.This is because there are so many professional practices vying for the same ink space in the news paper, segment on the radio or images on the local cable station, never the less there is much that can be done to promote a professional Dentist Practice thru a well thought out public relations program and strategy.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Clothing Stores

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Running a clothing store is not easy and there are always issues where the public is concerned about where all the garments that are sold in the stores are coming from. Are they coming from China and causing the decay of American Jobs? Are the clothes being made by child labor is sweat shops working 18 hours per day?Read more…

  • Public Relations for Beverage and Bottled Water Companies

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Bottled Water Companies are well advised to participate in large events and promote a strong public relations campaign. Do you run the marketing department for a bottled water company? Have you see the recent backlash from environmentalists about filling up the dumps and landfills with plastic bottles?Read more…

  • Public Relations for Restaurants

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Public relations is very important for restaurants and lately in Fall of 2006 we have seen many of eating establishments take some heavy hits due to citizens in an uproar that restaurants do not tell us what is in the ingredients of the food on the menus. In New York they tried to pass a law that would make it mandatory for all food to have also listed what was in it. Of course some restaurants have secret ingredients and this was problematic.Read more…

  • Public Relations for Fast Food Establishments

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Public relations for fast food franchises and eating establishments of this type are so vitally important to on-going sales and those fast food restaurants, which concentrate on a positive community goodwill image, do best over time.This means that strong public relations program is needed at the Franchisor level as well as at the store level in their individual market areas. What can a fast food franchise outlet do in the community to promote public relations and goodwill?Read more…

  • Public Relations for Employment Agencies

    By: Lance Winslow
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    Public Relations for employment agencies is very important because if the local businesses somehow believe that those who sign up for the employment agencies are of less value than the other people available then there is a very good chance they will not even take a second look. Why is this you ask?Well, many business owners have been burned in the past by less than efficient labor units or folks who did not really want to work, what they wanted was to get paid.Read more…

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