Comments on: Attacked! (again) http://spudgun.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/attacked-again/ It's a gun that fires spuds Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:59:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Alexander http://spudgun.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/attacked-again/#comment-20 Alexander Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:50:01 +0000 http://spudgun.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/attacked-again/#comment-20 It's odd to look over your way and see so much of this stuff going on. In the Middle East, where I live and work, we tend to think of ourselves as 'behind the curve', and yet this renewed debate over the poor quality of thought and execution in UK PR does make me wonder if perhaps we aren't just a little better off - or at least no worse off. Given that the industry and market here are so young (www.mepra.org), budgets so much smaller and our media nowhere near as diverse or open as yours, that perhaps is even more depressing! It’s odd to look over your way and see so much of this stuff going on. In the Middle East, where I live and work, we tend to think of ourselves as ‘behind the curve’, and yet this renewed debate over the poor quality of thought and execution in UK PR does make me wonder if perhaps we aren’t just a little better off – or at least no worse off. Given that the industry and market here are so young (www.mepra.org), budgets so much smaller and our media nowhere near as diverse or open as yours, that perhaps is even more depressing!

]]> By: Spudgun http://spudgun.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/attacked-again/#comment-18 Spudgun Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:36:26 +0000 http://spudgun.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/attacked-again/#comment-18 Linda, I couldn't agree more. My position being that building contacts, and giving journalists what they want is what we agencies should be competing on, instead we tend to compete on price and the promise of frantic activity. Linda, I couldn’t agree more. My position being that building contacts, and giving journalists what they want is what we agencies should be competing on, instead we tend to compete on price and the promise of frantic activity.

]]> By: Linda http://spudgun.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/attacked-again/#comment-13 Linda Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:09:55 +0000 http://spudgun.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/attacked-again/#comment-13 Hi Spud, Very interesting - I can't believe people are justifying a fee by saying they have sent an irrelevant press release to some huge distribution list. This makes me naive, I know, but I agree with you that it stinks from the top down, not the bottom. I have responded to your comments over at Getting Ink. As someone who has gone into PR (and now back again) from journalism, I've also been happy to go in to see potential new PR clients and winning their business by explaining that building contacts, and giving journalists what they want, instead of sending out a load of press releases to people who don't want them, could be the way to go. all the best Linda Hi Spud,
Very interesting – I can’t believe people are justifying a fee by saying they have sent an irrelevant press release to some huge distribution list. This makes me naive, I know, but I agree with you that it stinks from the top down, not the bottom.

I have responded to your comments over at Getting Ink. As someone who has gone into PR (and now back again) from journalism, I’ve also been happy to go in to see potential new PR clients and winning their business by explaining that building contacts, and giving journalists what they want, instead of sending out a load of press releases to people who don’t want them, could be the way to go.

all the best

Linda

]]> By: The Rosemont Loving http://spudgun.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/attacked-again/#comment-11 The Rosemont Loving Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:33:50 +0000 http://spudgun.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/attacked-again/#comment-11 [...] on the web Thursday June 14th 2007, 1:33 pm Filed under: The Media, PR, Blogging, Internet The Spud Gun, a new blog on my reading list (thanks for the listing by the way), has attacked the trend in PR [...] [...] on the web Thursday June 14th 2007, 1:33 pm Filed under: The Media, PR, Blogging, Internet The Spud Gun, a new blog on my reading list (thanks for the listing by the way), has attacked the trend in PR [...]

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