Honesty, give it a shot

When recapping their basketball game the other night, the Portland Trail Blazer official website offered this analysis on their team’s performance:
“When you turn the ball over 21 times, you know you’ve made more than a few bad decisions with the ball.” http://www.nba.com/blazers/news/Batum_Shines_But_Trail_Blazers-285085-1218.html
What’s intriguing about that statement is that it offers a level of criticism rarely [...]

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Chubby Hubby Chronicles – Quest for “PTO”

High gasoline prices and a slumping economy have put the brakes on leisure and business travel. Airlines have been cutting service and raising fares. While new hotels open and old ones are given a face-lift that would even make Dr. 90210 proud, occupancy rates are somewhat on the rise. How could that be?
After digging through [...]

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Halloween Marketing Facts

In honor of Halloween, I did a quick search this morning for “Halloween Marketing” and found the following fun facts here. 
 
·     Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday, beat out only by Christmas
·     The U.S. consumer spends upwards of $1.5 billion on Halloween costumes annually and more than $2.5 billion on other Halloween paraphernalia, [...]

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My Take on Voting

It looks like a lot of people are writing about the the election next week, I am going to give my take on it.
I know it may sound synical, but in regards to electing a president, I really don’t believe that whole shpeal about how my vote counts. If I vote for Obama, Obama will win [...]

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ASG’s Scary Good Creativity

They are all so good, I’m not sure which to vote for.  Help me out with the poll below…

 

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PR Hall of Fame!

Take a look at this link for a list of some of the best PR stunts of all time:
 
http://www.publicityinsider.com/HallOfFame.asp
 
It’s a great refresher. As Rebecca mentioned earlier, it is so beneficial to get ideas from communicators and marketers in completely unrelated fields – especially if their ideas have worked so well – and then see what [...]

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Mr. President, please keep up with the common folk…

So I came across this article on msn.com and found it to be quite interesting (a little long, but a good read!), with all this talk of the upcoming election, the presidential candidates and their capabilities, engaging ourselves and others online, this article touched upon all of these points raising some great questions:
Can someone [...]

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Why we media train our clients

Today, I wanted to share with you a little video clip:

Pretty good stuff, huh?  Although this particular interview is a staged comedy skit, can you imagine if it was a real interview with a client?  Not so funny then.  Situations like this exemplify the reason that ASG works hard to ensure our clients are always prepared [...]

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Vote 08

Please get out there and vote.  I’ve heard a lot of friends and even people out and about saying that it doesn’t matter if they vote.  This might end up being one of the most pivotal elections in our lifetime.  I don’t care who you vote for (well I do but…) as long as you do [...]

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Culture eats Strategy for Lunch

At the PRSA 2008 National Conference, I heard that statement during a workshop I attended entitled “There’s Change…and then there’s BIG Change”* put on by  Kathy Lewton, Steve Seekins and Ken Trester of Lewton, Seekins and Trester.  These are some really, really smart Healthcare PR people. 
What?  We don’t do healthcare PR?  True enough.  However, I’m a [...]

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