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Public Relations Tips for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

But where do you start, and what are the best approaches to public relations for an entrepreneur? Jennefer Witter is the CEO and founder of The Boreland Group, which is a certified, woman-owned public relations agency in New York City. I start off with this question: What is public relations?

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

But my favorite was when the public relations manager told me, “We’re here to summarize the data sheets and put them in press releases and then answer the phone in case the press calls.”. My new head of Public Relations quickly learned that my admin could answer calls from the press. The same was true for PR.

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8 Tips to Ensure That Your Startup Doesn’t Fail

The Startup Magazine

The key to successful marketing is attracting customers and investors to your business through a variety of means, including print ads, website design, public relations efforts, and many other techniques that can attract customers to your business. Choose a unique brand name.

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22 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We’ve gotten good feedback over the years about our business name, so apparently that strategy has worked. 1- Combined relevant keywords.

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3 Reasons Why Every Business Needs Professional Photos

YoungUpstarts

Putting faces to names can make customers feel more at ease about choosing your business for their needs, as well. So invest in some professionally branded and consistent photos from a digital marketing agency to make your public relations, social network branding, and SEO tasks easier.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

We learned this weekend that it was named after his East Hampton home. I also really Brooke Hammerling from Brew PR who gave tips on how to effectively manage public relations – and she should know having been Larry Ellison’s personal publicist and representing people like Zynga when they were a tiny company.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Brainstorming, domain name and being formal. We chose otium as the basis of our name, which is latin for ease, peace, calm and leisure.

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