Full Frontal PR: Building Buzz About Your Business, Your Product, or You - Softcover

Laermer, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576601811 ISBN 13: 9781576601815

Publisher: Bloomberg Press, 2004

Synopsis

On TLC's groundbreaking new series, Taking Care of Business, Richard Laermer shows small-business owners how to build buzz and get media coverage. Here he shares the secrets from his highly successful public relations firm on how to take care of business and grow the bottom line. In Full Frontal PR, readers learn how to hone their pitch, build relationships with the press, and gain strategic placements that will get people talking. These tactics are based on proven methods that are easy to implement and, most important. cost-effective. For those looking to raise their profile and reach new customers, this acclaimed book will help any company or person break through the clutter and into the center of attention.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Laermer is CEO of RLM PR (RLMpr.com). A renowned speaker, he is author of seven books such as the bestseller "Full Frontal PR" and "2011: Trendspotting". He hosts "Taking Care of Business" on TLC and is a commentator on CNNMoney.com. He lives in New York--and on tons of airplanes.

From Publishers Weekly:

For a public relations professional, Laermer might have succeeded too well with this book: it could threaten to put firms like his own, RLM PR, out of business. After all, write Laermer and co-author Prichinello in this do-it-yourself guide for snaring publicity, the PR industry's dirty little secret is that "you can create the buzz factor yourself." Among the tips: adopt a media-friendly approach that cultivates friends rather than making enemies; use a host of tactics like embargoes, leaks, source filings and exclusives to your best advantage; and give yourself a leg up by knowing what time-pressed journalists are looking for and handing it to them on a platter. The authors bolster their case with examples of good and bad PR: e.g., how BigStar, an online movie retailer, spun its competition with Blockbuster into a David and Goliath tale, or how Kozmo.com's reliance on the media's love affair with its CEO compromised its ability to deliver on its promises. Some troubling references slip in (Laermer's own staffers watch the movies Wall Street and Boiler Room to get revved up for pitching journalists, and the authors admit "someone once told us that media people often dislike PR practitioners a lot"), but, that aside, this is a valuable road map to the land of buzz.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomberg Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1576601811
• ISBN 13: 9781576601815
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256