Public Relations can sometimes get a bad rap. According to reporters, producers and editors, we’re pushy, don’t know how to take NO for an answer, and they really hate when we pitch them outside of their beat. “What do you mean you don’t cover pets?” I casually say to myself...
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All Good Things Must Come To An End
Around this time last year, I was packing my bags and shipping boxes back home to Boston. Living 3,000 miles away from my family and friends had never been more difficult. I went through a lot last year — coping with homesickness, dealing with a broken heart and the stress...
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Does This Sound Bitchy?
As a PR pro, I live on my email. I pitch media via email, I correspond with clients via email and I even send emails to my colleagues sitting right across from me. This got me thinking about what my emails say about me… Have you ever received an...
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The Joke is On Me
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, over 50 percent of small businesses fail in the first five years. Well, this April we beat the odds – the West P.R. band of misfits celebrated our five year anniversary. It may come as no surprise to some, but April Fools Day...
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No Place Like Home
A few weeks ago, I ventured out on my first press tour since joining West PR. Actually, it was my first and only press tour, so you can imagine my trepidation at traveling alone across the country with four enormous boxes full of beauty products and sixteen editor meetings planned...
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Let’s Get Physical
For those who know me, I’ve always had a “nervous twitch” but rarely am I actually nervous. I am always shaking my leg or tapping my foot without ever realizing it until one of co-workers (Krista) threatens my life if I don’t stop. After I began working 8-5, it quickly...
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Fight or Flight
Everyone at West Public Relations has a voice, including our interns. Meet one of our favorites, Jaclyn Acree, who has interned with us not once but twice! She shares what it feels like to be graduating in 2012 and reminds the rest of us of just how old we all...
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Finding Love Online
Valentine’s Day: one of the most anticipated and most loathed days of the year. Anyone who knows me will tell you I’m far from sappy. In fact, a friend once said she was sure I’d chew glass before I let someone see me cry over lost love, so this Hallmark-invented...
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Getting Paid to Poop
Let’s be serious… when you are at your office for eight plus hours a day, you can’t honestly say that you are doing work the entire time. Maybe you are checking Facebook, reading your Twitter feed, warming up your lunch or going to the bathroom. Did you know that...
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Getting Connected at Global Connection
To be honest with you, I never really thought my hair was boring. Up until recently, I’d even considered my hair pretty cool and would brag to myself (only in my head, of course) how much I actually like my hair. That is, until I experienced my first Eufora Global...
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