Giving your PR a work out; exercising your PR in tough times

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I received three emails on the back of my post last week “When the going gets tough, the tough get communicating - or why the tough need muscles ”. I guess getting emails rather than comments underlines the more private nature of such discussions. The post finished by promising to come back with “ways to get your marketing communications to the gym”, and that’s the subject here.

If you have a good personal trainer, what do they do for you? They bring discipline. They set targets and encourage you to meet them. They don’t waste your time with activity that doesn’t contribute to hitting those targets. They keep track of progress and get to know your strengths and weaknesses, literally, and often better than you.

In many ways, this is analogous to your public relations consultancy. As I said in my last post, your marketing communications is muscle and not fat. If you work with a great consultancy, this muscle will be toned and responsive to current market conditions and challenges (if it’s not, change it today).

Value-Adding on Philip Sheldrake

Giving your PR a work out; exercising your PR in tough times