New Media
The PR Power of Blogging for Salons
I Never Really Understood Blogging Our industry community got a later start with computers in our businesses and lives. That’s not a criticism, just a fact. It took our beauty industry sector longer than most others to adopt computers and use the internet as a daily part of salon/spa business and personal life. I speculate […]
Twitter for On-Line Scheduling or What?
Get it While it’s Hot! Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan on Twitter, and chrisbrogan.com on his blog), is a person we suggested you follow on Twitter in our recent Twitter blog post . He just tweeted a very hot idea he found on Mr. Tweet (don’t ask…we’ll explain later). Within hours it’s been retweeted over 200 times […]
What You Need to Know About the Beauty PR Process
In our role as beauty PR specialists, Sharon and I keep an eye on several different worlds: The world of beauty and fashion. The world of esthetics and spas. The world of writers and editors (business, beauty & grooming, lifestyle, etc). The PR universe (buzz and trends in PR). Just as you read your industry […]
What Not to do in Public Places
Where Am I? Have you ever been at a beauty industry event, sitting in the crowded and noisy hotel restaurant, having a ‘private’ conversation with a friend, and catch yourself sharing a thought above the din you would never want someone else to hear? Oops. Good thing no one heard that. Or did they? An […]
Are You Twittering?
Ouch! I’ve been a fuddy-duddy (Bet you haven’t heard that word in a while). I first heard about Twitter well over a year or so ago and my immediate reaction was, “puleeeze … another texting toy” having nothing to do with salon, spa or beauty pr, and gave it no more thought than that. I […]
The World Wide Web Is a Very ‘Sticky’ Place
Old adage in the PR business Never, Never, (repeat) Never, put anything ‘in print’ you wouldn’t want read by everyone in the whole wide world (that includes notes passed in class, letters to friends, emails, etc). Well surprise! . . . the World Wide Web and all its “New Media” derivatives are also today’s “in […]
Show Yourself! – Get a ‘Gravatar’
Try it! It’s fun. Sharon’s last post on how to make attending an industry event work harder for you and your business was important and well worth re-reading, but this post’s a little lighter. In today’s competitive world of garnering all the attention you can get, it’s not just the ‘big’ things you do that […]