Suppose you tweaked your product or service so it made you the leader in your particular industry…and no one heard the news. Suppose you landed a huge client that elevated your position to a leader in your field…but couldn’t get the…
Category: Public Relations
Competing for attention in the Age of Distraction
Think for a moment about all the distractions that compete for attention in your work life. Phone calls, texts, emails, meetings. Questions from employees. Questions from clients. Unanticipated interruptions. Add to this your personal life, which has the same ongoing…
Want to reach your customers? You gotta run.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will…
Say it again…and again…and again...
When you step back and examine what you say to potential customers, how consistent is your message? Does your message say the same thing every time? Or does it introduce a new thought to an audience that requires some time…
Say it with a smile: When humor works in communications
Take a look at almost every headline in today’s news. Terrorist attacks, investigations, tweetstorm responses – bad news (or the threat of bad news) is the subject of almost every headline. In the midst of negativity, we at Wellons Communications…
What companies can learn about crisis PR from the United Airlines leggings incident
On Sunday morning, a United Airlines gate attendant barred two teenage girls from boarding a flight from Denver to Minneapolis because they were wearing leggings. News of the leggings incident went viral, and within hours, United Airlines had a PR…