The favorite cringe-worthy PR incidents of the decade 1. Bridgestone tire debacle (2000): According to CBS News, it was announced that nearly 200 deaths and more than 700 injuries had been caused by Bridgestone’s... Read More
The story of how Reebok told rapper, Rick Ross, to take a hike – just not in their shoes. Despite topping Billboard Charts as a popular Hip-Hop artist, Rick Ross was shamed from fame by 72,000 women – resulting... Read More
Ghastly is quite a word – it really communicates volumes. There are some pretty ghastly things in this world. To get the flavor of this horribly-bad PR mistake, let’s determine how we might... Read More
“No amount of communications—regardless of its persuasive content— can save an organization whose performance is substandard.” -Fraser P. Seitel, The Practice of Public Relations Public Relations is an amplifier. ... Read More
Candy for Breakfast – Nutella Thought It Was a Good Idea Yes I know I said this would be the ultimate political PR issue of the JoTo MoJo but this one was very difficult to avoid. It seems a major “nutritious”... Read More
Politicians seem jinxed with the ability to have their words minced, their intentions perverted and have aired in the news an altered version of what they really did – making them look like they always put their... Read More
So you are in charge of tourism in one of the most prime pieces of sunny real estate in Okaloosa County, Florida which includes Fort Walton Beach, Crestview and Destin. One day you get the idea to buy a $710,000... Read More
In baseball, all it takes is three strikes and you are out. Unfortunately we don’t have such rules in real life because then we (the people of earth) would not be suffering from some of the corporate destruction... Read More
Greeaaattttt! (scarcasm). JPMorgan Chase just had a $2 billion trading loss, thanks to CEO Jamie Dimon. Of course he had his contract extended and was paid with an annual salary of $26 million! I am sure there... Read More
I truly do not know what has been going on with Yahoo these past few years. The internal struggles and turnovers make constant headlines. But therein lays the problem – the constant headlines. Who is running their... Read More