Seven-Step Guide to Up Your Corporate Social Responsibility Game

In the midst of the holiday season, many companies take the time to give back, strengthen employee bonds and connect with the community in a meaningful way. Corporate social responsibility should be a topic of conversation year round, but the holiday season is a great place to begin.

Corporate social responsibility speaks to a company’s reputation—the culture, employees and business model. The impact that CSR can have on a company’s reputation is huge. The engagement of employees, the company culture influence, ...

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United Airlines “Re-accomodation” PR Nightmare – An Opportunity?

The public relations fiasco that is United Airlines recent “re-accommodation” of an Asian doctor is costing them market value to the tune of near a $billion U.S. The PR ripple effect of this reputation management failure will keep on giving for years perhaps in ways we can only imagine. United’s 2nd largest market, China, reacted with 100 million comments in their Twitter alternative, Weibo. The resulting call for boycott may leave plenty of room for United staff to sit on ...

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3 Reasons to Invest In Online Reputation Management Right Now

In today’s world, where most peoplWord travels quicklye get their information on the Internet, your online reputation is the first thing most people will see. Think about it as an introduction to perspective clients, partners, and media outlets. It is vital that you pay attention to your online reputation and protect it the best you can. Here are three reasons investing ...

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7 Tools Every Small Business Should Be Using

Tools for small businessRunning a small business can be stressful enough without having to constantly worry to about every detail. You’ve got a lot to juggle, but there are plenty of programs out there that can make your life easier as a small business owner. Here are five tools that we think every small business should be implementing, because why make things ...

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4 Ways To Build A Better Online Reputation

It’s been said that “a picture is worth 1000 words”, but what if that picture ended up online where the internet never forgets? Online reputation management is a big problem in today’s digital world that businesses need to address. You wouldn’t get caught without a crisis management plan for your business, and you should have the same urgency for a reputation management plan in the online world.

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Mark Cuban Waxes Wise for Good Social Media for Personal PR

Mark Cuban was recently featured in an Inc. Magazine YouTube video sharing what he knows about safeguarding your online reputation in Social Media. This caught my eye in part because our company, PilmerPR, is in the Public Relations and Online Reputation Management business. It also caught my eye because of my work this past decade launching around four dozen entrepreneurial startups and helping some, like Mozy, AdvancedMD, and Seastone land in the Inc. 500.

Those issues aside, my 5,000 social ...

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Your Reputation Management and Listening to Customers

Your Reputation Management and Listening to Customers originally appeared in the Utah Business Blog for Utah Business Magazine:

If a bomb went off in your backyard, would you know it? How about if that bomb was an explosion that took place on the internet and the wider it spread the more damage it did to your business and your brand. When would you hear about ...

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Social Media IS Mainstream for Young & Old – Believe It or Not!

Social Media has long been thought the tool of the young. Some Social Media communities, apps, and sites still are and the number of growing. But, Believe It or Not, it may be way more mainstream than you think. While oBizMedia reports 75% of 7th-12th graders have at least one social media profile, Pew Research reports 72% of online U.S. adults (all ages) use social networks.

So, if yours is company targeting an older demographic, you can no longer afford to ...

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PilmerPR Celebrates 10 Years Delivering Top PR & Marketing Results

PilmerPR Celebrates
Content Marketing among New Services Delivering Results for Emerging Companies

 

SALT LAKE CITY—February 12, 2013—PilmerPR today celebrates 10 years of delivering public relations and marketing success to clients in technology, cleantech, retail, travel, and ecommerce. To mark the occasion, the firm…

“We’ve come a long way, delivering the latest best practice technology and strategy to accelerate client success with very measureable PR and ...

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BBB – New Phishing Scam Messing with your Public Relations & Online Reputation Management?

This Utah PR firm has a clean record with the BBB. Long before Facebook, Google+, Angie’s List, Yelp, or a dozen other now prominent consumer rating services, there was the BBB. So, I paid attention the other day when I received a convincing email from what was “purported” to be the Better Business Bureau (BBB).  As a public relations firm offering Online Reputation Management, I ...

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