San Fran-based content strategist Eccolo Media has released a survey of US businesses that suggests white papers are the most important and influential pieces of collateral used in technology buying decisions. The B2B Technology Collateral Survey of American businesses was done with more than 500 technology-purchasing decision makers and it confirmed, Marketing Charts reports, “that sales [...]

A company in the sector just put out a press release about its hiring of four people. On one hand I am happy to read people are hiring again, as there is no shortage of people looking for work and that’s not going to change for a while. On the other hand, big whoop. Press [...]

I have a self-imposed rule that I don’t include the names of companies on this blog if I am slapping them around for being stupid or mindless in their approach. Here’s a case of PR that is pretty well executed, albeit in a highly conventional way, but misses the opportunity at hand. PlayNetwork is a [...]

I just got a press release as a PDF. For me, that’s OK, because while I write about the industry, I don’t spend a lot of time reporting on it and therefore extracting a lot of quotes from releases. BUT, if I did, pulling the text out of PDF files is a pain in the [...]

A press release this morning from a guy who was leaving his gig and going out on his own as … something … (it was far less than clear) … started with the guy proclaiming himself a luminary. Don’t. Just don’t. It’s meaningless to most people, but all the wrong people will jump all over [...]