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The following post and infographic were created by Elena Verlee, founder of Cross Border Communications and PR in Your Pajamas

Public speaking is a common phobia, and it becomes even more challenging when you’re giving an interview. Thankfully, there are steps you can take to calm your anxiety an… Read more

According to the Direct Marketing Association, each penny you invest in email marketing will eventually yield an ROI of 4300%, and Gigaom Research has found that marketers consistently rank email as the single most effective medium for awareness, acquisition, conversion, and retention.

Despite so m… Read more

If you do any kind of marketing on Facebook at all, here’s a complaint you’re sure to have heard (or even made yourself):

“Nobody’s engaging with my posts anymore. It’s like I’m invisible.”

Indeed, sometimes it seems like it’s Zuckerberg’s w… Read more

Writing and getting your material published by a trade magazine is a little different than writing for a consumer magazine or a newspaper. However, the same basic rules apply. Industry magazine writers and editors are also extremely busy and receive many pitches every day. In order to stand out from the c… Read more

I remember the first time I saw one of my colleagues’ bylines on the Huffington Post. My first thought was “Wow, she’s made the big time!” And that was quickly followed by, “If she can do, then so can I.”

And it’s true. You can see your byline up on the Huffington Post. All it takes is to create compelling, origin… Read more

Believe it or not, Twitter is going to be turning 10 years old in 2016.  Does that make anyone else feel old?

And despite the fact that the social network has been around long enough to have become essential to everything from journalism to customer service to talk-radio, many entrepreneurs and small busi… Read more

There’s no shortage of advice out there about how to best market your independently published book to new readers. Indeed, it sometimes seems like almost everyone has something to say on the subject.

So who do you believe? Who do you pay the closest attention to? And who, at the end of the day, really h… Read more

My company, for example, has exactly one person dealing with PR issues – me.

I do all the pitching, handle all of the inbound media requests, prepare all of the press releases, train all of our editors and analysts on how to speak to the media – and I actually do about 95% of the interviews myself. … Read more

I recently spent two hours purging my email inbox of old emails. The move was forced by my purchase of a new computer and a wish to cleanse my old computer of useless files. During the purge, which was the first such undertaking in over two years, I came across hundreds of press releases and emails from PR peopl… Read more

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Probably.

I don’t know if the heat is getting to people or what, but lately I’ve been hearing some horror stories from PR people about their clients. In every case I’ve analyzed the PR person has been right and the client has been woefully wrong. Unfortun… Read more