That’s why it’s painful to watch the iPhone 4 debacle unfold. Apple, the standard bearer for the best in product development and marketing, has apparently plugged their “PR ears.”

Laird partnered with T2 + Back Alley Films owner Teri Rogers as Executive Producer and VEMO’s Nicholas E. Vedros as producer to create six, six-minute web episodes.

One of my favorite artists is also a friend, David Terrill. David is an exceptional illustrator and brand designer for a nationally-recognized advertising agency. There he creates cool stuff for everything from beer packaging to colorful, suitable-for-framing event posters.

Warren Buffett, the billionaire “Oracle of Omaha” agreed with our previous assertions that BP CEO Tony Hayward (already pushed in the background, but still a symbol for the mess BP made) should be fired. Good to know we’re on the right side of the Berkshire Hathaway investment genius. Click on the link below to view […]

Acclaimed singer/songwriter Dan Coyle takes a break between sets at KCRiverFest in Kansas City to talk about his use of social networking and PR to market his music.

This is where having empowered customer service reps –employees who can take common-sense initiative– can save your company a ton of bad publicity, and potentially a ton of dough: After a woman’s husband died in Afghanistan, a marine felled by an IED, she moved back to her home town to be closer to her family […]

Regular readers will note that we have called on BP to do one thing to immediately give them some PR breathing room: fire or otherwise silence the tone-deaf CEO Tony Hayward. Well, looks like they have done so in the person BP managing director Robert Dudley. Hayward has been shunted to the background in favor of the Mississippi native.

“I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don’t care, but that is not the case with BP. We care about the small people.” He later said he was sorry for speaking “clumsily.”

If you’re not taking the time to validate your lists whatsoever and think the above disclaimer helps your case? You’re content to spend life polishing turds. Fine, I’m in a mood. But to hide behind Vocus which BPB knows, loves and uses from time to time is lazy.

Some argue he needs to put on a hard hat and clean up the mess with crews on the beach. That’s ridiculous. People will perceive that BP is once again trying–and failing–to manipulate the story in their favor in a blatant way.