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		<title>do you have thick enough skin to be a PR pro?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor</dc:creator>
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I have often thought about this in my experience working in PR&#8230; the traditional PR job, full of pitching, getting your releases butchered, and/or sucking up to clients to keep them happy and/or the media to sway them in your favor&#8230; can be a hard 8 (or 10, or 11) hour day. Maybe it&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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<p>I have often thought about this in my experience working in PR&#8230; the traditional PR job, full of pitching, getting your releases butchered, and/or sucking up to clients to keep them happy and/or the media to sway them in your favor&#8230; can be a hard 8 (or 10, or 11) hour day. Maybe it&#8217;s not for everybody. Maybe only some personality types can take it. Or maybe that&#8217;s on the beginning and PR types learn how to grow thick skin and get better at their jobs. There&#8217;s a lot of criticism in the job, and opinions from person to person working in an agency can differ. (Not to mention unhappy clients if they don&#8217;t understand/support the angle you took to acheive their goal).</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve never come across the blog before but it felt like my own words when I came across it today and I had to share it with you all.  It&#8217;s titled, &#8220;PR Breakfast Club, a chance to start the day out right&#8221; and I loved this post, &#8220;<a href="http://http://prbreakfastclub.com/2009/09/09/am-i-too-emotional-for-pr/" target="_blank">Am I too emotional for PR</a>&#8221; this post was written by <a href="http://http://twitter.com/teammommedia" target="_blank">Marie V-B</a> and it&#8217;s a great little blurb about life as PR pro who sometimes breaks down at 10:00 PM at night when she makes the mistake of checking her work e-mail and getting a nasty scolding from a client.. oh the life of publicist. Question she poses: is it for everyone?</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
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		<title>Unveil your ideas, be ready to act on them.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally buy into fortune cookies or any of that jazz, but last week I received a fortune that I now count as one of my life motto&#8217;s.  (True story: the fortune is tucked on the dash in my car, and has been for weeks). The fortune read, &#8220;Unveil your ideas, be ready to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://civilizer.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/fortune-cookie-box2.jpg"><img class="alignnone" title="Fortune Cookie" src="http://civilizer.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/fortune-cookie-box2.jpg" alt="" width="126" height="126" /></a>I don&#8217;t normally buy into fortune cookies or any of that jazz, but last week I received a fortune that I now count as one of my life motto&#8217;s.  (True story: the fortune is tucked on the dash in my car, and has been for weeks). The fortune read, &#8220;Unveil your ideas, be ready to act on them.&#8221; Really it is more like advice than a fortune, and maybe that&#8217;s why it stuck with me. I think that life, career, ambition, and achievement are very centered around the idea of finding simple phrases and ideas such as this and letting them drive you towards you next goal, your next benchmark, and the inspiration that they provide move you forward. In the past couple weeks this phrase has been at the back of my mind as a motivator for me. Rather than keeping my ideas to myself, or simply keeping them scribbled in my massive and overly highlighted notebook &#8212; share them, speak up, UNVEIL them. But once you do this, be prepared, (never too prepared) have actions in mind, know the next steps ahead of time &#8212; and use your ideas to spur MOVEMENT in your company, in your brand, in your career, in your life.</p>
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