This past week, tens of millions of Americans rose before the sun and commenced the annual bacchanal of deal-seeking known as Black Friday. While the sale day itself has been extended, creeping further and further into Thanksgiving Thursday, and...
Throughout the past month, the executives at 5W have repeatedly been approached by the media for our opinions on the major missteps made by a variety of widely recognized brands. Here’s a quick debriefing on the latest big brand...
Social media has changed public relations as much as it has every other form of marketing. One example of this shift is in the funny, often pointless, but also powerful potential of the MEME.
Memes are designed to convey immediate...
Webster City, Iowa doesn't quite have the ring of a must-see vacation destination, and that's just fine with residents. They're not looking to become the Midwestern version of Orlando or Las Vegas. They just want to be a quaint,...
Sometimes, companies need to do something dramatic if they want to get some attention in an overly-saturated marketplace. In a world where everyone is shouting over each other to earn the interest of the same customers, it's difficult to...
Watching Mike Tyson on The Today Show this morning was an “interesting” experience. Can anyone believe that Mike Tyson will soon have his one-man show "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth" on Broadway? Yes, you read it right – Mike Tyson...
Public Relations Tips from Ronn Torossian
“Publicity geniuses are different from you and me. They have the stomach for it. This temperamental combination of imperviousness and egomania that allows them, compels them, to dominate the media . . . means,...
The way you look can affect you not only in your daily life but also in your working life. Studies show that if you are well-groomed and dressed in a professional manner, chances are you will go further in...
So, following an earlier article I wrote about the definition of Public Relations, Keith Trivitt, Associate Director of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) wrote that after all of PRSA’s work on the definition of public relations, and...
According to new research from cybersecurity firm Cheq, the rise of influencer fraud now has a price tag: a whopping $1.3 billion. As per the brand protection agency, at least 15% of all influencers’ followers have been found to...
