Connecting with Hard to Reach Media Contacts & More
During the May 9 #solopr Twitter chat, independent PR pros discussed connecting with hard to reach media contacts, pitching radio shows and podcasts, and minimizing distractions when working from home....
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A Year in Review – The Top 5 Solo PR Pro Posts of 2013
This year we gave you tips, tools and templates to help you start, manage and grow your solo business. You read, clicked, commented and downloaded in response. Before the ball drops on 2013, we look...
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Is It Time to Rethink Multitasking?
If you ask ten independent pros about multitasking, it’s likely that eight will provide an answer while watching a monitoring dashboard, responding to an email, scrolling through a news feed and...
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Ultimate Guide to Productivity Tools
Welcome to Solo PR Pro’s Tool School series! Designed to fight overwhelm, all this month we’re offering specific recommendations for services that are cost-effective for indies, and aren’t...
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Are You Pretending To Be Busy?
We all do it on occasion. Sometimes we fool even ourselves, we’re so good at pretending to be busy — and independent consultants are especially vulnerable. It can be a form of procrastination (as in...
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PR Interns or Assistants – Which is Right for You?
This is a guest post from Mary Deming Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA, president of The Barber Group. A continually important topic, it has been updated from the original version, which ran on this blog in...
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9 Scientific Ways to Be More Productive
The month of September is the beginning of the end of the year and for many independent pros, it is the busiest time of the year. As we balance peak conference season, hitting year-end goals, planning...
View ArticleTime Management for the Solo PR Pro: Who Has Time for That?
We all have the same number of hours in the day as Beyoncé, so they say. Except where Beyoncé has a huge team behind her, as solo consultants, we are the ones wearing many of the hats in our...
View ArticleWant to Be a Better PR Pro? Try Monotasking.
In episode 21 of the That Solo Life podcast, “Slow Down! Be a Better PR Pro by Monotasking,” we talked about how in order to be a true rock star in your work, you’d better be a sensational...
View ArticleHow Rituals Can Help Solo PR Pros
I sit in my favorite chair, watching the steam from my coffee twirl into the morning's stillness. I am in my comfy sweats, cocooned in a black sweater. I watch the soft shadows play against the...
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