Start your week right! Every Sunday I post my favorite links from around the web and share my goals for the upcoming week.
Links
On PR:
Why Public Relations Gets No Respect: As a PR professional, this CNN Money article by Greg Galant rings just a little bit too true. The article explores why PR is not taken seriously as a business function and why PR has the opportunity to take center stage. The fabulous Gini Dietrich, chief blogger at Spin Sucks wrote a post in response to this article with seven metrics PR should track to gain respect.
On Email Marketing:
The Science Behind Those Obama Campaign Emails: Email marketing is a relatively new aspect of PR/marketing to me since starting my job last December, so this Business Week article about Obama’s email campaign fascinates me. Totally interesting to see how different subject lines/layouts can compel people in different ways to either donate money or take some kind of action.
On Freelancing:
One Life Change I’m Making Because of My Email Detox: Alexis Grant, entrepreneur extraordinaire recently went on a complete email and social media detox and has decided to permanently delete her email from her smartphone. Oh, the horror! However, I so admire Alexis for this move.
On Life:
Doing Everything I’m Not Supposed to Do In My 20’s: My good friend Sarah Stackhouse comments on a recent Thought Catalog article about things you shouldn’t be doing in your 20’s. Take a look at the article; I’m with Sarah in finding myself guilty of quite a few of the items on this list.
Hey World- Be My Friend!: Oh, how I can relate…my friend Niki Ianni writes about how challenging it is to make friends post-college, especially in a new city. If you live in DC, consider reaching out…she’s awesome!
Just For Fun:
25 Little-Known Facts About Boy Meets World: In case you’ve been living under a rock this past week, you may have heard that a little 90’s hit show called Boy Meets World is reviving itself with a sequel called Girl Meets World. This great Thought Catalog piece shares 25 little gems about the show that you may not have known before. I personally cannot wait for Girl Meets World. Life=made.
Goals
- A major event I’m planning for work is now two months away (AHHHH!). I want to spend a lot of time this week getting my ducks in a row so I’m not overly stressed during crunchtime.
- Christmas. Shopping. (Yup- said this last week). One major gift ordered, but still many more to go.
- PR the Jingle Bell 5K I’m running this weekend. As of right now, my fastest 5K time is 33:40, so I’d love to beat that time!
Have any links or goals you’d like to share? Leave them in the comments!
Thank you so much for the mention, Jessica! Ug…I’m with you on your second goal. Must. Get. It. Done.
Of course, your blog is one of my absolute favorites! 🙂 Good luck with the Christmas shopping!
Hey! Love this roundup 🙂 Unfortunately, I’m not quite as ambitious as you described… I’m just getting rid of the email ALERTS on my phone, so I’m not notified every time I get a new email! I can still check my email on my phone 🙂
Jingle Bell 5K sounds like a ton of fun!
Haha, oops! I must have read that wrong. But still, any action you’re taking to make email LESS a part of your day to day existence is admirable 🙂