<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I forget who it was, but a PR person pulled that with me about a year ago. I said, "OK, but if your firm loses this contract or you're on vacation when I need to get a quote, I'm calling your biggest competitor for that quote." Client spoke up with his email address immediately.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks,</div><div>James</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">James E. Gaskin<br><a href="http://www.gaskin.com" target="_blank">http://www.gaskin.com</a><br>Writer / Consultant / Speaker<br></div><div><a href="http://netpress.org/member/james-e-gaskin/" target="_blank">Member </a>Internet Press Guild<br></div><div><a href="https://jamesgaskin.contently.com/" target="_blank">Portfolio</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G6LJXZA" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 12:04 PM Esther Shein via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just a rant…I can’t stand it when I interview someone and at the end of the call I ask for their email address in case I have to do any follow-up…and the PR person jumps in and tells me to go through them. Sometimes I’m successful when
I say “well, I would still like to have it as a backup” or something to that effect, but some of them are so damn aggressive and then the source is ultimately torn over what to do.
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<p class="MsoNormal">And then they “circle back” with me. They all use that term…is there some sort of requisite PR-speak course they all take? Grrrrrrrrr.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Esther Shein</b><br>
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