[Ipg-smz] annoyingly pushy PR people

[James Gaskin]

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.

Thanks,
James


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On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 12:04 PM Esther Shein via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> 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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> 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.
>
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