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The Positioning
Power of PR
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ompanies in America presently drop more than a billion
dollars on their public relations efforts.
That’s not chopped liver. But most of these programs aren’t
positioning programs. They’re “name in the press” programs
that are measured in about the same way as you would
chopped liver: by the pound.
The Column-Inch Trap
Public relations is hard to measure. The most widely accepted
method is the avoirdupois (literally, “goods by weight”)
approach. Clippings are collected and submitted to manage-
ments. Audiotapes and videotapes are edited together into long
reels. Content is largely irrelevant. Weight is all that counts.
Fortunately ...