No Grand Slam for Miami Marlins’ PR Practices

Rosanna M. Fiske is chair and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America.

When Ozzie Guillén, manager of the rebranded Miami Marlins, inserted the proverbial foot-in-mouth during an interview with TIME magazine, where he stated, “I love Fidel Castro,” I immediately began to question the Marlins’ management

Working And Winning Together

5:30 p.m. on a Tuesday. Most people are counting down the minutes to go home. For new-biz execs like me, it’s more like the middle of the day. I sit in the new-biz war room at Grey advertising during one of the biggest pitches of the year. I’m

The Biggest Mistake You Can Make About Hispanic Marketing & Cinco de Mayo

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Cinco de Mayo is around the corner, and some brands are leveraging the holiday to roll out special promotions and discounts. (For example, Tyson Foods, Tabasco brand and Jose Cuervo’s nonalcoholic margarita mix have teamed up on a “Fiesta of

A CEO’s Most Powerful Tool is Communications

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Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Billee Howard, managing director of the brand innovation group and creative development officer at Allison + Partners. Howard has more than 15 years’ experience in brand development, strategic media

Hispanics and the Mobile Mandatory [VIDEO]

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Is There Such a Thing as Hispanic Identity? Despite All the Variety, Yes.

Is there such a thing as a common Hispanic culture? The Pew Hispanic Center just released a study suggesting that, considering how Hispanics identify themselves, the answer may be no. We know there is great diversity within the U.S. Hispanic

The New Sweet Spot for Reaching the Hispanic Consumer

There is a lot to understand about the Hispanic shopper. In particular there's a lot of empty space between what brands know about the consumers in this demographic and what retailers know about how and why they shop. The intersection of these

Earn the Trust of Hispanic Consumers and Your Brand Will Dominate

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As organizations seek to find new ways to capture sustainable business growth, the estimated $1.2 trillion dollars of Hispanic consumer purchasing power in 2012 represents a time-sensitive opportunity for America’s corporations to earn this

Silent Minorities: Industry Employees Speak Out About Adland Isolation

Results of Study Called 'Very Disenchanting, But Not Surprising' The average ad-industry employee likely agrees the diversity issue is a very unfortunate situation. One that should be remedied. By someone. But on a daily basis, he's likely to carry

The Making of My Multicultural Tookit

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Some of you may have seen the advertisements recently run by Transitions Optical promoting “My Multicultural Toolkit” – our most comprehensive resource ever for eyecare professionals, made possible through the Transitions Cultural

The New Hispanic Press — Social Media Revolutionized The Channels of Trust

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(Click to enlarge The press has always been a very influential channel of trust and the main focus of many PR campaigns – How to get The New York Times, CNN, Univision, El Nuevo Herald to publish something positive and influential about my