L H Oswald used a Carcano rifle, sometimes referred to as a Manlicher-Carcano M19/38 (meaning it was designed in 1891 and updated in 1938) - a 6.5 mm caliber...
There is a fairly new police and self-defense pistol on the market, a Belgian design, the Five-seveN. It has been featured as a good-guy gun in books by...
... I gotta tell ya, I don't see ANY negative PR issues here, as all the media I've seen on this issue has focused entirely on the man, his background, Islam...
At 12:15 AM -0800 11/12/09, Ned Barnett wrote thusly: SNIP ... Okay, let's say the market is NOT John Q. Public, but is the smaller, more knowledgeable group....
<QUOTE> "GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE: PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE" <END QUOTE> If it were a stabbing with a steak knife, the manufacturer wouldn't be concerned about "bad...
The South Florida Public Relations Network (SFPRN) is pleased to announce that O'Dwyer's, one of the leading resources for public relations professionals, is a...
Thanks, Stephen - that's new to me, and very helpful. Ned Ned Barnett, APR Marketing/PR Fellow, American Hospital Association Barnett Marketing Communications ...
If there enough people who would be willing to pay $20 for a half-day program on job search techniques to cover my costs of offering the program, I'd be glad...
... I think it depends on to whom you're talking. Clearly, as a "gun outsider" the issue affects me way differently than a gun aficionado. I can totally see...
Just found this tonight. This is a very creative approach. I'm impressed. Can't wait to see if they really find who they dream of finding and how this book...
Rob I can see I can't budge you from your position, and I see several others on your bandwagon. Perhaps I'm wrong. However, an awful lot of the personal...
I've got a client who's gone ballistic because a competitor got some press coverage (and he felt HE should have gotten that coverage - of course) and he wants...
It might if the market was made up of brand-conscious buyers who were driven to select products by emotion, image and ego as much as by practical terms. Ned...
Absolutely - I'm not sure about this "shout-out" thing (I'm still trying to figure out when to do a fist bump, and how to avoid popping someone in the nose),...
Thanks, Rob - your insights are always helpful; I'll play it by ear when I meet with this investing group prospect next week - I'm sure I can spin it, I just...
I placed a release last night with RushPRNews, hoping to find a lower-cost way of getting IR-related news out (in compliance with SEC regs). My results were...
Update I just got a call from a high-energy (bowl-me-over) Anne Howard at RushPRNews, who tried to persuade me that what I'd gotten was what I wanted (or...
Apparently it was all my fault. When I (politely) raised the issue of my dissatisfaction with Anne Howard, head honcho at RushPRNews, she said, "I think that...
Costco Stops carrying coke products http://tinyurl.com/yhmcady in a price dispute - Lynn says, "just lost our business" - no kidding. Dumb! Ned Barnett, APR ...
I have not been getting any emails from Yahoo groups in I don't know how many weeks. I am trying to sort it out. Meanwhile... I am creating a working document...
I've always used and liked BusinessWire (yep, a plug). Also Marketwire. Both are dependable, reliable, good and reasonable. I have a service sheet on line that...
Thanks, Andy. BTW - her email is "ane@ ." so maybe that's the European spelling of the name (she's got a heavy Euro-accent, but not one I can place). However,...
Ned, Similar experiences with all sorts of news release distribution services abound. I just posted the following to self-publishing in response to a similar...
Ned, Similar experiences with all sorts of news release distribution services abound. I just posted the following to self-publishing in response to a similar...
Folks Survival of the fittest time, and I need your help here. To convince a client that he really doesn't know how an agency works (and therefore should stop...
Ned, re: your Query about How Agencies Work. I usually trade on an Anecdotal / Metaphorical Approach that each person is familiar with, a trip to the MD. ...
PAGE ONE OF TEN PAGES OF URLs FOLLOWS: a.. The Submarine When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can't imagine...
Thanks, Paul Ned Barnett, APR Marketing/PR Fellow, American Hospital Association Barnett Marketing Communications 420 N. Nellis Blvd. A3-276 Las Vegas NV 89110...
... I don't have a prepared text because I usually handle it with a short discussion, knowing that merely telling the client how an agency works isn't really...