Back to School | Marketing’s a Journey vs. a Destination | Social Media is Organic | Four Links | 08.27.08

1) Pros, Profs, Students – Join PR OpenMic | PR Open Mic
With more than 2,000 members, PR Open Mic is focused on “preparing the next generation of PR practitioners by enabling interaction with people from around the world in this community network.” They already have members from 140+ colleges & universities from over 40 countries. Regardless of where you’re at in your career, you should head back to school.

2) How long will it take my marketing to work? | Duct Tape Marketing
”I know you need customers, I know you need more business, but marketing is not an event, it’s a business long practice. >snip< Done properly, it is likely going to take six months to a year for you to see the kind of long term momentum that you want.”

3) Are you expecting too much from your marketing? | Drew’s Marketing Minute
Drew builds on John Jantsch’s riff and adds: “If you're not in it for the long haul, you probably shouldn't do it at all.”

4) Social Media is Organic | The Daily Lark
Dell’s Andy Lark on launching a blog: “success correlates closely with the willingness of the communicators to take risk and embrace the spirit of the medium. And that means letting go.”

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Comments

[Ike]

I liked mine better. But Andy is more popular, so I'm sure he'll get invited to all the big PR Week parties. ;)

http://nowisgone.com/2007/11/27/social-media-is-organic/

[Kim Taylor]

Thanks for sharing the info on PROpenMic, looks like an interesting community!