01/08/09 01:45 PM Filed in:
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You
have this idea. You know it’s better than what the
rest of the word is doing. If you can get an
organization together to refine it, produce it and
sell it, you know the rest of the world will want it.
Do how do you put your organization together? You
need you, of course. Depending on what sort of person
you are, you might be the manager. You might be the
scientist. You might be the engineer. You might be
the fabricator. You might be the salesman. It’s
unlikely you are all five. So you find other people
to fill those positions.
Are all of them full-time employees? A couple of them
will be for sure. For other spots, you might
work with a sales rep or a production house or a
consulting engineer.
What about your lawyer? Law isn’t your core business
and besides, you need a good lawyer, not a cheap one.
So you become a client.
That brings us to your public relations. Today, there
are so many channels of communication that failing to
understand how to present your idea can keep it from
being understood. You could bring in an entry-level
person or ask you engineer or fabricator or salesman
to take on the communications tasks, but it ends up
being a compromise.
What makes sense is to think of your public relations
as you do your legal issues or your accounting or
your tax compliance. You don’t need PR work every
hour, but every hour spent on PR work should be done
well.
If you hire a good agency, you’ll be confident that
your communications will be handled professionally
and efficiently. In the end, you’ll probably find
that enough hours of communications work each month
costs less than the salary and benefits of a
full-time person and produces better results.
Tags: Public relations, media, CEOS, Indiana,
outsourcing