Out here on the East End of Long Island, in the Town of East Hampton (where I live in the Village of Amagansett) the Town Board actually beat Trump to the punch. Back in May they hired a PR firm to redesign their website and handle communications about Covid. As a former communications and advertising person I didn’t quibble. (The websit…
Out here on the East End of Long Island, in the Town of East Hampton (where I live in the Village of Amagansett) the Town Board actually beat Trump to the punch. Back in May they hired a PR firm to redesign their website and handle communications about Covid. As a former communications and advertising person I didn’t quibble. (The website is awful; looks like something my dad designed after he retired, bless his heart.) The thing I opposed — and wrote a letter to the local paper about — was the language in the proposal that discussed the “communications.” This PR firm was to see to it that the public hear upbeat, positive stuff. Cheerleader open-up-those businesses stuff. At a tune of $60,000 a month. Which is pricey for out here. Adding insult to injury was the fact that the PR firm wasn’t a local one — it was based in New Jersey (!)
Ha! Doing "cheerleader open-up-those businesses stuff" and steering the contract for it to out-of-towners (with whom, I am guessing, some board members have a connection) is classic
The governor of South Dakota, Rodeo Barbie, does that sort of thing all the time. And like Azar she put on her cheerleader costume and told us that all we need to do to beat COVID is “put on your Positive Pants!” No word on whether she snapped her gum, flipped her hair, and applied Dr Pepper Lip Smackers after her serious address to the public.
About 8 years ago, my town decided it needed some local boosterism and some advertising to help bring the tourists in. So, the town board voted to commission the Chamber of Commerce to come up with it. And the Chamber of Commerce looked around at the local resources which included three advertising agencies, four sign shops, and a half dozen Web development companies. And then gave the biggest part of the contract to a sign company in New Hampshire, the second biggest part to an ad agency in New York, and the Web development component went to some guy nobody had every heard of just over the state line in New York.
When the then-president of the Chamber was asked why none of the money stayed local for a campaign of local boosterism, she claimed she did not know we had any of those capabilities in the local community.
Out here on the East End of Long Island, in the Town of East Hampton (where I live in the Village of Amagansett) the Town Board actually beat Trump to the punch. Back in May they hired a PR firm to redesign their website and handle communications about Covid. As a former communications and advertising person I didn’t quibble. (The website is awful; looks like something my dad designed after he retired, bless his heart.) The thing I opposed — and wrote a letter to the local paper about — was the language in the proposal that discussed the “communications.” This PR firm was to see to it that the public hear upbeat, positive stuff. Cheerleader open-up-those businesses stuff. At a tune of $60,000 a month. Which is pricey for out here. Adding insult to injury was the fact that the PR firm wasn’t a local one — it was based in New Jersey (!)
Ha! Doing "cheerleader open-up-those businesses stuff" and steering the contract for it to out-of-towners (with whom, I am guessing, some board members have a connection) is classic
The governor of South Dakota, Rodeo Barbie, does that sort of thing all the time. And like Azar she put on her cheerleader costume and told us that all we need to do to beat COVID is “put on your Positive Pants!” No word on whether she snapped her gum, flipped her hair, and applied Dr Pepper Lip Smackers after her serious address to the public.
but to be fair, she thought "Meth: We're on it" was a good anti-meth slogan, so she's maybe a taco short of a combination plate
About 8 years ago, my town decided it needed some local boosterism and some advertising to help bring the tourists in. So, the town board voted to commission the Chamber of Commerce to come up with it. And the Chamber of Commerce looked around at the local resources which included three advertising agencies, four sign shops, and a half dozen Web development companies. And then gave the biggest part of the contract to a sign company in New Hampshire, the second biggest part to an ad agency in New York, and the Web development component went to some guy nobody had every heard of just over the state line in New York.
When the then-president of the Chamber was asked why none of the money stayed local for a campaign of local boosterism, she claimed she did not know we had any of those capabilities in the local community.
Chambers of Commerce are just front sites for anti-labor & anti-regulation agitation