Posts Tagged ‘bad pr’
Groupon PR: Whoops! It Happens
“People forget we’re a new company. It’s one of those things where, OK, we’re still growing up as a company. Now that we figured that out, there’s no reason to think it’s going to happen again.”
So said a Groupon exec in response to a Financial Times reporter asking about accounting irregularities that have plagued the recently IPO’ed tech startup. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple’s Positive Earnings Report Creates Bad PR
Wait, what?
Last week, Apple released its fourth quarter 2011 earnings, posting a profit of $13.06 billion on revenue of $46 billion. Earnings per share were $13.87, far exceeding analysts’ expectations of $10.08 per share. Fueled in large part by their stratospheric sales of the iPad and iPhone, Apple’s monstrous quarter brought bright smiles to shareholders but also started to illuminate the spotlight on a not so glamorous side of their business: outsourcing labor to China. Read the rest of this entry »
Agency Eater – they’ll chew you up and spit you out!
You know that song by Nelly Furtado, Man Eater? She’s brutal, ain’t she (in a good way)? Perhaps I can go all PR-geek here and suggest we do a spoof called Firm Eater…
They’re a firm eater Make you sweat hard, make you work hard, make you ruin relationships Work for a month
Makes sense in my head…(Feel free to laugh at me here.) Read the rest of this entry »
