Thankfully, TMPR’s business is growing – more clients with more needs. To meet those needs, we want to add the right resources to the right projects, and we want to give you the opportunity to possibly be a part of what we’re doing. We’re looking for freelance graphic designers and artists, web designers and developers, […]

It was the best of surveys. It was the worst of surveys. OK. Maybe that’s a little overstated, but still… Anyway, I recently received two emails, and while these would normally be the types of things I’d immediately delete, as a PR/marketing/branding/research/advocacy wonk, I opened them just to see if there was something beneficial. There […]

A great piece in INC a couple of months ago (See: “11 Reasons a 23-Year-Old Shouldn’t Run Your Social Media“) began with, “Just because you don’t understand social media doesn’t mean you should forfeit all common sense and hire your niece, nephew, or any other recent college grad (say, your best friend’s sister-in-law’s kid) because […]

Where is the real money in college athletics? Ticket sales? Booster club contributions? No way. As Mel Brooks reminded us in his 1987 science-fiction comedy SPACEBALLS, the money is is the merchandising. Merchandising! Merchandising! Spaceballs at MOVIECLIPS.com When you license a product that promotes your brand, you want to: 1) have control over your brand […]

  P.T. Barnum was famous for putting on a show that 1) people wanted to see and 2) kept people talking. He presented ordinary things in extraordinary ways, and his presentation made him a household name in the mid-1800s. Interestingly enough, he was also a Republican legislator and highly sought after speaker – a fact […]

The great thing about social media is that you can say whatever you’re thinking and broadcast that message to the masses. Unfortunately, the bad thing about social media is that you can say whatever you’re thinking and broadcast that message to the masses. Remember that party you went to where that thing happened that was […]

American politics has changed – not just at the national level, but the state and local levels, too. No matter what your party affiliation may be, no matter what your political ideology is, no matter what your top issues are, if you’ve paid any attention to the news, you’ve seen these changes. I’m not talking […]

“Googling yourself.” I know. It’s almost become hack double entendre, but there’s something to it.It used to be that if a reporter wanted to know something about you, he or she had to ask you and people who know you things about you. In other words, he or she had to put in the legwork […]

Following SC Governor Nikki Haley’s “State of the State” address last night, WSPA anchor Amy Wood spoke with TMPR’s Taft Matney for reaction to the governor’s remarks. Clip courtesy of Amy Wood