#PR Buddies 40 random things that make you a #PRGuy – Chawm Ganguly

_MG_0579Your friends think you get paid to Facebook all day, every day. Your mother thinks you are some kind of a celebrity who spends all his time in star properties, winning friends and influencing people. Your wife thinks you are a smooth operator wiling your time away in the company of power dressed lady colleagues in the plush environs of the office; that your luck will finally desert you, exposing the dirty man behind the smiling facade. Your boss thinks you are an asshole (but that is part of the Boss’s job) while the Clients think you are a slimy freeloader – a shade better than dead fleas, someone who has worm-ed his way into his pockets. That leaves us with our alter ego the media – who think nothing of us (even we morons can make that out from the way they look at us blindly). And let’s be happy to leave things at that – least they blur out the things that they really think of us, which may not be very charitable.

If the above description fits you then come on board – you too, are a PR guy. We call ourselves Corporate Communicators, Social Media Experts, Branding Felicitator’s, Spin Doctors, Sultans of the Swing and the like, to desperately earn the respect we think we deserve. To the rest of the world, we are simple PR guys. The client remembers us every morning when He thinks that we should get the media for his Lordship has burped. The media remembers us when they feel like sermonizing about the difference between a story and an advertisement. The boss remembers us every time he flies into a foul mood and the rest of the world remembers us when things get majorly screwed and we are sent in to clean up the mess.

I have been Tweeting about us and our lives – lives of ordinary PR mortals and thought would compile them for a quick laugh at our tortured, hapless selves. I’m keeping the hash tags in case you want to tweet them as your immortal words of wisdom.  Here are a few:

  1. #PR Buddies: the best part of our job? Being nice to stupid people.
  2. What makes us #PR guys tick? Our ability to #KeepSmiling so that one day we get tired of being upset
  3. #PR Buddies: The #root of all #suffering is #attachment. Paste the #Logo & the #ClientPic in the #Release itself, or give a link to the site
  4. #PR Buddies: #Accept them as they are, not as you want them to be – #Clients cannot be #CustomMade
  5. #PR Buddies, If #Integrity is doing the #right thing when no one is #watching, then #PR is the art of telling the world about it
  6. #PR Buddies, guess why #Money shouts, #wealth whispers, but #wisdom is silent? Cause, he’s hired good #PR!
  7.  #PR Buddies, tell your #client : A #tiger doesn’t lose #sleep over the opinion of #sheep : you needn’t bother about #competition either
  8. #PR Buddies, keep telling your #Clients: The higher you go up in #life, the more powerful your #enemies become. It helps, honest!
  9.  #PR Buddies remember: The #tough gets #going when the going gets tough. We #PR guys keep going irrespective of the situation.
  10. #PR buddies set up the #ChannelsOfCommunication and ensure the #FreeFlow of #Information. That is #PR for you.
  11. #PR Buddies, the one thing you should never tell #clients: #Laugh at your problems, everybody else does.
  12. #PR Buddies : When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his #mind and gets another one. That is why Co’s need us #Communicators
  13. #PR Buddies: Without #music, #life would be a mistake. So would everything else without #PR
  14. #PR Buddes: He that #humbleth himself wishes to be #exalted – that’s the #client facing the #media. #God, what did I do to Deserve This?
  15. #Peace and #PR cannot be won or kept by #force. It can only be achieved by understanding. And it #Costs, much less than the alternative: #War
  16. #PR buddies when will #Clients understand that sometimes one #pays most for the #PR one gets for nothing?
  17. # PR Buddies #Hate the man who said : I want to know #God‘s thoughts; the rest are #PressReleases handed out by the #PRAgencies
  18. #PR Buddies: All that truly matters in the end is not that your #Release was carried but that you #loved your #work.
  19. #PR Buddies: When it comes to going after what you #love in #life, don’t take no for an answer – not even from a #client
  20. #PR #Buddies: How does it feel when clients make you rewrite perfectly worded #PressReleases just to prove who’s who?
  21. #PR #Buddies :which #CorporateCliche do you hate the most? #SustainableDevelopment? #EqualOpportunityEmployer? #ResponsibleCorporate?
  22. #PR Buddies, when was the last time you told a #Client : “If a #relationship has to be a #secret, you shouldn’t be in it”?
  23. #PR Buddies Remember: When it comes to #Chocolate and #Clients, Resistance is futile.
  24. #PR Buddies: Notice How the #Cleint thinks that the “Right to Copy” is #Copyright?
  25. #PR Buddies: Notice how #Clients hate #truth because it hurts? Thankfully, truth doesn’t care.
  26. # PR Buddies: No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
  27. #PR #Buddies #Temme: How often do you wish your #Boss was more #PRSavvy?
  28. #PR #Buddies #Temme: Do your friends too think that your #job is one endless journey from one #StarProperty to another on an #ExpenseAccount?
  29. #PR #Buddies #Temme: What do you call the Hanger-On who is always infesting the Client’s office and is there ONLY to get on to your nerves?
  30. #PR #Buddies #Temme: What do you tell a #client who’s upset that even After hiring your services, #Time has not put him on the #Cover?
  31. #PR #Buddies #Temme: If it is so simple, why can’t #Clients do it themselves?
  32. #PR #Buddies #Temme: Why do #Clients think that you have to look like a #PlayboyBunny to succeed in PR? the #BomberTheBetter type?
  33. #PR #Buddies #Temme: Why do #Clients think that you, a #Moron, are trying to #Teach them what they born as #Experts in?
  34. #PR #Buddies #Temme: How does it feel when #People #think that You get #Paid to do #FaceBook all day?
  35. #PR #Buddies #Temme: Who do you prefer between the #Devil and the Deep: the #Client who makes you weep or the #MediaGuy who thinks u’r Shit?
  36. #PR Buddies temme: Do we #PracticeWhatWePreach? I mean all the #Sermons we give about #Ethics – ain’t that shit?
  37. #PR Buddies isn’t it a #CardinalSin to write your #ContactNos Inside the body of a #PressRelease just above the “About the Company” thingie?
  38. #PR Buddies do you think we can do a #BetterJob if we were to publish the #Releases that we push ourselves?
  39. #PR Buddies: when was the last time you did something for the first time? #Innovate your #Communication #Strategies or do a #Dinosaur
  40. # PR Buddies: Realise how #You and #God let others take the credit?

Do let me know if you like them, I can always give you more.

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