Life in the Infamous Dirty Jerz

It has been many moons since I have felt the need/had the spare time in my life to blog. Considering it's been more than a year, I think I may need to refocus the purpose of my blog. However, at this time I have not decided what the focus of my blog will be. Maybe tales from the world of PR or something along those lines. I am leaving to go to Scotland in September so maybe this will turn in to a travel blog. For the time being, I can discuss my life in Snookieland.

Since moving to New Jersey almost a month ago, it has been quite the learning experience. I have not only started a new internship and job, but I have tried to place myself somewhere in the culture (if you can call it culture?) that is the armpit of America. I do not mean to be offensive to New Jersey, I mean I did choose to live here after all but I have never lived anywhere besides Massachusetts, so I don't have much to compare anything to. I did legitimately see a sandwich down the shore that was called the Snookie - kind of ridiculous to me but I guess everyone has to capitalize on the stupidity of MTV and that show if they can.

On a more positive note, my internship is going extremely well and my boss is pretty much the funniest person ever. He gets the fact that I am not getting paid and is trying to give me as much experience as possible to bulk up my resume so that when I have to go out in to the real world in January and try to get a job, I might actually have a shot.

In somewhat relevant news, my boss e-mailed me a link to this blog this morning and I must say, it is definitely going to be added to my daily blog reading. I like that Kevin calls people out on how their pitching is incorrect and gives tips on how to do it correctly. It is humorous but definitely gives some actual information and tips to people on how they should go about trying to get their information out there. I will leave you with one of his tips for the day:

Timing is Essential; Timing and Gravity. Align the timing of your pitches
and stories with significant trends, events or industry announcements. If you're
pitching a new winter resort, in the middle of the summer, it's not going to
work (unless you're pitching a media outlet with a six month lead time). If the
media is heavily reporting stories about a specific person, product, company, or
trend, find a way to align your company’s current pitch with it. The gravity of
“hot topics” is powerful, and if you think creatively, you can often make it
work for you.