The 1st Unofficial Indian Public Relations Survey
By Editor on Jun 25, 2006 in PRsurvey, industry
Let’s do an unofficial survey in the Indian PR industry – the 1st Unofficial Indian Public Relations Survey – among all of us, all the PR people working in PR agencies and corporate communication departments in India. You ask why? Let me try answer that. How many times have we wanted some concrete information on the industry? All of us have some in bits and parts, but how many times have we wished that we read something in detail about the Indian PR industry on a newspaper, magazine, or on a website. We never could do it, because there were none. No PR agency or association has bothered to conduct any study.
Rememeber the times when you have just joined the industry and wished that you knew at least someone so that you could ask if you were being offered the right salary, or if you were in the right place at all. Ever since I started this blog, believe it or not, I have received at least a dozen emails from PR students saying they found this blog useful. I felt like like saying – c’mon guys, this is just a bunch of crap that I keep on writing everyday for kicks. But maybe they have a point – when there is nothing to read, anything, just about anything is interesting, similiar to those days when we used to watch Krishi Darshan programmes in Doordarshan because there were no other channels then.
I plan to do a short study among those who have been taking time out to visit this blog. I’m thankful to them and hope that they will support me in this endeavour. I’m conducting a short survey among the PR people in India in different agencies just to collate some common ideas on the PR industry. I have a questionnaire, which can be accessed from this location. Would appreciate if everyone could just give in their inputs and submit it.
By the way, the last date is July 25, 2006. I didn’t decide it. The free software I’m using from Createsurvey.com did. You might find the questions basic. But let’s consider it a start. It will help at least some students who are joining the PR field every year.
After July 25, 2006, I’ll put up the results (all respondent names will remain confidential, I believe in the content, I’m myself using a pseudonym) on this blog. Might be interesting. Hey, just a disclaimer – I don’t want to get into legal tangles- this survey is just for educative and informative purposes. It wouldn’t reflect on the workings of any agency or judge its workings and style of functioning.
Ciao. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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On Jun 25, 2006, SJ said:
No offense hobbit, but your salary brackets are low for certain levels.
On Jun 26, 2006, hobbit said:
You tell me SJ, we will change it…
On Jun 26, 2006, Anonymous said:
that was a interesting one and a good start
On Jun 26, 2006, Anonymous said:
one platform to address our grievances
On Jun 28, 2006, citizen kane said:
Dear Hobbit,
Its so easy to crticise whatever comes our way, and thats become a way of life for most of us metrofolks. Its weird, the logic evades any reason – since i could not think up a smart idea, the least i can do is find faults.These i think constitute the typical problem managers – ones who are quick to point out a prob, but give no solution. They are the ones who are quick to kneel and lick the hand that feeds them. The sycophants who live off licking. Yes dear sj its for you. Please learn to identify brilliance. Yes Hobbit – Its all your’s. The endeavour is brilliant. And as you said a platform for proper official information, instead of the grapevine chinese whispers which are not only colluded and wrong, but the info received is always being pushed by someone who has his own agenda. I was a pr professional till 3 months back, and have been for the last 9 yrs, and i know it all.Any pr professional with a sense of truthfullness would admit, that hobbit here is doing a wonderful job. Initially when i discovered this site, i could not believe it was a one man show. The details in the pages and the kind of info available here was too wonderful to be true. Means the kind of media list that has been provided here, i can run a conference with my eyes shut tight just on the basis of the lists put up here.To be very candid my first thought when i discovered this site was simply – Why couldnt / didnt i think of something as great as this. Keep up the great work hobbit. On my part i have fwded the survey page to friends in the industry. Any dud with a little brains would understand what filling up this survey means for our still nascent but very quickly changing profession. The outcomes would be explosive, and any smart pr pro, who knows and understands exactly what we do when we tell our clients to conduct a survey and give out to the media, would surely participate in this survey. For the rest – Guy’s you are in the wrong profession, change it before its too late.
rgds Hari
On Jun 29, 2006, hobbit said:
Hi Hari
Well, what can I say? Glad you found the blog interesting. By the way, there is still lot of space for PR blogs in India. You can join in anytime.
Thanks for your support on the survey. Let’s hope it works out fine.
On Jul 26, 2006, Anonymous said:
i am a frsher..just completed my grad in journalism and mass comm….interested in takin up pr as a profession….need ur guidance and support ! plz help me as if i m ur young brother…i wana support my family and need to wrk immediately..wud b grateful if anyone cud help me out !
my email id is- pulkit321mat@gmail.com
pulkit321mat@rediffmail.com
pulkit321mat@yahoo.com
thanx for all ur help !
pulkit mathur
On Sep 16, 2006, Sowmya said:
Good Survey. I think salary structure in each PR agency is different. This may give impratnt tips