Lazy Sunday evening. I was fiddling around with Google Analytics and here’s what I found – the top ten most-read posts at IndiaPRblog.

10. Getting a story done – what clients need to know – Are we always at loggerheads with our clients over which media to target? They always seem to prefer The Economic Times, no matter who they are, what they have to say, or what type of company they are in. A reality check.

9. Shortage of professionals in PR – A simple post linking to a good story by a HR professional in the PR industry talking about the issues in the industry and steps that can be taken. Somewhere along the line, some people started misusing this post by forwarding it to other people and prompting them to leave hate comments on particular individuals in the industry. One such mail landed up on my inbox. I had to delete many comments and disabled the comments section. I consulted a few peers in the blogosphere and they recommended ‘no more un-moderated comments on this blog’. That’s when the disclaimer was put up.

8. What journalists hate in PR people – Journalists; one of the primary stakeholders in the PR business – won’t you want to know what they feel about what you are doing? By the way I invented a sentence around this time. ‘Journalists and PR professionals are like cats and dogs – besides all the love-hate, at the end of the day, we have to stay together inside the house.’ I guess nobody liked it.

7. Best media relations practices by PR professionals – A survey that we have done on this blog on various media relations tactics and processes and how best it can be done. What works and what doesn’t. The industry loved what their colleagues had to say.

6. Online PR communities that you can join – We know there are many communities on various subjects on the web. Joining one of them could be fun – you get to meet people like you, discuss ideas, seek help on a project, post a vacancy, tell people you are looking for a change, or just read what others are saying. This is a list of the popular online communities on public relations.

5. Free Press Release distribution services – We all love free resources, don’t we? If there are services that will distribute our releases for free, why not? Now I have got this idea that this list can be updated adding many more to the list. Watch out this blog.

4. 15 media relations tips by PR professionals and journalists – A list of select media relations tips from PR professionals and journalists who participated in an online survey on media relations best practices conducted on this blog.

3. Pepsi and Coke head for another PR disaster – I wonder what was about this three paragraph post that made it the third most-read post on this blog. Buy hey, accept it, Pepsi and Coke are not just consumer soft-drinks brands. They symbolise India’s modernity, and to some, western cultural imperialism.

2. Top 5 PR agencies in India – This is a PR industry survey inspired by the 1st Unofficial Public Relations Survey below. PR professionals vote on their favourite PR agencies categorised into HR, learning, senior management, payscale, and work culture.

1. Results of the 1st Unofficial Public Relations Survey – This is the all time top post in the IndiaPRblog! For the first time in the history of the PR industry in India, the PR agencies were taken to task, not by any research agencies or any PR associations, but together by those in the industry themselves on a simple blog. The results were not foolproof, but served at least as a base for some further research by those who seek information in the industry. People used to submit their feedback on the survey form months after the survey was closed that I had to put it in writing not to submit their inputs anymore on the survey questionnaire. If you want to know what the readers of this blog think which are the best and worst agencies in India, or if you want to know what are the salary structure like in the industry, take a look.

Some other pages most visited:

If we look at overall top landing pages in this blog, there are two pages that featured in the top 5. These are not posts, but labels of the various listings here in this blog.

1. India PR agencies – List of PR agencies in India. Human-edited. (You decipher the meaning of that for yourself)

2. Media lists – Listing of media in India. Human-edited.

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