Unleash Your Secret Weapon for Restoring Trust: Open, Honest Communications!

Most PR books tell you how to “spin” your message. People are sick of that! Spin Sucks will teach you how to communicate honestly, responsibly, openly, and authentically…and truly earn the trust of your customers, stakeholders, investors, and communities.

Top PR thought leader and blogger Gini Dietrich runs the number one PR blog in the world, spinsucks.com, where she shares cutting-edge tips and tools for effective, ethical communications. Now, she’s integrated all she’s learned into a complete, actionable guide for every business leader who understands there are new rules to communications, but don’t know what to do. No matter what your organization does, Dietrich will help you:

• Share your story more powerfully—without sex, extortion, or “truth-stretching”
• Humanize your organization, even if you don’t have outsized personalities
• Tell the truth, using the best techniques honed by centuries of storytellers
• Overcome whisper campaigns, anonymous attackers, and trolls
• Create fresh, honest content that’s compelling to both humans and Google
• Systematically prepare yourself to engage more successfully online
• Clarify and close gaps between your message and your customer’s perception
• Celebrate your brand ambassadors
• Master seven steps for handling online criticism, and transforming critics into fans
• Keep others from stealing your great content
• Learn actionable lessons from others’ successes (and failures)
• Develop more positive, productive agency (or client) relationships
• Converge paid, owned, earned, and shared media—and get more value from all of them

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Gini Dietrich is the founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich, a Chicago-based integrated marketing communications firm. She also is the founder of the professional development site for PR and marketing pros, Spin Sucks Pro. Gini is the author of the PR and marketing blog, Spin Sucks, which has been named the number one Cision Top 50 PR Blogs, the number three Listly Top 50 PR and Marketing Blogs, an annual Readers Choice Blog of the Year, a Top 42 Content Marketing Blog from Junta42, a top 10 social media blog from Social Media Examiner, and an AdAge Power 150 blog. She is also co-host of Inside PR, a weekly podcast about communications and social media, and where they all meet and intersect.

Part I. Tell Your Story Without Sex or Extortion