Sweet! SweetSeat Scores A Top Spot As A Finalist In the Red Tricycle Awards

This year Red Tricycle, a website dedicated to helping parents have more fun with their kids, launched its ‘Totally Awesome Awards’ in search of the best local parenting resources along with readers’ favorite online resources. Categories range from Best Schools and Places to Shop, to Best Mom Forums, Nursery Gear, Meals and Snacks and more..

SweetSeat has been selected for the Most Awesome Feeding Supplies category, as colorful, comfortable and easy-to-clean booster seats that make mealtime and playtime fun.

Learn more about SweetSeat, and then head on over to Red Tricycle to cast your vote on why it’s so unique, adorable and TOTALLY AWESOME!

All winners will be announced next month on October 15^th!

~Shonte

The Fashion Industry Promotes Itself In An Annual After-Hours Extravaganza

From Manhattan to Milan, Atlanta to Australia, boutiques, department stores and even neighborhood pop-up shops across the globe will stay open after hours TONIGHT to help celebrate what many call the single biggest shopping event of the year (yes, even larger than ‘Black Friday’)- Fashion’s Night Out!

Having started in 2009 as a way to encourage consumers to shop ‘til they drop all in the name of supporting the fashion industry, this is an event filled with celebrities who want to be seen, designers who want to be known, and of course die hard shoppers (I included) who want those exclusive items that were virtually unknown and/or unattainable up until this very moment. Since its inception, Fashion’s Night Out has expanded to more than 15 countries, with each year becoming more popular than the previous. How you ask? Promotion of course, with a team of people behind FNO publicizing the heck out of it! And this year, they made sure to get the public’s attention in one of the top ways we’re communicating today- through technology and social media.

A special (and FREE) Fashion’s Night Out cell phone app was released earlier this month (for iPhone and Android) which allows users to receive real time event information with “around me” options that help them navigate throughout the night.  You can even communicate plans with friends via e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter, making a meeting at Jimmy Choo as simple as a few taps.

It’s a brilliant idea if you ask me, way to think like a publicist FNO.

~Shonte

Less than 30 days to go to the Nautica Malibu Triathlon!

With less than 30 days to the Nautica Malibu Triathlon, you can feel the excitement building in this pr agency. As we are gearing up for race day, as an LA publicist, you have to start thinking about all you will need leading up to the Big Day, as well as rolling out the big guns in press.

In celebration of the 25th annual Nautica Malibu Triathlon, check out the cool giveaway of an exclusive six piece towel set offered from Woman’s Day. Be sure to sign up today!!

~**Kendra**~

A PR agency is where I belong

As I finish up my third week as an intern at Konnect PR, I am able to sit back and reflect on how much I have learned during my time here and imagine how much more is still to come throughout the rest of the summer.  I came all the way across the country from Boston to spend the summer as an aspiring LA publicist, but I could never begin to comprehend the depths to which working in a pr agency would take me.

I have to admit that I was nervous entering the office on my first day.  I was so far from home, didn’t know what to expect, and kept thinking what if public relations isn’t for me? Well now I can tell you for sure, that this industry is where I belong. Everyone in the office couldn’t be more welcoming and eager to teach me the ropes of this pr agency. Seeing everyone’s constant smiles, my nerves quickly slipped away and I was able to get down to work.

What gets me most excited about coming to work is that I know there will always be assignments to keep me busy. There is nothing worse than working at a job with nothing to do except watch the minutes tick away, and I know that will never happen here. So far I have expanded my Photoshop skills and found that I actually really enjoy it when it used to be my worst nightmare and my stalking skills are so up to par at this point that I’m pretty sure I can find contact information for any name given to me.

It is blowing my mind how quickly the summer is flying by and it will be over before I know it, so as I sit in this office, I want to take advantage of every opportunity I have to learn. In the short time I’ve been here, Konnect PR has already given me so much insight to the industry and has proven to me that public relations is where I want to work for the rest of my life.

-Allyson

LA publicist incorporates stress-relieving practices

Working at a LA public relations agency means interacting with the press on the a daily basis and  juggling multiple tasks at once. This also means LOTS of stress. As much as I love being a LA publicist, the stress can get to high levels which is why it’s so important to utilize convenient and easy stress relieving techniques, and in my case, products.

One product that helps reduce anxiety is Be Happy, a 2 oz drink that has natural ingredients to help the feelings of stress. Be Happy also appears in this month’s Vitamin Retailer Magazine in the New Products Round Up.

~**Kendra**~

CLIENT PRESS – Rhythm Superfoods in Better Homes and Gardens

Rhythm Superfoods‘ new Sweet Potato Chips are featured in the “Better Health” section of the June 2011 issue of Better Homes and Gardens! The issue is out on newsstands now. To find a bag of the Sweet Potato Chips click HERE

x Monica