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Happy Thursday, my friends. Headed to speak to an elementary school about having different brains this morning. Wanted to take a second and publicly say goodbye to something... This week, Cision killed off HARO for good, merging the concept into a new website that combines all of their products. No more emails, no more helpareporter.com, nothing. Everything will be on the web moving forward. Hey, they own it - I sold it to them close to 14 years ago, they can do whatever they want with it. Still though, it hurts a little to see my baby get shuttered. I personally don't think it's the right move, since email is intrusive, and has always been, and will always be, the killer app. (I mean, you're reading this now...) But like I said - It's theirs, they can do with it what they want. A lot of people have asked if I would want to buy it back, or start it over... I dunno. I get the thought, but in the end, as they say, you can't go home again, right? I think it was perfect for me for what it was - an idea that helped me grow from some guy who ran an agency to the entrepreneur I am now - one who's known for crazy but effective ideas, one who's in demand around the world to speak on both customer experience and neurodiversity, and one who really likes helping people. Plus, it let me buy my NYC apartment in the sky in which I still live and in which I'm raising my daughter. So maybe that's the lesson - You can't go home again, but you can keep building new homes - that's kind of what I've done, I guess. Anyway, raise a glass to Help a Reporter Out this weekend. It changed the journalism and PR game forever, and that's something I'm really, really proud of. Much love, -Peter PS: The Mental Capital two day Neurodiversity conference in NYC is on course! Looking like either September or November, and it'll have two tracks - Neurodiversity in the workplace, and Caregivers. It's going to be a great two days, with several nationally known speakers on ADHD, Neurodiversity, and Mental Health already confirmed! Stay tuned for ticket details soon! |
Peter Shankman
That Peter Shankman. Skydiver, Ironman, HARO Founder, Dad. NYC and an Airplane.
Happy Wednesday from NYC, where today, I come with an announcement. I had a journalism professor at Boston University who once told me to "be brilliant at the basics." He was right. He's still right. The basics are what matter. The fancy things are all fine and good, but if you don't get the basics right, or worse, if you replace the basics with things people never asked for, that's where you run into trouble. After I posted last week about the death of HARO at the hands of Cision, I received...
Good morning from 37,000 feet, somewhere over the Swiss Alps, on my way back from 72 hours in Rome. I took a Lime scooter all around the city - Never again will I take a taxi or an Uber if I don't have to. Limes are AMAZING. You grab one, go where you're going, and just leave it! NYC needs to get on this immediately! Anyhow, I posted a few photos from my trip, and I got an interesting response back from someone. "Are you independently wealthy? You're always traveling, you live in NYC, but I...
March 12th, 2020 was a clear Thursday morning in NYC. I'd woken up super early, having been invited to the media launch of the new Peloton studios in NYC. Getting there and touring the facility with about 40 other reporters and media, we took the first ever class in the studio, taught by Robin Arzon. It started at 8am, and we were all sweating heavily and breathing all over each other. 45 minutes later it ended, and we walked out, high-fiving and taking selfies. There was supposed to be a...