Category: For Immediate Release

  • For Immediate Release 92: Marketing failures of the UK’s Conservative Party

    For Immediate Release 92: Marketing failures of the UK’s Conservative Party

    We said we’d do one episode together of the For Immediate Release podcast as a ‘limited return engagement,’ emulating The Hobson and Holtz Report that Shel and I did for ten years. We did do that with episode 84 in…

  • For Immediate Release 84: the ‘limited return engagement’ episode

    For Immediate Release 84: the ‘limited return engagement’ episode

    Recording episode 84 of the For Immediate Release podcast with Shel Holtz yesterday evening was like stepping into a new – but, at the same time, familiar – room to start a friendly conversation. It was The Hobson and Holtz…

  • One more time: A new episode of The Hobson and Holtz Report podcast

    One more time: A new episode of The Hobson and Holtz Report podcast

    In September 2015, Shel Holtz and I recorded the final episode of The Hobson and Holtz Report, a business podcast we’d presented for more than ten years. What started as a 30ish-minute show twice a week evolved over that decade…

  • FIR is dead. Long live FIR!

    FIR is dead. Long live FIR!

    On September 7, I co-hosted and recorded the last episode of For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report with my podcasting partner, Shel Holtz. It’s a ritual Shel and I have followed every week for the past ten years…

  • FIR #824: Is SEO really dead?

    Intro: Welcome to the final episode of ‘The Hobson and Holtz Report’; a quick note about ‘For Immediate Release’ beginning on September 21; Quick News: Hundreds of Wikipedia editors banned for secretly promoting brands, Barcelona Principles 2.0 unveiled, virtual reality…