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How to Counsel Effectively When Your Client Has a Culturally Insensitive Idea – Fabiana Meléndez Ruiz

Ethical Voices

MARCH 10, 2025

Welcome to Ethical Voices, a weekly podcast where real pros share real stories about real ethical issues. Thinking about your career and your work, what is the most difficult ethical challenge you have ever faced? I confront ethical challenges all the time. That’s on the less intense side of ethical issues.

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The Ethics of Press Trips, Reviews and Affiliate Links – Scott Tharler

Ethical Voices

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I first met him when I pitched him for a client, and we soon discovered we both went to Syracuse around the same time and had friends in common and wanted to talk about ethics. Scott discusses a number of important ethics topics including. The ethics of press trips. The ethics of reviews and selling products you review.

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4 Ways PR Creates Brand Attachment

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 18, 2018

It is well documented that today’s rising generations value a company’s ethical stance and an authentic commitment to social responsibility. In 2016, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook took a controversial stand (on its news site and in TV interviews ) against the U.S. PR is a primary tool for corporate speech on social issues.

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PR Lessons From Las Vegas

Barokas

JULY 3, 2018

Anyone who has been to Las Vegas (or seen the Hangover) knows that the strip is filled with glitzy hotels, casinos, amphitheaters and enough entertainment to provide even the biggest thrill-seeker with everything they could want. If someone seems a little too interested in interviewing your client, there’s probably a catch (pay-to-play).

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Maxim Behar: Brand is what people talk about you when you are not in the room

Maxim Behar

AUGUST 14, 2024

There's a story from 25 years ago when Johnny Carson interviewed the founder of the large hotel chain "Hilton," Conrad Hilton, and at the end, he gave him 20 seconds to tell 40 million viewers what is most important about his brand. If you've recently stayed at a Hilton hotel, you'll see that there are now two curtains inside the tubs.

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Fortunes Crown: Maxim Behar - An Incredible Man Who Overcame Adversity With Creativity, Ethics, And Responsibilities

Maxim Behar

JANUARY 24, 2022

CEO says in exclusive interview for the prestigious American magazine Fortunes Crown. Although jumped into Public Relations, he did not realize that it’s nothing but pure unique business surrounded by creativity, ethics, and responsibilities. Everything transparent is ethical! Self-confidence, knowledge, quick decisions and.

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Growing my blog has been all about…

Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 18, 2017

It has given me the opportunity to interview 100+ PR and social media marketing professionals across the U.S. And, they had ponied up the money for my hotel room. One example: Writing this post four-plus years ago about how the Sons of Anarchy lived by the PRSA code of ethics. Another example: My PR Rock Star series.

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Maxim Behar in Kamen Vodenicharov's show "The Evening of." on 7/8 TV

Maxim Behar

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In 2002 I was responsible for coming up with the standard of the country’s business ethics. Many people have asked me what business ethics is. However, if we make them transparently that means it is ethical. 20 years ago, there was not a single private hotel in Seychelles everything was state-run. Seychellois travel.

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Let’s get serious–and honest–about influencer marketing

Communications Conversations

MARCH 16, 2016

In the post, Mark refers to a partner he interviewed for his book who claims influencer marketing can be “cost effective.” Dell probably put him up in a hotel. Pretty ethical. Let’s tackle those two claims head on–because, for the most part, I believe they’re both false and misleading. Pretty smart.

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Maxim Behar: Politics in the modern world must be entirely dependent on the opinion and operations of business

Maxim Behar

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

You know that I manage an International Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where we have been seeing each other for 10-12 years now, every year we go there, leave a bag of money - expensive hotels, restaurants, halls, and everything. The most common question I was asked was: “What is "business ethics". Host: But they don't.

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Maxim Behar: Better put yourself in others’ shoes and then judge

Maxim Behar

JUNE 12, 2024

Politicians should be examples of ethics, honesty, and transparency, which we don't see in Bulgaria. Let me take you back to 2001 when I wrote the first Standard for Business Ethics in Bulgaria. So, our Business Leaders Forum wrote a standard for business ethics, which I presented to him. Watch the full interview here.

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Maxim Behar talk with Desi Banova in "Here and Now" on Nova TV

Maxim Behar

JULY 26, 2023

Then I wrote Bulgaria's first Standard for Business Ethics. I wrote or rather chose 25 recipes from Seychellois cuisine that I know, I have tried them, and I like them, however, I put a lot of stories with a lot of recommendations for places, hotels, restaurants. You can watch the whole interview here. Maxim: Thank you as well.

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7 Lessons That Ryan Lochte’s Olympic Crisis Can Teach PR Pros

MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Lochte identified the guilty parties during an interview on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America” saying journalists had taken his “huge mistake” and made it into “the worst weeks of his life.” Who was at fault? Digging the hole deeper, Lochte added, “We’re just trying to get this over with.

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Kotcher Inducted Into Page Society Hall of Fame; Declares “This Is Our Time”

PRSay

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

When Bill Nielsen called in June to tell me of the decision to include me in the Page Hall of Fame, I was lugging a suitcase up the stairs of a hotel in Hudson, New York. Al taught a class called Values and Ethics in Public Relations. My wife Betsy and I had just arrived there to celebrate our son’s wedding. Al was a gifted professor.

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How to Counsel Effectively When Your Client Has a Culturally Insensitive Idea – Fabiana Meléndez Ruiz

The Ethics of Press Trips, Reviews and Affiliate Links – Scott Tharler

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Maxim Behar in Kamen Vodenicharov's show "The Evening of." on 7/8 TV

Let’s get serious–and honest–about influencer marketing

Maxim Behar: Politics in the modern world must be entirely dependent on the opinion and operations of business

Maxim Behar: Better put yourself in others’ shoes and then judge

Maxim Behar talk with Desi Banova in "Here and Now" on Nova TV

7 Lessons That Ryan Lochte’s Olympic Crisis Can Teach PR Pros

Kotcher Inducted Into Page Society Hall of Fame; Declares “This Is Our Time”

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