The Spin Sucks Podcast with Gini Dietrich

By Gini Dietrich, Founder of Spin Sucks

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We're your one-stop shop for modern communications. The lines between PR, marketing, search, advertising, social, and content continue to blur, making it difficult to decide what belongs where. Rather than decide, let’s come together and work as one to grow organizations. We can change the PR industry...together.

Episode Date
No, We Don't All Lie For A Living.
May 07, 2024
Your Questions Answered: The PESO Model© Certification
Apr 30, 2024
Combating Weaponized Information
Apr 23, 2024
The Changing Landscape of Media Relations
Apr 16, 2024
How Communications Affects SEO
Apr 09, 2024
How to Make Your Metrics Tell Stories
Apr 02, 2024
Measuring PR Results in the 21st Century
Mar 26, 2024
The Newly Refreshed PESO Model™ Graphic and Process
Mar 19, 2024
The Transformative Impact of the PESO Model
Mar 12, 2024
One of the Most Powerful Tools in the Communications Box
Mar 05, 2024
Enough With the Double Standards!
Feb 27, 2024
What Makes a Thought Leader?
Feb 20, 2024
Why Owned Media is Always Worth the Time
Feb 13, 2024
Rise of the TikTok News Anchor
Feb 06, 2024
Communicating Bad News in the Age of TikTok
Jan 30, 2024
[Replay] Winning Business without Proposals
Jan 23, 2024
From Service Focused to Solutions Focused
Jan 16, 2024
AI is Changing Everything, and That's Okay.
Jan 09, 2024
Surviving the End of the Internet
Dec 19, 2023
Rediscovering the Art of Commenting
Dec 12, 2023
How Not to Handle an Executive Transition
Dec 05, 2023
Remember: You're Playing a Long Game
Nov 28, 2023
Embracing Leadership as a Journey...Not a Destination
Nov 14, 2023
New Data on the Future of Corporate Communications
Nov 07, 2023
Where Should You Spend Your Time in 2024?
Oct 31, 2023
How I Became a Swiftie - A PR Playbook from Taylor Swift
Oct 24, 2023
When the PESO Model is Working Well...
Oct 17, 2023
The 5 Kinds of Stories You Need to Tell
Oct 03, 2023
When It Sounds Too Good To Be True...
Sep 26, 2023
Our Terrible First Blog Post - And What We've Learned Since Then
Sep 19, 2023
AI Generative Search is Coming - Will You Be Ready?
Sep 12, 2023
Reputation is Everything. Your Crisis Communications Plan Can Protect It
Sep 05, 2023
Thinking About the Future Every Day
Aug 29, 2023
What Makes a Workplace Toxic and How to Make Sure Yours Isn't
Aug 22, 2023
Shaking Hands and Kissing Babies: The First Thing to Do in a Crisis
Aug 15, 2023
Have Patience, Create Consistency
Aug 08, 2023
How to Predict the Future
Jul 25, 2023
The Right Way to Take a Stand
Jul 18, 2023
The Many Risks of Journalists
Jul 11, 2023
Unintended Consequences: The Good and the Bad of Generative AI
Jun 27, 2023
Don't Negotiate with Yourself
Jun 20, 2023
The Many Reasons Perfect Isn't Best
Jun 13, 2023
Kindness Will Get You (Almost) Everywhere
Jun 06, 2023
It's Time to Update Your Earned Media Strategy
May 30, 2023
Demonstrating Your Value During Budget Cutbacks
May 23, 2023
Using Generative AI as a Communicator
May 16, 2023
Your Email is Not My Emergency
May 09, 2023
The Reputation Game has Changed
May 02, 2023
[Replay] Telling Stories That Mean Something
Apr 25, 2023
The Remote vs. Hybrid. vs. In-Office Showdown for Communications Workers
Apr 18, 2023
Hiring an Advantage: Why You Should Consider Getting a Coach.
Apr 11, 2023
3 Questions to Help You Communicate Your Values
Apr 04, 2023
Evolving Your Services to Weather the Storms
Mar 28, 2023
Ripple Effects: Protecting Your Business from Global Upsets
Mar 21, 2023
The Magic of Contributed Content
Mar 14, 2023
Winning Business Without Proposals
Mar 07, 2023
Keeping the Bad Actors at Bay on Social Media
Feb 28, 2023
I Love it when a Plan Comes Together.
Feb 21, 2023
Planting New Business Trees
Feb 14, 2023
The Problem of Ignoring the Communication Professionals in the Room
Feb 07, 2023
The Problem with RFPs
Jan 31, 2023
The One Thing We Can Control: Owned Media
Jan 24, 2023
Putting the PESO into your Sales Funnel
Jan 17, 2023
An Integrated PESO Model That Executives Love
Jan 10, 2023
The Golden Word for 2023
Jan 03, 2023
A Robot Wrote this Episode
Dec 13, 2022
Ignore Communications Counsel at Your Own Peril
Dec 06, 2022
Digging into some Content Marketing Data
Nov 29, 2022
Why You Need Client Personas
Nov 15, 2022
How Well Do You Know Your Clients?
Nov 08, 2022
Overcoming Struggles Implementing the Peso Model
Nov 01, 2022
Why You Should Read Trust Signals
Oct 25, 2022
Creating a Community Flywheel
Oct 18, 2022
Being Trustworthy When You Can't Trust Anyone
Oct 11, 2022
Telling Stories That Mean Something
Oct 04, 2022
Ending The Praise Deficit Between Men and Women
Sep 27, 2022
Ongoing Education about Earned Media
Sep 20, 2022
Sweet Sixteen for Spin Sucks - What We've Learned
Sep 13, 2022
What To Do When You're Professionally Ghosted
Sep 06, 2022
Who is the Worst Villian in Literature?
Aug 30, 2022
It's Not All About the Evidence
Aug 23, 2022
What's Up With All the Extra Work?
Aug 16, 2022
Meausuring the Work We Do
Aug 09, 2022
Using Our Powers for Good
Aug 02, 2022
The Many Benefits of Introverts in Business
Jul 26, 2022
Break the Rules to Discover New Ideas
Jul 19, 2022
Have You Seen What's Happened Now?
Jul 12, 2022
Be Nervous, But Also Be Ready
Jul 05, 2022
[REPLAY] The Differences between Marketing, Communication and PR
Jun 28, 2022
Do You Really Want To Go Viral?
Jun 21, 2022
Highlights from Muck Rack's 2022 State of PR Survey
Jun 14, 2022
Women Change Everything
Jun 07, 2022
Focusing on the Positive
May 31, 2022
Preparing for the Inevitable
May 24, 2022
A Conversation with Mini-Me. Happy 200th Episode!
May 17, 2022
It Needs to Be a Perfect Pitch
May 03, 2022
Who is Responsible for Deception at the Top?
Apr 26, 2022
It All Starts with Owned Media
Apr 19, 2022
Building Traction as Fast As Possible
Apr 12, 2022
Make Your Social Decisions Strategically
Apr 05, 2022
Earned Media in the Age of the Paywall
Mar 29, 2022
Gleefully Share the Spotlight
Mar 22, 2022
Sometimes You've Got to Pay to Play
Mar 15, 2022
As the Situation Escalates
Mar 08, 2022
PR Pros Behaving Badly
Mar 01, 2022
Navigating the Worst Times
Feb 22, 2022
When a Good Plan Comes Together
Feb 15, 2022
It's a Small World - Choose Your Words Carefully
Feb 08, 2022
Build Your Own Hot Streak
Feb 01, 2022
[Replay] Where Does Your Knowledge Come From?
Jan 25, 2022
Rethinking and Unlearning
Jan 18, 2022
What Happened in 2021 with Business Podcasts?
Jan 11, 2022
[Replay] A PESO Model Primer
Jan 04, 2022
Creating a Culture of Trust
Dec 14, 2021
7 Steps to Starting a PR Firm (Or Side Gig)
Dec 07, 2021
[Replay] Tracking Down Elusive Communications Measurements
Nov 30, 2021
"No Comment."
Nov 23, 2021
94% of Communicators think WHAT?
Nov 16, 2021
Don't Stop Blogging!
Nov 09, 2021
Communicating Return-to-Work
Nov 02, 2021
How Today's Global Complexities Are Ripe with Opportunities for Communicators in 2022 and Beyond
Oct 26, 2021
Look Who Values Content Marketing!
Oct 19, 2021
Exploring the Dark Side of Social Media
Oct 12, 2021
PR vs Journalists - Who is Telling The Truth?
Oct 05, 2021
Sneak Attack! Dealing With Competing Goals
Sep 28, 2021
Mental Health and the Great Resignation
Sep 21, 2021
How Far We've Come
Sep 14, 2021
Was it Really the Intern?
Sep 07, 2021
Mind the Pay Gap
Aug 31, 2021
Where's the Money?
Aug 24, 2021
Who's Opening Your Pitch?
Aug 17, 2021
Fighting PR's (Unfairly) Negative Reputation
Aug 10, 2021
This is not a PR Crisis
Aug 03, 2021
Your Employees Aren't an Afterthought
Jul 27, 2021
Using Robots to Communicate?
Jul 20, 2021
What's Going On In the Communications Industry?
Jul 13, 2021
This is Not the Spokesperson You're Looking For
Jul 06, 2021
The Top Challenges Communicators Face
Jun 29, 2021
7 Ways to Succeed at Blogging
Jun 22, 2021
Ragan Communications Benchmark Report 2021 Edition Breakdown
Jun 15, 2021
Protecting Your IP and Your Relationships
Jun 08, 2021
"Out of an Abundance of Caution..."
Jun 01, 2021
What to do When You're Waffling
May 25, 2021
Replay: How to do Your Own Professional Development
May 18, 2021
Navigating the Covid Fog
May 11, 2021
The Goldilocks New Business Strategy
May 04, 2021
Different Services, Different Price Points, Different Clients
Apr 27, 2021
Give Journalists What They Want
Apr 20, 2021
Fighting Cognitive Biases in Your Communications
Apr 13, 2021
Replay: Diversifying Your Revenue Sources
Apr 06, 2021
Not your Grandpa's Crisis Communications...
Mar 30, 2021
The State of Journalism In 2021
Mar 23, 2021
The Value in Communicating Your Values
Mar 16, 2021
Choose to Challenge Inequality
Mar 09, 2021
Tracking Down Elusive Communications Measurements
Mar 02, 2021
What is shadowbanning and what do you do if it happens?
Feb 23, 2021
Moderating Social Media when Bad Actors Abound
Feb 16, 2021
The Time for Direct Digital Relationships is Now
Feb 09, 2021
The 13 Things Every Agency Should Have in Their Business Plan
Feb 02, 2021
Are 50% of Communicators Dropping the Ball?
Jan 26, 2021
The Meta Podcast about Podcasts
Jan 19, 2021
Where Does Your Knowledge Come From?
Jan 12, 2021
A PESO Model Primer for 2021
Jan 05, 2021
12 Days of Spin Sucks Christmas - 11 Awful Phrases
Dec 15, 2020
12 Days of Spin Sucks Christmas: Six SEO Tricks
Dec 08, 2020
12 Days of Spin Sucks Christmas: A Mindset Shift For Me...
Dec 01, 2020
The Trap of Productive Procrastination
Nov 24, 2020
A Framework to Learn, Evolve and Advance
Nov 17, 2020
Welcome to Planning Season.
Nov 10, 2020
How Crisis Communications Will Work in 2021 and Beyond
Nov 03, 2020
Leaders and Managers: How to Decide Which One Best Fits You
Oct 27, 2020
The Differences between Marketing, Communication and PR
Oct 20, 2020
The Importance of Strategic Planning
Oct 13, 2020
To Swear or Not to Swear
Oct 06, 2020
Moderating User Generated Content on Social Media
Sep 29, 2020
Lessons from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Sep 22, 2020
How to Detect a Crisis Brewing
Sep 15, 2020
Spin Sucks Replay: Diversifying your Revenue Sources
Sep 01, 2020
Agency Leadership Cross-Post: VA's and Other Assistants
Aug 25, 2020
Agency Leadership Cross-Post: Service
Aug 18, 2020
Agency Leadership Cross-Post: Non-Traditional Revenue Streams
Aug 11, 2020
Agency Leadership Cross-Post: Generating New Business
Aug 04, 2020
Measuring your PESO Model Progress
Jul 28, 2020
Leveraging Authority from a PESO Model Program
Jul 21, 2020
Turning Visitors into Customers with Paid Media
Jul 14, 2020
Where and How Shared Media Fits in Your PESO Model Strategy.
Jul 07, 2020
How to Use Earned Media In the PESO Model Process
Jun 30, 2020
A Deep Dive Into Owned Media In a PESO Model Program
Jun 23, 2020
Using the PESO Model to Pivot Your Career In Times of Crisis
Jun 16, 2020
Taking a Stand for Social Justice
Jun 09, 2020
Taking Career Advice from Nature
Jun 02, 2020
Starting and Scaling a Business
May 26, 2020
Replay: Building Online Community
May 19, 2020
What Does Thought Leadership In 2020 Look Like?
May 12, 2020
Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Spin Sucks Podcast
May 05, 2020
Continuing Challenges and Exciting Opportunities in Paid Media
Apr 28, 2020
Why Communicators Should Ignore the Hustle Mentality and “Advice”
Apr 21, 2020
How to Do Your Job When Earned Media Is Out of the Question
Apr 14, 2020
How to Implement the PESO Model, No Matter the Size of Your Team
Apr 07, 2020
How to Market When the World Is On Fire
Mar 31, 2020
Get Through COVID-19 With These Mindset Shifts
Mar 24, 2020
So You’re Working From Home. Now What?
Mar 17, 2020
The Newly Refreshed PESO Model Graphic and Process
Mar 10, 2020
Star Wars, the PESO Model, and a Challenge for You
Mar 03, 2020
Who Can Use The PESO Model?
Feb 25, 2020
How Google Helped BERT Get Revenge
Feb 18, 2020
The PESO Model: Why Communicators Struggle To Implement It And How To Fix It
Feb 11, 2020
A Podcast About Podcasts
Feb 04, 2020
PR and the Election
Jan 28, 2020
PR Trend: Artificial Intelligence
Jan 21, 2020
What Are Your Business Red Flags?
Jan 14, 2020
Happy New Year!
Jan 07, 2020
Reworking Earned Media
Dec 28, 2019
12 Days of Christmas - 10 PR Metrics To Track
Dec 17, 2019
12 Days of Christmas - 6 SEO Best Practices
Dec 10, 2019
12 Days of Christmas - 2 PR Trends
Dec 03, 2019
Income Diversification for Communications Professionals
Nov 26, 2019
How To Prepare For A Down Economy
Nov 19, 2019
How To Do Your Own Professional Development
Nov 12, 2019
Are You Out of Your Mind, Earnst and Young?
Nov 05, 2019
The Do’s and Don’ts of Holiday-Themed Content Campaigns
Oct 29, 2019
The Art of Negotiation
Oct 22, 2019
An App for All Seasons
Oct 15, 2019
All Roads Lead to Email
Oct 08, 2019
Pop-Ups - Love ‘Em or Leave ‘Em
Oct 01, 2019
[Replay] Digital Declutter
Sep 24, 2019
#68: Dealing With Unhappy Customers - Off and On-Line
Sep 17, 2019
#67: When You Don’t Like The Boss, But The Boss Is You
Sep 10, 2019
Managing the Challenges of Vacation
Sep 03, 2019
#65: [REPLAY] How to Find your Authentic Brand Voice
Aug 27, 2019
#64: Emails that Don't Suck
Aug 20, 2019
#63: Coming Up With Ideas for Content
Aug 13, 2019
#62 Instagram for Business. Even Non-Visual Ones
Aug 06, 2019
#61 How Agencies can Outsource
Jul 30, 2019
#60 Unbelievable Onboarding
Jul 23, 2019
#59 Sharing Your Owned and Earned Content
Jul 16, 2019
#58 All About Referrals
Jul 09, 2019
#57 Customer Service - The Magic is in the Details
Jul 02, 2019
#56 How to Stay Up to Date in Your Industry
Jun 25, 2019
#55 [REPLAY] Thought Leadership: Just Another Buzzword?
Jun 18, 2019
#54 Through the Years with Spin Sucks
Jun 11, 2019
#53 Video Marketing for Communications
Jun 04, 2019
#52 A Year of Insights from Our Listeners
May 28, 2019
#51 Mistakes and Malice in PR
May 21, 2019
#50 Why You Should Avoid Overservicing and Overdelivering
May 14, 2019
#49 Using Systems and Automation
May 07, 2019
#48 Content and the Client Lifecycle
Apr 30, 2019
#47 What You Don’t Know Can Trip You Up
Apr 23, 2019
#46 RFP’s and How to Grow Without Them
Apr 16, 2019
#45 Communication During a Crisis
Apr 09, 2019
#44 How to Pitch Almost Anything
Apr 02, 2019
#43 The Different Community Platforms
Mar 26, 2019
#42 Replay: So Much Social
Mar 19, 2019
#41 Skills to Build and Work On
Mar 12, 2019
#40 The 3 C’s of Creativity
Mar 05, 2019
#39 Growing a Company
Feb 26, 2019
#38 How Virtual Companies Work
Feb 19, 2019
#37 Building an Online Community
Feb 12, 2019
#36 Effective Storytelling for Your Brand
Feb 05, 2019
#35 Digital Declutter
Jan 29, 2019
#34 PESO Case Study: Pitch Perfect
Jan 22, 2019
#33 Alexa Flash Briefings: The New Kid on the Social Media Block
Jan 15, 2019
#32 Communications Trends for 2019
Jan 08, 2019
#31 Predictions for 2018: Were We Right?
Dec 27, 2018
#30 Networking Done Right
Dec 18, 2018
#29 Developing a Growth Mindset
Dec 11, 2018
#28 Thought Leadership: Just Another Buzzword?
Dec 04, 2018
#27 The Weird New World of Robots
Nov 27, 2018
#26 REPLAY: It’s Time to Step Up to the PESO Plate
Nov 20, 2018
#25 From Memes to Strategy: Leveraging User-Generated Content for Your Brand
Nov 13, 2018
#24 Pay to Play and Play to Win: Paid Media Strategies for Your Business
Nov 06, 2018
#23 The 3 Rules for Social Media Etiquette
Oct 30, 2018
#22 How Not to Be Annoying and Ineffective on Social Media
Oct 23, 2018
#21 So Much Social
Oct 16, 2018
#20 Ask Gini: Analytics, Platforms, Outsourcing, ROI and More
Oct 09, 2018
#19 Own Your Competition with Owned Media
Oct 02, 2018
#18 Social Media That Won't Blow Up in Your Face
Sep 25, 2018
#17 Growing Your Audience With Earned Media
Sep 18, 2018
#16 Get the Most Out of Paid Media
Sep 11, 2018
#15 It’s Time to Step Up to the PESO Plate
Sep 04, 2018
#14 Should You Blog for Your Business?
Aug 28, 2018
#13 Let’s Get Real About Influencer Marketing
Aug 21, 2018
#12 The Issues List
Aug 14, 2018
#11 The Big Rock Concept
Aug 07, 2018
#10 Setting Goals You’ll Actually Keep
Jul 31, 2018
#9 The Massive Opportunity for PR Firms and Content Creators
Jul 24, 2018
#8 The Power of the SWOT Analysis
Jul 17, 2018
#7 Why and How you should still Comment on Blog Posts
Jul 10, 2018
#6 How to create your Brand Qualifiers
Jul 03, 2018
#5 Finding the Metrics to Make Your CEO Swoon
Jun 26, 2018
#4 Brand Personas
Jun 19, 2018
#1 How Elon Musk Pulled Off the Perfect PR Stunt
Jun 07, 2018
#2 How to Write With Your Brand Voice
Jun 07, 2018
#3 How to Find Your Authentic Brand Voice
Jun 07, 2018
Welcome to the Spin Sucks Podcast with Gini Dietrich
Feb 21, 2018