Comments on: What’s Great About Phoenix, and How Some Miss it, Entirely http://www.amandavegablog.com/advertising/whats-great-about-phoenix-and-how-some-miss-it-entirely/ Amanda Vega, a 18 year internet veteran rants, raves, and generally runs her mouth about online advertising, web sites, advertising, marketing, and public relations. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:33:03 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jeremy http://www.amandavegablog.com/advertising/whats-great-about-phoenix-and-how-some-miss-it-entirely/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Jeremy Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:44:01 +0000 http://amandavegaconsulting.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/whats-great-about-phoenix-and-how-some-miss-it-entirely/#comment-2 Welcome to what I was saying for a year, and why I left Phoenix. And, well, you cannot just look at the businesses who abandon Phoenix for PR in larger cities, it is the fact that the local press - as a whole - just does not get it.<br/><br/>I was winning awards, speaking at conferences around the country all because of my blog. And, well, the Repulsive (and useless) did not understand what the deal was. I worked with companies that wanted local press - something I never really desired to do in Phoenix - and the pitch I could use for a WSJ, NYT would not work at the Republic ... because they just didn't get it.<br/><br/>Phoenix will never escape it's biggest little town mentality, and companies will continue to go out of state for PR at a higher cost, because they are not Phoenix-based. And, well, sometimes it is the right decision. Welcome to what I was saying for a year, and why I left Phoenix. And, well, you cannot just look at the businesses who abandon Phoenix for PR in larger cities, it is the fact that the local press – as a whole – just does not get it.

I was winning awards, speaking at conferences around the country all because of my blog. And, well, the Repulsive (and useless) did not understand what the deal was. I worked with companies that wanted local press – something I never really desired to do in Phoenix – and the pitch I could use for a WSJ, NYT would not work at the Republic … because they just didn’t get it.

Phoenix will never escape it’s biggest little town mentality, and companies will continue to go out of state for PR at a higher cost, because they are not Phoenix-based. And, well, sometimes it is the right decision.

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