Lessons From Pulling Off The "Impossible" Trip

Plus, a last-minute call for pitches!

Hey all,

I’m going to leave you this Easter egg on my current location, I don’t think it will be too hard to guess…

I’m in the US for a quick family celebration and then heading for a massive three-month stint in England and Scotland. For this trip, I worked with close to 20 PR people to pull off 15+ stays for a major publication. People said it wasn’t possible, but first…

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Urgent Call for Pitches!

Before I go into that…I’m looking for hotels in ASIA that have unique and quirky staff positions, for example, sleep ambassador, coffee sommelier, margarita butler, and chief flamingo officer. If you know of any please email me with pitches by April 2nd.

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Eight Critical Lessons For Arranging Media Stays

Over the past six weeks, I’ve been in touch with dozens of hotels and PR firms arranging various stays. To say it’s been a logistical nightmare would be an understatement, but thanks to my neurotic levels of organization, things should (fingers crossed) go off without a hitch in time for my deadline.

While planning this with PR professionals, a lot of little bumps, frustrations, and questions came up. Here are eight things every PR person and journalist should do when working together to arrange a big (or little trip)!