Sandy Young Honored with PRSA San Diego Deborah Baker PR Professional of the Year Award

Sandy Young, vice-president of J. Walcher Communications (JWC), a top San Diego public relations and marketing agency, has been named the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), San Diego/Imperial Counties…
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5 Bite-Sized Questions … with Freelance Journalist Helen I. Hwang

JWC chats over coffee or lunch with members of the media to hear more about what they’re working on and how we can best assist them. Enjoy our new series…
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Sandy Young hugs her young daughter

5 Lessons I Learned as a New Mother in a Pandemic

By Sandy Young My 10-year-old daughter is learning to express her emotions after we adopted her from Taiwan a year ago. “ANGRY!” “SAD!” “Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!” (That’s her happy squeal.) Although she…
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SEO - Search Engine Optimization

SEO and PR- I Can Tell That We are Going to be Friends

By: Arianna Georgi, SEO Consultant, J. Walcher Communications When determining your digital marketing strategy budget, putting together the pieces can be overwhelming. But there is a huge benefit to getting your…
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Monica Garske from SDtoday

5 Bite-Sized Questions … with Monica Garske of SDtoday

JWC chats over coffee or lunch with members of the media to hear more about what they’re working on and how we can best assist them. Enjoy our new series…
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Jean Walcher Recognized with Service Award by San Diego County Bar Foundation

The San Diego County Bar Foundation brought together the San Diego legal community’s finest at its 21st annual “An Evening in La Jolla” benefit, raising more than $130,000 to help…
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Networking

7 Networking Tips for Success

The phrase “painfully shy” was an accurate description of me as a child. I clung to my mom’s leg and refused to even talk to acquaintances. Asking me to give…
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JWC Promotes Ashley Weaver to Account Executive

J. Walcher Communications (JWC), a top San Diego public relations and marketing agency, has promoted Ashley Weaver to account executive. The promotion is a result of Weaver’s relationships with JWC’s…
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PRSA

JWC Receives Three Edward L. Bernays Awards

                            J. Walcher Communications (JWC), a top San Diego public relations agency, has received three Edward L….
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5 Ws

Five Ws with … San Diego County Bar Foundation

At J. Walcher Communications, we help organizations of all sizes expand their business and give their brands a bigger voice. One such organization is the San Diego County Bar Foundation…
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Jean Walcher photo

Making Tough Leadership Decisions

In the current issue of the Public Relations Society of America’s “Public Relations Tactics” newspaper, JWC President Jean Walcher talks about leading in the public relations industry, including 16 years…
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Digital Journalism Tools Reviewed

What’s Worth My Time? Digital Journalism Tools To Try (or Not)

                        After attending the San Diego Chapter Society of Professional Journalists’ panel on digital journalism earlier this spring, we…
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Want to Start Marketing in China? Read this first!

Recently, the JWC team had the opportunity to have Bo Chen-Samuel as our intern, who is originally from China. Since we’re always looking to expand our social media skills and…
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JWC Wins PR Award for Consumer Products Media Coverage

J. Walcher Communications has been honored with a 2016 Edward L. Bernays Award by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter for its media relations work…
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J. Walcher Communications Adds Anza Borrego Foundation to Client Roster

J. Walcher Communications, a San Diego public relations and marketing agency, has been hired by Anza Borrego Foundation (ABF) to build public awareness of the Foundation and the wide variety…
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Visual Storytelling

Written by JWC PR Assistant Asael Ruelas Vaquera. From reporters trying to capture the perfect picture to social media advertisers trying to engage their audiences with bold infographics, visuals have…
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J. Walcher Communications Promotes Jenna Brossman and Ashley Weaver

J. Walcher Communications (JWC) has promoted Jenna Brossman to senior account executive and Ashley Weaver to assistant account executive. “I’ve been impressed by Jenna and Ashley’s contributions to the agency…
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3 Ways Not to Get on a Red Carpet … and other Takeaways from the San Diego Film Festival

    I posted the above in the early morning hours of the day following the 14th Annual San Diego Film Festival’s Opening Night, premiering “Septembers of Shiraz” and featuring…
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Multiple Summer Internship Opportunities Available

J. Walcher Communications Public Relations and Marketing Summer Internship  J. Walcher Communications is seeking creative and enthusiastic individuals to work part-time as public relations and marketing interns (minimum 15 hours…
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A JWC ‘How-To’: Create an Awesome Social Media Post

Written with assistance by JWC PR Assistant Elpin Keshishzadeh Creating a social media post is easy. Creating interesting content, though time consuming, can involve more thought, research and strategy. One measure…
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Tips for Twitter Success: Do it Right!

Written by JWC PR Assistant Elpin Keshishzadeh The importance of Twitter for growing and established brands is no secret. In recent years, certain brands have grown in popularity due to a successful…
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Fare Thee Well, Ashley Shafer

After three years, our Assistant Account Executive Ashley Shafer is moving to an in-house PR position. Here’s just a few of the reasons we’ll miss her, and a few, well,…
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Why We’re AP Style Sticklers

Who cares whether a person uses one space or two between two sentences or if “gray” is spelled “grey”?* We do. So does the Associated Press. The AP Stylebook has…
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DSP, SoLoMo, KPI … Huh?!

Acronyms were the hot topic at Interactive Day San Diego last month, where the region’s digital marketers gathered to share knowledge in this ever-changing arena, and throw out tremendous amounts…
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Top 10 Takeaways from the 2014 PRSA Western District Conference

This year, the annual Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Western District Conference came to San Diego, and we had the chance to learn and share our expertise with peers…
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What’s a Hashtag Got to Do With It?

Guest post by our PR Assistant Ashley Weaver We’ve all seen them. We all use them, or at least we should. The basic idea of a hashtag is to use…
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Talking sMACk: 7 Tips and Tidbits from Media and Communications (MAC) Days

7 Tips and Tidbits from Media and Communications (MAC) Days

Stop, Drop and Swoop into the USPA National Skydiving Championships of Canopy Piloting

The U.S. Parachute Association National Skydiving Championships of Canopy Piloting have begun at Skydive Spaceland, just outside of Houston. Check out this fantastic video: http://vimeo.com/29077012 USPA is our client and…
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5 Really Really Basic Social Media Dos and Don’ts (that are good for SEO, too)

Sometimes, as PR agency professionals, we get so preoccupied with coming up with the most brilliant tweet ever or how to setup a GPS-integrated iPhone app or what special to…
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“Judgement” (sic) is Not Over Yet …

Yes, we at J. Walcher Communications are the people who will let a restaurant know when a word is misspelled on the menu. We will exclaim in horror at random…
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Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk

As the public relations agency for the Lung Cancer Alliance’s San Diego Breath of Hope Lung Cancer 5K Walk, we thought it would be a good idea for us talk…
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So You’ve Got a Website – Now What?

Three Quick Tips to Freshen Up Your Website

Ode to Our Intern

Six Reasons We’ll Miss Our Intern Brianna Shannon

A Very Special Night Indeed

Thanks to Cheryl Bruser, Jewish Family Service’s “Project SARAH,” outreach coordinator, for her help in promoting Urban Solace‘s recent Urban Seder dinner and her kind words on Jewish Family Service’s…
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