Over 50% of all Sales and Marketing respondents said PR impacts Lead Quality.

About 50% of all respondents said PR impacts the length of the Sales Cycle.

About 25% of all respondents said PR can increase the size of a first-time order.

Most tellingly, 49% said that Lead Generation was the best measure of PR success.

Yet just 30% of all respondents felt that Lead Generation is a function of PR! And fully 36% of respondents "sometimes" to "never" use PR in the Sales process!

Source: http://www.pr-squared.com/2005/09/pr_as_profit_center_truth_or_f.html

Thoughts and conversations that are not a formal announcement, but just open dialogue with people in that industry or customers.

A great way for me to communicate my passion in life, to customers and employees

As of March, only 4.6 percent of Fortune 500 companies had public blogs, according to an online research project. None of Colorado's Fortune 500 companies - Qwest, EchoStar, or Liberty Media, for example - have blogs accessible to Web surfers.

"People tend to think of blogging as a technological development, but it's really not," said IBM's blogger-in-chief Chris Barger. "The real benefit is the sense of community and interaction between the audience and blog, and individual and blog."