Matias Rodsevich is a PR specialist with over 10 years of experience, from working in PR for IBM and Google in Argentina, to founding his own PR agency in the heart of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His agency PRLab works with some of the fastest growing tech startups and scale-ups in Europe, providing an integrated marketing approach. Not only handling PR for their clients but also branding services to align missions, visions and values, in order to create a compelling story that places these blossoming startups in a strong position in the saturated tech market. Rodsevich also founded the first PR community in the Netherlands. The first of its kind, establishing a platform for Marketing and Communication professionals to share their knowledge, insights, and expertise with other professionals.
The PR Paradox by Matias Rodsevich is a must-read for startups and scale-ups that are looking to establish and elevate their presence in the saturated tech market. Essentially "a public relations handbook", it is one of the best PR books and a complete guide on the creative foundation of their own PR strategy in a cost-effective and timely manner, to achieve growth-driven integrated solutions. The book offers exclusive insights into the modern PR practice, including tangible advice from renowned PR professionals, and provides real-time solutions on how to achieve significant PR results that will boost business growth in a cost and time effective manner. Unlike other PR books, The PR Paradox acts as a hands-on strategic guide for small businesses to achieve their goal implementing a practical and cost-effective PR strategy. Written for those who are interested in or just starting out in PR, the lessons and examples collected are both entertaining and informative. Readers can expect to take away from The PR Paradox key learnings that will give the initiate a leg up in the frantically paced world of PR, such as:
Founded in 2018 by Rodsevich, PRLab - an integrated PR agency based in Amsterdam, has worked with some of the fastest-growing tech startups and scale-ups in Europe, including the likes of Impraise, Siilo, Bloomon, 3Dhubs and StuDocu. PRLab believes in offering growth-driven, integrated marketing solutions, and therefore offers a suite of branding services above and beyond PR. Out of the box communication strategies create change and disrupt the scene, in order to establish and elevate startups’ presence in the saturated tech market. Besides running his own PR agency, Rodsevich also founded the first PR community in the Netherlands - the PRLab Community, establishing a platform for marketing and communication professionals to share their knowledge, insights and expertise with like-minded professionals. With over 1200 members, the community and its range of events and topics covered are continually evolving. With a common collaborative pursuit of knowledge through the sharing and exchanging of ideas, The PR Paradox is a natural extension of the tight-knit, growing PRLab Community.
This pr book is a must-read for startups and scale-ups that are looking to establish and elevate their presence in the saturated tech market. Boasting values similar to that at PRLab, a recommended read for anyone looking to understand how to achieve significant PR results that will help boost the growth of their business in a cost and time effective manner.
Readers can expect a book that is written very personally, with a genuine intention to impart knowledge and guide the reader on a path to mastering PR. The book summarizes all my years of work experience in PR. In the frantically paced world of PR, the reader will learn key lessons from the benefits of doing PR as a startup, and building a brand through PR strategies to scaling up PR strategies for international expansion and crisis communications.
In my personal experience, the literature and marketplace of ideas was often focused on big corporations or PR for big agencies. The numerous number of conferences I attended did not offer me any insight into the skills and tools required to face the complexities of PR for tech companies.
As such, I created my own meetup group which has now evolved into a much wider PRLab community, which focused on PR for startups and tangible tips and real-life strategies. As a natural extension of these goals, The PR Paradox was inspired by the concept of sharing and exchanging ideas, to innovate and be innovative for PR - both as a craft and as an art.
Most PR books aim to inspire and can be quite rhetorical. In comparison, The PR Paradox is a hands-on and strategic guide, which businesses can follow in order to achieve their goal of implementing a practical PR strategy. Moreover, it is targeted at startups and scale-ups - the market segment that I’m specialised in, so the advice is also cost-effective for businesses who may have small budgets and may not be able to afford high PR fees.