Sep 19, 2008

…in which I live shamelessly and vicariously through others. Two weeks ago I was walking to the subway, wondering why I never see any celebrities in my neighborhood. After all, I live in the W. Village where the walls of every shop and restaurant are bedecked by autographed pictures of their high profile clientele. Since I’m easily impressed by...

  Sep 6, 2008

Our relationship with Elaine started as many oft do…over the Internet. We found her on ProfNet (sorry, Peter) where she submitted a query that was right up our alley. That was about two months ago, right after she moved to NYC from Philly. The rest is pretty much history… After going back and forth over email, we decided that it was time to...

  Aug 22, 2008

We’re proud to say that we broke Peter’s 13-week no-drinking spree recently, but we promised not to talk much about that. For those of you who don’t know Peter Shankman, he’s the founder of the Geek Factory , but perhaps even more popular for launching Help a Reporter Out (HARO)-a thrice daily listing of expert requests from reporters,...

  Aug 15, 2008

Welcome to week two of Friday Fun Days. This week we bring you Bob Guccione, Jr., founder of Spin magazine and all around cool guy. We met Bob after pitching our clients to him for Media magazine’s “Future of Media” special issue, which, from the sound of things is going to be fantastic. (It comes out in just a couple weeks.) We hit it off...

  Aug 8, 2008

Welcome to “Friday Fun Days”-CVMonologues’ new feature where we tell you all the dirt (in a nice way) on a reporter or editor or other media type who we’ve recently had drinks with. Of course, Friday Fun Days won’t necessarily be fun nor will they necessarily be on Fridays, but we’re big fans of alliteration and not so...

  Mar 27, 2008

Yesterday we had lunch with a completely inspiring entrepreneur. When most of her fellow business-school graduates headed off to plum jobs at hedge funds and investment banks in the flush economy of the last few years, Sarah Endline set out to create a great business. With her vision, her passion and her love of chocolate, she founded sweetriot-the ...