Articles on PR for People

Royal Beauty Treatments

Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of a beauty queen is all about?  Mandy Schendel regularly visits the Paule Attar Salon and Spa in Bellevue to receive the royal beauty treatment.  Her visits start with a Anti-Toxin Body Wrap with Green Coffee* and continue with full makeup and hair styling that was captured here in a deluxe photo shoot by world renown luxury photographer Ilya Moshenskiy. As Miss Washington in the Miss America...


France by way of Morocco | Paule Attar

“When I was a child growing up in Morocco, we had so many orange trees,” Paule Attar recounts in her gorgeous, husky French accent. “As a kid, I would eat oranges fresh from the tree.. . .Any time you rub the peel over your hand, smell it and it is pure heaven!”

Since 1988, she has been the president and the technical and creative director of the European-style Paule Attar Salon and Spa in Bellevue, Washington. Ms. Attar has also...


Five Startup Finance Strategies

Capital is the lifeblood of any business venture, and for startups, securing enough capital to become operational and profitable is a daunting challenge. Here is a look at the pros and cons of five startup finance strategies.

1. Friends and family: Asking friends or family to invest in a new business is a very informal financing strategy. This is among the simplest ways to finance a startup business. The pros –...


Would Boudica Wear Spanx?

A major angel investor in high tech companies, who is a woman, told me she didn’t like to invest in ventures led by women  the vision of male entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison or Steve Jobs. Some women build large businesses, she explained, but they’re usually based on girly products. Women don’t build companies that are based on disruptive technologies and have the power to change the world.  Even Amazon, a name associated with...


Key Traits of Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs have a different mindset from people who have jobs. Here are some key traits:

Stubborness. True Entrepreneurs don’t know how to give up.  This attribute is far greater than persistence. It means entrepreneurs have to actually learn how to give up.  They have to learn when to cut their losses and move on. And usually they can’t move on until they’ve indentified their next big idea or business concept...


Interesting facts: Vietnamese Americans

A majority of Vietnamese came to the United States as refugees of war and without much money or resources available to them.  According to Wikipedia, mass Vietnamese immigration to the United States started in 1975, after the end of the Vietnam War. Early immigrants were refugee boat people, ...


Top Nails is Tops in Seattle

Rita, a regular customer of Top Nails Salon, said, “From LA to Seattle, I’ve been to scores of nail salons, but I have to confess I’ve never had my nails done this well.” 

Top Nails in Queen Anne may have a word-of-mouth reputation for doing the best nails in the city, but there is something to be said for how caringly the customers are treated by the technicians who work there. Le, Anh, Lan,...


Artist Entrepreneur James ‘SEXER’ Rodriguez

“Success will only come with hard work, perseverance, and being resourceful.” --James SEXER Rodriguez

Making a living as an artist might seem unfeasible, but entrepreneur, James ‘SEXER’ Rodriguez, has managed to make art his life’s work. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the South Bronx, he began dabbling in cartoons as a youngster, but by the age of ten he was exhibiting his work at Gimbel'...


Lael Echo-Hawk: Bringing Broadband to Indian Country

Lael Echo-Hawk, an attorney at Garvey Schubert Barer, has been working actively with tribal leaders to give them the tools they need to explore the opportunities of bringing high-speed, broadband internet access to their organizations and communities.

Long distance communication has been around for a long time in America. Historically speaking, the Native American tribes were the first to use long distance communication by...


What Kind of Mark do you want to make?

We all want to make some kind of mark on the world, to leave something behind that shows that we were here and we mattered.  Few would argue about that.  The real issue is what kind of mark we want to make.  In recent years, young people have increasingly described that mark in monetary terms—so many want to be a millionaire, or a billionaire even.

Indeed some recent college polls asking students what matters more to them when...