As if British Petroleum didn’t have enough to worry about with the Gulf oil spill, a fake Twitter account making fun of BP’s public relations efforts is rapidly gaining popularity online. The account, BPGlobalPR, was created late last week and now has over 50,000 followers, more than 10 times the number following the real BP [...]

Editor’s note: This is John Reinan’s weekly marketing columnfor MinnPost. To view the original, go to http://bit.ly/buGnk8. Can you feel sorry for a jerk? I’m talking about Steven Payne, the theater executive at Evergreen Entertainment who told a customer to go [expletive] herself after she complained of a bad experience at a movie in St. [...]

It’s not a ’60s folk group. But it’s worth noting that our agency founder and president, Jorg Pierach, had the honor Monday of being the first guest in the post-Don Shelby era at WCCO Radio. Friend of the Pony Joe Anderson is in a six-day tryout to take over Shelby’s slot on the Great Neighbor, [...]