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World’s Largest PR Firm Edelman Cuts Hundreds of Employees

Special Guests Publicity Agency Offers to Hire Laid off Workers

Special Guests CEO Gerald McGlothlin available to interview via Skype, Zoom or Phone

HICKORY, NC (June 3, 2020)– The world’s largest PR firm, Edelman, announced it is laying off 390 members of its team due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

PRovokeMedia.com quoted Edelman CEO Richard Edelman breaking his earlier pledge promising not to lay off workers due to COVID-19, saying, “We have stood against the wind as long as we could. The layoffs will affect individuals of all levels and across markets.” 

But with millions of people at home tuning in to TV Talk Shows and News Shows, there is one company specializing in booking guests on Talk Shows via Zoom and Skype that is taking advantage of the rich pool of available new workers and offering them jobs.

Special Guests, founded in 1985 by Jerry McGlothlin, does 90% of its publicity business booking guests on radio and television News/Talk Shows so it is experiencing a hiring boom. 

Ironically, McGlothlin’s firm based in Hickory, North Carolina, was rejected for PPP money since he mainly uses commissioned gig contractors instead of salaried employees, but even without government reimbursement, this consummate entrepreneur is hiring and offering two categories of gig contractor jobs on straight commission: New Client Acquisitions Reps and Talk Show Bookers. 

Said McGlothlin, “One man’s floor is another man’s ceiling, and if Edelman is laying off productive, experienced PR pros, Special Guests is interested in providing them with an income in their new agency home. Our generous straight commission offer gives publicity professionals exiting Edelman the opportunity to earn more commission money from Special Guests than from than their former paycheck.”

McGlothlin says that to the best of his knowledge, his agency, Special Guests, books more guests on Talk Shows than any other PR agency, since his firm specializes in providing guests to shows. 

Special Guests has a higher Alexa.com U.S. Internet Traffic Ranking than all but three of the top 135 PR firms listed on the main PR ranking site Odwyers PR at: 

https://www.odwyerpr.com/pr_firm_rankings/independents.htm

Only Edelman, Finn Partners and 5WPR have more popular websites.

Any PR professional from Edelman is welcome to apply by emailing McGlothlin directly at jerry@specialguests.com

ABOUT JERRY MCGLOTHLIN…

Jerry McGlothlin is CEO and founder of Special Guests, a boutique publicity agency specializing in using techniques of social activism to procure publicity for his clients on Talk Shows including on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Tucker, and Sean Hannity. 

Jerry McGlothlin has been featured in The Washington Post, O’Dwyer’s, and The New York Times. 

Editorials and articles by Jerry McGlothlin have been published in hundreds of news outlets including USA Today, The Chicago Tribune and Israel National News. 

In addition to running a publicity agency, Jerry McGlothlin is a producer of multiple full-length motion pictures, and is a television rep, launching series pilots. 

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