Friends from the moment we met

When one of your best clients emails, suggesting you meet someone, you perk up. When it’s Betsie Gambel, doyenne of New Orleans PR, you jump.

Bruce Dobie and I scheduled a half-hour Zoom call. We talked nearly two hours. Minutes in, we discovered each had started city newspapers from scratch, Bruce in Nashville and me in Atlanta. (He did better.)

I migrated to PR, then newsletters. Bruce dove into data, polling city leaders on heady topics, returning their results privately. At call’s end, we agreed we felt like old college buddies and marveled that our paths never crossed. Until now.

– Chris Schroder, The PR Power Poll 100