(Define Public Relations) ... What does Public Relations mean?

The profession or practice of creating and maintaining goodwill of an organization's various publics (customers, employees, investors, suppliers, etc.), usually through publicity and other nonpaid forms of communication. These efforts may also include support of arts, charitable causes, education, sporting events, and other civic engagements

The meaning of Public Relations is the activities involved in dealing with the company and employees issues with the related Govt.  / semi Govt. authorities. And facilitate the things for the company and employees as well, in addition with the focusing the company activities to the rest of the world.

Public relations are the relations between the organization and the community, government, & business partners. These relationships are very important for effective and efffecient execution of business processes which deal with objects outside the organization.

Hi Khalid W. Sharaiyr!

The public relations is the management function that establishes, maintains and manages mutually beneficial relationships between an organization and the public on whom its success or failure depends.

In fact, My Dear, PR is the management of communication, of relationships, of perception and behavior between an organization and its stakeholders or target audiences or target market.

So in brief, being a PR is managing a public for an organization and managing an organization for a public, for both sides profitable relationships in long-term by finding and creating common interest.

NB: Failure usually stems from communication breakdown and PR can avoid or fix it.

Hope thar it helpful for you.

what does public relations mean?

Using the news or business press to carry positive stories about your company or your products; cultivating a good relationship with local press representatives

To manage, build and organize image of a company, famous person (politician, celebrity) among the people or groups by using any type of media or in person.

PUBLIC RELATIONS involves the planned promotion of goods, services and images of organizations intended to create goodwill for a person, place or event. Public relations professionals work to build long-term relationships among individuals and institutions. 

There is not one single generally accepted definition of public relations. Instead, there are many ways to define it. Public relations projects are planned and sustained to establish and maintain goodwill and mutual understanding between an organization and its publics.

Companies and brands acquire public relations services to communicate their USP to the different target audiences and very importantly to create a positive impact about their products/services and build a strong reputation for the growth of their business, sector and economy of the market where they operate.

The method a brand uses to reach out to influencers to influence, speak about and capture the mindspace of the customer is Public Relations.