Imitation is flattery but this is ridiculous

2/28/09 - Quite the phone call this morning from our client at BusinessCashAdvance.com. Turns out that a news release we drafted and distributed on the company’s behalf was copied, nearly word-for-word, by one of its competitors.

You be the judge. Here's a snippet of our client's original news release:

And the competitor's copycat:


Has anyone ever had this happen to them? This is my 20th year in the PR biz, and I have never seen anything this brazen.

Our client is steaming, and rightly so.

--John