Fred Bateman is founder/CEO of Bateman Group, which is based in San Francisco with offices in New York and Portland, Ore.

Stories by Fred Bateman

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Lifting the Veil on PR Agency Salaries and Profits (Internal Communications) Thu., Oct. 15, 2020 Without financial transparency about both salaries and profits, there will always be a degree of suspicion as to where all the profits go, as well as resentment from the staff for the strict code of secrecy about agency finances in general. (1 reader comment)

•	Pride Isn’t Always Easy—We Shouldn't Take That for Granted (LGBTQ+) Wed., Jun. 12, 2019 Being gay and being a business owner used to be two extremely separate aspects of my life. I used to think that being openly gay was irrelevant to the successes or failures of my business. Now I know better.