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Being a thought leader in your industry is a pretty nice gig. Consider it the adult equivalent of being the popular kid in school. Everyone wants to be your friend, they hang on to your every word, and your opinions become the law of the...
If you’re a Coronation Street fan, you’ve probably noticed some changes in Weatherfield over the past few weeks, namely the arrival of two major high street stores. On April 28, a Co-op supermarket and Costa Coffee opened for business on the famous cobbled streets. As...
When it comes to social media and PR, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram get all the glory. They’re the popular kids in school; the ones everyone wants to be friends with. In the business world, they’re the go-to sites businesses use to connect with customers, prospects...
Does your business capture, handle, store, or share any kind of personal data, whether it’s for customers, staff or journalists? If the answer is yes, you’re going to be affected by the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, which comes into effect on May 25th...
The clocks have gone forward, the days are getting longer, and our favourite PR campaigns from March had a spring in their step. From Laithwaite’s new English Sparkling pantone colour, to Yorkshire Tea’s special biscuit brew, March was a month of creative PR campaigns. Here...
What do Tiger Woods, Mel Gibson and Hugh Grant have in common? They were all highly respected public figures until they fell spectacularly from grace. Tiger’s golfing fans turned against him because of his alleged extramarital affairs. Braveheart actor Mel Gibson went on a drunken,...
British poet John Lydgate once said, ‘you can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time’. This is as true of PR as anything...
The ‘Beast from the East’ may have hit us hard in February, but it didn’t stop brands producing some fantastic PR campaigns. From Toyota’s social campaign that enabled us to see the world through the eyes of a visually impaired Paralympian, to Usain Bolt’s brilliant...
There are a lot of common misconceptions about PR. Some people think it stands for ‘press release,’ while others think that ‘PR’ and ‘publicity’ are the same thing. Both are wrong. PR is an abbreviation of ‘public relations’, while a press release is a tool...
Richard Branson once said, ‘communication is the most important skill any leader can possess.’ How right he is. Whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur, or the CEO of a FTSE 100 company, you need to be a first-class communicator to succeed. How else will you inspire...
