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  The Irish playwright Brendan Behan was famous for saying there’s no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. There’s a good chance his thoughts will be echoed this week by his fellow countryman Bob Geldof. As you are no doubt aware, the public relations...

Moss Bros is a shop that generally doesn't capture the public’s imagination, but for those who watched Channel 4’ s Undercover Boss last night this certainly will not be the case anymore. Taking a huge risk, in such a PR stunt for this programme in which...

There is no question that blogs and social media are incredibly effective ways of getting your message across and we champion the rise of these outlets as giving more power to the smaller business. However, and not entirely surprising, a new survey by Nielsen, a global...

It can hardly have failed to escape your notice that whenever you return back to your desk following a holiday one of the first jobs is to get rid of the several billion emails that has landed in your inbox whilst you’re away. That is unless...

  Whilst the growth of Social Media continues to show no sign of slowing down, the good old email is still a major player of any media relations or marketing campaign. Whatever your view of it, email isn’t set to disappear in the near future, so with...

Former US president Dwight Eisenhower’s had a mantra “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” It’s quite profound, but when you think of it this makes perfect sense. It isn’t urgent that I eat healthily today, but if I fail...

This isn’t exactly a revelation, but as a nation we’ve never been so fat and the subject is never far away from the media. However, despite the so called obesity epidemic, it seems there is not enough healthy eating and lifestyle organisations capitalising on the PR...

Many of you will have heard the news that property search company Zoopla have decided to end their association with Premier league club West Bromwich Albion over an alleged racist gesture by one of their players. Whilst on the face of it this is a straightforward...

In recent months Google quietly announced pretty big changes to the way it does it searches, in a move which could have significant implications for the PR industry. It is a change ensuring that quality will now win the race to the top of Google rankings...