PR

What do you get if you mix the Woolwich murder, Public Relations and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) together? In my case it’s a story, which has seen thousands of new visitors to my website this week, and has proven a point long held by me, which...

05 June, 2013

Holding a meat cleaver in one of his blood soaked hands, Michael Adeloboja set a media precedent yesterday afternoon. He officially became the UK’s first celebrity murderer. Never before in our culture had a killer fresh from slaying a victim used the media to publicise his agenda,...

23 May, 2013

Solicitors on the whole are very clever people. They are well-educated, possess vocabularies leaving the average man scrambling for a dictionary, and when making a point give detailed explanations. However, whilst these sound like attributes they are also a major reason why many of them are...

30 April, 2013

The power of social media and the weakness of the traditional outlets of PR have been illustrated in some style this past week by the controversy surrounding the death of Margaret Thatcher. Unless you have been on Mars, you will be aware of the attempts to...

19 April, 2013

As I write this it is only a few hours after the news of the passing of Margaret Thatcher broke and already this event has divided the country like it is the mid 1980s again. On the BBC they have wheeled out every political ally and...

08 April, 2013

So the UK has avoided a triple dip recession for the moment. Hurrah! Thank the lord for that as we won’t have Robert Peston’s nasal wailings of more impending doom disturbing us as we sip our mugs of Horlicks tonight. Now, it’s not that I don’t listen...

02 April, 2013

Meeting with a legal firm this week about the possibility of running a PR campaign there was only one objective in the mind of the senior partner I met. “We want to be in the local paper,” he said. “We want to be in there as...

28 March, 2013

Twitter has been a liberation and a revolution for PR. Used correctly it can protect and enhance the image and push out wide scale publicity faster to an audience than it takes to boil a kettle. It has allowed us to instantly hear the views from...

18 March, 2013