Blog posts
Grocers’ or Grocer’s Apostrophe?
The CIPR regional group that I work with is currently reading a range of material written by students and Public Relations professionals. Unfortunately, from what we have seen, the requirement for PR people to have basic written skills seems to have ‘left the building’. We are rather concerned that the “grocers’ apostrophe”, once berated by […]
Seat of your pants PR
It would seem that even the spin doctors in Downing Street don’t always get it right. PR Week reports that it has promoted Emily Tofield as part of its efforts to more positively communicate the public sector cuts and the Big Society. Another example of ‘seat of your pants public relations’? It’s an all too […]
Signs of green shoots in the PR industry?
According to PR Week, the PR industry has bounced back from recession. Its Top 150 league table shows that the average growth figure for a PR agency’s fee income was 9.24 per in 2010 – putting the market back in line with 2008 figures. A whopping £838million was the figure PR Week put on the […]
To churn or not to churn….
The public relations industry has been getting its knickers in a knot recently about Churnalism.com.
Bang and the recession is gone!
Marketing magazine http://bit.ly/fmkKtI reports today that Reckitt Benckiser, the makers of Cillit Bang, countered a difficult market by upping its marketing spend by 8% in 2009. Great news for the marketing industry that such a decision has contributed to a 13% rise in pre-tax profits.
Running for the hills
The Government’s spending cuts, on top of several tough years for the UK economy, might have PR people throwing in the towel and running for the hills! Surely what we do will be the first thing to be cut as even the public sector is forced to tighten its belt?
Carolyn Wojtas, Head of Marketing, Phoenix IT
Sarah is a great support and works just like she’s one of our team. She gets on with the job quickly, which minimises the time I have to dedicate to public relations and lets me think about the bigger picture. I know I can trust Sarah to get on with the PR and her friendly […]
PR vital to Government during public sector cuts
I’m glad to see that, despite tough economic times, the Government sees public relations as being vital to the cause.
Can hacks hack it?
An interesting article appeared in PR Week recently looking at how an increasing number of journalists are moving over to the ‘dark side’ of public relations.
Times Online focuses on quality
The Times recently published the results of what has happened to its website since it became paid for. PR Week reports that traffic to the website has dropped by just under one third.
