What are the advantages of content marketing?

Want to be the go-to resource for insights in your sector? Then content marketing should be a key strand of your communications plan. Rather than shouting ‘me, me, me’, good content gives your prospects what they want; fresh insights, answers to their questions and resolutions to their pain points. This increases their trust in your business. Whether […]

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How PR and content marketing connect

Content marketing has grown exponentially, and there’s a good reason why. Businesses looking to build visibility and trust at the awareness and research stages of the customer lifecycle need ways to communicate with these potential customers, and the right content really can deliver, on both fronts.  While larger organisations in particular may separate PR and […]

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Just for girls?

It was interesting to read that Lego is launching a range ‘just for girls’: see link Part of Lego’s argument appears to be that this will help to encourage a generation of girls to construct things. And as we are regularly told that the UK needs to produce more people who design and make stuff, you […]

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PR and social media – is it one or the other?

Words are highly emotive. We use them for survival, gaining friends, making sales, helping others, showing-off and a host of other reasons. I’ve always been interested in how language is used, by people, brands and businesses, print and broadcast, online and social media. Knowing how to use the right words in the right place at […]

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Digital or just air breathing?

Online and social media are integral to PR and communications. Saying you ‘do’ social media is a bit like saying you go shopping. All the stats show that most of us now communicate and share information with each other through various devices, from a laptop to the latest i-phone. According to Datamonitor, by 2013, the […]

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