There are many things in life I can’t unsee: my reflection after a heavy night, my neighbour’s insistence on mowing the lawn shirtless, and now, Donald Trump dancing to “Y.M.C.A.” like a dad at a wedding who’s just remembered the bar tab is free. Or frankly, me if “Don’t Stop Believing” comes on. I mean, …
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I was there yesterday…. As a Manchester United fan and someone who runs a PR agency, I find myself regularly wincing at what happens both on and off the pitch at Old Trafford. But Ruben Amorim’s post-match comments yesterday—a self-flagellating declaration that his team might be “the worst in the history of Manchester United”—were a …
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The £100 Pineapple Pizza: Grab a pizza the PR action We all know the great debates of our time: cats vs. dogs, tea vs. coffee, and of course, pineapple on pizza – spoiler alert, it’s a no from me!. So, what does a cheeky Norwich restaurant do? They slap a £100 price tag on a …
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So, if Wallace can get a local news crew down to feature Norbot, his “helpful” garden gnome and have customers beating a path to his door, what’s stopping you? I loved this latest instalment which I watched over Christmas with a plate of cheese – not Wensleydale, can’t abide it – and l was giggling …
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I write this with a tricorne perched jauntily upon my head. This stylish hat covers that of a PR consultant of some two decades, that of a published author on PR and that of a former business journalist. Hat collecting aside, I’ve learned a LOT over two decades in the PR trenches in terms of …
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There’s been a lot of interest in the competition that we launched on Black Friday. Mainly because, well, it WASN’T a Black Friday thing. We just leveraged the “narrative’, to use marketing buzzwords. However, let’s be honest, the opportunity to snaffle £5000 of PR and Marketing support will cut through most noise. What’s in the …
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Steven Bartlett and the concept of “Invisible PR” Sounds like a contradiction in terms right? How can PR be “invisible”, what would be the point of it if it was? Although, the “Emperor’s New PR” could be the hot new trend for 2025! I met Steven a couple of weeks ago and even though I …
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To celebrate winning the Creative and Media Business Masters Award from the BusinessDesk.com, Press For Attention PR is launching a competition to find the “hidden gem” of a business that could really take off in 2025. That is, if only it could crack the media code! The main prize is worth over £5,000 in PR …
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What is Public Relations? Okay here’s the boring bit, sorry! In the UK the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, or CIPR, says this: public relations is about reputation, the result of what you do, what you say, and what others say about you. Basically, PR looks after reputation with the aim of earning understanding …
“There is only thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is NOT being tackled about.” However, whatever Dorain Gray might think, not EVERYONE is Wylde about the Jag rebrand. “Do you sell cars?” That was the withering response from Elon Musk, who knows a thing or two about selling concepts. In …