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What a convicted peer of the realm can teach you about marketing

Birmingham, May 13th 2019, European Elections loom over the country, the eyes of the world are on it A convicted peer of the realm, multi-millionaire and literary record-breaker takes to the stage. 500 people crane their necks, leaning in to get a closer look. Another 1000 are watching it LIVE

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Don’t just visit a trade show – report it

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. It is something I have done for myself to build authority for years and something that I also now do for clients and it involves trade shows.  You know the places, a glorified aircraft hangar replete with mega stands costing

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What to do when the phone rings and it’s the BBC

I took a call this week from the BBC asking me to comment on some breaking news. ‘No problem’ I said, frantically opening up Google to see what it might be, as I’d not had time to read the papers yet – something I do every morning to see what

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All fools – what Justin Bieber and I have in common

Here’s a clue, it isn’t our dancing, our torsos or our lexical dexterity. What we have in common is that we both played an April Fools trick to generate attention and get people flocking. However, whilst one of us had texts of congratulations on a job well done for mocking

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Pidgin English – PR guru invests in latest messaging tech

Nottingham-based PR agency, Press For Attention PR, has announced plans to revolutionise the way businesses communicate in post-Brexit Britain with the addition of a flock of pigeons to the team. The agency is led by Greg Simpson, a former business journalist and published author on PR who admittedly never lets

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Testimonials – grab them by the you know whats

There’s a reason why testimonials are thus called. Folk on trial in the days of ancient Rome tended to be men and tended to fear loss of some key ‘assets’ rather keenly. I have spared ‘David’s’ blushes in the photo above but I think you get the picture. No, scrolling down

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