Seven weeks, seven sins... it's the final instalment of our Seven deadly PR sins blog series. Sin 7: Denial SPOILER ALERT: you won’t get any PR coverage if you don’t actively plan and prepare your content. Of course, we’re going to be biased, but we think it’s something that every business – no matter how [...]
A week has flown by and so, here’s the fourth PR sin in our series of 7 deadly PR sins… Sin 4: Ego trips We could have lumped this in with Sin 2 (indulging yourself) as it’s along a similar vein. And yes, it’s one we have to really watch ourselves, more down to the [...]
Moving swiftly on, here's the third PR sin in our series of 7 deadly PR sins... Sin 3: Being ignorant Can you be ignorant without knowing it? Are you wasting a journalist’s time with this PR sin? Is it possible that your press releases earn you nothing more than an irritated eye-roll when read? I [...]
Times sure do change in the world of PR but, you know, some things are carved in stone. Once upon a time, we laid out seven deadly PR sins in our quest to help you avoid a glut of face-palm-worthy content. In response to an ever-changing landscape, we’ve decided that it’s time to dust off [...]
Okay, that was 11, but did that entice you to read on? Whether it’s a headline (we wrote about that here), an email subject or the first sentence of your telephone pitch, getting your point across quickly and succinctly is extremely important. Think about the times you’re watching the news or listening to the bulletin [...]
“Five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” David Ogilvy, known as the Father of Advertising Think about that quote for a second. Why would you let your content-writing efforts go to waste if you [...]
To put it simply, yes and no. PR and Journalism are like two sides of the same coin and it’s easy to see why the two professions are sometimes thought to be the same thing. Nowadays, a lot of Journalism graduates edge towards PR as the general foundations for both jobs are similar: they both [...]
PR and marketing: you hear them in the same sentence so often, it’s easy to think of them as one and the same thing. And you’d be surprised how many people do confuse the two or aren’t really sure what comes under each umbrella. In reality, they are significantly different and require very specific skills, [...]
No really. I mean… do you even know? You’d be amazed how many people sit down to write a press release, a blog or some form of editorial without even considering the most important part of the whole piece… the audience. For instance, writing this blog, I know it’s most likely to be read by [...]
