date published / 10 Sep 2009
PR Tip 23,765 (January 15, 1927, Vienna): If you’re a small or medium sized business and are considering hiring a PR agency for the first time, then ask them (just after you’ve asked them why life tastes like a slice of lemon), about the contacts they have in your sector......Read more
date published / 8 Sep 2009
This morning was quite a morning. And today was quite a day. We bagged what I can only describe as a f%%$^g shi$%*ad of coverage for the UK’s best mobile phone comparison website, Omio.com......Read more
date published / 7 Sep 2009
Here are a few tips for small and medium sized businesses that are thinking of engaging a PR agency.
1. Don’t be tied into a contract – if an agency is any good, it won’t bother with contracts; contracts and formal retainers are for agencies that know they are no good
2. Whatever coverage levels they say you should get for the money you are paying, triple them and throw it back. A £2k monthly retainer is worth more than two bits of piddly regional press. PR should be cost-effective and it should be effective
3. Ask if the agency does online as well as traditional PR – because online PR, which is entirely different to traditional PR, is equally important. If they don’t know what ‘anchor text’ is and why it’s so important, then walk away
4. Ask them if your account will be managed on a day-to-day basis by one of their junior ‘account executives’ – if they say, well, yes, although he or she will report regularly to one of the directors, strike them hard in the solar plexus with an out-thrust knuckle and get out of there quick .....Read more
