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PR for small businesses
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A guide to easy, cheap and sometimes free ways to promote your business.
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Never underestimate the power of persistence
This applies in life, in general, but more so to public relations. Of course, it’s qualified: ring somebody up every day when you’ve already been told they’re not interested and you could end up with some abuse, at best, or a law su...
News when there’s no news: surveys
You may have read my post about press releases, below. These are great when you are launching or have interesting news relating to your business, but what of the times when you are just ticking along, doing what you do, serving customers? The local p...
How to blog for PR
I remember my mum telling me she was going to write a ‘blog’ about a garage that had ripped her off. This was the first time I had heard the word and was gutted that I had been out-media-ed by my mother. These days the internet is chocker...
Competitions and reader offers
Competitions and reader offers are a good way to get coverage, and make you seem like a thoroughly nice business owner! The media love them because they get to give something to their readers which costs the publication absolutely nothing, and you ca...
Business Networking
This is a plug, kind of, but a really useful one. I’ve just joined 4Networking, Britain’s fastest growing business networking group. I went to my first meeting on Friday and already have three potential new pieces of business from it - we...

