Shopping and Public Relations, my two loves – but are they connected in some way?
The first lesson I ever had in Public Relations was how to write a press release, ‘Sun style’ compared to a broadsheet equivalent – get all the news in the first paragraph to grab attention.
But does it now work at all in the new digital fast pace world of storytelling where every journalist, freelancer and blogger is looking for a way for news to personally stand out from the noisy crowd?
According to the research by blogging community BritMums, the UK blogosphere currently commands an estimated £21m in fees from brand partnerships.
And yet, this survey suggested that only 13 per cent of brands knew how to work with bloggers.
Talking to a colleague recently who was thinking about setting up on his own, his main fear was how to ‘get clients.’ It got me thinking. How do I get clients and why am I put forward or recommended to new client’s to pitch?
We’ve all seen the status updates: “85% of your financial success is due to your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate and lead. Shockingly, only 15% is due to technology knowledge (Carnegie Institute of Technology)
SEO: “Methodology of strategies, techniques and tactics used to increase the amount of visitors to a website by obtaining a high-ranking placement in the search results page of a search engine (SERP) — including Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines.” (Webopedia)
PR: “The discipline that looks after reputation, with the aim of earning understanding and support and influencing opinion and behaviour. It is the planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain goodwill and mutual understanding between an organisation and its publics.” (CIPR)
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