The Small Business Guide to PR
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Greg Simpson. The Small Business Guide to PR
Publishing details
About the author
Greg introduces PR master and business legend Sir Richard Branson to the national media
Acknowledgements
Who this book is for
So, who are you?
Foreword
Introduction
Day 1. Congratulations
What is PR?
How does it work?
What is news?
Why bother with PR? Why not just buy an advert?
On being selfish – who needs to see your message?
Today’s Task
Day 2. Let’s Be Brief
The Gatekeepers – the press
Measurement – what does success look like to you?
A (mercifully brief) note on AVE
Today’s Task
Day 3. Strategy
Here’s one I made earlier
Today’s Task
Day 4. Research
Competitors
Media Audit
Today’s Task
Day 5. Tactics
Tactics
Press releases
Media relations
Stunts
Events
Celebrity endorsements
Expert comment
Surveys
Photo/press calls
Today’s Task
Day 6. Think in Pictures
Pictures
Beware the grin ‘n’ grip
People shots
Today’s Task
Here’s one I made earlier
Day 7. Meet the Press
A day in the life of a journalist
So what can we learn from Sam?
Today’s Task
Day 8. Let’s Do This
The humble press release
The basics. Keep it simple
Structure
Hit them between the eyes
Answer the question ‘so what?’
Include a quote
Include a call to action
Hooked on news
Don’t be tempted to start hassling
Build a relationship
Some thoughts on layout/format
Today’s Task
Day 9. Get the Message Out
PR – good relationship with the journalist
PR – no relationship with the journalist (yet!)
You – no relationship with the journalist
What if you can’t find the correct contact?
What if the journalist is too busy for a chat?
Prepare your email and send it
A note on bcc emails
Today’s Task
Day 10. Review
Google Alerts
KPIs
What have you learned?
Behold! You’ve been featured in Widgets Monthly
Make the coverage work hard for you
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Greg Simpson has been a journalist, a marketing director of a £30m turnover business and worked in two large PR agencies for clients that have ranged from multinational PLCs, to charities, not-for-profits and start-ups.
His frustration with a lack of transparency in the PR industry and its frequent ‘smoke and mirrors’ approach led him to quit big agency life and invest his years of experience into his own PR consultancy, Press For Attention PR.
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So where does PR fit into this? Well, PR teams and consultants up and down the land are either responding to requests for comment from the media, or better still, offering proactive comment and stories to the media. Good PR practitioners don’t see their relationship with the press as ‘them v. us’, they see themselves more as partners in content provision.
Quite whether journalists share this view is another matter, but I’m confident that if PR practitioners across the country, be they in-house, agency or consultant, got the ‘partner’ mentality into their thinking then everyone would benefit hugely.
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