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In this week’s video, the author and curator, Bob Dearsley, explains go-to-market strategies and how businesses should go about developing a long-term sales strategy that allows them to...

PR Bollox Marketing Bollox Social Bollox

In this week’s video, the author and curator, Bob Dearsley, explains the importance of social media, as well as why businesses should take the ‘cocktail party’ approach when engaging with...

PR Bollox Social Bollox

In this week's video, the author and curator, Bob Dearsley, talks about the importance of social media, how it has grown, its importance in marketing strategies and how it can benefit B2B...

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In this week’s video, the author and curator, Bob Dearsley, discusses Inbound PR, including what it is, how it works and why businesses should be utilising it to increase brand awareness...

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In this week's video and blog, the author and curator of No More PR & Marketing Bollox, Bob Dearsley, discusses how businesses can stop wasting time by putting in a "chicken test" as early...

PR Bollox Marketing Bollox

In this week's video and blog, the author and curator of No More PR & Marketing Bollox, Bob Dearsley, discusses corporate messaging and how businesses can easily encapsulate what it is they...

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This guest blog post, 'What matters (and doesn't) when getting press for your start-up' was originally published on Medium and is printed here with the author's permission. You can follow...

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Finding and contacting journalists is hard, but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how to get your writing or business featured with these top tips on how to find the right journalists for the...

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In the world of journalism, every story has to have a hook. A hook is not a topic, but rather, the reason we should care about the topic right now. For a newspaper or magazine, this could...

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There has been a lot of advice in this blog series thus far. The goal of this final post is to explain how important it is to ensure that necessary preparation has been put into your...

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Overhauling your company’s own PR and marketing can often feel like a mountain you need to climb—one that you ascend while also somehow attending to the full-time work of meeting client...

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We are nearly 50 blogs into this series, which means I’m nearly done telling you what you should be doing to overhaul your company’s PR and marketing efforts so you can thrive in the...

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Last time we touched on advertising in publications, or “paid media”. Here’s more on when and why advertising can work for your business, B2B or B2C. In general terms, you will turn to...

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Let's start with the easiest and, oddly enough, the least expensive option - owned media. Owning the media used to mean becoming a publisher in your own right, traditionally by starting a...

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In a recent conversation with a mate of mine who started as a junior in my business and now runs his own PR agency, we laughed about just how much PR has changed in 20 years. From franking...

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In the same way that PR has changed irrevocably in the internet age, so too has journalism. The industry norms, pressures, and opportunities for journalists have been entirely upturned by...

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So, you’ve received an interview request from a journalist, done your preparation, and now it’s time to sit down on the phone, in person, or on Skype to deliver. Feeling nervous? Don’t. The...

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If you’ve been following this blog so far, I hope I’ve made it clear that the amount of effort that goes into getting your brand or company noticed has shot way up in the past decade....

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Where do you get most of your national and business news from these days? When it comes to tracking how the media has changed since the internet was in short trousers, there was a distinct...

PR Bollox Marketing Bollox Website Bollox

This is blog four of a six blog sub-series on the topic of websites, part of the ‘All that PR & Marketing Bollox” weekly blog series.

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It’s hard to deny that it’s an exciting time to be doing business. Where there was previously the business world and the internet business world, I would argue that today there is no...

PR Bollox Marketing Bollox

The internet is full of free advice, some of it good, a lot of it bad, much of it entirely dubious. As a PR man with nearly three decades of experience, I remember a time, not long ago,...