Behind the PR scenes on the day of Thatcher’s resignation
I'm not interested in debating the politics and the former PM but I have found it fascinating to see how many people genuinely do...
A Brown mark against the Youth Police and Crime Commissioner role?
Britain's first youth police and crime commissioner has made a tearful apology for what she accepts was "inappropriate language and views" that she posted...
Boris caught in video nasty
To many, he is a lovable buffoon in an area that has few fans. Politics.
However, will Boris Johnson's appearance (click here) on the Andrew...
Storm brewing for coffee giants Starbucks
You can almost hear the shrieks over the double-skinny, tall, smooth, flytothemoonandletmeplayamongthestars mocha-lattes:
"The customers are revolting, the customers are revolting!"
Whatever you make of Starbucks'...
Are the Transport and border staff strikes and the Dairy protest udderly ill-conceived ?
Firstly, this is not a political blog. It merely serves to highlight where I believe PR is an issue.
Two pieces of protest/industrial action in...
G4S – “Buckles” under the strain of Olympic effort
In terms of how not to handle the press, this is an object lesson.
Your company is in panic mode, days away from a huge...
Jeremy Clarkson in Jeremy Clarkson shock
Plenty of outrage this week with Jeremy Clarkson forced to issue an apology for his rant about striking public sector workers.
In case you missed...
PR support for Gaddafi? Tanks but no tanks!
Scanning the web this morning for blogging fodder, I learnt that some big, shiny London PR agencies received a curious email last month, purporting...
Back off the RIM – Blackberry CEO’s PR tussle with BBC
This week, the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones spoke to Mike Lazaridis, the co-chief executive of Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian firm behind Blackberry.
That...
The power of giving away your expertise
With their freemium models, software providers give away their hard-earned products and services all the time, slowly build a critical mass of customers, hoping...
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John Lewis – won’t somebody think of the children?
X Factor auditions, the return of Strictly, John Lewis adverts dominating social media...yep, the end of the British summer is right on schedule.
Only this...
You silly sausage…we don’t know WHAT you’re selling
It is a truth universally acknowledged that marketing folk are so busy with buzz words that they forget to tell us WHAT they actually...
Stop selling vitamins, start curing headaches
Imagine you've just had a really stressful meeting. Your head is thumping. You've got 20 minutes until your next one. What will you do?
You'll...
