An article in The Economist last week claimed that public relations companies are feeling much better about things and doing far better financially The article stated: “According to data from Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a private-equity firm,...

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I read an interesting post yesterday that made me sit up and scratch my head The article was all about Manchester Utd placing a formal statement on its website which read as follows: “The club wishes to make it clear that no Manchester United...

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If you work in marketing or public relations, the chances are you are now regularly being asked to use social media to spread your client’s messages I have met lots of marketers and business owners who are surprisingly still trying to figure out...

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Unless you have been hidden under a rock recently (or an avalanche) you can’t have failed to have heard that the UK has ground to a practical standstill following an attack of bad weather I live in Harrogate in the north of England and work in...

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This is the first guest post I have had on my blog and it’s from Nick Hill, a director at Binary Vision I have known Nick for a while now and seen him speak several times, his knowledge and expertise in behaviour and interpersonal skills are...

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This is quite a timely post really, you may have noticed I haven’t been quite as active as I normally am recently, well that is because I have been busy working on several exciting online projects and I thought it was about time I shared one of...

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I have been talking about Twitter quite a bit recently on a number of blogs that I have the pleasure to write on I don’t share everything on my own blog but I think this tool is worth sharing if you like using free tools for monitoring...

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I meet lots of entrepreneurs and business leaders who are all interested in using Twitter and the other social channels to grow their business and communicate their marketing messages I tell them that Twitter is about relationships, and growing...

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If like most PR practitioners you are mildly interested in measuring ROI for a social media campaign I would recommend you have a read of this presentation from Oliver Blanchard, in case you didn’t know, he is the principal at BrandBuilder...

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Revolution magazine reported an interesting story this week that my beloved Liverpool FC is now officially the first English Premier League team to have reached the 1 million fan mark with its Liverpool FC Facebook page Those of you that know me...

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