Super dieter Kayleigh Old devised her own diet to lose weight – and then set up her own website helping others. She recounts her inspirational story here…
Category: PR and Business
Running a business? Need PR but don’t have thousands to spend on it? Read on to find out how you can gain free PR for your business and you…
Are you being CONNED by Instagram…
Is instagram making you miserable? Ever looked with envy at someone’s seemingly perfect life on Instagram? Most of us have our favourites on Instagram – the perfect family which always seems so happy, the amazing home that never looks dirty or untidy or the woman who can do the most amazing yoga poses… But people […]
The Telegraph app doesn’t work …
A look at national newspaper apps … which is best? ‘You don’t have a subscription’ says The Telegraph paper app, blocking out the story I wanted to read. It is something that happens all too often these days with The Telegraph – a paper I have paid to read on my iPhone. I have rung […]
Is your press conference a waste of time?
Press conference – a good idea or maybe not… Most organisations seeking publicity will have thought about holding a press conference or a press launch – the idea being that the world’s media (they hope) will descend and they will be richly rewarded with great publicity. Much work and sometimes considerable financial expense goes into […]
The Daily Record, a reporter called Keith McLeod and some nasty ‘journalism…’
Shocking footage shows how TWO male reporters from Daily Record ‘visited’ a young mum in her own home… It never ceases to amaze me how so many people believe local newspapers to be trustworthy and somehow ‘safer’ than the national press. But in my vast experience nothing is further than the truth and here’s some […]
Should a celebrity endorse your PR campaign?
Companies often believe getting endorsed by a celebrity will help promote them? But will it? I have a look at the pros and the cons… Gaining publicity in the media can be tough. After all, if you are a company or charity hoping for a plug in the national press then don’t forget you are […]
Coping with a bad review on a website…
It’s the nightmare for any business. You wake up, click online and there on the internet is a bad review about your company.
Maybe it’s a fair comment. Perhaps a customer didn’t get as good a service as normal. But more often than not you will feel the review is unfair, wrong and even defamatory.
The question is what to do about it? Here I give ten tips to help cope with a bad website review…
Literary Lifestories … how a ghostwriter can turn your life story into a novel…
Mum of one Natasha Collins tells why she believes documenting your own life story into a novel can be a wonderful gift to pass down the generations – and how she has set up a service helping people do just that…
Spammed … by a cancer charity
Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity sent me tens of emails over a period of three months. Despite all efforts to stop the emails, they continued.
Is this really the way any charity should be spending donated money?
Should you ever send Direct Messages on Twitter…?
I have to say that apart from a few exceptions – which I will outline – I believe that Twitter is not the place to send direct messages ever…