According to The Times newspaper research by marketing agency found those who offered cash paid on average £800 per post – with one in eight paying more than £1000 for a single photo on a very influential Instagram site.
Tag: PR stories
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 […]
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 […]
Ten stories that earn the most cash…
Which real-life stories do magazines, newspapers and television like the best? A selection of some of the most sought after… Cheating and infidelity If your husband ran off with the bridesmaid, your best friend or your mum then you have definitely got a story to sell! Discovered the one you love is a bigamist? You […]
Selling your story to a magazine – ten top tips!
Rule number one! Don’t go directly to any publication! A magazine or newspaper might offer you money for your story but you won’t know if their offer is a good one or not … or the best. There is also no guarantee your story will appear as you want it to or that you will be paid – if anything goes wrong you are on your own against a big national publication…
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…
Press, media, publishing – predictions for 2015
Hello to the NEW celebrities. Once celebrity status used to be confined to pop bands, film and TV stars. But all that is changing. The new celebrities have never been on TV or starred in a Hollywood movie. Instead they are ordinary people gaining thousands of followers simply tweeting about their own lives, self-promoting with stunning photos on Instagram or gaining an audience through blogging…
Ten dos and don’ts when approaching editors…
Making a good impression from the start is crucial when you are approaching an editor for the first time. Here, we give some essential dos and don’ts…
Will Stella’s tribunal claim affect The Apprentice?
I’ve always believed that going on The Apprentice was to be seen as a stepping stone to becoming ‘famous’ or getting your name out there, rather than actually getting a job…