With journalists constantly getting bombarded with story requests, the worst thing you can do is throw away your one chance to impress due to an overuse of buzzwords. Not to fear, mind. We have your back (Jack). They’ve created an infographic that highlights some of the most overly used and disastrous buzzwords to ever hit [...]
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What’s a budget without a leak? Budget 2013 Leaked by Evening Standard
What’s a budget without a leak? This years Budget was nearly leak free and it could have been a vast improvement on the previous year when so much of the budget was commonly known beforehand. So much so that by the time the chancellor came to announce it to the commons [...]
New Feature: Embed Media Widgets
It’s Thursday and we’re back with a small developer update. We’ve added a little feature which will allow you to embed pretty much any media widget into your press release by simply pasting the HTML into the relevant box on step 2. Popular forms of media which are embedded into releases are sound bites, if [...]
Press regulation in the UK
Many people across the country have been surprisingly vocal about their stance on press regulation, both for and against it. Kevin Hurley, now a former Metropolitan police chief superintendent, believes that the bill will hurt journalists and ‘genuine’ whilst blowers as it will instil a level of fear that stops them from anonymously confiding in [...]
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Kick start your 2013 public relations campaign with a special 20% OFF your next press release. Enter HAPPY2013 at the payment stage to take advantage of this discount. Struggling for ideas? Take a look at this whitepaper: http://www.pressat.co.uk/press-release-tips-and-ideas/ Offer ends Friday 11th January 2013.
How To Find Your Perfect Personal Online Brand
The employment market today is more competitive than ever before. Baby boomers used to get jobs by fighting over who leaves their CV on the most important person’s desk in the company chain. Today things are a bit more different. If you step into someone’s office to drop your resume or inquire about a job [...]
Pressat PR Beat – What’s Hot on The Web
Get your weekly dose of PR goodness from this weeks “PR Beat” Five Rules for Starting Out Your PR Career http://www.edelman.com/post/five-rules-for-starting-out-your-pr-career/ Nine Tips for PR Pros Working From Home During #Sandy http://www.prnewsonline.com/watercooler/Nine-Tips-for-PR-Pros-Working-From-Home-During-Sandy_17309.html The Measurement of PR http://www.elevate.ie/the-measurement-of-pr/ Can PR People Become Brand Journalists? What Is It? http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2012/10/can_pr_people_b.php Binary Byte: Shading [...]
Place your business in a £400 million mix!
Halloween is now the 3rd biggest holiday season in the UK with experts predicting retail sales to flood over £400 million. That’s an incredible 25% increase on last year. With only 15 days to go it’s time to get your last minute festive PR in front of the right crowd. Do you have: – A [...]
5 essential marketing tools and techniques for startups
Marketing is the process by which a business promotes its services or goods in the hopes of creating interest, buzz and ultimately sales! Granted, a good product speaks for itself, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t help it shout a little louder! That’s where different marketing campaigns and techniques come into play. A marketing strategy [...]
Free Distribution and Social Media News Room
We’re giving away 2 FREE Pressat agency (bulk submission) accounts for one whole year! You must be a budding startup based in the UK in need of some PR. What you get (at a glance): Free unlimited news distribution for 1 year. Free social media Newsroom submissions(SMNR) Your Newsrooms are featured throughout our website. Your [...]