Category Archives: PR agency

Topic archive: PR agency
Articles about PR agencies, what they do and working with them.

Why do PR agencies take on clients they shouldn’t?

Money? Self belief? Misguided self-belief? Unwillingness to pass the business to another agency that may do better? Any more?

So why do I care? Well I have spoken to two companies over the last few weeks and both have been disappointed by their first foray into PR. This unfortunately makes it harder for other PR agencies to convince them that PR can benefit a company.


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Technology PR agency – how to find a good one

Vitis PR is a PR agency specialising in technology for both business to business and consumer technology companies. Here, our team looks at some key questions to consider when looking for a PR agency specialising in technology: Who exactly will be working on your account? Often the senior executives of a PR agency will come to…
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Midlands PR agency – what types exist

We've been operating as a Midlands PR agency since 2006, so we're pretty new to the region. However, in that short time, we have tried to landscape the PR agency/PR consultancy sector here. Here are our basic intial thoughts and of course we recognise that all agencies are different, so we may not all fit…
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How to make a PR agency / client relationship work

A well thought out targeted PR campaign will bring business benefits, with leads, more positive awareness, support for sales teams and more. But often companies employing PR agencies come away with a bad taste in their mouths. A prospect who subsequently became a client asked me recently: “so what if you don't manage to achieve what you put in the proposal?" I told him that if we didn't think we could do it, we would walk away, but PR is a two way street.

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Are Birmingham PR agencies as good as London PR agencies?

Being 7 miles out of the centre of Birmingham and running a small but thriving PR agency with clients ranging from listed companies to small start ups, I believe that the work we produce and the work of the many PR agencies in Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull and Wolverhampton is just as good and sometimes dare I say better than London based agencies. We've turned out some great work for companies from the US, Manchester, London, Bracknell, Germany and Israel...and many other agencies here have national accounts where they gain great coverage and raise brand awareness without having to sit in London.

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Should PR agencies give out their press lists?

This is probably a strange question for any PRs reading this, but sometimes we do get the request to have full access to the press lists that we create on behalf of our clients, especially at the end of a project or contract. By full I mean including contact details. Of course like other agencies we agree a tiered press list up front, with title of publication and name of journalist, but not with their numbers, emails, Twitter account and blog details.

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Virtual PR agencies cut PR costs

The stories of doom and gloom abound: as we start 2009, we are seeing job cuts and businesses going out of business and a general economic slow down. Public relations services as with any marketing services can be the first to be trimmed, subjected to frozen budgets or cut completely. However, PR can benefit companies in a downturn by keeping their profile high, maintaining customer and investor trust, communicating positively with their audiences and keeping the company name in the headlines without the associated high cost of other marketing communications methods. Now is probably the perfect time to reassess any 2009 PR campaign. 

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