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Awesome gadget that turns anything into a speaker

Awesome gadget that turns anything into a speaker
Today we received a Pocket Boom from our client online phone accessories retailer Mobile Fun. It’s great as by sticking it onto any surface it turns it into a speaker, so amplifying the sound from our iPhones. We tried it all over the office and our bookshelves and whiteboard did well, but best of all…
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Vitis PR finalist for CIPR Outstanding Small Consultancy

Vitis PR finalist for CIPR Outstanding Small Consultancy
Award entries has been the theme of some of our recent posts and we’ve got some news of our own around awards. We’re a finalist for the CIPR MIdlands Outstanding Small Consultancy Award 2011. Winners will be announced at the awards night in December. Fingers crossed! It’s been a while since we last put up…
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How to write a good award entry

I feel that I can comment on how to write a good award entry because award entries written this year by Vitis PR have gained clients the following:

  • Online Retail Awards – winner
  • Mobile News Awards – winner
  • IoD Young Director of the Year Midlands – winner
  • IoD Young Director of the Year National – finalist (will find out in September!)
  • National Business Awards – finalist (will find out in November!)
  • Internet Industry Awards – finalist
  • Develop Awards – finalist
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Links and other resources

This is a selection of links and other online resources that we have used in the past. Directories Public Relations (PR) We're listed in the Public Relations (PR) section of the B2B Index Articles Our article on choosing a B2B PR agency on Business Wings. Press releases Our PR Agency office in Birmingham release.
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If imitation is flattery, we could do without this

If imitation is flattery, we could do without this

We updated our website design a few months ago and while doing some routine checking on our Google Analytics stats we noticed page views on strange web pages that were written in Turkish. After some trawling through the interwebs we discovered the cause.

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Vitis team at the Race for Life

Vitis team at the Race for Life
Nic and Sue from the Vitis team were out supporting Cancer Research in the Race for Life today. They were out, along with 3,500 other participants raising over £200,000 for charity. Nice one girls!
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Tool for automating management of Twitter lists

Tool for automating management of Twitter lists
Managing long Twitter lists can be a pain, especially when you need to manually check who is or is not a member of a particular list. @JuliaBramble, a social media manager, mentioned this as a particular problem when trying to organise a client's followers and I thought I could put together something using Google Docs…
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Tracking social media metrics for web pages

Tracking social media metrics for web pages
You can track social metrics (the number of likes, shares, tweets etc.) for your web pages by looking at the individual services (e.g. Facebook for example offers 'insights'). If you know how, you can also use snippets of javascript in your pages and get all that info in Google Analytics. But wouldn't it be so…
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Media list building – simple to use SEO tool for public relations

Media list building – simple to use SEO tool for public relations
From list building to engaging with influencers to secure coverage for your client's stories, there are striking similarities between many aspects of SEO and mainstream PR work. At Vitis PR we use specialist SEO tools like Open Site Explorer and MajesticSEO as well as our own proprietary tools when providing SEO agency services. While many…
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Women in PR agencies – is there a glass ceiling?

Women in PR agencies – is there a glass ceiling?
Nowadays, women and men work side by side; achieving the same levels of education, being rewarded with the same qualifications and landing the same jobs at the same companies. In fact, research shows that the latest social and consumption trends are generally being driven by women. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of 20-First, one of Europe's leading…
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