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Client in finals of The Recruiter Awards

February 17, 2009

We're chuffed to bits that our entry for Xcede (a digital marketing recruitment consultancy) has been shortlisted in the Best Marketing Recruitment Consultancy category of The Recruiter Awards.

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PR webinars

February 13, 2009

Businesswire run a series of useful webinars on PR, including SEO for PR, press releases and the social web, how to optimise your…

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Valentines day news – our favourite stories

February 13, 2009

Here’s a roundup of our favourite Valentines Day stories. We believe that they’ve been dreamt up by PR agencies or companies. Share your…

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Realwire’s campaign to reduce PR spam

February 12, 2009

Got this today from Realwire, sounds like it would be worth signing up to:

An Inconvenient PR Truth - a campaign to reduce PR spam

Near the end of last year we carried out surveys with recipients of press releases which focused on the extent to which the releases they receive from the PR Industry as a whole are relevant to them. The results were quite startling with 78 per cent of press releases received by the participants being irrelevant to them. In addition more than half of them had taken action to block a sender of releases due to irrelevance.

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Photography PR tip

February 9, 2009

A great tool in a successful media relations is as simple as a picture; whether it's used to tell a story or to catch the attention of an editor, a picture or photo can really enhance a press release and make it stand out from the competition.

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Media Revolution – BBC 2 programme

February 6, 2009

Last night saw the first of a three-part series from the Money Programme that looks at the revolution in newspapers, TV and book…

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Vitis PR agency September update

February 6, 2009

Long time no blog. 

September certainly has been a busy month. We got short-listed for the CIPR PRide award for our work for the ICT Cluster.  Our for the West Midlands ICT Cluster is based on traditional media, social media and event support.

We have finished creating a new identity for an electronics design consultancy and started PR work for them highlighting their presence at the Embedded systems conference next week.  Our client's new website and PR activity is leading to an increase in the amount of search and direct traffic they receive. Actually, we are using SEO techniques that we are implementing on own own site to gain Google page one rankings for terms such as PR agency and technology PR agency.

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Tracks in the snow

It’s snow joke! Using the weather in PR

February 3, 2009

So the UK is suffering from the effects of too much snow: black ice, gridlock, school closures, overstretched networks etc, etc.

Brits love weather related news. I put snow into Factiva today and looked through the first page's results. Here are some of the mentions of companies, products or services that have got news coverage because of the snow:

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PR agency or SEO consultancy?

February 2, 2009

I am a director at Vitis PR and we've been looking at how we could improve our search engine visibility without having to hire an SEO consultancy. It would be interesting to hear how other companies have done the same.

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Public perception is very important

February 1, 2009

I met up with another PR executive from a Midlands PR agency on Friday and she was saying that it was definitely tough…

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