Advice to Public Relations Job Seekers

Advice to Public Relations Job Seekers

Like many good PR agencies, we’re hiring at present, which means we have job ads live and are sharing the vacancy over social channels to attract job-seeking talent. We’ve had hundreds of applications as a result–and we’re amazingly grateful for the interest....
HARO under fire for unverified sources

HARO under fire for unverified sources

Help A Reporter Out (or HARO) is a tool used by journalists to find sources, and by communications teams to pitch experts. The reporter writes a brief summary of what they need, and these are sent to a mailing list three times a day. Comms teams then respond with...
Four ways a PR agency can suddenly shut down

Four ways a PR agency can suddenly shut down

Commercially PR firms are pretty simple. Revenues tend to be predictable since most clients are on a monthly retainer. Costs are relatively flexible since payroll and staff costs are the majority. As you win more clients, you can hire people. Beyond M&A, there...
Five more lessons from starting a PR agency

Five more lessons from starting a PR agency

As you know we’re starting a PR agency. So far things are going well – we’re working with some wonderful clients, with a clutch of exciting prospects and had a huge number of applicants to our open rec, giving us a talent pipeline. We had encouraging...