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New club puts focus on photos for business owners
Business owners wanting professional, up-to-date images can now take advantage of a unique club set up by award-winning brand photographer Elizabeth Donovan.

Children’s book illustrator branches out for Chelsea Flower Show
Herefordshire children’s book illustrator Happydesigner has branched out after being commissioned for a Chelsea Flower Show garden design.

Students get on their bikes to boost farming skills
Press release from The Ernest Cook Trust: A bit of mud and rain didn’t deter land management students, who have all now qualified to drive quadbikes, thanks to training organised by The Ernest Cook Trust. The ten students, who are studying for their level 1 land-based...

New addition to Optimum directors’ board
Press release from Swindon-based Optimum: The Board of Directors at professional services company Optimum have appointed a new member. Tracey Heath, the Swindon-based firm’s Practice Manager, has become Practice Director. She joins the existing directors, including...

Beware using old blogs for marketing
This week Ovo Energy found itself in hot water, and rightly so, for sending out a quite extraordinary marketing message to its clients. Ovo crassly advised its customers to keep warm by cuddling their pets and eating porridge. With the nation facing massive rises in...

What’s stopping you from writing a blog?
Do you struggle to find time to write a blog? Do you lack inspiration? Are you worried your writing skills will let you down? Maybe a mix of all three? These are the three questions we posed recently when we ran a poll on LinkedIn to find out why so many people either...

Optimum opens doors for Swindon food bank donations
Well done to the Optimum team for generously helping Swindon Food Collective. A great effort and an opportunity for a press release too: Generous staff at accountancy and law firm Optimum are hoping to beat last year’s record, by collecting even more donations for...

How to use PR for small business and start-ups
The short answer to the thorny question ‘can you use PR for small business’ is yes. Fortunately, the long answer is also ‘yes’ and here’s why… Many small businesses and start-up enterprises look at their marketing, look at their budgets, and decide they don’t have...

How to get into a Christmas gift guide
We hate to mention the C word in September, but in the world of the media Christmas deadlines are already looming, and journalists are looking for relevant stories. If you have a product you think would be great for a gift guide, now is the time to make your move and...