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  • Business Development,  Strategy

    PR vs Marketing

    Companies often confuse PR and marketing but they fulfil very different requirements: Focus – Marketing focuses on products and services and PR focuses on people and relationships. Function – Marketing activities drive sales activities and they can be aligned to discrete KPI’s and targets. In contrast PR supports an organization’s goals and objectives and is much harder to quantify. Target – Marketing works to meet customer demands to sell goods and services. PR targets a range of personas and goals that collectively support an organization’s objectives. Examples include customers, the media, employees, suppliers, the community, investors, political leaders, financial and trade analysts etc. Collateral benefits; PR drives organizational success by building…

  • Strategy

    On the road…

    On Sunday I flew out to Newark and in the next 5 days visited San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston, Michigan, Detroit and New York, a grand total of 12,463.85 miles. It’s been intense and included visits to highly secure research institutes, manufacturing plants and a few Attorney’s as we put in the ground-work to help launch a new business. Saturday at least gave me a chance to get back to my start point in Newark to catch up on a lot of paperwork before I headed back to the airport for one last flight this week – home! All that travelling has helped teach me not to worry too much about the…

  • Business Development,  News,  Strategy

    A Brexit Guide for SME’s

    Introduction The term Brexit has now become used as an encapsulation of the incredibly complex journey we have ahead of us in moving Britain out of the EU. The actual Brexit referendum was held on Thursday 23 June 2016 with a decision to leave carried by 51.9% to 48.1% with a turnout of 71.8% and more than 30 million people voting. England and Wales voted in favour of leaving but Scotland and Northern Ireland both backed staying in the EU by 62% and 55.8% respectively. There were prophesies of huge market impacts and the pound did slump the day after the referendum and it remains around 15% lower against the…