In this episode, I delve into the world of digital communications and public relations, focusing on how journalists can elevate your content. This is a must-listen for business owners looking to imrpove their online presence in what is a hyper-competitive digital-first marketplace.

Key points covered:

• The importance of quality content: We discuss why smartly produced content gives you an edge online and positively impacts your commercial goals.
• Benefits of hiring journalists: Learn about the three main advantages that journalists bring to your business - creating multimedia content (written articles, videos, audio pieces), extracting compelling stories from brief interviews (thus saving time for busy professionals) and enhancing output quality with sub-editing experience.
• Role of sub-editors: Discover how sub-editors can shape, fact-check and significantly improve your content, even if you're skilled at writing.
• Freelance journalists and content creation: Explore reasons to consider freelance journalists for creating multimedia content that broadens reach online; extracting better narratives from your material than possible alone; polishing written work into superior final products.

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If you're a solopreneur or you run your own growing business and employ people, this episode will resonate!

My message to you is this: PR is more important than ever for your business.

Let's face it, your prospective clients and customers hate advertising and promotional chest-beating. They don't want to be incessantly pitched at and marketed to. Plus, with AI and bots becoming more prevalent in the marketplace, people will start craving 'the human touch' more than ever, if they don't already. Let's face it, you (and your people) are what set your business apart from your competitors: you/they are what makesa your business unique, so let's see more of you/them!

PR is all about humans, and building relationships with the people who are important to the success of your business.

Understanding this powerful concept is key - critically, understanding how it all works 'under the PR hood' is important if you want to leverage PR, content and digital communications strategically to help grow your brand and your business.

Here's the thing, you're probably doing a lot of great PR stuff already. Now to do it in a way that's strategic, respectful and sustainable!

In the next episode, we're going to dig into the tactics that are often used by PR pros on behalf of their clients: there are a lot, so strap yourself in!

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Another meaty one for you. Just setting the scene for later episodes!

In episode one I broke down what PR is - and isn't. We busted some myths, and explored the broad canvas that is public relations.

In episode two, I unpacked mt 'Marketing Communications Pyramd' to illustrate the role PR played in the broader marketing picture.

In this episode, I discuss the 'secret sauce' of being a good PR operator 💥  PLEASE NOTE: You don't have to have studied PR necessarily to be able to master the discipline - but it all started with having the right mindset, and that's what I dissect in this episode.

There's a lot to it (and you might already be ticking a lot of boxes - YAY!

Let's dig in ... 

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