Food provenance has never been more important to consumers than it is today. With health and ethical issues featuring highly in buying decisions, specialist food producers, retailers, and brands need to demonstrate provenance quickly and, crucially, in an authentic and truthful way. The good news is that many smaller, artisan producers have a head start […]
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Why your business needs video marketing
https://youtu.be/SG4oyA9C2RU If you’ve clicked through for this video, then I’m guessing your company falls into one of two categories. Either you are curious about video marketing, having not done any before OR, maybe, your company has tried video before and it’s not quite worked out. If that’s you, don’t worry – video marketing is definitely […]
Sweet Emotion
Christmas is fast approaching. We know this not from the coloured lights that festoon the high streets of every town and city – they’re not up yet – nor from the lavishly decorated Christmas trees that brighten the living rooms of the nation, because they’re still growing in some far off, distant forest. No, we […]
Grouse debate a lesson in selecting your audience
One of the fundamental principles of PR is to choose your audience wisely. Above the line marketing is all well and good if you have the budget for it and your product or service demands such an approach, but most companies need to target a specific audience to get the best returns. For this, you […]
Why video is perfect to market your shoot
A great deal of the pleasure derived from game shooting comes from the surroundings we are lucky enough to find ourselves in. The British countryside has everything; craggy fells and dales, heather moorland, Constable-esque rolling farmland and vast expanses of wilderness. Whatever landscape takes your fancy, you will find it on this sceptred isle. And […]
Milking trends to make your content go further
The other day I was reading a book on marketing which was fascinating for all the wrong reasons. There was a section on utilising trending topics on social media to make your content travel further, which being our bag rather, I hastily turned to. The author used the example of a marketing manager in charge […]
What we can learn from gunmakers on Instagram
Unless you’ve just got back from a five-year trip to Mars, you’ll know that the social platform de jour is the seemingly unstoppable Instagram. The number of IG registered users currently stands at 300 million, with 60 million photos being shared each day. It offers all the best bits of Twitter and Facebook and Pinterest […]
Why pigeon shooting is a lot like marketing
Marketing is a bit like pigeon shooting. Okay, bear with me on this one – it’s not just an excuse I use when I fancy a day in the hide rather than a day in the office. Although that’s something I often do fancy, sadly, it rarely comes to pass. But I digress. You see, […]