You Can’t Shrink Your Way to Greatness

You Can’t Shrink Your Way to Greatness

Recently, the international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published that the global economy is projected to remain subdued in the second half of 2022, before slowing further in 2023 to an annual growth of just 2.2%. While the world...
A World Without Public Relations

A World Without Public Relations

Considered to be the founding father of public relations (PR), Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have developed public relations strategies shaped by his uncle’s theories on behavioural psychology. He believed that governments used political...
Defining the Future of Public Relations

Defining the Future of Public Relations

Public Relations (PR) is not enough to encompass all it does. In fact, 87% of PR professionals believe it’s a poor descriptor of the job. According to Muck Rack’s ‘The State of PR 2022’ report, 55% of agencies believe that the term needs to be...
PR Misconceptions Quashed

PR Misconceptions Quashed

The public relations industry has attracted its fair share of negative perceptions; some spawned from the traditional ‘good old days of PR’, others from agencies that promise the world and under-deliver, and the rest from pure lack of understanding. PR has...
PR, You’ve Changed…

PR, You’ve Changed…

Public relations has been the only profession I have known. I started back in 1999 when the company I worked for scheduled time daily for the team to queue with a floppy disc in hand to load all our emails onto the one computer that connected to a dial-up internet...