Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

Category archive: Business development

Searching for PR professionals in Australia

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 11:59 pm

I’ve been using social media to search for a media relations or PR professional in Australia on behalf of a client.

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Categories: Business development, Public relations, Public sector, Social media

Statistics, research and analysis round-up - w/e 8 June 2007

Saturday, June 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

A round-up of statistics, analysis and research that I spotted this week.

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Categories: Business development, Customer experience, Direct marketing, Email marketing, Marketing, Podcasting, Public relations, Sales, Search engine optimisation, Social media, Web strategy

Reviewing “Life’s a Pitch”

Friday, March 9th, 2007 at 7:50 am

I’ve been reading Life’s a Pitch, a new book by Stephen Bayley and Roger Mavity about how we can pitch more effectively every day of our lives.

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Categories: Business development, Marketing, Personal development, Public relations, Reviews

How to be a great PR consultant

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 at 2:50 pm

Stephen Davies has kicked off a discussion about what it takes to become a great PR consultant. He’s published five tips for starters, and Heather Yaxley has added her thoughts too.

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Categories: Business development, Personal development, Public relations

Crayon launching in Second Life

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 9:58 pm

Just a quick post to wish the best of luck to the founders of Crayon with their official launch in Second Life on Thursday.

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Categories: Business development, Social media

Discover web 2.0 sites in the UK

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 at 7:23 am

Stumbled across an interesting post this morning about web 2.0 websites in the UK on the Read/Write Web site. I certainly learnt about some new sites I wasn’t aware of, and saw some that I did know about.

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Categories: Business development, Social media

Managing your personal brand

Thursday, August 24th, 2006 at 7:07 am

A post today on Duct Tape Marketing reminded me of a conversation I had with a colleague a few days ago about personal branding. We were talking about why I had a website and why I took the time to create it and blog regularly on it.

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Categories: Business development, Careers, Marketing, Personal development, Public relations, Social media

Award winning Tinderhouse project

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004 at 6:17 pm

The Royal Yachting Association has chosen Whitstable Yacht Club’s website as the winner of the RYA Communications Award – South East region.

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Categories: Business development, News, Web development, Web strategy

New business launched - GreatPlaceToStay

Monday, January 5th, 2004 at 6:04 pm

GreatPlaceToStay is a new business venture we launched today.

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Categories: Business development, News

Launch of Tinderhouse

Wednesday, January 1st, 2003 at 6:01 pm

Launch of communications consultancy Tinderhouse - specialising in delivering high quality internet and marketing services.

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Categories: Business development, News

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