Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Hands off my PR!

I do PR. That’s my job. I have two post-graduate diplomas in marketing communications and public relations.
I work for a council. I take media calls and employ various tactics to promote services for people who grit roads, fix streetlights, find homes for children in care, look after vulnerable adults, take care of country parks, manage libraries, advise schools, run trading standards, maintain landfill sites and so on.
All of those people are experts in their field and I wouldn’t dream of telling them how to do their jobs. So why do they all want to tell me how to do mine?

I’ll do everyone a deal – I promise not to run your libraries, parks, care homes and schools. So keep your bloody amateur mitts of my press releases, posters, banners, leaflets, web pages, design and social media. You’re rubbish at it. I’m not.

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