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If you haven’t yet used PR, you probably won’t realise how effective it is. In simple terms it is free advertising. However, readers or audiences of your chosen advertising media will know that your advert has been paid for and will take any claims you make with a pinch of salt.
PR fills any spare editorial space that the media has, by using your information.
Most journalists will accept pieces that have been written well, for them, and will often print them word for word.
Strong photography will also increase your chances of coverage. We provide and direct this by subcontracting this out to specialists in your field.
Read a publication and the chances are that any article that is around 400 words is a result of a press release formulated by a PR company. Any really striking photography that appears may also be PR lead, such as an automotive company director appearing as a reflection in one of his cars, or a textile manufacturer’s face photographed through the eye of a needle.
PR generates news on companies, which, over time, will create a profile that you like. It’s reputation management and a lot more cost effective than traditional marketing methods.
Choose a company you respect – why do you respect them? Probably because their image has been manipulated by public relations.
Whether you are a leading theme park or a management consultant, we have the tools to raise your profile.
It is not a luxury, people are forming their own opinions of you all the time. PR will lead to further interest in your company and positively affect its turnover.
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Many companies spend vast amounts on exhibition stands, shows, or events, but don’t maximise this.
Every stand, show or event should be doing the following: -
Letting the readers of their key media know what is happening, in time for them to buy tickets
Ensuring the key media attending are invited to talk to you, resulting in published interviews
Providing press packs in the press office for all media attending
Organising a press preview/opening night
Communicating the success of the whole thing by sending out a follow up press release.
Exactly how to achieve this is where our expertise lies, having worked with Disney on Ice, the Baby and Toddler Show, and more specialist trade shows.
You can pay us a project fee or a monthly fee – whichever suits your budget.
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So you have decided your company can benefit from the opportunities that the internet has to offer, but now you need to decide what you want to say and what sort of image you wish to create. This is where most companies encounter problems and unfortunately for them, decide to put the design of their website on hold. Venture PR website copywriting can help.
We interview you in person or over the telephone and take down information relating to your business. This information is then concisely restructured to create a profile that suits your needs.
Whether you are a leading theme park, manufacturer, or online retailer, we have the knowledge to create the text for your website, enabling you to build a reputable, trusted brand.
We have extremely creative angles that we can apply to the most mundane of facts!
Written correctly your website can strengthen the one-to-one relationship you have with your customers (past, present or future); ensuring that your company stays at the front of their mind for when the time is right for them to utilise your services.
You have just read the information on this page and (hopefully!) found it informative.
Using our website copywriting service you will have the confidence that your new site will read as good as it looks. Just hand over the first stumbling block to creating your website to us.
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Feature articles, which explore a subject at length often stem from a regular news item.
It maybe that Venture PR has sent out a press release which an editor found particulary interesting and topical. The editor may then ask Venture PR to provide a 1500 word article to expand upon the 400 word press release. This is great news for you! It means that most of the page of the publication will be taken up with words about your company. Sometimes this results in a double page spread.
Venture PR will also proactively seek out feature length article opportunities. This is done by contacting your favourite media and asking them if they would like us to contribute an article. This means less work for the journalist and more media coverage for you.
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Our writing does more than just list facts or product features.
Venture PR will give your customers the reasons why they should buy your product or use your services.
What is best and unique about your company, product or service? We will make sure everyone understands. No one will be left in the dark by unnecessary jargon.
We will get to know your business really well, and make sure we have done the prior preparation and planning to sell your company using our words.
We are an extension of your sales team and so is your promotional literature.
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According to Wikipedia:
“Copywriting uses words to promote a person, business, opinion, or idea. It may be used as plain text, as a radio or television advertisement, or in a variety of other media. The main purpose of writing this marketing copy, or promotional text, is to persuade the listener or reader to act — to buy a product or subscribe to a certain viewpoint, for instance. Alternatively, copy might also be intended to dissuade a reader from a particular belief or action. Copywriting is "getting across the perfect message, with the perfect words."
What more can we say? For once, we are lost for words. But we won’t be when you ask us to write your copy for you.
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Venture PR can become your organisation’s community liaison officer.
Community liaison reaches out to the community that is vital to your business or organisation. Goodwill is essential for operating harmoniously in your community.
Venture PR can:
Form relationships and ensure the local community feels consulted on your developments and decisions
Look at the ways in which the local community can work with your organisation
Present the benefits of your organisation to the local community and its organisations, groups and clubs
Attend local community events as and when required
Formulate community activities and PR events with local businesses, charities, schools and so on
Prevent loss of goodwill and therefore prevent disgruntled residents contacting the local media with their negative opinions about you
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Newsletters help you to stay one step ahead of your competition. They can strengthen the one-to-one relationship you have with your customers (past, present or future); ensuring that your company stays at the front of their mind for when the time is right for them to utilise your services.
Companies also use newsletters to gain the support of their communities or employees.
We will have an initial meeting where you hand everything over to us (relevant contacts, telephone numbers and gossip) and we take it from there, but giving you full approval and changes on everything.
Newsletters costs include professional photography, research, meetings, writing, design and print.
Your aims are often simple – ‘make us look more corporate’, ‘can we look more people rather than product orientated’, ‘can we keep our shareholders/members updated?’
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It makes sense that all communicative materials on the company are coming from the minds of one team of people. This way, all the messages about your company that we have communicated to date will also be prevalent in other corporate literature.
We can simply provide the copywriting for such projects, or undertake the project as a whole, quoting you for print, photography etc.
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An advertorial is an advert that is the size and style of an editorial piece of writing. An advertising and editorial hybrid.
Unlike editorial, you will need to pay for the advertorial space, but don’t forget that writing an advertorial requires more words, information, and some might say, more skill than writing a short advert.
Advertorials are popular with clients who are nervous about, or new to PR and communications. You will know exactly what is going to appear, where and when.
The potential media coverage is obviously much less than if we were to distribute a press release to many different editors, but we understand that everyone is different and some people just prefer advertorials.
The Venture PR team is skilled in writing advertorials that get the right messages across in a topical and suitable writing style.
We always start by asking “what do you want the outcome of this advertorial to be? For potential customers to contact you? For local people to attend an event? For readers to visit your website?”
You tell us your goals, and we’ll provide the words to achieve them.
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Press releases ensure a steady flow of information between your company and its relevant media. In every publication you read, you will see evidence of press releases – they will appear as if the publication is endorsing a company, doing a review, an interview or sometimes even as a news piece.
Venture will send out as many press releases per month as is required, ensuring you gain coverage every month.
We don’t need hours of your time. We’ll call you for approval on an article that’s being emailed over and regularly update you.
Your monthly fee will cover all press release research (just give us the names and contact numbers of the people that have the facts); regular updates with yourself either in person or over the phone; and a report detailing exactly what you have received for your budget.
We have extremely creative angles that we can to add to what seems the most mundane of news!
Press release subjects may include: - new appointments, exhibitions, new developments, launches of products or premises, links with charities or the community, staff training, joint ventures or new business. We will compile a unique media list targeting media you specify and we suggest.
We will always find something newsworthy.
Most companies will need between one and four days of our time per month. Being completely flexible we can adapt this to suit your budget and you may well only require one day.
Our costs are usually offset quickly against the additional revenue our coverage can generate.
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Your website opens up your business to a global customer base, so you may be thinking about offering a multilingual website or different sites for different countries.
You may simply have marketing or promotional materials that require translation.
When you enlist the services of Venture PR, you can be sure that your translation has been done by a person and not a computer.
Our translator, Julia has lived and worked in Germany and France. She understands the little colloquialisms and quirks of the languages and this is what sets our translation services apart from the rest.
Do you know the local sayings or figures of speech that vary from region to region in Germany or France? Julia does
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Venture PR works closely with a team of Midlands based SEO experts called thebluecube.com
Together we ensure that when people type their requirements into Google or other search engines, it is your website and company name that comes up.
The process behind this is clever and very technical, but all you need to know is that we have the tools to ensure your website carries the right words to be found by the search engines.
Your website can be the most effective sales and marketing tool that you have.
Search Engine Optimisation complements PR. The two can work in synergy to ensure that it is your company’s name that is on everybody’s lips.
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Media training is a specialist area of PR and media liaison. We at Venture PR don’t claim to be experts in media training, but we are media trained and can share our experts with you.
We can arrange media training for you and your team, so that you acquire the following skills which will last you a lifetime:
How to create the perfect 'sound bite'
Getting your message across clearly
Getting the most out of your time on air
Becoming aware of the pitfalls
Understanding the difference between live or recorded
Important questions to ask
What to wear
Types of questioning and how they work
Preparation
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If the nature of your business means that you receive regular calls from the press we can alleviate this responsibility from you completely.
Once managed by Venture PR, the messages and information going through to the press about your company, will become clear and informative; above all protecting your image.
We will become the point of contact and all calls are forwarded to us. There is nothing more intriguing to journalists than ‘no comment’ and they will not give up!
Crisis management PR is emergency PR, but it can be planned and prepared for. Crisis management is crucial when you're facing a PR nightmare or having to address urgent or difficult issues in the media. Venture PR helps you to make a plan for future use so that you are well rehearsed before the event. With our help, your company and people will click into crisis management mode when the chips are down, to make the most out of a difficult situation.
We will help you to put together a crisis communication team, decide on and media train a designated spokesperson, handle tough media interviews and much more.
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