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Marketing

Essential Business Tips: Partnership Marketing

Guest blog post by Innovate UK It’s not easy to get eyes on your site. In fact, it’s hard work, time-consuming and very expensive. This is a problem that no startup wants to endure. Thankfully, there’s a simple way around this. Partnership Marketing could be the answer. With Innovate UK’s Essential Business Tips, your brand … Continued
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Rick's Rambles

7 things I’ve learned in 7 years of running Smoking Gun

By Rick Guttridge This year Smoking Gun PR hits seven. Founded back in 2010 on the principles of accountability, transparent measurement, and general ingeniousness, in less than a decade we’ve gone from fledgling start up to one of the UK’s most respected PR agencies, via three offices and an exponential increase in the number of … Continued
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Digital marketing

Programmatic marketing: What, why, how

It’s one of the biggest buzz terms of the moment, with many advertising experts claiming brands really need to be thinking of when, not if, they are going to get involved.
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Public Relations

Expert advice on analysing PR impact (properly)

It’s one of the questions we get asked by clients the most. Just how much is that press coverage really worth when it comes to sales conversions and cementing a brand name in the public’s conscious? The latest National Readership Survey (NRS) figures for UK newspapers have just been released, so we thought this would … Continued
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Social Media

Facebook update: From 360 video to job ads

Whoever coined the phrase ‘nothing changes under the sun’ clearly wasn’t thinking about social media land. ‘Stay still for more than a second and risk people losing interest’ would be a more appropriate mantra, albeit not as catchy.
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Our News

February 2017 in the Smoking Gun study

With the month done, and another about to begin, we can all breathe a sigh of relief; give it another few weeks and the first signs of spring will be evident. Not that we’ve been dragging our step since January, with a seasonal downpour of award nominations, involvement in a record-breaking industry event, team away … Continued
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The Blagger's Blog

Blagger's Blog- Stormzy speaks out, Danny Boyle's film school, Cadbury social media fail

The Blagger’s Blog – a weekly roundup of media news, sans effort Quote of the week “Top man, top man, top man.”
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Journalism

PR experts thoughts on the Facebook Journalism Project

Looking for more advice on PR, social media, and marketing? Why not get in contact or submit a brief to inject a little ingeniousness into your brand.   It’s safe to say the question of Mark Zuckerberg’s big baby, and its role as a news source, is almost as old as the social network itself. Almost. … Continued
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The Blagger's Blog

Blagger's Blog- Whoopi, trans-Vogue, London Dungeon nightmare

The Blagger’s Blog – a weekly roundup of media news, sans effort Quote of the week “You know what, Tiffany, I’m supposed to go to a couple more shows. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I’m coming to sit with you.???
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Marketing

Brand marketing: Good for me, or good for all?

Looking for more advice on PR, social media, and marketing? Why not get in contact or submit a brief to inject a little ingeniousness into your brand.   Here at Smoking Gun, everyone’s favourite ingenious PR firm in Manchester, we have long advocated CSR, or Corporate Social Responsibility to those who prefer to do things in … Continued
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Our News

2017 Valentine's Day PR campaigns you really have to see

So it has finally arrived then. The first non-public holiday ‘holiday’ of the year, the one day dedicated to showing others we love them, and want to do whatever it takes to celebrate that feeling.
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Jobs

*JOB* PR Placement Student

PR Paid Placement Duration: 12 Months, starting summer 2017 Application criteria and deadlines: We expect more than simply bog standard CVs and covering letters so if you are interested in working with us, get your thinking cap on and come up with an ingenious way to capture our attention. We love to see examples of your … Continued
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The Blagger's Blog

Blagger's Blog – Lady Gaga didn't fall, Opera Day, the Wikipedia blacklist

The Blagger’s Blog – a weekly roundup of media news, sans effort Quote of the week “Lady Gaga also was on the roof when this was filmed, and from a logistics and creative perspective, it’s a bit hard for her to go from the roof all the way down to the floor of the stadium.???
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    Our Awards

    Why stop at global stardom and incredible sales? When our clients work with us, they get the silverware to boot. We’re not into tooting our own horns, but the awards we’ve won with our clients are too good to miss…