Epson’s central London pop-up shop gives visitors a space to co-work and to test their new EcoTank printers – which offers the UK’s growing population of freelances and SMEs a cost-effective alternative to ink cartridge machines. Three times (so far) in 2018 I have had to dash out to a nearby supermarket and buy expensive …
Tag: independent PR practitioners
Oct 15 2017
Launching a CIPR independent PR practitioners network
Long-term readers of my PR blog will know that I have been seeking to improve CIPR provision for independent practitioners since 2014 when I chaired a CIPR roundtable of independent PR practitioners (aka freelance PRs, or solo PRs) at the institute’s Russell Square HQ. Once elected to the CIPR’s Council, I began to agitate about how the …
Feb 16 2016
Back on the CIPR IPs trail
I took a month-long sabbatical from blogging recently – partly due to pressure of other work, but also to recharge my personal blogging batteries. This PR blog may take on a new lease of life now, as I’ve also taken on some new responsibilities at the CIPR: in December I was elected to the CIPR’s …
Feb 26 2015
The State of (Solo) PR
The Chartered Institute of Public Relations published its annual State of the Profession report this week, and, ahead of tomorrow’s CIPR tweetchat for independent practitioners, I have been reading the report and the detailed data tables to try and get a sense of the “State of the solo PR” sector. The report includes some observations …