You want coverage and lots of it. You can’t afford big bang advertising so you turn to PR. You want third party endorsements. Oh dear.

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It’s important that business owners know what PR is and how it works if they're investing it, as well as building a business with good PR culture and determining the success of its very function.

Whether you’re outsourcing your PR to an agency or managing it in-house, it’s important that you’re across the fast evolving, forever changing landscape of PR so that you can optimise your marketing and communications efforts for better (not worse) and get your PR resourcing to work hard and smart for you.

This is an important concept to get around which will optimise your DIY PR efforts and until you’re ready to bring in the PR big guns to do it all for you.

If media wrote about you exactly the way you want to be written about, what would they say?

PR is not a sales function, it’s a communications function. It’s an investment that builds and sustains reputation to help turn businesses into enduring brands and stabilise their long-term viability.

When you start telling your own story with powerful, authentic and consistent messaging; it helps to direct communication traffic. It helps to create roving ambassadors for your brand.

In the competitive world of PR be sure to take the time to answer these questions first and before you go into media pitching mode.