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Richard Donkin, Financial Times

What can Good Public Relations do for your business?

Public relations is a much misunderstood profession. It means different things to different people and can go far beyond press releases and media coverage… although that’s a big part of what we do for clients.

In essence PR is about reputation management. In fact, the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), defines PR as a “a strategic management function that adds value to an organisation by helping it to manage its reputation. Reputation is extremely valuable to an organisation and PR practitioners help organisations manage their reputations by communicating with all the different groups who are connected to the organisation.”

Good public relations achieves this by changing attitudes and influencing behaviours, two key outcomes that can be achieved through:

• Creating a positive and distinguishing identity for your company

• Building advantageous relationships among groups with a stake in your organisation’s reputation

• Promoting mutual understanding between your business and key stakeholders

• Influencing a favourable operating environment to support the achievement of strategic objectives

• Creating wider awareness and third party endorsements through media coverage and publicity

• Engaging employees to become influential and loyal brand advocates