BondPR can now offer a PR capability across 16 countries in Africa. We have also started a PR campaign for ForgetMeNot Africa which enables very ordinary basic mobile phones to send and receive email without the need for downloads or smartphone functionality. Great for empowering Africa with email. Read more
BondPR has reorganised into four businesses from just two
The businesses are:
- BondPR International: This is a new company, CEO Helen Bannigan (formerly COO BondPR and is responsible for all international campaigns
- BondPR UK. This is new company headed by Paul Shlackman and handles all UK based clients
- BondPR Paris: This was previously Whiteoaks France which BondPR acquired a 66% stake in December 07. In June 08 Sophie Decaudin joined from Trimedia as VP France. Client numbers and staff has doubled in a year
- BondPR Group. This is the old company headed by founder Tom Burgess who will now focus on business development
We started this site in October last year and have rather neglected it!. The idea was to have a news site of short news items where our team, clients, prospects, partners, media and anyone else could go to see what was new with us and we could link in from other documents or from our main sites: BondPR and Bond-i.plus it needed to be very easy to update which a WordPress platform certainly is. We plan to do a revamp of our website shortly with an improved content management system, so this site may change. So some recent news will follow.
Happy New Year and Happy Chinese New Year. There has been so much happening that we have been slow at keeping you up to date. Three new campaigns underway in January for a start. More details in a news update to follow, so don’t got away, we will be back after the break….
BondPR Paris team has done an excellent job in promoting the BondBasic concept of an entry-level multi-country PR service on a fixed fee. As a direct result of editorial, we have already had one meeting with a large B2C company in France. We are looking at more ways we can get the message out about this service.
As they say we live in extraordinary times, we need to be creative with our busineses and think of ideas that suit todays market, maybe not for the long term but for today and the medium term.
BondBasic is designed for companies/brands that temporarily do not have the budget for a full-service PR firm in multiple countries. It may be because you need to reduce budgets while maintaining a presence or need to reach out to new markets. The service is also available to other PR firms who don’t have the international reach but have clients who need to be active in multiple markets globally.
So if that could be of interest contact BondPR
BondPR’s efforts to raise its profile in the social media/online PR stakes with Bond-i took another leap forward today (in UK) with the announcement that the most influential PR user on Twitter is Neville Hobson of Bond-i, straight in an Number One. It was based on this list of UK PR people on Twitter
Neville is available to discuss how Bond-i can help client reach out to those they want to influence, using social media tools. He will be pleased to have an email exchange or initial phone call (in English or Spanish) and for further consultation/projects there will be for a fee. We are running a free webinar for clients or potential clients on Tuesday 9 December.
The Top 50 UK PR people by Twitter Influence has been prepared by Stephen Waddington of RainierPR. Check also blog from CEO Edelman Europe
Here is the top 20:
- 99.4, Drew Benvie, @drewb, Hotwire
- 98.9, Stephen Davies, @stedavies, 3WPR
- 97.8, Jon Silk, @prgeek, Lewis PR
- 96.4, David Brain, @DavidBrain, Edelman
- 96.4, Ben Matthews, @benrmatthews, Hotwire
- 95.9, Stuart Bruce, @stuartbruce, Wolfstar
- 95.1, Dirk Singer, @dirkthecow, Cow
- 95, Melanie Seasons, @mseasons, Online Fire
- 95, Lewis Webb, @lewiswebb, Shiny Red
- 93, Michael Litman, @litmanlive, Splendid Communications
- 93, Johnny Rosemont, @rosemontjd, Weber Shandwick
- 92, Vikki Chowney, @vikkichowney, Six Degrees
- 92, Simon Collister, @simoncollister, Weber Shandwick
- 92, Marshall Manson, @marshallmanson, Edelman
- 92, Justin Kerr-Stevens, @jkerrstevens, Central Government
- 92, Jaz Cummins, @JazCummins, Shiny Red
- 90, Jonathan Hopkins, @jopkins, Shed
- 90, Jed Hallam, @jedhallam, Wolfstar
- 90, Jason Mical, @brothermagneto, Edelman
Today we issued a news release to announce Kim Rose as Vice President of BondPR’s new San Francisco office. We are reaching out to existing contacts and preparing a direct marketing campaign to ambitious companies in the Bay Area who are looking to get more results, fast.
Despite economic concerns, it seems a great opportunity as most Silicon Valley firms have pressure on their budgets and the BondPR service means you can get domestic and international PR with one point of contact locally without the high overheads of big multinational PR firms or the management hassle of loose networks of multiple agencies. We have found that once CMOs/Marketing VPs/CEOs understand how we make multi-country campaigns simple, they love it. Sometimes less enthusiastic are the PR managers who see it as their role to manage multiple agencies and travel to cover them all! Get real, you cant do that any more. We can do it for you, we can also manage/coordinate your existing agencies, you can focus on the strategy, we will give you the results!
Also Kim has a strong experience in marketing so we can give clients the integrated marketing approach and undertake on projects outside mainstream PR
Good luck Kim, go tell ‘em
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Today, we are updating some of the information on bondpr.com website to reflect recent developments. At the same time this is being reviewed by our international team so we are operating in Live mode, if you see anything odd, we are hopefully just editing!!
