tomburgess — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:12:39 +0000

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 changes

tomburgess — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:29:42 +0000

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

What’s New

tomburgess — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:23:30 +0000

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

tomburgess — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:30:26 +0000

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….

Free Social Media Webinar, not sold out yet

tomburgess — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:09:10 +0000

Bond-i has been developing well, the free webinar has attracted encouraging interest, still a chance to register for European session at 11 am GMT and North American session at 11am PST on Tuesday 9 December 2008

Maintaining Media Mentions

tomburgess — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:54:18 +0000

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

Maximising the PR budget

tomburgess — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:49:19 +0000

Registrations are coming in for our new webinar on How Social Media can maximize the PR budget due to be aired on Tuesday 9 December at 11.00 in Europe and later at 11am PST in California. This is the first in a series of webinars which help inform PR and marketing professionals as well as business management, whether BondPR clients or not, about the rapidly changing media and communications landscape. We have been talking with our clients about social media and how we can help them use these tools to maximise their PR budget and thought let’s do a seminar for the them. As our clients are spread across the world a webinar was the only option, then we thought let’s extend it to all and make it free.

We have devised some great packages to help clients incorporate these tools in their marketing.

The series is presented by Neville Hobson, a leading early adopter and influencer in social media communication for business and an accomplished speaker and author as well as Development Director of Bond-i. On 13 November 2008, an informal online analysis indicated that Neville is the most influential PR user on Twitter the social messaging utility, from a list of over 200 UK-based PR people using the service.

The first online seminar How to Maximise Your PR Budget With Social Media is free and will be webcast on Tuesday December 9, 2008 for Europe at 11:00GMT/12.00 CET and for North America at 2pmEST/11amPST. Click here to register.

The other seminars scheduled in the “Tell Me More about Social Media” series include:

From Command and Control to Engage and Participate: A practical guide to public relations and social media planning and execution

Connecting With the New Influencers: How to identify, connect to and engage with bloggers, podcasters and other influencers.

Neville at Bond-i is top Twitter

tomburgess — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:05:12 +0000

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:

Kim Rose: BondPR San Franscisco

tomburgess — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:34:55 +0000

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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Website update in progress

tomburgess — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:45:01 +0000

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!!