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Your SEO agency would rather you didn't read this.PR isn't coverage. It's SEO you didn't pay for.Here's what actually ha...
19/06/2026

Your SEO agency would rather you didn't read this.

PR isn't coverage. It's SEO you didn't pay for.

Here's what actually happens when a journalist mentions your business and drops a link back to your site.

Google sees a high-authority publication vouching for you. Editorially. Not because you slipped someone fifty quid for a sponsored slot, but because a real journalist decided you were worth referencing.

That single link carries more weight than months of cold outreach to dodgy "guest post opportunities" rotting in your spam folder.

→ The Times links to you. Google notices.
→ A trade publication quotes you. Google notices.
→ A respected blog cites your data. Google notices.

Meanwhile, your SEO agency is invoicing you four figures a month to chase the same outcome through manufactured backlinks that Google has been getting wise to for years.

I'm not knocking SEO agencies. Plenty are brilliant.

But this bit quietly bothers me. A lot of founders are paying two separate invoices for the same result. One to PR, one to SEO. Neither team talks to the other. Neither realises they're rowing in the same direction.

Editorial links are the most expensive asset in SEO.

And good PR generates them as a byproduct.

The founders who clock this stop thinking about coverage as a vanity exercise and start treating it as infrastructure.

What's your take? Like & comment "Compound" if you'd rather your marketing budget worked twice as hard.

I've seen good businesses destroyed by one slow afternoon.One story. One journalist with time to fill. No statement from...
18/06/2026

I've seen good businesses destroyed by one slow afternoon.

One story. One journalist with time to fill. No statement from the founder. By 5pm it was everywhere. The business was fine. The reputation wasn't.

Here's the bit most owners never see, because they've never sat on the other side of the desk.

A crisis rarely arrives with sirens. It arrives on a Tuesday. Around 2pm. A reporter has 600 words to file by five, a thin tip from somewhere, and your name in the subject line of an email you haven't opened yet.

They ring. Voicemail. They email the generic info@ address. Nothing. They check your website. No press contact.

So they write what they've got. And what they've got is one side of the story. Yours arrives the next morning, when the headline is already doing the work.

Most owners prepare for the loud version. Sirens, lawyers, a boardroom. The quiet version is the one that does real damage, because by the time you've spotted it, the story has set.

You won't get a warning.

The brands that come through these moments with their reputation intact decided three things long before the phone rang:
→ Who picks up
→ What they're allowed to say in that first hour
→ What they absolutely don't say, no matter how friendly the journalist sounds

That's it. Not a 40-page crisis manual gathering dust on a shared drive. Three decisions, made on a quiet afternoon, while nothing was on fire.

Because the afternoon a reporter rings is a terrible time to start thinking about it.

So... have you actually decided who picks up the phone? Comment "ready" if you have. Comment "nope" if reading this made you wince a bit. Both answers are useful.

Your brand image is being written right now.Not by you. By anyone who Googled you last week, found nothing interesting, ...
17/06/2026

Your brand image is being written right now.

Not by you. By anyone who Googled you last week, found nothing interesting, and moved on.

That's the part that stings.

You think your brand is the website. The logo. The About page you sweated over at 11pm on a Tuesday.

It isn't.

Your brand is whatever the last person who searched your name decided it was. And if there's nothing worth finding, they've already decided.

Silence has a meaning. Usually it reads as "not worth my time."

PR is the discipline that stops the silence from becoming the story people tell about you.

→ A profile in the right publication answers a question before it's even asked.
→ A quote in a piece about your sector tells people you're the one who actually knows.
→ A considered response to something in the news puts you in the room where decisions get made.

None of that happens by accident. And none of it happens by posting harder on Facebook.

Public perception is being shaped whether you've got a hand on it or not. The only real question is whose hand.

So... what would someone find if they searched your name today?

Comment "silence" if it's nothing worth finding. Comment "story" if you've started shaping it. 👇

You're brilliant at what you do. Nobody knows.Your clients love you. Your results speak for themselves. Your track recor...
16/06/2026

You're brilliant at what you do. Nobody knows.

Your clients love you. Your results speak for themselves. Your track record would make most agencies blush. But step one foot outside your existing circle and you're a ghost.

That's not a marketing problem you're staring at. That's a PR problem nobody told you had a fix.

Marketing shouts about what you sell. PR builds the reason people listen in the first place. Two different jobs. Same business owner trying to do both with the same budget and wondering why the phone isn't ringing harder.

Here's what actually moves the needle when you want the world (or at least your slice of it) to know you exist:

→ Press releases. Done properly, they put your name in front of journalists who write for the people you want as clients. Awareness outcome: third-party credibility you didn't have to claim yourself.

→ Media interviews. You stop being "someone on LinkedIn" and start being "the person quoted in that piece." Awareness outcome: authority by association.

→ Speaking and events. You get in the same room as the buyers, and your face attaches to your expertise. Awareness outcome: recognition that lingers long after the lanyard comes off.

→ Expert commentary. Reacting smartly to news stories puts you in the paper without paying for the ad space. Awareness outcome: relevance and timeliness.

→ Awards. Yes, really. They give buyers a shortcut to trust you before they've even met you. Awareness outcome: social proof at scale.

None of these are vanity exercises. Each one does a specific job. Together, they're the quiet reason some experts get the call while others keep refreshing their inbox.

If you're brilliant and invisible, more posts won't rescue you. A proper plan for being seen by the right rooms will.

Comment "SEEN" if you're tired of being the best-kept secret in your industry. Like if you've finally accepted that doing great work isn't enough on its own. 👇

Everyone told me to pick one. That's why I stayed invisible.PR or marketing. Pick a lane. That's the advice handed down ...
15/06/2026

Everyone told me to pick one. That's why I stayed invisible.

PR or marketing. Pick a lane. That's the advice handed down like gospel to anyone running a small business with a budget that doesn't quite stretch to both.

On paper, it sounds sensible.

Until you notice the people giving that advice are usually the same ones quietly wondering why nobody's heard of them.

Here's the bit nobody bothers to explain.

Marketing buys attention. PR earns trust. Two entirely different jobs, and pitting them against each other in a spreadsheet is how you end up with campaigns that technically work but somehow never quite land.

Think about the last thing you bought that took a bit of consideration.

You probably saw an ad. Then you Googled the company. You read a piece about them somewhere you trust. Maybe a podcast mentioned them in passing. By the time you handed over your card, six or seven things had already done the heavy lifting.

That's not one channel winning. That's a relay race.

→ Marketing without PR shouts louder into a room that doesn't believe you yet.
→ PR without marketing earns lovely coverage that nobody you actually want to reach ever sees.
→ Together, they compound. One builds the credibility. The other puts it in front of the right faces.

In 17 years of doing this, the pattern is hard to miss. Business owners run twelve months of perfectly competent marketing, hit their numbers on paper, and still feel like they're shouting into a void. Because the trust layer never got built.

Then there are the founders who land a brilliant piece of national press, frame it proudly on the wall... and wonder why the phone didn't ring. Because nobody amplified it where their buyers actually live.

So the real budget question is never which one to pick. It's how each one feeds the other.

Drop a comment if you've felt this tug-of-war in your own business. Like this if you've stopped treating PR and marketing as rivals on the same team sheet.

Your ads aren't the problem.Believability is.Most business owners I speak to are halfway through rebuilding their funnel...
15/06/2026

Your ads aren't the problem.
Believability is.

Most business owners I speak to are halfway through rebuilding their funnel for the third time this quarter. New copy. New creative. Fresh targeting. Another couple of grand down the drain trying to make a cold audience care.

The ad was rarely the issue.

The audience just hadn't decided to trust you yet.

Here's the bit that gets missed. When someone sees your ad after they've already spotted you quoted in a piece they respect, or read a review that made them nod, or caught your name on a podcast they listen to on the school run… the ad does a different job. It stops trying to convince. It just reminds.

That's the multiplier.

→ Same ad
→ Same budget
→ Wildly different result

Because credibility was already doing half the work before the click ever happened.

PR is the layer that makes everything else you're paying for actually land. Coverage. Reviews. Mentions. Third-party voices saying you're worth listening to. That's what shifts a stranger from "who's this" to "oh, them, I've seen them somewhere".

You can keep tweaking the creative. Or you can give the creative a fighting chance.

So, honest question. Have you ever poured more money into ads when really the audience just didn't know you well enough yet?

Drop a "felt that" in the comments if you've lived this one. 👇

Most businesses don't have a PR problem. They have a photo problem.A decent story with a terrible picture can die instan...
10/06/2026

Most businesses don't have a PR problem. They have a photo problem.

A decent story with a terrible picture can die instantly.

A decent picture can sometimes drag a weaker story over the line.

Last week I helped generate almost 100 press releases for UK Small Business Week.

Dogs. Cats. A lamb. Even a gorilla. And no, I'm not joking.

The lesson? If your PR photos look like everyone else's, don't be surprised when your coverage does too.

More in this week's blog 👉 https://pressforattention.com/pr-is-proper-gorilla-marketing-when-you-do-this/

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Final reminder. The side door closes on 7th June.The Little Red Book of Experts is normally shut until February. This we...
05/06/2026

Final reminder. The side door closes on 7th June.

The Little Red Book of Experts is normally shut until February. This week, it's not.

Buy PRe-Rinse or sPRint before the deadline and I'll add you for 6 months.

18 spots. When they're gone, they're gone...👀

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