Step One: Gather your material
SRF is very experienced at identifying the data and images required to tell your stories. We will sift through the information gathered by your organisation and highlight the most newsworthy items. We can work with your stakeholders to collect facts, figures and opinions directly and ensure we have all the relevant material to make your stories as engaging as possible.
Storytelling for businesses has never been so scrutinised; by the public, by staff, by stakeholders and by the media. The easy access to social media is being used to hold all types of organisation to account and reputations can be […]
Active listening is a technique that is used by counsellors, trainers, and professionals involved in solving disputes or conflicts. Listeners must fully concentrate, understand, respond and then remember what is being said. It is a powerful skill which can be […]
How many times have we heard that print is old technology and has no future? We still see newspapers at garages and in shops, we still see bookshops open for business and we still see printed promotional items from beer mats to invitations. Newspapers Print is not […]
How do you know if your chosen agency is going to work out? For most businesses they don’t, and they go to extra-ordinary lengths to try to ensure that after all the proposals, pitching and negotiation, the agency is the […]
Earlier this year Radio 4 ran a programme about empathy, using extracts from high profile speakers such as Barack Obama who coined the phrase ‘empathy deficit’ and Apple’s Tim Cook who said “People will try to convince you that you […]
The launch of an industry body which provides de-duplicated audience data for local media titles across newspapers, websites and mobile offerings earlier this month helped give credibility to what most professional communicators already knew instinctively. Local news is still influential. Regional Media The […]
SRF helped the UK’s favourite airport meet and greet parking operator, I Love meet and greet, to launch an ambitious environmental campaign which aims to raise the issue of plastic straw pollution. Environmental Pedigree Over the past several years, SRF […]
Major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing all want your website to be an honest and authentic representation of your business. In fact, they always wanted this, but it has been profitable, for some businesses, to forget this in […]
Content marketing has become a buzzword for marketing professionals. Definitions vary but it can be considered as a type of marketing that involves the creation and sharing of online material (such as videos, blogs, and social media posts) that does […]
It is very likely that storytelling has existed as long as communication. For humans that would have been as early as pre-verbal communication, although many people argue that cave drawings are the first indisputable evidence that people told stories. Obviously, the art of verbal story telling is temporary but likely […]
Communications activity for a leading business park like Chineham Park in Basingstoke can be an exciting challenge, encompassing the requirement to convey complex property deals alongside the need to ensure that all employees on the Park are kept up to […]
According to many experts, publishing a blog is good for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and adds a regular flow of content to your communication strategy. Identifying topics, researching and then drafting the blog, however, requires the skill and experience of […]
COVID-19 has created a crisis like no other. Despite various attempts to draw parallels with either the Spanish flu or the Blitz, the current situation is unique. Hundreds of millions of people on the planet have restrictions on their freedom and there is a deadly […]
We are living in era when trust is in crisis. Politicians, government institutions, even professions such as doctors and the law (both the police and the justice system itself) are less trusted than ever before. The media, which has played an […]