SRF Communication Matters Archives

Optimising relationships in business is a valuable skill and managing a PR Agency to help get the best possible results requires an open and honest approach. Having been managed by many clients for the past three decades, SRF’s creative director, […]

The Global Language of IDeaS

For the past two years SRF has been interviewing hoteliers across the Europe, Middle East and Africa region for IDeaS, a revenue solutions company for the hospitality industry, gathering intelligence and producing content about their market leading revenue management solutions. […]

It’s What Inside That Counts

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 […]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

SRF‘s transport pedigree is unrivalled. We have more experience promoting iconic black London taxis and airport parking brands than any other PR agency. Our track record with trains stretches back almost two decades, having launched new rolling stock fleets, new […]

Looking Out for Watchmoor Park

We understand the complex communications requirements of business parks managers and landlords, and with over a decade of experience of working for clients in the commercial property sector, SRF can provide strategic advice and tactical assistance for organisations wishing to […]

Community Engagement

SRF is highly adept at managing community communications, having handled charity campaigns across its client portfolio for over two decade. As organisations endeavour to prove their worth, beyond the employer status, to their locale, we have been instrumental in ensuring […]

Keep On Moving

It is great to see our client Hovertravel given major exposure in a publication like Monocle. Adding to the existing local and trade press coverage can be very useful for transport clients, especially when the combination of an interesting history […]

Party Time

Last Friday there were parties at both Chineham Park in Basingstoke and Milton Park near Oxford for all the occupiers. We were on hand to capture the fun and there was lots of it – with clowns, candy floss, bungee […]

Video

Video has become ubiquitous, thanks to the ease with which smartphones and entry level video cameras can be used to capture high quality footage. SRF has embraced this revolution and produced corporate videos on iPhones as well as using a […]

Communication Matters

Get Your Story Straight

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 […]

Does Your PR Approach Include Active Listening?

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 […]

Print Is dead

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 […]

Fit for Purpose

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 […]

Change of Perspective

The New Year often gives people the opportunity to review and reflect on their lives. For businesses the requirement to step back and take a long, hard look at what the organisation is doing is just as important. In smaller […]

Strategic Consultancy

Communicating In A National Crisis

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 […]

Finding Your Award Winners

We have written about why to enter awards, explaining that there is a multitude of PR benefits to enjoyed from both entering and sponsoring awards. Now we are going to focus on what we think makes a winning entry. As professional advisors we are providing the best possible guidance […]

The Power Of A Good Quote

Press articles often include direct quotes from the people involved in the story; sometimes because the journalist has interviewed that person or the PR supplied the quotes along with the press release. Quotes bring another dimension to the piece as […]

PR Campaigns

Corporate Empathy

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 […]

Local Media Still Vital

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 […]

The Plastic Plight

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 […]

Photography

Engaging Photography

Capturing authentic images for marketing photography, for websites and other communications activity is becoming more important as consumers start to recognise stock photography, thanks to its generic nature and, in some cases, over use. An American study found that 67% […]

Are Your Images Newsworthy?

Looking through the submissions for news photos over the past year and with the imminent arrival of many festively themed images, we thought we should offer some advice on to get the best from your images for your communications activities. […]