AND, when you consider the above video, do they really need to?
This Saturday, Linda is addressing a conference run by the United Nations Youth and Student Association of the UK, and the theme of her contribution will be how to campaign by getting journalists' attention.
We were all glued to Sky One last night as Ruth Badger headed up the panel of business experts for a new series called The Big Idea.
Ruth was telling us all about it at a recent charity dinner in aid of Compton Hospice so we knew it would be good.
Some of the ideas were a bit weird and wacky and we have to agree with the Badger that the 'message in a bauble' was by far the best of last night's bunch. What a shame she didn't make it through to the final.
Great page lead in the Birmingham Post today for our client Carl Jarvis of Internet Marketing Services. See the full article online here, or here with the picture. It's the first press release we've worked on for IMS and there are more in the pipeline. When I spoke to Carl this morning he said he'd already received a number of calls and emails from people who'd read the piece, before he'd even had a chance to see it himself. [Carol]
Well done Ruth Badger on clinching the top spot on Sky One’s new series The Big Idea this week.
We've met Ruth a few times now since she became an ambassador for Compton Hospice and can't wait to see her in this new series.
One thing's for sure she'll be following in Sir Alan's footsteps when it comes to straight talking. I hope all those wannabe entrepreneurs are ready for The Badger.
And for those of you who aren't quite ready to launch your business ideas to Ruth in front of millions of viewers there's a chance to spend ‘An evening with Ruth Badger’ next month at a charity dinner to raise funds for Compton.
We've booked our tickets already, and there are still some available but places are limited. Click here to book your tickets.
Watch out Sir Alan, The Badger is back!
In the week when this lady rightly caused a storm by proclaiming her kids were boring (Cue pretty nifty backtracking..'but I never said my children were boring' - no of course not, that's why it said it in the headline.) We have written for the Guardian on a how can we put it? More down to earth view of going out to work when you have children. Ian Wylie, the editor of the Work supplement explained the piece should focus on a particular incident or anecdote to illustrate an issue - and we chose Morgan's sports day (or perhaps Stitchgate as it should be known!) It's great to see the piece in the paper and funny to note that the only little change made was that a reference to Linda using words that would make Chubby Brown blush was removed. Perhaps that would have been more fitting of the Daily Star! [Carol]
We’ve always marvelled at the London media’s attitude to ‘the provinces’ (their word not ours!) so it’s been reassuring to have our prejudices reinforced this week. One writer deemed we couldn’t be case studies as we weren’t in London while a city-based newsdesk told us they couldn’t follow up one of our stories, despite a flurry of initial calls asking for more information, because the people concerned were ‘too far away’. Gee thanks. And here’s us thinking you were a national news organisation. [Linda]
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