Wild, windswept and rugged are among the wonderful adjectives to describe Yorkshire’s stunning seaside resorts which overlook the bracing North Sea and boast some fantastic quirky customs.

This week, freelance PR consultant Duncan Greenwood offers his views on the PR sector’s prospects for 2012.  Effective PR in 2012 will be increasingly vital to the UK’s hopes of recovery. Social and broadcast media exposure will continue to expand, to the cost of traditional printed titles, additionally and grievously hampered by phone-hacking and other [...]

Our guest blog post from poacher and gamekeeper Jane Cameron, who’s a working journalist and PR, sparked an interesting debate on how good ex print and broadcast reporters are in turning their hand to the world of PR.     Over the course of our ten year development at Quest PR we’ve hired a balance of [...]

With web explosion sparking a myriad online PR and internet marketing opportunities – do businesses still benefit from profile-raising through traditional media channels such as newspapers, trade and consumer magazines?        Welcome to the first in a series of video blogs in which Sharon and Carol from Quest PR get the coffee on and respond to [...]

Recent statistics suggest that 80% of businesses, who engage with social media sites, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook etc are only communicating with their audiences one way. What does this mean? Well, simply put, the other 20% are turning that social media engagement into business. It’s easy, for anyone new to social media, to be [...]

It’s fair to say that social media is not the fad that many predicted it to be. Now it’s more question of how far it can go. Because of this, I am probably one of hundreds of students this year to have chosen social media as my topic of choice for my final year research [...]