Outsourced PR that just works …seamlessly
Helping you to develop your messages ready to tell your story, to get you seen and heard in all the right places.
We can help you to develop your messages ready to tell your story, rescue your reputation, gain media coverage, work with your partners to create joint stories, and plenty more ideas to get you seen and heard in all the right places.
Outsource your whole press office to us. We become an integrated part of your team without looking like an external agency. We have an email account with your organisation, and a press office page on your website.
We can hand-hold your team through the process of working with journalists.
If you find your press office is stretched at the seams due to staff holidays, or there’s something temporary happening and you don’t want to hire, bring us in.
We’re here to help – get in touch today.
Maria’s vast experience and knowledge of public relations has helped to raise the profile of the ICCM and gained us credibility as an organisation to go to for newspaper, radio and television quotes and interviews on topics relating to burial and cremation.
Maria has contacts everywhere. Her experience has been vital in creating exposure for my business. We have appeared on television and radio multiple times. She is always on the end of the phone to help. Highly recommend her services.
Maria is my ‘go to’ PR person, and has been for a number of years, mainly because she listens and is always quick to understand what I’m looking to communicate to my target audience. She also ‘pulls rabbits out of hats’ when it comes to getting media coverage. We’re a good team.
Hello, I’m Maria, I have over 25 years’ experience of working in public relations. I’m a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and I have a degree in my subject. My experience spans working in busy public relations consultancies working with top brands, setting up my own public relations agency in 2008, and for the last few years, I have worked in-house on a consultancy basis.
I set up the Virtual Press Office to help growing companies who have a need, but not a full-time one, for a press office function. I pride myself in becoming part of my clients’ teams to achieve the best results. Brimming with ideas, I often spot opportunities for stories to tell to the media, or through content for my clients’ socials or websites.
We work and have worked with clients in many different sectors, and pride ourselves in gaining quick knowledge in pretty much anything! Our experience includes technology, business consulting, energy, construction, retail, FMCG, bereavement, supply chain, white goods, teddy bears… and lots more.
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We also keep a keen eye on the news and alert our clients to anything we think they could respond to.
We work with you to define what success looks like. Whether it’s opportunities to be seen and number of pieces of coverage, or being part of a wider campaign that generates sales enquiries, we agree on those metrics together.
Although we can turn our hand to pretty much anything, we do currently focus on the bereavement sector, food and drink, FMCG, supply chain and energy.
This depends very much on your input. If you let us in and work with us to understand your business and where you would like to grow, this really helps. Sometimes we can identify a good media story straight away and we can hit the ground running from month one. Sometimes it takes a bit longer while we develop your messages together.
We’re quick. We’re quick to learn your business, we’re quick to pick up the phone to journalists, and we’re quick to respond to journalists, too, ensuring we give them the information they need. This elevates us when they’re looking for people to contact in your space again.
We encourage this. If you have a marketing team, we can become part of it, ensuring we’re on message and developing your presence together.
Clients typically spend between £1,000.00 to £2,000.00 per month with us, working to an agreed set of objectives and potential outcomes.
Each client is different. Some prefer a monthly round-up report, while others prefer a weekly snap-shot email. This is something we would agree with you.
