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Influencer Marketing

Provision of strategic advice to brands, agencies and platforms on the fast-changing discipline of influencer marketing

Personal influence

Helping subject matter experts earn influence within their niche both on and offline through personal branding, social selling and thought leadership

Content strategy

Developing and implementing plans for companies seeking to influence audiences by creating, publishing, and promoting useful, usable content

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top 10 uk pr blog

This website is ranked as a UK Top 10 PR blog by Vuelio, the leading UK provider of PR software: Media Database, Media Monitoring, Press Release Distribution and Media Analysis.

insight & comment

An influencer marketing thought leader I am often asked to contribute industry insight to industry publications. Read a full list of where I have been mentioned by clicking on the typewriter image.

influence is founded on trust

Influence is founded on trust. That is why it is vital to operate with the highest conduct, authenticity, good values and business ethics.

I am a full member of both the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Public Relations & Communications Association.

Membership demands subscribing to their Codes of Conduct and Professional Charter.

You can download the PRCA's professional charter and codes of conduct here.

Thought leadership

My industry-insight and commentary has been featured in the following publications

Guthrie, S. 2016. Seizing influencer relations' opportunities. In: Hall, S. ed. #FuturePRoof: Edition Two. Blurb & Kindle, pp. 183-191

PRstack cover: making sense of the PR tool market

Latest articles

A selection of the latest influencer marketing articles

Luxury Hotels and influencers: best ways to work together

Luxury hotels and influencers - finding the mutual value exchange to create a long-term business-growth partnership.More...Two articles in the past[...]

Unilever’s commitment to fight fake influence decoded

Unilever wants to clean up influencer marketing by making three commitments to remove bad practice from the discipline. Though laudable[...]

Why CEO activism is new badge for communicating with conscience

At no other time in history have business leaders been held so accountable. Under this scrutiny, business is forced to[...]

4 insights on the advocacy economy

Reevoo, the customer ratings and reviews firm, held an expert panel to discuss the advocacy economy. Here are four key insights[...]

Product placement double standards affecting influencer marketing

Product placement double standards: Brands should effectively declare a material connection when collaborating on advertorial or sponsored content. Influencer marketing[...]

Use tech to be human urges PR report

38% of public relations practitioners’ total skills could be complemented or replaced by AI within five years warns report but[...]

The business of influence

Exploring influencer marketing & subject matter influence

"Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You." -- Tom Peters

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