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Frequently Asked Questions
| Q. What is PR
(Public Relations)? |
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A. In
the United Kingdom, PR tends to have a single meaning of “Sales and
Promotion=PR”, but the original meaning is much more complex. It can
be defined as Public Relation (PR), which is the activity of a
company to build up good relations with those outside the company,
such as the general public, potential investors, the government and
providing consumers and potential employees with information about
your company through the mass media that it may not otherwise have
access to. “The act of building good relations between a person,
service, product and/or company and the community it serves.” This
is a workable definition of what a Public Relations company does. As
for a PR Company, like Carver Media Group, our activities are not
necessarily squeezed into our relationships to various segments of
the public, so a good definition of what we do is: “Constructing a
good network of mass media relations to further our clients’ goals.”
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| Q. What
groups/individuals are given to be the object of PR activities? |
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A.
They are the following:
Individuals:
Journalist, Stockholders/Investors, Employees/ Employees of
Incorporated Companies, General Consumer, Security Analyst, Interns
and Transitional Employees, Miscellaneous People, etc.
Groups:
Corporate ranking agency, Financial Institutions, Local Populace and
Local Societies, Pundits and Specialists, Countries and
Municipalities, ect. |
| Q. What is the
difference between PR Advertising and Public Announcements? |
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A. An
easy explanation of the difference between advertising and Public
Relations is this: buying space in the newspaper or a magazine,
buying time on television or the radio, buying billboards or setting
up websites and other forms of media for the purpose of passing
information about a person, product , service or company is
“advertising.” With advertising, you can control the time, place and
cost of the enterprise to the liking of your group, especially given
the cost of large scale advertisement on television. Moreover, often
the effect of the advertisement is not seen through the cost that
was put into it because things are often seen subjectively and
one-sidedly. Basically, it is analyzed that it is not easy to relate
to the sales if the message is made neither to be repetitive nor to
be memorized in consumer's head.
PR:
It has been said, the strong point of PR is that it attempts the
integration of the corporate message through the use of print media
and the programs of the mass media. "Originating reliability from
objectivity". A lot of consumers tend to believe the content of the
advertisements and information unconditionally because he or she
takes the view that given information from an objective third party
named by the mass media, unlike an advertisement which is merely
picked up the press and mass media. Therefore, in the eyes of the
public, Public Relations can become a comparison to advertisements.
And that will cause a reaction from the general public and potential
customers. This means that the finished product will actually cost
less than an advertisements, once you add in the costs of
programming, space in print media, because you don’t have to worry
about those costs. However, the company cannot control the message
that it wishes to send, but while there are a lot of advantages, the
weakness in timing that will appear in the programming.
Paid publicity (Tie-Up Paid
PR): This is paid
publicity that has all the advantages of advertising and PR, and is
done more actively in foreign countries than it is in the United
Kingdom. The cost is lower than PR, the message is easily
transmitted and to some degree can be controlled better than it can
be through mass media transmission, this makes it a technique that
is widely used. If the faults are listed then the results are fewer
and it’s always a seller’s market. |
| Q. Other than mass
media relations, what other PR (Public Announcements) activities are
you involved in? |
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A.
The Public Relations Department of any enterprise should do various
activities besides building excellent relations between their client
and the mass media; it should increase the number of positive
articles about the client. Generally, there is an activity of only
following through with a few little ideas, and this is part of the
abstract work of the Public Relations Department , each of these
types of activities can supported by Carver Media Group:
Making and delivery of Press
Releases, Coordination of Press Conferences, Making of In-House
Magazine (Group Reports), In-house Television Video Taping, Making
of Corporate Profile (Group Guides), Making of Annual Report for
Investors, Briefing Investors, Making of PR Papers and Magazines,
Environmental Reports, Making of Sustainability Reports, Creation
and Management of Web Site, Creation and Management of Intranet,
Planning and Management of various Visitations and events, Clipping
and Information, Accumulation for Newspaper, Magazine, and TV Media
The idea behind this is that it
completes the world of a single faceted engine in these areas in
order to raise them to the level of strategies and systems that
exist. These words were once only seen in economic magazines, and
Carver Media Group has PR that supports these themes:
Investors relations (IR),
Risk Management (Crisis-Management), Internal Corporate
Communications, Marketing PR, Corporate Branding PR, Leader
Communications PR. |
| Q. What is the forte
of Carver Media Group? |
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A.
Carver Media Group's first strong point is strong a mass media
relation in the United Kingdom, where the television medium is the
top media form, though various fields exist in PR activity as stated
above. Especially, we advocate sticking with the `Cross Media PR;`
mixing mass media with Internet. |
| Q. Does Carver Media
Group do business with PR companies that use both the power of media
relations and the power of the internet, where creativity is
highest? |
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A.
Carver Media Group not only uses old mass media, such as television,
but also can use the Internet and the new mobile media. And although
there are more than 150 PR companies in the United Kingdom, Carver
Media Group has a wealth of Clients and business associates with
strong positions and contacts in television, radio and magazine
publications. These SEO measures become the promotion measures
executed for clients only after our staff has worked everything out,
and continued to be used for our staff. |
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Carver Media Group
Floors 10-11
Level 33
25 Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5LQ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 8443 577 731
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