It’s the hottest day of the whole year – and it’s also the last day of September. Rather than being stuck in the office we’re up ladders getting ‘up close and personal’ with a stuffed stag’s head!
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The CIPR Pride awards finalists have been announced this morning and there’s great excitement in the office as the Tricker PR team has reached the finals of five categories:
We can add these nominations to four others; two for the best Marketing of events in conjunction with our partners at Blue Square design in Dundee in both the UK and the Scottish Event Awards; one for the Best PR campaign for an event in the UK Event Awards and one for the Best Marketing campaign in the Northern Star Business Awards. These nominations are all for our work on the Royal Deeside and The Cairngorms and Royal Deeside Larder campaigns.
Click here to find out more about these campaigns:
http://www.trickerpr.com/Consumer/Royal-Deeside-and-The-Cairngorms/
I’ve just finished sewing a pair of bloomers and a chemise – essential ‘smalls’ for your average Victorian lady. It’s another ‘usual’ day in the Tricker PR office. Tomorrow, colleagues Laura and Lauren will be heading off at about 6.45am to head for Findhorn on the Moray Coast for the photo shoot to launch the new Moray Speyside tourism brand.
Packed in the car will be a crinoline cage style dress made from a whisky barrel two corsets; a pair of Victorian pantaloons; a chemise and lace up boots and – if we ever manage it – a copy of the new Moray Speyside logo on a large piece of white material. But we’re having huge problems with it. Our ‘pet printer’ Tom (who never asks us why when we turn up with a box of free range eggs to ask him to print them with a company logo or ask him to give us a transfer of a logo to adhere to a pregnant woman’s ‘bump’!) has had a major computer problem and he’s unable to finish the job.
What is it with men and formal dress?
Even when they are briefed for months about black tie requirements, there’s always that heart stopping moment when they arrive at an event casually dressed – or at best in a work suit – with no evidence of a suit carrier in hand …
My first experience of that moment was several years ago at an awards ceremony. A senior Scottish politician was to be the key note speaker … and he was running rather late. The champagne reception for finalists was at serious risk of running dry when the VIP cavalcade drew up.
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There are some questions that have to be asked when you get up close enough to the person likely to have the answers.
My burning question last week was: “Why was that goat wearing a pair of deely boppers?”
The woman with the answers was Aberdeen-based queen of the photocall, Beverley Tricker
“Everyone in Scottish PR knows La Tricker’s work – not least because she hoovers up awards with the gay abandon of the shake’n'vac lady.”
Thankfully for the rest of us, Beverley is quite happy to share many of the hints and tips which help keep the creative juices flowing at her PR agency. Continue reading »