An Ipswich PR agency to share your voice and build your UK brand

  • Are you struggling to cut through the noise?

  • Do you wonder why your customers choose your competitors over you?

  • Let me position you as an authoritative voice in your sector.

  • Packages start from £475

My Ipswich PR services are your PR solutions

For two decades, I’ve been working with businesses like yours, locally and nationally. I’ve told your stories to the people who matter (your customers). And I’ve celebrated your successes as if they were my own.

With my in-depth PR strategies, I can boost your profile, raise your reputation, help you generate new sales, and improve your bottom line. This may sound like a unicorn, but with my PR support, I promise, you can expand your reach into new markets, new audience demographics, and new opportunities.

As a freelance PR agency in Ipswich specialising in small business support, there’s nothing I love more than shouting about who you are and what you do. I never forget that great PR campaigns and strategies need to achieve something. That’s why I will work with you to establish measurable results, allowing you to feel confident that your PR is working as hard as you are.

When you invest in my Ipswich PR services, you get a human-crafted strategy and storytelling designed to:

  • Highlight your brand’s unique strengths
  • Secure coverage in the right local, trade and national media
  • Foster genuine connections with customers, community groups and key stakeholders

No in-house PR team? My fixed-price packages start at £450/mo so you know exactly what you’ll spend each month.

Are you ready to take the leap into SME PR support?

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A B2B and B2C PR agency that delivers results - whatever your sector

Over the years, I have delivered PR solutions for UK businesses across a wide range of B2B and B2C sectors, including:

Automotive

Charities

Children’s entertainment

Health and Fitness

Human Resources

Insurance

Legal

Mortgages

Lifestyle

Luxury goods

Personal Finance

Politics

Regional

Retail

Social Work

Technology

Transport Logistics

As an Ipswich PR consultant, my clients value both local insight and national reach. Whether you need to top Google search rankings, feature in AI overviews or secure coverage in the East Anglian Daily Times, I’ll tailor every campaign to your sector’s dynamics and your audience’s media habits. Along the way, I can use social listening tools to track how your brand reputation is changing for the better.

Freelance PR services designed to enhance your business reputation

I love nothing more than finding the right stories to promote your business. I work hard to find the right angle to create news articles, radio interviews, and web links, all designed to have a positive impact on your business.

I specialise in effective PR campaigns for small businesses which encapsulate a wide range of activities. All are designed with one key priority: to change the way your stakeholders think about you.

If you’re still struggling to prove PR’s value to your senior team, I can track share-of-voice, backlinks and custom enquiry codes so you see the results of your monthly PR activity.

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Genuine PR begins with having a detailed understanding of who your audiences are. I can help you to:

  • Map your internal and external audiences
  • Identify their audience challenges, perceptions and desired outcomes
  • Listen to recurring themes
  • Identify opportunities and strengths
  • Facilitate workshops and roundtables
  • Evaluate feedback and refine your messaging

Strategic thought leadership for B2B businesses

You want to position your leadership team as go-to experts on sector-specific topics. Allow me to share your voice and opinion in the right places, targeting the people who matter.

  • Identify topics that spark sector-specific conversations.
  • Draft opinion editorials, LinkedIn articles and contribute bylined features to aid your digital PR
  • Maximise data, case studies and original insights for credibility
  • Pitch pieces to business and industry publications

Community relations

A key part of any successful PR strategy is to maintain goodwill on your doorstep. Even if you work nationally, it’s still important to stay connected to your local roots. I love working with Ipswich businesses, providing community relations support to keep you cared for and supported by local people. Let me:

  • Introduce you to partner organisations, charities and community groups
  • Plan sponsorships, events and volunteer programmes
  • Draft media and social content to share the details of your community impact
  • Measure sentiment and engagement for ongoing refinement

Press releases and media relations

Media relations is probably what you think of first when it comes to PR campaigns. But while that’s an effective tactic, it’s not the strategy itself. Press releases and media outreach can be a useful tool if you need to shout about a product launch, partnership or award win:

  • Develop newsworthy angles that resonate with journalists
  • Draft clear, compelling releases and article pitches
  • Distribute to local, trade and national media lists
  • Secure on-brand coverage that drives awareness and trust

Content Repurposing Session

If you’ve invested time in a press release, report, award entry or white paper, you should be able to get far more value from it than a single use. This 2 hour session gives you a simple, structured way to turn one strong piece of content into a full range of assets, without starting from scratch.
Together, we’ll look at your existing messaging and identify how it can be reshaped into useful, high‑impact formats such as blog articles, social posts, media‑ready snippets, email content, or thought‑leadership material. Perfect if you want to raise visibility, keep your communications consistent, and save yourself hours of extra work
  • A tailored content map outlining multiple repurposed formats
  • Clear messaging themes to support your PR and digital presence, aiding AI overviews

  • Ready‑to‑use angles for different audiences and platforms

  • A simple 30‑day plan that helps you stay visible with ease

PR & Reputation Tracking Review

Your brand’s reputation is shaped by the stories you tell, the content you publish, and how visible you are in search and the media. This review gives you a clear understanding of how your brand is performing right now, and what’s influencing that perception.

We’ll explore the themes your organisation is known for, the messages landing well with your audience, and the areas where visibility could be improved. You’ll receive clear recommendations to help you build trust, authority and recognition in your market.

  • A review of your brand’s current visibility and messaging
  • Insights into how your PR, content and media activity is performing
  • Recommendations to refine your communication priorities
  • Clear next steps to strengthen your reputation with the audiences that matter

Award entry submissions

You want to see your name in lights, and there’s no better way of building credibility and expertise than working with an experienced award writer to help you win an industry award:

  • Research the right awards for your profile and budget
  • Craft winning entry narratives that showcase the impact you have on others
  • Handle applications, supporting materials and meet all deadlines
  • Follow-up press activity to maximise shortlist and win potential

Let’s have a conversation

My job is to make your life easier.

How I make Ipswich businesses the talk of East Anglia

The one thing that every single business in the country has is its reputation.

Without that, you have nothing.

So, the real question is, why aren’t you investing in it?

I like to describe PR as being about facts, not faff.

PR is a strategic plan for how you are shaping the way that your customers, your employees, your suppliers and your stakeholders think about who you are. That’s why every PR campaign should start with deep listening, not by drafting your first press release.

As your freelance PR consultant, I take time to understand your goals, challenges and audience wants and needs through targeted media research, stakeholder interviews and sector-specific insights. By pinpointing the issues your customers care about and offering proactive solutions, you can benefit from genuinely newsworthy story angles.

Let’s turn your insights into impact

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PR case study

Challenge: Cutting through today’s noise and earning attention in the right outlets.

Approach: I used a mix of reactive and proactive outreach, plus content repurposing suggestions to maximise one client’s trade, national and digital media targets.

Results: In just six months, this client received

  • 28 pieces of media coverage
  • Total audience reach: 156k
  • Total impact reach: 97k
  • 56 brand mentions
  • 70% of backlinks rated “good”, “very good” or “excellent”

Affordable Freelance PR Packages for Suffolk businesses and national brands

You want predictable costs and transparent deliverables. My fixed-price PR packages are ideal for Ipswich SMEs and national brands alike.

Packages include media lists, content creation, distribution, and monthly reporting, so you know exactly what you’ll get and when.

Bronze PR support

£475 / m
1 day per month
what you’ll get
  • 1 x client meeting
  • 1 x proactive PR outreach
  • 1 x reactive PR outreach

Silver PR support

£950 / m
2 days per month
what you’ll get

  • 1 x client meeting

  • 2 x proactive PR outreach

  • 3 x reactive PR outreach

Gold PR support

£1,425/ m
3 days per month
what you’ll get
  • 1 x client meeting
  • 2 x proactive PR outreach
  • 3 x reactive PR outreach
  • 1 x case study
  • 1 x research project, event or award entry per year

Frequently asked questions?

Yes, if the press release is written with journalists and news agendas in mind. A professionally written press release improves your chances of coverage by presenting a clear, newsworthy angle that editors can use quickly. For many small businesses in Ipswich, one strong press release can deliver far more impact than repeated unpaid attempts that never get picked up.

Press releases work well for small businesses when they focus on genuinely relevant stories rather than sales messages. They can help build credibility, raise visibility and create third party proof through media coverage without committing to a full PR retainer. This makes press release writing an accessible starting point for SMEs.

The cost of professional press release writing varies depending on complexity, research and targeting. A professionally written press release is priced as a one off service, not a long term contract, making it easier for SMEs to budget and test PR activity without ongoing agency fees.
However, a one-off press release may not give you enough momentum. Ideally, you should be considering a long-term reputation building PR retainer because consistency is the key to progress.

For example, a media relations PR budget should factor in:

  • PR consultant time
  • Media database costs (e.g. Veulio)
  • Media monitoring costs
  • NLA or CLA licences
  • Journalist enquiry databases (e.g. Response Source, Press Plugs)
  • External press photography

If you want to invest in PR stunts or thought leadership opportunities, you may need additional costs for research surveys, graphic design, videography and much more.

When you choose to work with me, you will receive a detailed costed plan outlining how much you could expect to pay for your PR budget. This can be broken down into specific campaigns or spread across a monthly retainer agreement.

PR is a long game; it shouldn’t be viewed as a sales activity like tactics such as advertising.

However, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. Quite the contrary.

PR is about shaping your reputation and changing the way your audiences think about you as a brand. It helps to inform your potential customers’ decision-making process by explaining who you are, what you offer, what you stand for and what makes you different.

Of course, we know that you want to measure the ROI of your PR campaign, and there are a few ways you can do this.

  • Allocating a dedicated phone number/email address to your press outreach
  • Using a specific voucher code/discount code (ideal for B2C or eCommerce PR campaigns)
  • Tracking the number of backlinks to your site generated through earned media
  • Monitoring the number of brand mentions, photo usage, and volume of spokesperson quotes
  • Monitoring website traffic/social media engagement
  • Tracking share of voice
  • Social listening sentiment tracking

A press release is designed to increase awareness, credibility and visibility rather than deliver instant sales. Results typically include media coverage, brand mentions, backlinks and referral traffic, all of which support longer term enquiries and trust. Press releases work best as part of a wider content and communications approach.

A newsworthy press release focuses on relevance, timing and value to the reader rather than promotion. Journalists look for insight, impact, data, change or consequence. Writing with a clear angle and understanding what the media actually publishes is what separates effective press releases from those that get ignored.

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My job is to make your life easier