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Hello, my name is Nick King and I have just been appointed as the new account manager here at Nellie PR.

I have more years experience than I care to remember in PR and marketing, particularly in the business to business side of communications. Prior to this role, I worked as the PR and Media Manager at the East Midlands Development Agency, focusing particularly on the promotion of their support services for business.

In other positions I have held, I have managed clients, including Christian Salvesen, Scottish Courage, BASF and Courtaulds, as well as local businesses including RH Freight, Fraser Brown Solicitors, Coldseal and also several businesses in the healthcare sector. In addition to PR, I also specialise in writing search engine optimised copy for websites, so if this is a service you may also require I am happy to help.

After a couple of discussions with Ellen Carroll just before Christmas, it became clear that my skills matched the profile of the kind of person she was looking for to help develop the business, and I was itching to get back into the cut and thrust of a PR agency, so here I am and I’m really looking forward to working with the clients, suppliers and all of the other people who work with Nellie.

Outside of work, I am very keen on sport, particularly racquet sports like badminton and squash, I also play touch rugby (quite badly) and also try my hand at fencing, so if you are ever up for a game of anything, let me know. I also used to work as a party DJ, and if you upset me I will be forced to put an annoying cheesy old song into your head for the rest of the day!

Please feel free to drop me a line if there’s anything that you want me to help you with or just want some advice about. Also, if you want a game of badminton or squash to work off some of the excesses from the festive period, I’m happy to oblige, because I need to do that too!

Posted by Nick King, PR manager at Nellie PR

Nellie PR has been signed up by creative masterminds burntprogress.com to promote CDR East Midlands throughout 2009.

CDR is bringing together a community of digital music makers of all styles to network and collaborate across the region. The East Midlands events are based on burntprogress’s CDR night at London’s Plastic People – twice nominated ‘Best Club’ on Radio 1’s Worldwide Awards.

Public relations activities covering Nottingham, Derby and Leicester will involve a highly targeted campaign focusing on media relations, social networking and online PR. They will spread the word about the free CDR events that will be hitting the East Midlands over the coming months.

CDR gives a platform for electronic music makers of all kinds to showcase their talent to their peers in a club environment. People can along to free the events and hand in their CDs, to get their tracks played live and loud to an audience of like-minded music makers. They can then network and plan future collaborations. The two-year project, now in its second year, is supported by Arts Council England.

burntprogress is a creative agency set up by Tony Nwachukwu, a former member of the band Attica Blues, who has worked with Macy Grey, UNKLE and Ben folds; and Gavin Alexander, a DJ and award-winning film and documentary producer.

Thank you to everyone who attended my workshop at the CIM Power of Marketing Conference.  As promised, here’s a link to the powerpoint presentation on how to write press releases to get you noticed: CIM Presentation 30 September

Happy birthday to us and thanks to all our public relations, copywriting and online PR clients for making it such a fantastic year.   

During our first year of business we hooked up with and delivered work for some great names and businesses, including:

• Experian – a global leader in providing information, analytical tools and marketing services to organisations and consumers
• annie greenabelle – a fantastic ethical womenswear label
• AreaFour Recording Industries – a not-for-profit record label part of the Partnership Council
• Prowess – the UK association of organisations and individuals who support women to start and grow businesses.

Long may it continue and here’s to another successful year.