Morph PR and Marketing - Morph's Moments

Great Marketing and PR Resources for YOU

2010-05-02T02:15:00.000-07:00

If you are running an SME and would like some support with your Marketing and PR activities I have a great NEW resource for YOU.

After running a series of 6 FREE Marketing workshops in partnership with business link, for SME's in Hampshire I discovered that there is a real need for clear concise information for SME's to help support their Marketing and PR activities and we have created a website which provides this information.

If you would like some simple no nonsense help with your marketing activities you can visit www.morphprandmarketing.co.uk and click onto our brand NEW resources section where you can find information about networking, useful links, marketing workbooks, FREE downloads and audio downloads and much more.

This section will be added to regularly so bookmark it now and get control of YOUR business Marketing.

Don't forget to have a look at our new look portfolio and see what we've been up to! It's been a very busy year. When I started the business in April 2008, my target was to have 3 happy customers in my first year. Well it's Morphs 2nd Birthday this week and we have 30 happy customers on our books.

Come and join the party at www.morphprandmarketing.co.uk

Best wishes for your future success.

Rachel

Do you know a Businesswoman in Hampshire who deserves an award?

2010-05-02T02:10:00.000-07:00

STOP PRESS.................... Announcing the Hampshire Winning Women in Business Awards...........

Do you know a Businesswoman in Hampshire who deserves an award?

The Hampshire Winning Women Business Awards - HWWBA - have been created to celebrate the success of business ventures and personal achievements of enterprising business women across Hampshire.

If you know a woman in business in Hampshire, who you feel deserves an award, be it for overcoming a personal difficulty, juggling motherhood alongside a business or simply for being an exceedingly good businesswoman, then we want to hear from YOU.

You can nominate as many people as you like and entry is FREE.

The awards will take place on Thursday 24th June 2010 at The Langstone Hotel, Portsmouth and will bring together women behind Hampshire’s most innovative and successful small businesses, to acknowledge the contribution they have made to the community, to the local economy and give them the recognition they deserve.

Hampshire Winning Women founder Allison Marlowe and her team know first hand just how much hard work, determination, dedication and self-belief is continually needed for success. We are looking for women with entrepreneurial skills and talent worth celebrating. By doing so we aim to encourage even more women to follow their dreams and start a business that is run on their own terms.

To enter, nominate or for more information please visit www.hwwba.co.uk or call Allison Marlowe on 07799 951 653

Notes:

The awards are being judged by Allison Marlowe, founder allisonmarlowe.com, Rachel O’Reilly, founder of morph PR and Marketing, Jane Cooke, founder Dress Rehearsal, and Tracy Harris, founder My Virtual Concierge and presented by Jacky Charman,Women’s Enterprise ambassador for SEEDA.

Great News! If you're a woman in Business I've got some funding for YOU!

2010-01-26T03:28:00.000-08:00

Women who have been in Business for less than 3 years and who are based in the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Area can now access up to 3 of these new Marketing workshops absolutely FREE

The Workshops will be run at the Bradbury Room at Portsmouth Technopole and are being run by Morph PR and Marketing.

Dates are as follows and workshops will run between 10 and 12 with registration at 9.45

Morph PR and Marketing Present: A series of workshops on Cost Effective Marketing.

Tuesday 9th Feb -The Perfect Pitch - In this “Get Ready to Network session”, we will explore and develop your Unique Selling Point (USP) and perfect your elevator pitch so you leave the session with the perfect pitch to use in any networking situation.
During the workshop you will learn how to communicate effectively about your business, create some key marketing messages and have a fun and productive morning creating and practicing your perfect pitch.

Thursday 25th Feb – Making your customers count - How to Ensure your Customers keep bringing you business.
We may be officially out of the recession but in these challenging economic times, now more than ever, we need to understand our customers and ensure we are not missing out on the additional business they can bring. This fun and interactive morning will help you to better understand your customers and equip you to ensure they are making the biggest possible difference to your bottom line. Invaluable.

Tuesday 2nd March – Casting a wider net – Making Social Networking sites work for you - A beginners guide to on-line social networking for Business.
An invaluable workshop on on-line social networking and how you can use the internet to widen your net and capture new customers along the way. Aimed at beginners. No technical knowledge required beyond use of a mouse!

Thursday 11th March – Increasing your profit margins - If you want to work less and earn more then this workshops helps you to identify how you can do it. You’ll learn some simple steps to reducing your input whilst making a larger profit, so you can sit back and watch the cash flow in.

Tuesday 16th March – Developing your business online - Learn how to use the internet to your advantage, bringing new customers to your door using simple techniques. If you ever feel lost in cyberspace this is the course for you. We’ll look at simple ways of improving or developing your online presence and you’ll learn which free tools are available for your to use.

Thursday 25th March- Making your contacts count - Don’t miss out on all those fantastic opportunities that you get everyday, all those lovely business cards you’ve been collecting won’t do your business any good sitting in a drawer, make them work for you.

We’ll discuss ways of making the most of your contacts and how to turn them into new business.

To book your place please contact Rachel O’Reilly on rachel@morphpr.co.uk stating which 3 courses you would like to book onto.

Top ten tips for marketing your business in 2010

2010-01-02T05:53:00.001-08:00

1. Know what you want to do and why – people love to know your
story.
2. Develop a strong brand and logo that people can recognise as
you.
3. Know your target market who are they, what do they look like, what
do they read, where do they go?
4. Who are your competitors? and what do they offer that is
different to you?
5. Concentrate on your existing customers – word of mouth and
excellent customer service are your best friends.
6. Have a Unique Selling Point (USP), know your USP and ensure your
USP is obvious in your logo, name and all of your marketing
materials.
7. Shout about the benefits to your customers not about the features
8. Ask your existing customers for referrals, ask WHO do you know?
not Do you know…?
9. Put a simple database together to keep track of your network and
write down everyone you meet so you can keep them updated with
your story, your offers and any helpful information you may have for
them.
10. Invest in professionals help when you need it don’t try to ‘make do’.

User experience - make it easy for them

2010-01-02T04:49:00.000-08:00

I was just reading one of my colleagues blogs when I realised that there was no easy way back to her (excellent) website.

I had been blogging about customer experience earlier today on my other blog and it's just these little details that can make or break your customer's experience.

So it is worth noting that although Blogger Blogs are free and a useful addition to your website, simply pressing the back arrow won't take you back to the website you came from.

My way round this is to always ensure that on the top of your right hand column there is a link back to your website. I have this on all my blogs and make sure that I set it up for all my clients too. It makes for a very simple and intuitive link back to your website for your user and will enhance their user experience.

To do this you simply need to choose the Layouts option then add a link at the top of your right hand column then follow the instructions adding the url e.g http://addressof yourwebsite.co.uk and then what you want it to appear as e.g "Back to my website"

I hope this is helpful, don't be afraid to get in touch and ask any other questions about website optimisation, marketing or PR, I am always happy to help.

Rachel x

Swine Flu vaccination

2009-11-26T03:13:00.000-08:00

I had my swine flu jab last week and although my arm hurt for a few days I am so glad that I've had it.

I took my 4 year old too, as we both have athsma, we were on the priority list.

I must admit that I had had some doubts about having it but luckily I work for the lovely Southdowns Private Healthcare GP's who have been blogging about how safe it is.

They really have helped me to feel more reassured and hope that they can reassure you too. You can read their blog Making time for your health you can also see their latest news release at Swine Flu Vaccination in pregnancy

What's Stopping You?

2009-11-25T07:11:00.000-08:00

I've Just got back from a fantastic Business Link event for women starting their own businesses called What's stopping you?

It a great title as it remind us to keep asking ourselves : what is stopping us from following our dreams?

It was a fantastic atmosphere with loads of positive women starting out on that journey into the unknown.

I was lucky enough to be asked to speak on the "She means business" panel and talked about my experince of starting out and setting up morph pr and marketing alongside 3 other female entrapreunurs.

All 4 of us had the same message which was "life is too short to do something that you're not passionate about, so if you want to do something - go for it"

I met lots of potential new customers too who are thinking about business names and branding and the same kinds of questions kept on coming up.

In fact what seemed to be stopping a lot of the women was the lack of a name for their business.

My advice was this:

1. When choosing a business name it's great to write a list of your business values and image values across the top of a piece of paper and potential names down the left hand side.

2. Score each name out of 10 for each criteria.

3. Once you have scored them add up your values and choose the name with the highest value....unless of course you then realise that you are really disappointed in which case, that should tell you which name you really wanted anyway!

Finally you might want to check that you can get a corresponding domain name from somewhere like 123-reg and that if you are going to be a limited company it is availble to register with companies house

I have got to say that Liz from Henry & Jayne was a brilliant speaker!

Her speech brought a tear to my eye as she talked about her journey setting up her company in India which ploughs it's profits back into the local community paying for operations and schooling for members of her team.

She was amazing and her products are lovely too. I am def going to buy some of her fab felt cars for my boys.

Ruth from The Lady Gardener was also a star as was Karen from

Now I better get on and write my free Marketing newsletter......

Winning Women - The perfect pitch

2009-09-25T02:22:00.001-07:00

What a fantastic night we all had last night!

We had 35 of Hampshire's finest business women in the same room and it was wonderful.

After giving a presentation on putting together the perfect pitch, we split into groups to work on our pitches and present back to the group. The ideas were coming thick and fast and there was a real buzz in the air.

Now this a networking group that really networks!

We all learnt a lot about each other businesses and a lot about how we present our own businesses.

There was such an atmosphere of support and enthusiasm I am sure a lot you will be hearing more about these winning women really soon.

If you'd like a copy of my top ten tips for a perfect pitch just get in touch rachel@morphpr.co.uk and I 'll send you one.

Here is what some of you said

" Very worthwhile - I believe I have come away with a very useful pitch that I will definately use again"

" Great presentation really natural and good fun. Really got me thinking about what I actually do!"

"Really enjoyable evening have learnt a lot on how to sell my business and to be more confident"

Dates for you Diary - Thursday 24th September

2009-09-09T05:47:00.000-07:00

I'm pleased to announce that I'll be running a workshop at Hampshire's Winning Women networking group on Thursday 24th September and I'd love to see you there.

The Winning Women networking group meets on the fourth Thursday of every month at the Lysses House Hotel, High Street, Fareham from 7-9.30pm and everyone is welcome. It's a really warm friendly group with a great membership I have enjoyed every single session I've ever attended and always come away feeling happy and motivated.

You have probably heard of the 'Elevator pitch' where you explain your business in a very short time, usually one minute, to make an immediate impression.

In this workshop we'll be learning just how to put together the perfect pitch and with a supportive group around to practice on, by the end of the session you'll have your very own perfect pitch and be raring to go out there and spread the word about your business.

Come along and bring some business cards. At just £7 on the door its a brilliant opportunity for some networking.

Winning Women evenst are run by Allison Marlowe.com

Building Customer Loyalty through Customer Experience

2009-09-01T05:59:00.000-07:00

I believe marketing is not just about leaflets, web-sites and branding but is about the whole customer experience and how you make your customers feel. 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers so make sure yours keep coming back by using this customer experienece tool.

Simply think about each point of contact you should could have with your customers as illustrated above and then make sure that each point of contact is exceptional. I find that writing them down and then putting down examples of what I've found to be excellent from other companies works well as inspiration. Good luck this approach will pay dividends in customer loyalty.

How to create a Fan Page on Facebook

2009-08-17T14:44:00.000-07:00

Simply follow the link below and follow the instructions which will appear, alternatively you can go to any existing fan page and look bottom left for a Crete a fan page button.

Create a Facebook Fan Page
Hope this helps

Rachel x

Take a load off your mind - Twitterfeed your Blog to Twitter

2009-08-17T12:51:00.000-07:00

Here's another time saving tip - sign up for Twitter feed and get it to update your Twitter account for you everytime you update your blog.

You can also add other people's blogs to it so that your Twiier account will Tweet about them when ever they are updated.

Once you've set up an account it will ask you for the RSS Feed URL ......you can find this on the blog you want to link usually under a buttom that says subscribe to posts (ATOM) if you click on this it will take you to a new page and the address in the address bar is what you are looking for.

It should read feed://nameofblog etc you just need to copy and paste this into the RSL feed URL box and then click on add feed.

Hope this is helpful

You can sign up here Twitterfeed

Get ahead of the game - submit your site to BING

2009-08-15T01:58:00.000-07:00

If you've got a website don't forget to submit it to BING Microsoft's new Serch Engine submit to BING here

I've just submitted

Morph PR and Marketing

Charterhouse Counselling

Southdowns Private Health Care

Adding Google Analytics to your Blog

2009-08-14T02:34:00.000-07:00

Want to know how to see how your blog is used by others I just found a great article by Andy Wibbels which takes you through step by step. I'don't know about you but I love this easy to follow step by step approach and think it's brilliant which tecchys share in a simple way!

Read it here

Create a fan box on facebook

2009-08-12T07:11:00.000-07:00

Did you know you can create a fan box button on face book just look at the link below for instructions http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fan_Box

or click here to see my facebook business page.

Morph PR and Marketing on Facebook

National Eczema Week 2009

2009-08-07T03:49:00.000-07:00

Having a baby who won’t sleep is one thing but having a baby who won’t sleep and scratches themselves until they bleed is another.
For parents of children around the country this is a nightly occurrence. Parents of children and babies with eczema can testify that staying up all night watching over little one and holding their arms and legs still so they can’t scratch is an exhausting business.
Jae Rance a mum from Winchester remembers doing just this with her son Max, now 20 months. “He would scratch until his face was red raw and all we could do was to watch him and hold him - you couldn’t leave him for a minute”
Jae had tried all manner of lotions and creams, exclusion diets and alternatives to household detergents in a bid to stop Max scratching. However it was an old T shirt and some scraps of wedding dress that saved the day.
Jae made some sleeves with a cardigan style back and sowed off-cuts of silk from her wedding dress on to the outside to stop Max’s nails from doing any damage. To her amazement they worked and Max was unable to take them off.

The family then made some for friends with children who scratch and found that they worked for their children too and scratchsleeves was born. The couple now want to get the word out to other parents so they don’t have to suffer in silence. They have started manufacturing them in the UK and charge just £7.50 a pair you can buy them on their website www.scratchsleeves.co.uk

You can't afford to miss this

2009-07-30T03:42:00.000-07:00

If you want to get your business noticed and feel confident enough to do your own PR, saving yourself tonnes of money along the way - this is for you.

Now I’m not going to puff this up by saying that I am a Guru, or that this will change your life, I am not going to offer you $500 of FREE stuff that you simply must have.

I’m just going to tell you that this works and I know because I’ve done it myself. So why not save yourself a lot of time and money by signing up to PR Mentor today.

Simply put PR Mentor is a six week course, comprising one workbook a week, you spend one hour a week completing the exercise and getting yourself noticed!

By the end of it you will understand how to get yourself and your company some column inches for FREE and you’ll understand a lot more about PR and how to get noticed. If you don’t, you can have your money back.

Now there’s only one of me and I’ve got 2 toddlers so not a lot of spare time on my hands, this is why I’ve designed PR Mentor to support those of you in a similar position to me with small budgets, not enough time and a great business idea. Just one hour a week is enough to really start investing in getting your business noticed, let me show you how.

At less than £10 a week this offers fantastic value for money and really is an investment you can’t afford to miss.

" Fun to do and really useful" Jo, Portsmouth

2009-05-17T13:04:00.000-07:00

I love this blog, http://www.beccakate.com/

the pictures alone are enough to inspire me to think about food and drink and the fact Bec's seems to do this out of sheer pleasure is very inspiring in itself!

"Do what you love and love what you do"

that's what I say!!

The Perfect Pitch

2009-05-15T14:52:00.000-07:00

I was lucky enough be invited to give a workshop at Southsea's newest networking group last week. We had a great meeting and I just wanted to share my top tips with you!

Here is what one of the participants said about the session

"It made me realise how much I need to focus on what my business really is about, and how to get this across to people"

Which captures your interest?

Hi, I'm Mike and I can save you money or
Hi I'm Mike and I'm an accountant

10 Top Tips

1. Short and Memorable
2. Get people interested in YOU
3. No Job titles or Jargon
4. Get them to ask you about it – make them want to say HOW as soon as you finish
5. Avoid things which they might have preconceived ideas about – consultant, accountant etc
6. Paint a memorable picture which includes them
7. Find common ground, or something they can relate to
8. Sell them the benefit to them rather than the features of your product or service
9. BELIEVE it or it just won’t work
10. Head up shoulders back, breathe and SMILE!

Good luck and call me if you need a hand!

New Followers = New Tools

2009-04-30T11:13:00.000-07:00

Well my twitter post earlier led to the discovery of this new tool @philconell followed my blog and recommended trying hatmandu.net's bloganalyser and well, here are the results. This is testing my about us page www.morphpr.co.uk/about-us

Have a go and see what it tells you about your writing style. I must adnit I'm quite pleased with mine.

The Blogalyser reveals...

Your blog/web page text has an overall readability index of 18.

This suggests that your writing style is intellectual
(to communicate well you should aim for a figure between 10 and 20).Your text contains 11 sentences, which suggests your general message is distinguished by complexity
(writing for the web should be concise).

CHARACTER MATRIX

male		female
self		world
past		future

Your text shows characteristics which are 33% male and 67% female
(for more information see the Gender Genie).
Looking at pronoun indicators, you write mainly about yourself, then the world in general and finally your social circle. Also, your writing focuses primarily on the present, next the future and lastly the past.

Find out what your blogging style is like!

Nice cup of tea

2009-04-27T12:16:00.001-07:00

Make your life easier and automate where you can, remembering to make time for the real interaction as well!

Try Tweetfeed to get your blog to update Twitter for you.

Let's share our automation tips here - we'd love to hear from you.

Twitter Presentation

2009-04-26T14:42:00.000-07:00

Hiya

Love it or hate it, it's time to embrace it! Twitter that is...

Just prepared this short Twitter presentation which highlights some of the many applications available to use with Twitter.

I'm sure you will all have other faves to share so I'd love to know what you think.

I'm more than happy to update it if you can add to it.

Hope you find it useful. Oh and don't forget to follow me

http://twitter.com/racheloreilly

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Enterprise 09

2009-04-24T01:34:00.000-07:00

Morph had a great day at Enterprise 09, we met loads of lovely people and had some very interesting conversations.

Rachel hosted a business advice booth on Marketing and PR and spoke to some fantastic people about their businesses. Emma Austin our fantastic new student was a great help.

Emma worked the crowd in her morph PR T- shirt, a brave girl!. She also did a great job setting up our booth and networking with potential customers. She then had to wizz off to do a presentation on her dissertation!

My first session of the day was with the dynamic Gill from Butlers 2 go a naked butlers service! This was a welcome start to my day and as Lisa Sturge, of Laughterlines Coaching would say, a very healthy one. Gill is great fun but has a fantastic business head, which I'm sure you'll agree is a winning combination.

I must say I was blown away by the energy of Deborah from Talk Eczema and Pure and Simple Skincare, she is an absolute dynamo and I am looking forward to working more with her and her team. She is currently looking for Party Planner so if you know anyone get in touch with me and I'll pass your details on.

I met Naomi Lloyd who runs a photography business in Southsea and has 2 boys of an identical age to my own. She is doing a cracking job of keeping her business smoothly and keeping her busy family happy. I can't wait to start helping her revamp her website.

I met loads of other fab people as well, but didn't get their permission to blog about them so we'll keep stum for the moment and update you when we can.

The only downside was a lot of my existing friends and colleagues didn't find me as I was in the furthest back corner behind a healthy a safety banner, so lessons taken from the event are: have a bigger banner than the man next to you and make sure you get there early to get a good pitch. But hey I had a great day and did my best, and really that's all anyone can do.

Enjoy your weekend!

Inspiration

2009-04-18T02:14:00.000-07:00

I love this book for my textile projects or even just a bit of time out.

Neglect and the art of prioritizing

2009-04-17T12:10:00.001-07:00

I have been neglecting my own blog for some time now as I have been fantastically busy with new clients.

However I want to 'walk the talk' and can't continue recommending to clients that they have fabulous blogs whilst neglecting my own.

I have just spotted the gorgeous Grace Designs Blog, whilst researching for one of my textiles projects. Seeing it reminded me that I am an intrinsically visual person and aesthetics really do matter to me and make me happy. I just realised that the sight of my own blog has been making me a bit sad of late, which is probably, psychologically, why I have been avoiding it.
Oh Lightbulb Moment!

My latest newsletter is all about why image matters and this is just reinforcing my determination to upgrade this blog and make it what it should be 'A showcase of all Things Bright and Beautiful'.

Work is also afoot behind the scenes of www.morphpr.co.uk and this is being updated by the fabulous Toby Inkster whilst we speak.

However my priorities are always going to be my clients work and I have been really blessed of late, with some fabulous new clients coming on board.

I will be blogging about them individually as part of my forward plan for this here blog!

Watch this space for a new look Moroh's Moments and have a great weekend.

Beginers Guide to Viral Marketing

2009-03-05T04:03:00.000-08:00

Viral Marketing BBC Today Challenge

RELAX - Take a Minute

2009-03-04T04:22:00.000-08:00

www.just-a-minute.org/ FREE one minute meditations to download

Love it or hate it it's time to embrace it - Twitter that is!

2009-03-04T04:20:00.000-08:00

You can read my March Newsletter here which is all about Social Networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

Just an update on Twitter, I ended up having the most fantastic night out in Rowland's Castle courtesy of a random Tweet between myself and Catherine Billam a local Life Coach.

She had organised the most wonderful night 'Wine Man's Bluff which involved tasting (lots) of wine and having enormous fun!

So you see Twitter can be very helpful both for business but also pleasure.

Cheers Catherine

Winning Business On-line

Website Design - Tip No. 1

2009-03-04T04:18:00.000-08:00

If you are designing a website or you have a website please, please remember to add you contact details at the top right of every page, it really does help make your customer contact you!! Example of contact details

Really Useful Social Media Article

2009-02-28T05:41:00.001-08:00

http://viigo.im/2HM

Laughing and Tweeting

2009-02-27T03:32:00.000-08:00

I went to Hampshire's fabulous Winning Women Networking Group last night for a laughter session... and boy did we laugh.

The site of 30 of Hampshire's finest business women, lying on the floor with tears streaming down their faces as they laughed and laughed is a sight I will not forget in a hurry!!

We ended our laughter session on a more serious note though, discussing the rise of Social Networking Websites and Social Media Optimisation or SMO as the technocrats call it!

In plain English, this refers to websites which I'm sure you've all heard of such as Facebook, Ecademy and Twitter. You may already have a Facebook account to keep in touch with friends and family...but have you considered the potential for your business?

Recently I've been coaching some of my clients on how to use these sites and helping them to set up their on-line profiles. After our conversations last night I decided to offer this opportunity to all of you. So if you want to give it a go and see what these sites can do for your business give me a call and we can discuss how YOU can use them to grow your business quickly and easily. I offer all aspects of advice and support in getting started, getting your message across and winning business.

Last month I sent some of you an invitation for a one-to-one phone session with me to get you started on social networking sites....I've had a great response so far and I wanted to make you a very special offer...Anyone who signs up for a one-to-one Tele-session before 14th March can SAVE 25% on any or all of my Sessions.

Remember these are one-to-one Sessions so you will get my undivided support and attention for an hour and start getting your business noticed online.

Call me on 023 9229 3113 or e-mail rachel@morphpr.co.uk quoting WW25%

What we've been up to....

2009-02-19T05:24:00.000-08:00

Please click here to see some of our recent work

2009-02-16T12:42:00.000-08:00

Click here for How to win Clients Newsletter

Brand New Tele Class Series

2009-02-12T11:28:00.000-08:00

Exclusive one to one teleclasses: Please click here to find out more -
Link to teleclasses

Love is in the air and in the dates!!

2009-02-12T04:55:00.000-08:00

I have finally become an Aunty this week! Twice!!

After years of me and my husband being the only parents in our huge clan TWO of my gorgeous sister in laws have given birth within days of each other! One on them shares her birthday with her brother (my husband) and now has a daughter who shares a birthday with our son, which get this... is the same day as their dad's birthday!! What are the chances?

Does any one else have a crazy dates story to share?

Anyway as we welcome Cara and Isobel into our family it reminded me how important, pure and simple love is and how important it is to be grateful for those around us who love us. So as next time we are feeling stressed about work or money or anything else, let's stop and remind ourselves how lucky we are and on Valentine's Day let's not just think about our partners but all of our Friends and Family as well.

That said I'm off to buy my Grandma a Valentine's Card!

Twitter Twitter Twitter

2009-02-05T03:01:00.000-08:00

I am loving twitter and loving yoono even more, this gives me access to facebook and twitter on the left of my screen while I work.

It' s great for keeping in touch with others, while working from home can be a little lonely at times it's great to know there are others out there doing the same. I am not easily distracted so am able to use it in my tea breaks but i would suggest not using it if you are easily distracted. I suspect it's not doing my google ratings any harm either!

Join me on Twitter http://twitter.com/racheloreilly

Merry Christmas

2008-12-19T11:52:00.000-08:00

Had my first real Christmas feeling this afternoon, making mince pies with four toddlers!

Not sure I'm quite Nigella yet but I certainly looked the part! It was great fun and the kids all loved it, I am currently awaiting the verdict as my husband has not returned home from work yet to sample them. I don't think I'll tell him about the incident with the pastry and our neighbours shoe. I'm sure Nigella doesn't have to contend with these kind of trials when baking. sigh.

Work wise it's been a great week, I have a new Ethiopian Restaurant in Southsea as a client and I got to sample the food - mmmmmm! and white hot chocolate with cinnamon on the top -they are fast becoming my favorite clients!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!

Rachel x

How to Network

2008-12-05T04:57:00.000-08:00

You may not believe me, but you already have a huge Network, everyone you know and everyone they know, is a potential member of your New Business Network. (NBN)

The KEY to Networking is to know what it is that you have to offer and what it is you need to succeed.

You are your greatest Marketing TOOL, you are the only person who really knows about your business and what makes it special.

Everyone loves a good story, so it's up to you to create your story and tell it in a way that is memorable, interesting and relevant to other people.

If you need any help finding your UNIQUE Selling Point or USP , give me a call to arrange your FREE 30 minute consultation where I'll help you to develop your USP and compose an elevator pitch for your business. Call me on 023 9229 3113 or e-mail me rachel@morphpr.co.uk

Are you on-line? How to get a website that works!

2008-12-05T04:26:00.000-08:00

At Morph, we know that to win customers you need to be seen. The look and feel of your website will say a lot about you and your business.

As this is most people's first port of call, you need to look the part and be the part.

If you want to start 2009 with a great looking, easy to use website at an affordable price why not give us a call. We provide bespoke website design at a fraction of the price of most agencies.

What ever you need your site to do, we provide with style.

Recent sites

www.yourhealthcoach.co.uk

www.bradleyassoc.co.uk

www.morphpr.co.uk

Business Link Event - Fareham

2008-11-27T10:25:00.000-08:00

I had a great day yesterday in Fareham speaking at an event for women looking to start their own businesses. I met a lot of fabulous women and saw a few of my lovely clients there too.

I was also lucky enough to listen to the final presentation of the day which was by Spencer Gallagher a from Blu Halo - Creativity Cultivated.

Websites that WOW was the title and I just want to say wow! and thank him for such an interesting and inspiring seminar. If you get a chance you should try and hear him speak I learnt a lot!

Heros and Bright Futures!

2008-11-27T02:38:00.001-08:00

Well - what a week

Networking - works that all I can say.

Met an old hero of mine last night...I'm gonna keep you all guessing but he really was the design man back in the day and from what I've seen still is!

I spoke at a business link event yesterday and hopefully told it like it is. Great fun and hard work!

Good luck to all of you fabulous ladies I met yesterday you are all doing so brilliantly and have bright futures ahead of you!

About me

2008-11-20T04:14:00.000-08:00