Connect with Darren Weale of In Tune PR for small business support on Enterprise Nation

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Darren Weale, In Tune PR | Enterprise Nation

&lt;p&gt;In Tune PR helps organisations and individuals to be better known so that they can better achieve their goals. It was founded by Darren Weale, a PR and marketing consultant and journalist (print and audio).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Drawing on a senior Civil Service communications background, he has worked with numerous companies,&lt;br /&gt;
charities, and music acts, and founded the website&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://coollocal439083857.wordpress.com/"&gt;Cool Local&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;because he is on a mission to&lt;br /&gt;
celebrate the people and things that make life worth living. In Tune PR even promotes its own live&lt;br /&gt;
entertainment at intervals as part of that mission.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Darren has had multiple award nominations for his work and has been presented by Lord Judd in the House&lt;br /&gt;
of Lords with the STAR Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 for tireless and selfless service to&lt;br /&gt;
society. He has also received the Home Office&amp;rsquo;s inaugural A:gender (&amp;lsquo;Meerkat&amp;rsquo;) Award for services to diversity.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;He has assisted others with drafting submissions and presenting for awards, including a client who won a&lt;br /&gt;
prestigious UK Business Award in 2019.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Darren&amp;rsquo;s favourite journalism work includes interviews with Canadian actor Dan Aykroyd (Blues Brothers/Ghostbusters), re-published in 2020 by Classic Rock magazine; Jo Johnson MP; and TV&amp;rsquo;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://coollocal.blogspot.com/2013/04/OrpingtonDIYSOS.html?q=diysos"&gt;DIY SOS team&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In Tune PR prides itself on its work, and in working with fellow professionals who can help our clients get&lt;br /&gt;
exactly the help they need and the best results possible. Check out our Testimonials&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://intunepr.co.uk/testimonials/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We have worked with diverse clients including Mungo Jerry; Robbie McIntosh; Edward Ashdale Estate&lt;br /&gt;
Agents; Coppards Removals; Teepol Products; Integrity Cleaning; Document Records; Thomas Dunton solicitors, and more.&lt;/p&gt;

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I'm here to help. I'm volunteering free advice calls of up to an hour as part of the Recovery Advice for Business scheme, over the next 6 months (from July&nbsp;2020 when I joined Enterprise Nation). Please get in touch to see how I can help your business. Even in that short time, I can suggest opportunities that you can do yourself at no cost other than a bit of time and effort. Your business is worth that.

In my experience the top themes that people value and want to hear about the most are music, food, drink, and cuddly animals. Link your public relations (PR) – words, sounds, visuals - to any of these and you can't go far wrong. You can see that daily in the way that businesses, small, medium and large, promote and advertise themselves. 
 
As a marketing consultant and PR, I know that I cannot overlook the essential value and benefits of whatever I may be promoting. Yet even when I was in the Civil Service working on communicating IT-enabled change, or internal communications for a major accommodation project, those themes of music, food, drink, and cuddly animals were still a go-to. They were hooks that often engaged people about what would otherwise be considered dull content. 
 
My love of music - hence the In Tune PR name - has also given me my greatest opportunities to write, from published editorial for online and in magazines including Blues Matters! And The American. The highlight to date was interviewing the Blues Brothers Band inc. Dan Aykroyd, Willie 'Too Big' Hall, 'Blue' Lou Marini, Steve 'The Colonel' Cropper and more and publishing 18,000 words across two magazines. One of those pieces has recently been re-published in a Classic Rock 'Best of' compendium. 
 
Press releases, website text, social media writing, brochure text, writing for flyers, all these are fun too. That fun is equally present when I am writing for clients from estate agents to manufacturers to removal companies and charities. Writing that conveys a message, or the character of a client, often in a way they couldn't do unassisted, is a real pleasure. That is why my business is named 'In Tune PR', because it is in tune with the clients, their messages, and the right delivery that will make a difference. 
 
Being a journalist myself helps me when engaging on behalf of clients with managers and editors working in print, radio, events, online and TV. It also means I can take the stress out of media engagement for people who would otherwise freeze when put before a microphone. 
 
Along the way I've picked up a couple of awards for contributions to diversity and society, which is the kind of thing that can happen when you are, like me, passionate about music, independent British businesses and people who make a positive difference in any walk of life. I work with other service providers (for example, specialists in branding, website design and social media) who share my values and professionalism. 
 
If any of this strikes a chord with you or if you have a story that I might enjoy telling, get in touch.

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Deasha Waddup from Social Treats has worked in marketing for over 7 years with extensive experience working internationally in corporate environments and in digital marketing agencies before founding Social Treats. 
Deasha is accredited by Facebook as an Associate and now trains small businesses with in-person events as part of the #shemeansbusiness Facebook Initiative in partnership with Enterprise Nation. 
Deasha is an approved ManyChat Agency Partner; in 2019 she was shortlisted for Freelance Social media Manager of the year and in 2020 has become an international best selling author.

Deasha has helped businesses scale to 6 and 7 figures since launching Social Treats in 2016. Using organic social media strategies, she has perfected a system that she now teaches through her coaching programs.

Deasha has experience using messenger bots and lead ads to drive leads for high ticket items in industries spanning from wellness to real estate. She has worked with clients to build webinar funnels, membership funnels and even affiliate marketing funnels all utilising organic strategies.

Deasha enjoys working remotely from any location in the world and believes everyone should have the same freedom and flexibility in their life. That is why she is passionate about helping other mission-driven women to consciously create a life they choose.

If you would like to book a taster session it will be a maximum 20 minute session! This is not a freebie session but more to find out if you would like to join a longer term program that I offer. If you need help right now then a one hour session is your best bet, and can be booked in the services I offer.

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As Enterprise Nation's small business community manager, my role is to guide our members through every stage of their user journey, developing and improving their experience within the Enterprise Nation community, and arming them with the knowledge and resources they need to start and grow their business.&nbsp;&nbsp;

I have over 20 years of experience working in customer and B2B support. Having also managed a small business for many years, I understand the struggles that they face am passionate about helping them grow. I love to hear member success stories, particularly those in the food and drink sector.&nbsp;

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This is a group for new members of the Enterprise Nation community to connect with likeminded businesses and the Enterprise Nation team. Use this space to meet other businesses who might be on a similar journey or looking to grow their network. Join and introduce yourself! Welcome to the community.

&lt;p&gt;Hello EN members.&amp;nbsp;I'm a digital marketer, digital communications specialist, consultant and trainer. I'm the CEO of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.kathrynmcmann.com/"&gt;Kathryn McMann Consultancy,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;a digital agency and digital consultancy; and CEO of the sister brand&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/think-king-training-20137139113"&gt;Think King&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;tons of&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;bite-size digital marketing training.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have 18+ years experience working at the forefront of marketing, digital and social, helping companies to innovate and streamline actions, have a clear direction, increase profitability&amp;nbsp;and get ahead of their competitors. I&amp;nbsp;know what does and doesn't work and provide my clients with the tools to create that supernova campaign where they&amp;nbsp;can connect with their&amp;nbsp;audience and customers strategically.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I work directly with clients&amp;nbsp;to transform their&amp;nbsp;campaign into a success- with no hidden fees, jumbled jargon or skyrocket prices. Our simplified approach offers a high-quality integrated marketing solution that allows them&amp;nbsp;to meet their&amp;nbsp;business goals and performance metrics effectively.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My extensive experience spans across a wide range of industries such as e-Commerce, the public sector, high-end leisure, finance, creative and cultural industries, to the publishing and healthcare sector&amp;nbsp;where I have&amp;nbsp;implemented a range of successful campaigns.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am a&amp;nbsp;Freeman of the City of Glasgow alongside the likes of Nelson Mandela and Billy Connolly. I&amp;nbsp;was also awarded an honorary Colonel of Kentucky (alongside the likes of Colonel Stephen Fry) for my&amp;nbsp;charitable and entrepreneurial endeavours in the creative and cultural Industry.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have also recently&amp;nbsp;become an Enterprise Advisor for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.esc.ac.uk/"&gt;East Surrey College&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.johnruskin.ac.uk/"&gt;John Ruskin College&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;through&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.coast2capital.org.uk/"&gt;Coast2Capital&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

CEO of KMC & Think King. Digital communications Consultant and trainer.

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White-label training can be designed and led on behalf of PR, digital and communications agencies, as an external marketing arm as part of&nbsp;&nbsp;team.​&nbsp; 
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I've been living in a world of strategic creativity for over 23 years (so far) and have worked both client-side and agency-side, as well as operated a successful agency myself, which means over the last couple of decades, I have been at the table having strategic conversations with 1000's of businesses and leaders, helping them apply creativity so they might grow themselves and their organisations.

Today the 'day job' is heading up the UK chapter of The Spill Teem®, a global
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The Spill Teem® have an extensive background in service, product, communication and behavioural design and collectively carry 30+ years of human-centred Design experience, business strategy, and cultural change work.

My work also regularly involves delivering keynotes at events, speaking to teams, at leadership groups, masterminds and retreats. I also deliver lectures, seminars and provide training when required on the topic of brand, strategy, storytelling and human-centred design.

If you would like me to come and speak to your group or at an event or want to know how you can work with me or Spill Teem®, then please don’t hesitate to get in touch anytime.

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