Dominic Pollard

Dominic Pollard is the director of City Road Communications (CRC). Launched in 2017, London-based CRC is a PR and comms agency that specialises in using research, data and expertly crafted content to secure media coverage for its clients, which are predominantly startups, scaleups and SMEs spread across the finance, technology, property and investment sectors. Dominic has led the agency since it was founded – before that he trained and worked in journalism.

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Startups hold advantages over corporates when it comes to PR – just ask Jaguar

Let’s state the obvious: public relations (PR) is a different beast for startups compared to large corporates. But as the news this week has shown (Jaguar), this is no bad thing.

Here’s another disruptive startup… Stop using clichés and jargon in external communications

Jargon is divisive, especially in business. Some embrace it – there’s nothing they like more than to touch base, deep dive or circle back. Then there are those who are seemingly revulsed by these workplace idiosyncrasies. Such phrases are readily mocked, easy fodder as they are for any satire of crap management.

What Greek Philosophy teaches us about startup PR and brand-building

Greek philosophy and public relations: two subjects that rarely inform the same discussion. But here we go (please bear with me).