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GO ON, BE A PAL. INTRODUCING ‘NEWSPAGE PALS’
11 July 2021Love Newspage? Help us to grow even faster and make money at the same time — by joining the ‘Newspage Pals’ programme.
Newspage is now ready to scale. But rather than spend a load of dosh on adverts, we’d rather reward our fantastic Newspage community for spreading the word and helping us to grow. So to cut to the chase…
Newspage Pals will receive £5 for each new Newspager they sign up.
To become a Newspage Pal, the criteria are pretty simple:
- – You need to be a Newspager yourself
- – You need to like (or better still, love) Newspage
- – You’re dead keen to help your pals get great media coverage, too
How does it work?
To join the Newspage Pals programme, all you need to do is email pals@newspage.co.uk with your company or charity name in the subject field. Or message us on social media if that’s easier.
We’ll then send you a unique discount code. This code will give the businesses and charities you introduce to Newspage THREE MONTHS of FREE Newspage Premium.
And if the company or charity you introduce decides to downgrade to our free package after three months, no worries at all, you still get your fiver.
On the last working day of each calendar month, we’ll pay the cash straight into your bank account (we’ll ask you for your bank account details separately). So if, in the course of one calendar month, you get 10 new Newspagers to sign up using your unique discount code, you’ll get a nifty (£50) for your troubles.
Ps. We originally thought of calling Newspage Pals ‘Newspage Ambassadors’, but then the word Ambassador is naff and brings to mind crap, over-priced chocolates (and terrible adverts) from the eighties.
The small print: The Newspage Pals programme will initially run until the end of September. Newspage has the right to cancel the programme at any time, e.g. we get 10k new Newspagers in a week and are looking at shelling out fifty large! If you’re a bit dodgy (this is the interweb after all) and try and get 1000 pretend people to sign up, we ain’t paying. End of.
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HOUSE PRICES, HEIDEGGER AND HELL
3 July 202122,075,000 seconds is how long the average human lives, according to a cursory scan of the internet.
In short, the clock is ticking. Time is killing us all.
But not to worry.
House prices have risen by an average 13.4% over the past year, according to the Nationwide June house price index.
So everything is hunky-dory.
Here’s what Robert Gardner, Nationwide’s Chief Economist, had to say about the figures (warning: a part of you will die inside when you read this) :
“Annual house price growth accelerated to 13.4% in June, the highest outturn since November 2004. Indeed, June saw the third consecutive month-on-month rise (0.7%), after taking account of seasonal effects.”
I mean, seriously? There are only 23 people left on the planet who use the word ‘Indeed’, and seven of them are in the nuthouse.
The real story here isn’t the fact that house prices have risen by 13.4% annually.
It’s that we pay attention to this garbage in the first place, and are not engaging in bacchanalian orgies, wringing pleasure out of every last second of the pitiful time we have left.
Placing value on things that have no meaning is, of course, common. House prices keep us occupied. They dull the deep existential terror within. Heidegger called it ‘Geworfenheit’, or ‘thrownness’.
But when we’re being licked by hell’s eternal flame, in the abode of the damned, we’ll be regretting every second that we obsessed about bricks and mortar.
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CORECO MD MONTLAKE JOINS NEWSPAGE AS A NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
2 July 2021London, 2 July 2021 — Coreco Managing Director, Andrew Montlake, has become a non-executive director of Newspage.
Newspage is a platform that gives small and micro businesses the chance to be featured in the local, trade, national and even international media for free.
Newspage enables businesses to create their own publicly visible and fully branded media centre — something many of them don’t have — in a matter of minutes.
They can add ‘experts’, create tags for their areas of expertise and add any content that could be of use to the media, such as headshots and corporate brochures.
They then receive ‘NewsAlerts’ ‘in app’ to breaking or upcoming news stories that they could contribute to and are also able to add news stories of their own. The Newspage team will promote stories it believes will be of interest to the media for free.
Andrew Montlake, non-executive director, Newspage, commented: “Newspage is doing something that’s never been done before, which is to give every company the chance to be in the mainstream media, for free. I have said for years that it would be great to get more voices out there and now there is a tool to do exactly that. I’ve known Dominic, the founder of Newspage for many years, and genuinely believe what they’re doing could grow into something really quite big.”
Dominic Hiatt, founder, Newspage, added: “To have someone of Monty’s calibre and connections onboard is a real boost for everyone at Newspage and a vindication of our model. He knows the media inside out and, best of all, is in a rock band. His advice and expertise will be invaluable as we continue to grow.”
Lewis Shaw, founder, Mansfield-based Shaw Financial Services, added: “Newspage rocks, end of story. Since creating my Newspage, I’ve been featured in countless national newspapers, trades and also my local newspaper, which is great for leads. It’s the best thing since gluten-free sliced bread.”
Paul Neal, founder, Belper-based Missing Element Mortgage Services, added: “I created my own Newspage after seeing the success a number of other brokers were having. Since then, we’ve been featured in several newspapers and various other trade magazines. I cannot recommend Newspage enough, as it’s giving people like me who would never hire a conventional PR agency a fast-track into the media. This weekend I’m even on BBC Radio Derby talking mortgages, which is fantastic.”
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Notes To Editors
For more information, please contact: Dominic Hiatt, Founder, Newspage:
M 07595 221604
About Newspage
Newspage gives small businesses the ability to be featured in the local, national and trade media for FREE and acts as a fully branded ‘media centre’ for the vast majority of small businesses that don’t have one. Companies simply create their own Newspage in a matter of minutes. Newspage then alerts them to relevant stories they could contribute to as they break and also gives them the ability to add stories and then share them across social media.
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SMALL BUSINESSES SEE TAX RISES AS BIGGEST THREAT TO UK ECONOMY
30 June 2021FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Government raising taxes to rebalance the books poses the biggest threat to the UK’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey of 1008 small business owners by free PR platform, Newspage.
39% of respondents, from a wide range of sectors and located around the UK, believe the need to start paying off the debts accrued over the past 18 months represents the biggest danger to the country’s economic recovery.
For 35% of respondents, the end of furlough and rising unemployment is the biggest threat, while just over a quarter of those polled (26%) said interest rate rises caused by rising inflation will be the primary challenge for UK Plc.
Meanwhile, a clear majority of small business respondents (59%) believe that the end of the Government’s support scheme will have a ‘negative’ impact on the UK economy, with 6% believing it will have a ‘devastating’ impact.
18% of those polled believe the end of the furlough scheme will have ‘no impact at all’ on the economy, while 17% believe it could have a ‘positive’ impact.
Select views from the Newspage community:
Gillian Jones-Williams, Managing Director at Fareham-based Emerge Development Consultancy:
“At some point in the not-too-distant future, Rishi Sunak will stop being the ‘good news fairy’ and the reality of burgeoning tax bills will start to hit home. For small companies who have spent the past year and a half clinging on to save their businesses, this could be the final nail in the coffin.”
Debbie Porter, Managing Director of Bakewell-based Destination Digital Marketing:
“Medically, we are well along the pandemic curve, but in economic terms, we are only at the beginning. Rishi Sunak has warned on several occasions that tax rises will be needed to pay back the huge debts we’ve incurred during COVID-19, and the only question is when the great payback begins.”
Amit Shah, Co-founder of Milton Keynes-based educational learning product provider, Teddö Play:
“Though we might be through the worst of the pandemic, the economic after-effects are only just beginning. The immediate risks to our economy are a rise in inflation, rising interest rates as a result, and the end of the furlough scheme, which could see unemployment soar and speed up bankruptcies across large and small companies alike.”
Lee Marples, Co-founder of Derby-based creative agency, Think3:
“Furlough has masked the country’s true economic state. What happens when that support ends? Almost certainly, rising unemployment, a fall in consumer spending and recession, potentially a devastating one.”
Lewis Shaw, Founder of Mansfield-based Shaw Financial Services:
“We are nowhere near the worst of the economic turbulence to come as a result of the pandemic, a turbulence, let’s not forget, turbocharged by Brexit. We’re about to find out how much nous the Government has really got.”
Bev Wakefield, Director at Derby-based Vibrant Accountancy:
“Businesses go bust on the way out of a recession, not on the way in. I’m predicting difficult times for many companies during the next 12 months, with interest rates rising and inflation potentially wreaking havoc. Businesses in some industries and sectors will continue to thrive, but for many the furlough scheme has merely delayed the inevitable.”
Rob Gill, Founder of London-based Altura Mortgage Finance:
“There’s every chance the economy will bounce back strongly as the pandemic comes to an end. Many households have saved significantly over the past year or so, and there’s a lot of pent-up demand for holidays, meals out, entertainment and downright fun. There is a very real prospect of a 21st Century ‘Roaring 20s’.”
Peter Francis, Engineering Director at Worcester-based MAT Ltd:
“While the furlough scheme has supported many businesses, it has also demoralised many people and they want to feel productive and valued again. One positive is that small businesses can quickly adjust their vision and goals, so now is the time for them to take some brave steps.”
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Notes to Editors
For more information, please contact:
Dominic Hiatt, Founder, Newspage: 07595 221604 | dominic@newspage.co.uk
Newspage polled its user base between 28 and 29 June 2021.
About Newspage
Newspage gives small businesses and charities the ability to be featured in the local, national and trade media for FREE, while also acting as a fully branded ‘media centre’ where they can be found by journalists in need of expert comment. Simply create your own Newspage in a matter of minutes and then be alerted to relevant stories you could contribute to as they break. #BeTheStory
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SMALL BUSINESS OWNER? YOUR VIEWS DON’T COUNT FOR THE MEDIA.
13 June 2021On Friday morning (11 June), the Office for National Statistics published the April GDP data – the latest snapshot of the UK economy. It showed the economy grew by 2.3%.
We issued comments on the economy to the national news media from a wide range of small business owners around the country. Not one was used, as these types of stories are often seen as above the pay grade of the ‘everyday’ business.
Instead, the national newspapers – as they too often do – quoted macro-economists, politicians and think tanks. People in the ivory towers of the City of London and Westminster bubble. Not the small business owners on the front line. People who are the economy.
People like Andrew Deighton of Derby-based AWD Development Solutions:
“The light at the end of the tunnel started to get a bit brighter for me in April and May. April saw things start to pick up and in May I invoiced more than for the final eight months of 2020 added together.”
People like Gillian Jones-Williams of Fareham-based Emerge Development Consultancy:
“For us, in April and May, it felt as if the world was waking up. We are a training company and have gone from losing huge amounts of money last year to feeling extremely positive about our future.”
People like Andrew Elcock of Nottingham-based Xynomix:
“April and May saw our bookings return to pre-Covid levels, as business confidence continues to increase. “During the same period last year, we saw our bookings plummet by 60%, so April 2021 has certainly shown reassuring signs of life in the wider economy.”
People like Larry Morgan of Bromsgrove-based Trojan Consultants:
“As an SME providing software to the public sector, the seismic impact of Covid-19 on Local Authority finances is becoming ever more apparent. Huge budget cuts announced by councils up and down the country are having a massive impact on our business, and doubtless many other suppliers to the public sector.”
Quality insights all, but not a column inch given.
The entire purpose of Newspage is to change this. To give a voice to the people who are the economy rather than those who simply talk about it. To ensure your views are heard.
Because currently, all too often in the national media, your views don’t count.
#smallbusinesseswillbeheard