Testimonials

Livewire’s content marketing, inbound marketing and social media outreach programmes are supporting the business to generate fresh interest. One of the most successful elements of the PR campaigns has been the identification of new ways we can use our collateral. Working collaboratively with Livewire has enabled new people to see what we do.

Denise Inwood, Managing Director, BlueSky Education

Sound crisis comms advice coupled with stunning coverage on the BBC, ITN and in regional Oxford and special educational needs trade media generated by Livewire Public Relations, brought the desperate financial plight of The ACE Centre, a charity which supports people with complex difficulties who struggle to communicate, to the personal attention of Prime Minister David Cameron. Livewire’s outstanding PR services have been instrumental in securing the crucial government funding we needed to avert the centre’s imminent closure, enabling us to continue to provide vital support to thousands of people living in Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Bedfordshire, Devon and Guernsey, who are unable to communicate without the aid of assistive technology. The team at Livewire did a truly outstanding job. As a trustee I also have to fit in my day job. Without their support this brilliant outcome would not have been possible.

Bill Nimmo, Trustee, The ACE Centre

When we set up our multi-academy trust in 2012 we deliberately took on troubled schools working in challenging circumstances – some of which were in special measures. Corporate reputation management is important to us and any issues we have faced have been handled by Livewire in a highly sensitive and professional manner.

Kevin Crossley, Chief Executive of the Collaborative Academies Trust

Livewire’s PR campaign to promote my new show Special Needs North was exceptional. The widespread coverage secured and the number of education journalists (national and trade) who attended the event was significant – so much so that it turned the heads of EMAP who purchased the show to incorporate within BETT.

Martin Littler, CEO, Inclusive Technology (formerly of SEMERC)

Within the first year of being appointed to promote BETT, Livewire increased media coverage by 67% over the previous agency by negotiating widespread double page spread previews in the education media. The number of national and education trade journalists who attended the event and prepared post-show reviews also increased dramatically. I was very impressed with the business event management skills of the Livewire team and would not hesitate to recommend them.

Stella Diamond, former Marketing Director, BETT

Thank you so much for nominating me for the BETT Award ‘Outstanding Contribution to ICT Education’. I was deeply touched that you did so, and amazed to win. It’s truly a highlight of my career. With grateful thanks and affection. Lewis.

Lewis Bronze, Director of Content, Discovery Education

Livewire has been instrumental in significantly extending our reach into UK schools through its stakeholder and influencer relations PR campaigns. Introductions to significant bodies such as the British Computer Society, NAACE, Computing at School and OCR, and subsequent joint marketing initiatives have enabled us to achieve instant market penetration and dialogue with schools keen to adopt Codio, our cloud-based coding and content platform.

Freddy May, Founder, Codio (education start-up)

Livewire prepared an impressive business development and networking programme for Cambridge University Press at BETT, the UK’s leading educational technology show. Stand visits by Michael Gove, Minister of State for Education and Elizabeth Truss, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education, were expertly coordinated as were appointments with the leading multi-academy chain the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) and major suppliers Samsung, Toshiba and Centerprise.

Michael McGarvey, UK Director, Education, Cambridge University Press

Dialogue and networking with Ministries of Education from across the globe is a top priority and essential for our business strategy development. Livewire carefully researched and sourced Cambridge University Press an excellent sponsorship opportunity at a closed-shop event for international ministries of education which enabled us to do just that.

Linden Harris, Former Deputy Managing Director, Global Education, Cambridge University Press

Livewire’s powerful thought leadership strategy and executive profiling programme catapulted Cambridge University Press, a fellow director and I into the headlines. They arranged nine meetings with the media including The BBC, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and secured 138 pieces of media coverage including important expert comment columns across the education trade titles.

Helen Cunningham, Publishing Director, UK Education, Cambridge University Press

Livewire helped to drive visitors to www.texthelp.com through an online video campaign it secured with a leading education website, which receives over 200,000 monthly unique visitors. During the two-month content marketing campaign, the education site appeared as one of the top referral sites to our website with visitors spending on average eight minutes and viewing approximately six pages per visit.

Elaine Emerson, Marketing Manager, Texthelp

Working with Livewire PR is like having a professional PR guru as part of our team. Their staff promote the interests of Turning Technologies with enthusiasm, creativity and passion.

Gary Morrison, VP International Sales, Turning Technologies

Livewire’s PR services have played a lead role in raising the profile of Lantronix’s device networking and remote access products for remote IT management across Europe. We have been really pleased with the consistently high level of coverage generated.

Errett Kroetter, Director Corporate and Channel Marketing, Lantronix

The PR campaigns created by Livewire PR, both online and offline, have led to a flood of new business leads for our telematics and M2M electronic components that is keeping us very busy!

Christos Papakyriacou, Managing Director, Alpha Micro Components

Livewire’s PR campaign to raise awareness of truancy, and promote Truancy Call in the media have helped to further enhance our profile within UK schools. We have had some excellent media coverage thanks to Livewire’s innovative approach and knowledge of the media. There is no doubt that this has presented us with additional business, which without the coverage we would have been unlikely to attain.

Stephen Clarke, Managing Director, Contact Group

Regional PR has played a key role in driving peer-to-peer sales for Contact Group. It proved a particularly effective method for promoting our Call Parents text-based messaging system used to alert parents regarding school closures due to snow last year. Significant revenue was generated as a result of me-too sales and line usage by schools sending out texts to parents. This PR campaign worked very well for Contact Group and is certainly worth the investment.

Stephen Clarke, Managing Director, Contact Group

Livewire’s PR campaign launch of BrightSpark Education’s online maths tuition service was stunning – reaching 240 million listeners/readers in the first month alone. The high level coverage also resulted in a number of significant networking opportunities along with approaches from both partners and potential investors.

Tom Hooper, Managing Director, BrightSpark Education

Livewire’s media relations work has increased awareness on a national and regional level of our recent ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted inspection and the crucial work we do to help SEN pupils. Pupils and teachers alike were particularly thrilled to be filmed for ITV News!

Sean O’Sullivan, Headteacher, Frank Wise School

My students, staff and I were totally thrilled by the amazing coverage which reached an audience of 49,932,939. Fantastic value for money and a superbly engineered mini-campaign! Thanks to this education PR campaign our student numbers have increased and we are now at full capacity for next year – it’s an enviable position to be in!

David Hermitt, Executive Principal, Congleton High School – ‘Record GCSE results for Congleton High’ campaign

The Livewire PR team has never failed to impress me. Their professionalism, competence and sheer enthusiasm makes it a pleasure to interact with them. Working with this public relations agency has not only opened up a world of media opportunities and awards recognition for me as a new author, but has also been a significant help in promoting my books to the general public. I would have no hesitation in recommending Livewire.

Sarah Mussi, Author and Winner of the Glen Dimplex Children’s Book of the Year Award

Livewire PR has supported our communications requirements since 2002, during which time the team has consistently applied PR strategies which have been timely, creative and delivered excellent results. The team is responsive, not only understanding the client’s products and services – HD and SD solutions for live and file-based video delivery over IP – but also the media. Furthermore, in what can be seen as a technically complex area, the account team has demonstrated its clear understanding of our business and the challenges we face. I do not hesitate to recommend this communications agency whenever I can.

Julian Ivory, Systems Engineer, Livewire Digital