Whether it’s a great website at a low cost or a first step into the uncharted regions of social media, we can help guide you through the pitfalls and be a part of your team, either short -term or for the duration.
You may need to face the media, prepare for a potential crisis, or just develop your team’s skills. Our experience in the communications arena can help you make an impact.
You may need someone to hit the ground running and join your team for a period of peak demand, or to cover absences. We can help and won’t charge agency fees, hidden fees and confuse you with contracts and long notice periods.
There are many ways to get your organisation's message across these days, and you may think you know them all. But to stop getting lost in the noise, you may need a little help. That's where we come in.
About GP Media
Nearly two decades of business communications support
Our clients cover a wide range of activities, from small local businesses to large multinationals.
We work with a variety of specialist professional designers and web technicians to provide top-quality service at a reasonable cost.
We can work and interact with your team if you prefer regular advice and support, or we’re equally as happy working on discrete projects such as new websites or intranets.
We’re fully conversant with the major online technologies and can advise you on anything from the web domain you should have to how to market your organisation, online or offline.
We’re based in Linslade, Bedfordshire, around 50 miles North of London and between the towns of Milton Keynes and Aylesbury, but we work virtually with our clients all over the world.
Whether media, social media, online marketing or newsletters
Test your company crisis plan even if there are no looming troubles
Make sure your online offering is hitting the mark
Geoff Paddock spent ten years as a journalist with Thomson regional newspapers in the northwest of England, and his later career has been spent in high-level corporate communications. He is an experienced press officer and crisis manager, and developed his skills in this area in the corporate press offices of British Nuclear Fuels and Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI ), both household names in controversial sectors. Most recently he has run a small consultancy specializing in digital communications. Clients have included FTSE 100 companies. Geoff is based in London.
“Geoff and I first came together when we supported him on the re-build of ICI plc’s web site. It was great to find someone who knew so much about the business that the job we needed to do was done quicker than the norm -and this went on well after the launch. When an opportunity arose for us to start virtually from scratch on Wolseley’s plc site – we found that same level of knowledge even though he had only just joined the team! Geoff is a calm, thorough 24/7 professional and we are working on finding the next project where we can team together.”
“Geoff builds good relationships and is apt at understanding a company’s core brief. He is a lateral thinker who brings a sense of the real world to projects. His knowledge and understanding of the needs and requirements of PLC websites is second to none.”
“Geoff managed our corporate website as part of the team. With his external experience and contacts enabled us to create and maintain a corporate site that was interesting, accessible, always up to date and ahead of most of our competitors.Top Qualities: Expert, Good Value, High Integrity.”-
formerly Director of Corporate Communications, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)
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