Sarah Milward
…There is nothing she can’t fix
With an ability to get straight to heart of the matter and see through the chaos, Sarah is Flagship’s ‘Chief Engineer’. She has a wealth of experience in corporate PR, marketing, offshore banking and shipping. As well as handling her own clients, she also manages all aspects of Flagship’s administration. She is the guardian of Flagship’s vision and values – our untiring and constant source of wise counsel.
Sarah’s client experience includes QVC, Electrocomponents and Sumitomo Chemical.
- Education: Language Tuition Centre
- Hobbies: Gardening, cooking, baking
- Favourite books: The Times Saturday Magazine, P G Wodehouse
- Favourite film: A tie between Some Like it Hot and High Society
- Favourite TV: Gareth Malone on anything!
- Proudest moment: Tracking graduates throughout their PR career at Flagship and beyond and seeing how successful they have become, a reflection on Flagship’s graduate training
- Favourite media coup: after months of persuading a reluctant client that she should talk to the media, and securing a Marketing Week feature, the client has now realised she can do it!
Pressure Chamber
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5 tips for making the most of (or surviving) an industry conference
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting Abu Dhabi to attend the Institute of Travel and Tourism annual conference. It was my first visit to the Emirate and apart from being overwhelmed by the heat, I was struck by the sheer scale of the development of the area. Abu Dhabi is less high rise
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Likes don’t save lives… or do they?
Likes don’t save lives. At least, that’s the message emanating loud and clear from Unicef’s latest online campaign, which castigates the ‘slacktivists’ who aren’t as generous with their money as they are with clicking the ‘Like’ button on Facebook pages. The campaign even includes a rather moving video featuring a ten year-old orphan who directly
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Why we should support paywalls
Working in PR, we are very aware that the world of newspapers, both online and in print, is changing. In a constant battle to remain at the forefront of breaking news and information, newspapers have had to offer their content online in competition with traditional broadcast media and the ever-evolving world of social media and
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The beauty of Twitter
Twitter has long played a part in our PR campaigns for clients, but today I spotted two stories about Twitter showing how imbedded this social media channel now is in our news reporting. The first story related to Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the daughter of the new Pakistani Prime Minister, who has been credited with increasing
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Brand spanking novelty: shining through a hectic crowd
PR has for years been linked to branding – often for our involvement in building a brand’s credibility or even just protecting it. Now, as agencies (including that of yours truly) begin to offer more integrated communications packages, brand is at the absolute forefront of our minds. Watching a brilliant adaption of Mark Haddon’s A
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