by Laura Thackray | Dec 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
The past two years have forced businesses to do things differently. Organisations which would never have considered allowing their staff to work from home, overnight found themselves in a situation where this became a reality. For the most part, it has exceeded...
by Laura Thackray | Dec 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
After having my daughter and moving North I knew that I didn’t want to continue commuting down to London to do my all-consuming Head of Communications job for a youth development charity. I knew that I wanted to work for myself and had the skills and experience to do...
by Laura Thackray | Nov 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
As I celebrate 5 years of Laura Thackray Communications I want to share 5 ways in which you can raise your profile and improve your communications in a cost-effective way. Whatever your business objective – gaining more clients, increasing your sales, venturing into...
by Laura Thackray | Jul 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
If you work in marketing you’ve probably experienced colleagues not really understanding what you do. Or questioning how the work you do brings value back to the business. It may be that you’ve had colleagues inputting into your strategies or plans (when you’ve not...
by Laura Thackray | Jun 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Deciding to work as a freelancer is a big decision. But it’s a decision that more of us seem to be making with stats coming in at almost 5 million people in the UK working, either partly or fully, on a freelance basis. And one can only assume that this statistic is...
by Laura Thackray | May 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
In these strange and uncertain days, weeks, months without a clear end-point really visible, it’s easy to feel stuck, negative and unmotivated, both about your work and about your life in general. All of us are juggling differing anxieties, workloads and conflicting...
