PR for Consumer Businesses That Builds Trust, Visibility and Credibility
For consumer businesses, trust is one of the strongest marketing assets you can build.
Whether you sell products, services, experiences or specialist expertise directly to consumers, PR can help turn your brand, founder story, customer insight, products, services and point of view into credible media coverage.
Fair Public Relations is a founder-led, journalist-led boutique PR agency helping consumer businesses turn their expertise, stories, products, services, customer experiences and announcements into media angles journalists can actually use.
This is not about fame for the sake of it.
It is about building credibility that supports customer trust, sales, referrals, partnerships, search visibility, founder authority and long-term brand growth.
PR for consumer businesses is delivered through Standard PR, our core journalist-led PR service for founders, experts and growing consumer-facing brands.
Standard PR can support a broad consumer PR campaign, including founder visibility, expert positioning, product or service coverage, customer stories, real-life stories, launches, announcements and business news where relevant.
Get in touch and tell us about your business, customers, products, services and goals. We will review whether we believe there is a strong PR opportunity and come back to you with honest next steps.
Several Ways to Build Visibility
Standard PR is not built around one single tactic.
Instead, we use several complementary PR strategies to build credibility, visibility and media momentum from different angles.
Depending on your business, goals and media potential, your campaign may include:
Sharing Expertise
Positioning your founder, spokesperson, leadership team or in-house specialist as a credible voice journalists can quote, interview and feature.
This can be especially useful where professional knowledge, specialist experience or consumer insight sits behind the brand.
Potential commentary areas might include:
Consumer trends
Buying behaviour
Common customer mistakes
Industry changes
Seasonal advice
Product education
Promoting Consumer Products
Getting suitable products in front of relevant journalists through:
Product roundups
Buying guides
Gift guides
Seasonal features
Product reviews
Launch coverage
Where journalists need products for testing or review, samples may need to be provided without charge and will not always be returned.
Coverage cannot be guaranteed simply because a sample has been supplied.
Promoting Consumer Services and Experiences
Where suitable, Standard PR can support service-led and experience-led PR.
This may include:
Professional services sold to consumers
Home and lifestyle services
Health and wellness services
Beauty and personal care services
Hospitality and leisure experiences
Educational services
The key is finding an editorial angle that is useful to journalists and relevant to their audience, rather than simply promoting the service directly.
Telling Stories
Using founder journeys, customer experiences, transformations, unusual purchases, personal challenges, brand missions and human-interest angles to create more memorable media opportunities.
For real-life stories, clients may be interviewed by Emma Elms, an established journalist and editor with more than 25 years’ experience working with publications including The Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
Emma helps draw out the strongest human angle, useful detail and media relevance before we shape the story for journalist-led outreach.
Announcing Business News
Turning credible developments into media opportunities.
This may include:
New business launches
Product launches
New services
Milestones
Partnerships
Awards
Appointments
Funding
This page focuses specifically on PR for consumer businesses: using your products, services, expertise, stories and commercial developments to build trust, recognition and authority.
Service-related guidance
Cost-saving advice
Lifestyle trends
Consumer rights or expectations, where suitable
Founder insight
Expert reactions to timely news
Trend features
Expert recommendations
Comparison articles
Lifestyle coverage
Hands-on testing opportunities
Product-led stories
Family and parenting services
Travel-related services
Membership businesses
Subscription services
Local consumer services
Specialist consultations
Expansion
New locations
Retail launches
Reports or research
Campaigns
Events
New collections or ranges
What Is PR for Consumer Businesses?
PR for consumer businesses is the process of earning media coverage that helps customers understand, trust and remember your brand.
Rather than relying only on advertising, social media, influencer activity or your own website, earned media places your business within independent editorial coverage.
For some consumer businesses, the strongest PR opportunity is a product.
For others, it may be:
A useful service
A founder story
A customer transformation
A trend
A launch
Professional expertise
That could mean being:
Included in a product roundup
Featured in a buying guide
Recommended within a seasonal article
Asked to contribute expert advice
Interviewed about your founder journey
Featured for an unusual customer story
Asked to comment on a consumer trend
Included in a review feature
Interviewed for a podcast
Featured in a lifestyle publication
Used as a source when journalists need credible consumer insight
Done well, consumer PR makes your brand easier to find, easier to trust and more likely to be remembered.
Original research
A seasonal angle
An unusual business story
A strong consumer opinion
A real-life experience
Why PR Matters for Consumer Businesses
Consumers are surrounded by choice.
Before buying, booking or making an enquiry, they may:
Search for your brand
Compare you with competitors
Read reviews
Look for independent recommendations
Check your website
PR helps create that proof.
Media coverage can show that:
Your products have been independently considered
Your expertise is useful beyond your own marketing
Journalists see relevance in your story
Your brand belongs in wider consumer conversations
Your founder has credible insight
Your service offers something distinctive
Your business has been recognised beyond its own channels
This credibility can support:
Sales
Enquiries
Retailer conversations
Partnerships
Referrals
Search visibility
PR does not replace a strong product, service, website or customer experience.
It helps strengthen the evidence around them.
Search for media coverage
Look at your founder’s profile
Review your social media presence
Check whether trusted publications have mentioned you
Look for proof that your business is established and credible
Social proof
Founder authority
Investor confidence
Customer trust
Long-term brand recognition
Who Consumer PR Is For
Consumer PR can work well for credible businesses with strong products, useful services, relevant expertise or interesting stories to share.
This includes:
Consumer product brands
E-commerce businesses
Direct-to-consumer brands
Home and interiors brands
Beauty businesses
Fashion and accessories brands
Food and non-alcoholic drink brands
Health and wellness businesses
Fitness brands
Pet businesses
Parenting and family brands
Travel and leisure businesses
You do not need to be famous.
You do need to have something credible, useful, distinctive or interesting to share.
The strongest consumer PR usually comes from businesses with one or more of the following:
A strong product
A useful service
A distinct customer proposition
Credible expertise
A compelling founder
A meaningful story
Hospitality businesses
Education businesses
Consumer technology brands
Subscription businesses
Membership businesses
Retail brands
Home service businesses
Professional services sold to consumers
Local consumer businesses
Lifestyle brands
Founders with relevant expertise
Businesses with credible in-house specialists
Strong customer results
Useful data
A timely launch
A clear point of view
A visually appealing brand
A genuine reason for journalists and their audiences to care
Your Consumer Business, Packaged for the Media
As part of Standard PR, we help make your business easier for journalists to understand, trust and use.
For a product-led brand, this may involve clearly presenting:
The product
What it does
Who it is for
Its price
Where it is available
What makes it different
For a service-led business, this may involve:
Explaining the service clearly
Identifying the consumer problem it solves
Clarifying your specialist knowledge
Developing advice-led angles
Identifying useful customer stories
Defining your founder or spokesperson positioning
Connecting the service to relevant consumer trends
For founder-led and expertise-led campaigns, we may also develop:
A professional biography
Areas of expertise
Thought leadership themes
Topics you can discuss
This is not a replacement for pitching.
It gives journalists a clearer understanding of who you are, what you offer, what you can discuss and why your business is relevant.
Relevant images
Testing or sample information
Founder details
Seasonal relevance
Supporting expertise
Key opinions
Relevant credentials
Media-ready talking points
A clear founder profile
What Consumer PR Can Look Like
Consumer PR can take several forms depending on your business model, assets and goals.
It may include:
Product roundups
Buying guides
Gift guides
Review opportunities
Seasonal features
Expert commentary
Consumer advice
Founder interviews
Business profiles
Customer stories
Real-life features
Trend commentary
The goal is not to force your brand into every media opportunity.
It is to find the parts of your products, services, knowledge, customer experience and story that journalists can genuinely use.
Thought leadership
Product launches
Service launches
Business announcements
Retail news
Podcast opportunities
Broadcast opportunities
Founder visibility
Advice-led articles
Data-led stories
Research-led PR
Media-friendly case studies
Product PR for Consumer Brands
Product PR can help relevant journalists discover and consider your products for editorial coverage.
Depending on the product and publication, this might include:
Gift guides
Seasonal shopping features
Product reviews
Best-product roundups
New launch articles
Lifestyle features
Journalists may require:
A product sample
High-resolution product images
Lifestyle photography
Accurate product information
Pricing
Retail links
Samples do not guarantee coverage.
Journalists and editors decide independently whether a product is suitable for their audience, whether it performs well and whether it will be included.
Expert-approved recommendations
Trend coverage
Problem-solving product features
Editorial comparisons
Hands-on testing
Availability details
Delivery times
Ingredients or materials
Sizing or specifications
Founder information
Relevant supporting evidence
Service PR for Consumer Businesses
Services can be harder to demonstrate visually than products, but they can still create strong PR opportunities.
The strongest service-led angles usually focus on:
Useful consumer advice
A common problem
Customer misconceptions
Seasonal relevance
A strong founder viewpoint
A distinctive method
Rather than simply saying a service exists, we look for the part that is genuinely useful, surprising or relevant to journalists and their readers.
An unusual customer result
A real-life transformation
A wider consumer trend
Professional expertise
A timely issue
An interesting business model
How We Turn Consumer Businesses Into PR
We help shape your products, services, expertise, customer insight and business story into media-friendly angles.
Every Standard PR campaign includes journalist-led strategic thinking, angle development, media positioning and a Founder & Authority Positioning Session as standard.
Depending on your business and goals, this may include:
Clarifying your strongest PR opportunities
Identifying the most media-friendly parts of your business
Developing product-led angles
Developing service-led angles
Creating founder and expert positioning
Identifying commentary areas
Developing seasonal ideas
Drafting press releases
Drafting expert comments
Preparing journalist responses
We handle the writing, pitching and follow-up.
You provide the information, expertise, approvals, products, images, customer details and perspective that make the campaign credible.
Developing customer stories
Shaping real-life stories
Creating launch angles
Using research or customer data
Pitching relevant journalists
Responding to reactive media opportunities
Following up with journalists
Monitoring coverage
Building a more recognisable brand profile over time
How Founder Visibility Fits Into Consumer PR
For many consumer businesses, the founder is an important part of the story.
Customers may want to know:
Why you created the business
What problem you wanted to solve
What experience you bring
Why your approach is different
What you believe the industry gets wrong
What you have learned from customers
Where the business is going
Founder visibility can include:
Expert commentary
The aim is not to create a personal brand for the sake of it.
It is to strengthen trust in the business by making the credible person, expertise and mission behind it more visible.
Founder interviews
Business profiles
Thought leadership
Personal stories
Podcast appearances
Industry commentary
Launch interviews
Opinion-led features
Real-life coverage
How Thought Leadership Fits Into Consumer PR
Thought leadership is useful when it is clear, credible and grounded in genuine experience.
For a consumer business, this could involve:
Explaining changing customer expectations
Discussing consumer behaviour
Challenging an industry norm
Explaining what customers misunderstand
Sharing professional advice
Commenting on affordability or value
Discussing sustainability in practical terms
Explaining how your market is changing
Reacting to relevant news
Helping consumers make better decisions
We help identify the subjects you can credibly speak about and shape them into:
Expert commentary
Interview talking points
Opinion-led pitches
Advice features
Founder content
Journalist responses
The goal is not to generate generic opinions.
It is to help your founder or specialists become known for useful ideas that reinforce the authority of the brand.
Why Customer Stories Matter
Customer stories can help make a consumer brand more relatable, credible and memorable.
Depending on the business, this might include:
A personal transformation
A meaningful result
An unusual purchase
A life-changing service
A problem solved
A distinctive customer journey
Customer permission is essential.
The customer must understand how the story may be used and be comfortable participating where interviews, images or personal information are involved.
Not every testimonial is a media story.
The strongest stories normally contain a clear human angle, useful detail, wider relevance and something genuinely interesting for readers.
An emotional story
A surprising use of a product
A family story
A health or wellbeing experience
A home transformation
A business or financial transformation
Why Imagery Matters
Consumer PR is often visual.
Journalists may need:
Product photography
Lifestyle imagery
Founder headshots
Team photographs
Before-and-after images
Customer photographs
Service demonstrations
Good imagery does not guarantee coverage, but it can significantly widen the number of opportunities available.
Where imagery is limited, we can focus more heavily on expert commentary, founder positioning, data, advice, trends and business stories.
Packaging images
Retail photography
Event photography
Location images
Images cleared for media use
Accurate captions and credits
Good Consumer PR Is Useful, Not Self-Promotional
Journalists do not usually want an advertisement presented as a story.
They want something that informs, helps, entertains or interests their audience.
Strong consumer PR often comes from:
Useful advice
Strong products
Relevant services
Customer insight
Founder expertise
Clear opinions
Timely comments
Seasonal relevance
The aim is not to force your business into every conversation.
The aim is to identify where your brand can contribute something genuinely useful, relevant or interesting.
Consumer trends
Research
Data
Common mistakes
Myth-busting
Human stories
Interesting experiences
Distinctive visuals
What PR Can Support for Consumer Businesses
Consumer PR can help support:
Brand credibility
Customer trust
Product awareness
Service visibility
Founder authority
Search presence
AI search visibility
Retailer conversations
Partnerships
Media coverage can also be reused throughout your wider marketing.
A product feature can support a retailer pitch.
An expert quote can strengthen your website.
A founder interview can become social content.
A review can offer useful independent proof.
A podcast can help prospective customers understand the person behind the brand.
A customer story can make the business more relatable.
That is where PR becomes commercially useful.
Podcast opportunities
Interview opportunities
Media logos and proof points
Social media content
Website credibility
Sales conversations
Referral activity
Launch momentum
Long-term brand recognition
Can Consumer PR Include Podcasts?
Yes, where podcast outreach makes sense for your founder, expertise and story.
Podcast opportunities can work particularly well for founders and spokespeople with:
A compelling business journey
Clear professional expertise
Useful consumer advice
Strong opinions
We do not position Standard PR as a podcast booking service, but podcast outreach can form part of a wider consumer PR strategy where there is a credible fit.
A personal story
An unusual mission
Relevant thought leadership
A recognisable point of view
What Consumer PR Can and Cannot Do
Consumer PR can help build credibility, authority, search visibility and media momentum over time.
It can help more people understand what your brand offers, why it is different and why it is credible.
It can help you appear more established when people search for you, visit your website or compare you with another business.
However, consumer PR cannot guarantee:
Instant fame
Coverage in a particular publication
A fixed number of articles each month
Immediate sales
PR is organic.
Journalists work around editorial priorities, deadlines, audience interest and changing news cycles.
Some opportunities move quickly.
Others take longer.
The strongest campaigns usually develop through consistent pitching, relevant products, useful expertise, credible stories and repeated visibility over time.
A particular journalist response
A positive review
That every sample will be featured
That every article will include a backlink
Consumer PR in Action
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One Less Thing
Franchise cleaning business
We helped One Less Thing build visibility and credibility through consistent PR, using the brand’s practical cleaning expertise to create useful media opportunities.
In under a year, we secured 35 pieces of national coverage, putting the brand in front of relevant audiences and supporting long-term growth.
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Owl + Lark
Circadian fitness and sleep health brand
Ahead of their UK launch, we helped Owl + Lark build awareness for both the brand and founder Hafiz Shariff’s sleep health expertise.
By combining expert-led commentary with hands-on product coverage, we secured features across T3, Evening Standard, The Independent, Yahoo, Stylist, Country Living, Glamour and more — positioning Owl + Lark as a standout name in the sleep and wellness space.
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Christopher Paul Jones
Harley Street hypnotherapist and author
Ahead of his book launch, we worked with Christopher to build awareness and position him as a go-to expert in phobias and hypnotherapy.
Through expert commentary, real success stories and service-led features, we secured 41 pieces of coverage over 12 months, including major review features such as the Evening Standard.
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Gut Wealth
Gut health and wellness brand
We supported the launch of Gut Wealth’s postbiotic supplement by positioning founder Gemma Stuart as a credible voice in gut health.
Through expert-led PR and product-focused storytelling, we secured early coverage that built trust, visibility and momentum at a critical launch stage.
Is Consumer PR Right for Your Business?
Consumer PR could be a strong fit if:
Your product, service, expertise or story is part of what customers buy into
Your brand has a credible founder, spokesperson or specialist
You want to build trust before purchases or enquiries
You want to become more visible within your market
You have useful advice, consumer insight or commentary journalists could use
You have a strong product, service, launch or customer story
You have suitable imagery or are open to expertise-led PR
You want earned media to support your wider marketing
You are willing to collaborate and provide information
You understand that PR builds over time
It may not be the right fit if:
You want guaranteed coverage in particular publications
You expect immediate sales
You expect every product sample to receive coverage
You do not want to share any expertise or insight
You want completely hands-off PR with no approvals or input
You only care about backlinks
You are unwilling to provide usable images or product information
You are not open to media-friendly positioning
Consumer PR works best when there is something real behind the campaign: a strong product, a useful service, credible expertise, an interesting founder, a customer story, useful data, distinctive visuals, a timely launch or a clear point of view.
Why Fair Public Relations?
Fair Public Relations was built to provide consistent, journalist-led boutique PR without the inflated retainers and long commitments often associated with traditional agencies.
Fair Public Relations is led by Founder Jordan Baker, a former UK national journalist with more than a decade of PR experience.
Clients work with a dedicated PR team headed by Jordan and supported by experienced PR professionals, writers and former journalists who understand how newsrooms work and what journalists actually need.
Our team helps shape the angles, draft the comments, pitch the media, monitor coverage and keep your campaign moving.
You will also have a WhatsApp group with the team for responsive communication, along with access to a client portal where you can track activity, pitching and coverage.
Every Standard PR campaign includes journalist-led strategic thinking, angle development, media positioning and a Founder & Authority Positioning Session as standard.
We are honest about what we believe will land, what needs more work and where your strongest media opportunities are likely to be.
If your products, services, expertise and stories are genuinely useful, we help turn them into credibility, visibility and trusted influence.
If we do not think we can help, we will tell you.
Still Have Questions? We’ve Got You
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PR for consumer businesses turns your products, services, expertise, founder story and customer insight into earned media opportunities. This may include product features, reviews, expert commentary, interviews, customer stories, launches and business news.
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PR can work well for product brands, e-commerce businesses, direct-to-consumer brands, service businesses, lifestyle companies, health and wellness brands, home and interiors businesses, beauty brands, pet businesses, travel companies, hospitality businesses and other credible consumer-facing brands.
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No. You do not need to be famous or already featured in the media. What matters is having a credible product, useful service, distinctive story, relevant expertise or consumer insight journalists can use.
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Depending on your business, opportunities may include product roundups, buying guides, gift guides, reviews, expert commentary, advice-led features, founder interviews, customer stories, podcasts, launch coverage and business announcements.
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Yes, where the product is suitable for editorial review. Journalists may request a complimentary sample for testing, but supplying a product does not guarantee that coverage will be published or that the review will be positive.
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Where a journalist needs to test or review a physical product, a complimentary sample will usually be required. Samples may not always be returned, so this should be considered before agreeing to an opportunity.
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Some services and experiences may be suitable for review. This depends on the service, location, value, accessibility and whether the experience is relevant to the journalist’s audience.
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Where a journalist needs to experience the service before writing about it, complimentary access may be required. We will explain the request before you decide whether to participate.
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PR can strengthen credibility, search visibility and customer trust before someone purchases or gets in touch. However, earned media cannot guarantee sales, bookings or enquiries.
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No. Journalists and editors make independent editorial decisions. We cannot guarantee a particular publication, a fixed number of articles, backlinks, reviews or immediate commercial results.
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No. Strong consumer campaigns often combine product or service PR with founder visibility, expert commentary, customer stories, thought leadership, seasonal advice, launches and wider business news.
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Yes. Product launches may be supported through launch announcements, product testing, expert commentary, founder interviews, seasonal features and relevant media pitches. The strongest approach depends on the product and its editorial relevance.
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Yes. A product does not need to be newly launched. Existing products can still be relevant to seasonal roundups, buying guides, gift guides, trend features, reviews and problem-solving consumer articles.
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Yes, with the customer’s informed permission. Transformations, unusual experiences and human-interest stories can create strong media opportunities where there is a genuine editorial angle.
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It helps to have a credible founder, specialist or team member who can share useful insight and respond to relevant journalist opportunities. We can help identify the best spokesperson and clarify what they should become known for.
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Yes. We develop the angles, draft commentary and media responses, prepare press releases, pitch journalists and manage follow-up. You provide the information, approvals and expertise needed to keep the campaign accurate.
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Yes. Where suitable, podcast and interview outreach can form part of a broader consumer PR campaign, particularly where the founder or spokesperson has a strong story, useful expertise or clear point of view.
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Strong imagery can significantly widen the range of opportunities available. Product photographs, lifestyle images, founder headshots, before-and-after pictures and customer images can all be useful depending on the campaign.
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Some opportunities can happen quickly, particularly around timely journalist requests or seasonal products. Others develop over several months. PR usually works best through consistent pitching and repeated visibility rather than relying on a single campaign.
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PR for consumer businesses is delivered through Standard PR. Depending on your goals, campaigns may include product PR, service PR, expert commentary, founder visibility, customer stories, thought leadership, launches, business news, proactive pitching and reactive journalist opportunities.
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PR for consumer businesses is delivered through Standard PR, which costs £597 per month or US$797 per month. It starts with a three-month initial commitment and then continues month to month with one full billing-cycle notice.
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We handle the strategy, writing, pitching and follow-up. You provide information, approvals, relevant expertise, products or service access where agreed, and any images or customer details needed for the campaign.
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PR may be a strong fit if you have a credible product, useful service, expert founder, interesting customer story, strong imagery or a clear point of difference. It may not be suitable if you require guaranteed coverage, expect immediate results or do not want to provide any information or input.
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Get in touch and tell us about your business, customers, products, services and goals. We will review the opportunity and give you an honest assessment of whether Standard PR is likely to be a good fit.
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Ready to Build Visibility for Your Consumer Business?
If your consumer business has a strong product, useful service, credible expertise, an interesting story or a clear point of view, PR can help build the trust and visibility around your brand.
We will be honest about whether we believe we can help, which angles appear realistic and how your business could be positioned.
PR for consumer businesses is delivered through Standard PR.
Get in touch and tell us about your business, customers, products, services and goals. We will let you know whether we believe there is a strong PR opportunity and give you honest next steps.