• Swindon & Wiltshire Awards
• Thursday November 14 2024
• Author Name: Peter Davison

PR consultant in running for UK business adviser award

PR consultant Fiona Scott has reached the finals of the UK Top Business Advisers Awards.

Fiona was picked from hundreds of advisers in the PR industry and across other important business sectors from around the UK for the outstanding work she does with helping SMEs and entrepreneurs use the power of the media to promote and grow their businesses.

Voting is now open for the overall winners and Fiona, MD of Swindon-based Scott Media, is a finalist in the PR and Content category.

“Being shortlisted for my PR services is a real honour and testament to the hard work I and my team put in to helping our clients get in front of their potential customers, using the media,” she said.

“I am often telling my clients that entering – and, better still, winning – awards is a great way to raise their profile, so it’s nice to be taking some of my own advice.”

A newspaper and TV journalist, Fiona set up Scott Media 16 years ago to support SMEs wanting to leverage PR as part of their marketing strategy.

Since then, Fiona and her team have represented everyone from solopreneurs and inventors to larger SMEs and Paralympians.

This year, Scott Media also launched a speakers’ platform, to give clients a new avenue for marketing themselves via speaker engagements. She has a successful podcast – PR Not BS – and in 2023 published her first book, The Hard Yards, about her first decade running a business.

The UK Top Business Advisers Awards are run by small business support platform and membership community Enterprise Nation and celebrate the country’s hard-working advisers. They are run in association with Constant Contact, a global digital marketing platform that helps small businesses to grow.

Constant Contact UK general manager and small business founder Erika Robinson said: “When it comes to running your own small business, you are CEO, CMO, CFO and so much more. Bringing in external expertise, helps you focus on what you love. Congratulations to Fiona from Scott Media, helping small businesses in the Wiltshire area to thrive!”

Emma Jones, CBE, founder and CEO of Enterprise Nation said: “Business advisers are the unsung heroes behind Britain’s booming small business culture and their insight and experience are needed now more than ever. The awards were designed to show how important this work is in action, in order to help more start-ups and small firms find out about the benefits of taking advice.”

Voting for the awards closes on Thursday, November 28. To vote for Fiona, visit enterprisenation.com/awards.

The winners will be celebrated at an event in London, on December 5.

Image courtesy of Vicki Head