What our clients say:

“Penny did two workshop sessions - one with Women into Business and a second with our Business Growth Club. Both excellent. She empowered people to take charge of their PR and gave practical tips and advice. Will happily have her back at future events."
Dorothy Henke, Falkirk For Business

“Penny is a PR visionary and leader who is always ahead of the curve while taking care of basics. I always value her recommendations and find her to be a hard-working professional with an excellent marketing/PR sense.”
Wendy Marx, President,
Marx Communications

“Penny is a noted author, PR woman extraordinaire and enthusiastic team-player who gives willingly and freely her knowledge, experience and network to one and all. She understands that the best PR comes from walking the talk, creating value and initiating memorable relationships. Penny knows PR inside and out and it exudes from her with energy and passion. She is definitely someone who will be an asset to the growth of any business.”
Dr Richard Norris,
Legacy Coach & Author at Hoof it!

Penny Haywood Calder

Specialist areas:	Business Reputation & Results, Online and in the Media
Skills:	Set-piece speeches, Q&As, facilitating conferences
Popular speaking topics:	Boosting Business Online Recycling content – doing more with less effort online Reputation, Reputation, Reputation Social Media for B2B businesses How to Win the Awards Game Lessons from “Doing a Ratner”

Penny Haywood Calder runs PHPR Ltd, (online PR and media relations).

She is a former personal and small business journalist and has written for IPC magazines, The Sunday Times and CA magazine.

She has been online since 1985 when she launched the world’s first online bank while working in-house for Bank of Scotland.
Penny has won various UK and Scottish awards for editing publications and public speaking.

From 1987, Penny has championed DIY PR (a term she probably coined) to help small businesses get onto the publicity ladder. She wrote DIYPR, the small business owner’s guide to ‘free’ publicity (Pub: Batsford 1998). She is now often asked to speak on online publicity and social media.

Penny is currently setting up Publicity Clubs for small business owners with backing from HSBC, on top of running PHPR and working with her husband’s online TV company, BitWeb.tv on dedicated online publicity services.

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