The Money Centre
Client and background:
In 2008, The Money Centre was one of the largest independent buy-to-let mortgage brokers in the UK, with more than 150 consultants across the UK guiding more than 31,000 customers.
Challenge:
To raise the profile of the company and the independent services it provided to existing and potential buy-to-let landlords.
Solution:
To position The Money Centre as a market leader and expert in its field by profiling senior staff in trade, regional and national consumer media. We monitored news and issues from the buy-to-let sector daily and used findings from the company’s quarterly, independently commissioned research to generate story angles. We also arranged briefings with key journalists from the trade media.
Results:
In eight months, we generated 117 news articles which appeared across 77 different regional, trade and national publications and websites. These included comment pieces from The Money Centre personnel, case studies of successful buy-to-let investors, a profile of the marketing manager in a leading trade title and news stories based on research.
The Money Centre also used Tribe for crisis media relations when the economic downturn resulted in job losses being made at the company’s main Norwich office.
"Tribe fully understood our business and helped us to gain good angles to approach the media. They have been a great team to work with”.
Lynsey Sweales, marketing and PR director, The Money Centre