Fox & Hounds, Hunsdon - PR, content development, digital marketing, SEO,

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May 14

We had been running our pub/ restaurant for 15 years and had got to the point where we needed a bit of a shake up/ wake up. Its easy to just keep plodding on doing the same thing and you are so busy running & working in your business that you don’t always take a good look at what you are really doing & why.
Polly really helped us to re focus our business and streamline and ‘tidy up’ our marketing & brand.
From helping with updating all our online presence, website, literature and introducing new ideas.
She is always quick, efficient & friendly and we have since continued to work with Polly to continue to keep moving forward.

Bianca & James Rix, owners of the Fox & Hounds Hunsdon.

The Fox & Hounds, Hunsdon is the only Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurant in Hertfordshire. I have worked with the team for three years as they launched a new chapter of the business in 2019. In 2020, like the whole hospitality industry, they were heavily hit by the Covid 19 lock down and pivotted overnight to offer a community shop and meals to enjoy at home. They were so successful that they have carried on doing this and transformed part of the shop into a shop.

When I began working with them, the husband and wife team had never focussed on marketing and PR or analysed their brand, their values and key messages. Through a series of workshops we developed their story and built a brand and communications strategy. We reviewed and improved their website, helped them to build a social media strategy and hugely grow engagement and to develop and launch a regular email newsletter. We also reviewed and improved online listings from Google Business page to other restaurant and pub guides and entered the restaurant into local and national awards.

We have worked with them to build their media presence through effective PR securing reviews in key local and national publications including The Telegraph, i weekend, and Observer Food Monthly. We supported them to launch their community shop and secured interviews and profile pieces in national papers and trade press like Morning Advertiser and The Caterer about hospitality businesses pivoting in response to the pandemic.