1. Taylor Alden & The Steel Window Association

2. The PR programme 21 media releases per year
4 mailings to Conservation Officers per year
Marketing mailings to all members
Social media
Surveys and features within the magazines
Advertising
Consumer editor visits
The Montanstahl launch within the UK
These are some examples of what we do.

3. Press coverage April 2015 – April 2016
Between April 2015 and April 2016, Taylor Alden secured 122 pieces of editorial in total on behalf of Steel Window Association.
This achieved a combined circulation of 1,900,000 with a ‘potential opportunities to see’ total of 4,750,000.
The advertising value equivalent (AVE) was £59,168 with a perceived editorial value (AVE x 3) of £177,504.
Return on investment from April 2015 to April 2016 was £1: £9.08.

6. What have we written about?
We enjoy great press coverage. Between April 2015 and April 2016, Taylor Alden issued 22 media releases on behalf of the SWA.
Wine cellar steel partitions
Victoria Road (Monk)
Opal Mews (REA Metal Windows)
Alexandra House (ASWS)
Bespoke ironmongery
Film archive story
Cloncurry Street (SWS&S)
FAQ’s
Fordington Road, London (SWS&S)
W30
The Compound, Birmingham (Monk)
Simon Pilkington (SWS&S)
President’s Quay, Tower Bridge (NSB Casements)
BAM awards (SWS&S)
Glazing Supply Chain Group
Security
W20, thermal performance
RAF Bicester, Transport Museum (Cotswold Casement)
Bathroom screens
Cheyne Place, London (Monk)
47 Gloucester Avenue/Primrose Hill (SWS&S)
St David’s Centre

7. We send out a Marketing Mail every three months to all SWA members.
We hope that these s help you stay up-to-date with what we are doing and the coverage that your projects receive.

8. 50th Anniversary
Next year (2017) marks the 50th anniversary of the Steel Window Association. We feel that it would be beneficial to focus some PR and marketing around this, as well as organising an event to celebrate 50 years of the SWA.
Ideas for the event are dependent on budget, time of year and location. However, some ideas are outlined below and extra ideas/thoughts from SWA members are always welcome.
Lunchtime event on a Thursday or Friday
An exciting venue with steel windows (Tower of London/Natural History Museum etc.)
A guest speaker with an architectural theme (Janet Street-Porter/Dan Cruickshank/Kevin McCloud)
Theme: 1967, 60’s music/food/events of 1967/evolution of architecture and steel windows
Video footage from the 60’s
Photography from members – old & new
Sit-down meal and drinks

9. Social media
We upload all of our PR material onto the SWA social media channels below. We also upload two more pieces of material per month – this could be a news story, photograph, retweet or good coverage.
It is important that we all link to each other on social media and that members follow the SWA channels (we will do the same) so please do follow us on your company profiles.

10. Photography for the consumer press
The consumer press are interested in steel windows and doors within beautiful homes and they would love to see more from SWA members. Please send us photographs of your work so that we can put them forward for features like this.
We have had some really lovely case studies in from SWA members this year and the photography has been great. The next step to making this part of the programme possible is to establish if the homeowners that you work with are happy to be featured within the consumer press (if the opportunity were to arise). Perhaps this is something that could be asked when you are completing the work and the case study forms.

11. Commercial and Residential case studies
As you know, we are always on the lookout for exciting case studies and projects that you are working on. Please fill in the SWA case study form which can be found on the SWA website and send to If you have the opportunity, it would be great to video some of your work being carried out which we could then put onto the website and YouTube channel.

12. Enquiries Enquiries Users Page views Spec Guide 2015 January 11 845
3,952 47
February 23
744
3,716 49
March 15
1,117
4,850 61
April 8
794
3,226 34
May 13
931
3,733 43
June
917
4,526 39
July 10
919
3,967 26
August
961
4,344 40
September 27
960
3,913
October 24
1,022
3,652
106
November 21
1,085
4,114
107
December
800
3,137 76
2016 17
1,215
4,306 89
1,216
4,351 99
1,775
6,357 74
1,631
5,304 55 12
1,654
4,658 9
1,511
4,439