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| CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MARKETING MARKETERS DINNER |
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| This special dinner will be held at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. The guest speaker will be John Burton-Race.
Tickets will be available shortly from the CIM website www.cim.co.uk/devon-cornwall and will cost £35.00 each
There are still some sponsorship opportunities available - to find out more contact Mike Weed on 07812 555 848 or email mikeweed@blueyonder.co.uk |
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| Chartered Institute of Marketing networking and marketing development seminar |
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| Thistle Hotel, Exeter 6.30 pm
Come and find out the latest tips from the world of marketing and meet other professionals.
Free admittance - buffet included |
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| Event Details
Marketing Organics
To Book for this event please call The Chartered Institute of Marketing on 01628 427120
Date of event: 18 June 2008
Host: Devon and Cornwall branch Chartered Institute of Marketing
Venue: Riverford Farm
Wash Barn`
Buckfastleigh
TQ11 0LD
United Kingdom
Location map of the venue.
Start Time: 18:30
CPD Hours: 2.0
Price: Members: £15.00
Studying Members: £15.00
Student Non-Members: £15.00
Guest: £15.00
Event includes refreshments and the opportunity to network before the main presentation
Description:
From modest beginnings in the 1980s, Guy Watson has grown this organic vegetable business to supermarket-thrashing proportions; it made 140,000 domestic deliveries in 2007. For Riverford, being organic is much more than gaining an official stamp; it is about a set of business values that course through the veins of every part of the organisation.
Come along to hear more about this business's unusual and fascinating combination of highly professional marketing and stubbornly principled operations. A short walk and talk through the fields will be followed by a delicious supper served in the farm's field kitchen.
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Guy Watson - founder of Riverford Organics
THIS EVENT HAS A LIMITED NUMBER - PLEASE BOOK ASAP
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| Free marketing clinics at the St Mellion Business needs and support exhibition |
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| The Chartered Institute of Marketing will be offering free marketing clinics to businesses at the St Mellion exhibition in 2008. Just come to the CIM stand at the show and register and a Chartered Marketer will give you free advice on marketing your business. The clinics will run throughout the exhibition |
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| pulse8 New Site Launch for Panters |
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| So pleased with the success of their original website developed by pulse8, department store Panters requested a new enhanced version to be built. The new content managed e-commerce website is now launched and is available on www.panters.uk.com.
Look out for lots of new exciting developments in the pulse8 camp on the horizon. We've lots of projects on the go at the moment, some of which are attracting national interest. Watch this space!
Who said anything about an economic slowdown? |
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| Formoda Launch New Estate Agent Website |
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Formoda are proud to announce the launch of a brand new website for Helmores Estate Agents in Crediton
With a fresh new design and much increased functionality the Helmores website aims to maintain their position as the leading agent in the area.
There are so many great features on the new website, that we'll just explain some of them here, the rest you can see for yourself by visiting the website.
- interactive google maps
- similar properties nearby, with distances
- find properties by area or find nearest to a postcode
- content managed, ask the expert, helmores team, etc
- vendor section - to keep updates on how many people are viewing and interested in your property
- email to a friend, get a mortgage quote, etc
Helmores Website
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Formoda are proud to announce the launch of a brand new website for Helmores Estate Agents in Crediton
With a fresh new design and much increased functionality the Helmores website aims to maintain their position as the leading agent in the area.
There are so many great features on the new website, that we'll just explain some of them here, the rest you can see for yourself by visiting the website.
- interactive google maps
- similar properties nearby, with distances
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- content managed, ask the expert, helmores team, etc
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- email to a friend, get a mortgage quote, etc
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Formoda are proud to announce the launch of a brand new website for Helmores Estate Agents in Crediton
With a fresh new design and much increased functionality the Helmores website aims to maintain their position as the leading agent in the area.
There are so many great features on the new website, that we'll just explain some of them here, the rest you can see for yourself by visiting the website.
- interactive google maps
- similar properties nearby, with distances
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- content managed, ask the expert, helmores team, etc
- vendor section - to keep updates on how many people are viewing and interested in your property
- email to a friend, get a mortgage quote, etc
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| pulse8 launch new web site for InspiringHolidays.com |
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| This content managed website specialises in providing holidays to stimulate the body, mind and soul. The wide range of alternative worldwide holidays available include:
Walking and Trekking Holidays
Cycling Holidays
Dance Holidays
Food and Drink Holidays
...to name but a few.
If you know you want to do something different for a holiday but you're not sure what then try the 'be inspired' link for a taste of the alternative holidays featured on the website.
As with all new pulse8 web buids, the website conforms with Accessiblity Guidelines as laid down by the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3c.org)and has been tailored to appeal to the like of Google's natural search engine listings.
Please visit www.pulse8.co.uk for any further information on the range of design and internet services offered by pulse8. |
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| Sue Thomas Coaching speaks to an audience of over a hundred |
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Sue Thomas, director of
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Sue's talk, hosted by the Torbay Innovation Centre, featured a host of tips and techniques on how business owners and senior managers can manage themselves better so they can get more done in less time.
"When starting and running a business there is so much to do that it can seem overwhelming at times", commented Sue. "This can put the business owner into an unproductive state of mind, where they waste energy thinking about all the things they should be doing, procrastinate over what to do next because there is so much to do, and then beat themselves up about lack of progress." Sue's talk offered many practical tips to help.
To find out more about leadership and management coaching call Sue Thomas on 0845 226 5747 or visit
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| pulse8 client takes gold! |
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| Congratulations to Compton Pool Farm (www.comptonpool.co.uk) for their recent Gold Award 2007-2008 for Self Catering Holiday of the year. Pulse8 were commissioned to develop a new corporate identity for Compton Pool Farm along with a new brochure and award winning website.
For more information on how pulse8 could develop an award winning website for your company please visit www.pulse8.co.uk or contact James Linton at the next SDBC meeting.
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| Sue Thomas Coaching to feature at National Enterprise Week |
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Sue Thomas, director of
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Organised by Torbay Innovation Centre and South Devon College, Sue's talk is one of a varied range of events focused at budding entrepreneurs and growing businesses.
"I'm delighted to have been invited", commented Sue. "National Enterprise Week is a great forum for stimulating ideas, energy and action", she continued.
"When starting and running a business there is so much to do that it can seem overwhelming at times. This can put the business owner into an unproductive state of mind, where they waste energy thinking about all the things they should be doing, procrastinate over what to do next because there is so much to do, and then beat themselves up about lack of progress. My talk will offer practical tips to help."
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To find out more about leadership and management coaching call Sue Thomas on 0845 226 5747 or visit
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| Sue Thomas Coaching unleashes the power of the team |
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Earlier this month, Sue Thomas Coaching successfully completed an innovative six month programme to build the leadership skills of a forward-looking South West public sector body.
The programme interwove leadership training workshops with team coaching sessions and one-to-one coaching sessions, set against the backdrop of a major organisational restructuring exercise. "The team found it particularly useful that the sessions took place during the months of major change", said Sue Thomas, director of
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"We tested the team confidence ratings in their leadership capacity in January, when the programme started, and again in July", she continued. "Confidence ratings for individual leadership capacity increased by an average of 37 percent. Confidence ratings for the team capacity went up by a massive 63 percent as they started to work together more effectively and understand one another's strengths better."
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| So pleased with the success of their original website developed by pulse8, department store Panters requested a new enhanced version to be built. The new content managed e-commerce website is now launched and is available on www.panters.uk.com.
Look out for lots of new exciting developments in the pulse8 camp coming soon. We've lots of projects on the go at the moment, some of which are attracting national interest.
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| As part of the marketing mix for their new Homecover range of domestic utilities Safeheat have used the Post Office to deliver promotional leaflets to a range of local postcodes. We have distributed 145,000 leaflets using their Door-To-Door delivery service. We wanted something that would enable us to promote the Homecover brand quickly and aside from cinema advertising direct mail is considered to have the second highest retention of brand by consumers.
Consumers are one of the hardest markets to target as traditional press advertising is very short lived and relatively expensive for a new company or product to get their message across. In total we have spent about £8-9k to design and print the brochure and deliver them across South Devon.
The Post Office give you access to the MOSAIC system to find out where your potential market segments live. Our experience has been that because they have a minimum drop of 50k leaflets this is of only limited use if you are looking to cover a small area such as ours plus you have to send the leaflets to the whole postcode. However if you wanted to target larger urban areas it would give you a very good idea of which postcodes most closely match your customer profile. See http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/rm/content2?catId=36400684&mediaId=22800497
To compliment this we had four new vans sign written with the Homecover logo and contact details, changed our Thompson’s and Yellow Pages entries to promote the service and continued to use Parish Magazines as an alternative to press advertising.
On the subject of classified directories I am not a huge fan where you are going to be in a section with a lot of competitors simply because how do consumers choose. One new innovation is that Thompson’s are going to give Nectar points in their latest directory mainly to try and steal custom from Yellow Pages but we are going to give it a go, as it is free. I’ll let you know how it works. The tip from Yellow pages is to not just put your name or the company name as the headline, we’ll all proud of our companies I know but is your name what your customer is looking for? We fell into this trap but are now trying a friendly headline selling our services with the company logo much smaller in a less prominent position. |
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| Safeheat have begun marketing of their new Homecover maintenance contracts for domestic gas and electric heating. This is in direct competition with the British Gas product Homecare. “Maintenance agreements for this sector are growing at over 25% per year,” comments Safeheat Managing Director Tony Brimble. We are very involved in maintenance of social housing in this area and thought we could offer a more locally based and cost effective solution for our customers.
Homecover will offer a variety of plans to cover other domestic utilities as well as your heating so that you can have peace of mind that if something goes wrong with your electrics, plumbing or drains there will be a fast response.
Safeheat have teamed up with Sherwood Electrical of Torquay whom they contract all the work on electrics to. “We have worked together for sometime now and the two companies have a similar ethos of customer service that made us decide to team up with Sherwood’s to deliver our new Homecover contracts” comments Safeheat Company Manager Nick Williams. |
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| Sue Thomas Coaching to co-design a multi-activity management development programme |
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Sue Thomas Coaching has been asked by a South West local authority to co-design and deliver a highly tailored programme for Service Managers across the authority.
"Many of the managers are already highly experienced", said Sue Thomas, director of
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To find out more about leadership and management coaching call Sue Thomas on 0845 226 5747 or visit
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| Sue Thomas Coaching spreads coaching skills in South West |
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In early February, Sue Thomas Coaching teamed up with Business Link and Direction Training to provide local businesses with a low-cost course on Coaching for Performance and Profit.
Sixteen business men and women spent a day at Boringdon Hall Hotel learning how to apply coaching to their own organisations. "We were delighted with the response", said Sue Thomas, director of
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"In fact one delegate e-mailed me a few days later to say he'd tried this approach with a member of his team", she continued, "and was impressed with the improved results."
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| Coach your team to better performance and higher profits with Sue Thomas Coaching and Business Link |
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Have you heard about coaching but aren't sure what it could do for your business or how to introduce it? Then read on. This coming 8th February, Sue Thomas Coaching teams up with Business Link and Direction Training to provide local businesses with a low-cost course on Coaching for Performance and Profit.
A recent survey of HR professionals reveals that 79% of companies are using coaching to drive business performance. "Coaching was once thought of as a 'soft' activity", says Sue Thomas, director of
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Find out how your business could benefit at the one day Business Link event at Boringdon Hall, Plympton. The event costs £45 +VAT. To book, or for further details, call Business Link on 0845 600 9966 or visit
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| In December 2006 NDH Management Services completed a 6 month assignment for SSP Ltd.. This involved redesigning an entire range of sandwiches, snacks and salads sold in SSP'S chain of Whistlestop stores found on main line rail stations. Branded "WS Fresh" the new range included the re introduction of firm favourites such as Ham and Mustard sandwiches plus new salads and new fruit snack packs such as Apple slices , Pineapple slices and Kiwi Fruit slices. The increased emphasis on healthy eating and five portions of fruit and vegetables a day is noticeable in the increased demand by the travelling public to top up their traditonal sandwich purchase with snack packs of fruit.
The project also re set price poitns and the intial results inicate not only increased volume in sales but also increased gross profitabilty in this category for SSP Ltd.
All enquiries: nick@ndhmanagement.plus.com or call 07939569638 |
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pulse8 are pleased to announce that Compton Pool Farm has won the South West Tourism Website of the Year award for 2006.
As winners of the prestigious gold award Compton Pool Farm will now go on to represent the South West region at the national Enjoy England Awards for Excellence in April 2007…fingers crossed! |
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| Sue Thomas Coaching navigates the Isles of Scilly Council toward better staff relations |
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Sue Thomas Coaching has recently completed an intensive series of workshops with the Council of the Isles of Scilly to improve relationships between managers and staff and help everybody understand where they fit into the bigger picture.
"The Isles of Scilly is a fascinating place to work" says Sue Thomas, Director. "Because it's a small place it's easy for the senior managers to assume that everyone knows what is happening and what plans there are for the future. But there is still a need for formal communication so that managers and staff can sit down together, one-to-one, and discuss the goals they are working towards, review performance to date, and plan development needs for the future."
Sue added "By introducing a simple but formal structure for everyone in the Council to address their personal performance and development needs the Council can be sure that all members of staff have the opportunity to recognise the contribution they are making to the bigger picture. The workshops have been the first exciting step."
For more details on how Sue Thomas Coaching could help you become a better manager and leader please call 0845 226 5747 or e-mail sue.thomas@suethomascoaching.com |
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