Spent Saturday and a part of Sunday at the NEC in Birmingham. It was the Totally DIY/Totally Tools/Totally Secure trade shows. We were there setting up and dressing a large shell scheme stand for Stax Trade Centres. This year the organisers decided to move the show from Olympia in London and coincide it with the larger Spring Fair at the NEC and by all accounts it has been a great success. The show finished yesterday and Stax say that orders were up, visitors to the stand were up, and they benefitted from Spring Fair attendees visiting too. Exhibitions can be one of the first things cut from marketing budgets, but there aren’t many occasions where you can get good quality face to face time with a large proportion of your target audience in a short period. Exhibitions done well are definitely worth considering, and we’d be delighted to help you.
Got a really nice e-mail today from Onside North West, the sister charity of Youth Zone in Blackburn, we filmed a DVD to help the cause and to quote the e-mail ” it’s causing quite a storm”, “it’s the best thing we have”, “I’m putting it forward for the Oscars”… lovely feedback. Of course the costs of shooting and producing video are much more affordable than they used to be, although I think the perception remains that they can be expensive. If you’d like us to cost one for you then get in touch. You Tube has conditioned us to the realisation that your on-line marketing video does not have to be produced by Steven Spielberg. Youth Zone is well worth being involved in, if you would like to know more, or even get involved, please e-mail me and I’ll send you some info. Here an artists impression of what it will look like.
Artists impression of Blackburn's Youth Zone
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Having seen the wonderful and detailed reports for January that Martin has produced from our all-singing and all-dancing new administration system we are delighted to have got 2010 off to a good start, it’s especially nice to welcome some traditional and well respected Lancashire clients to Workhouse Marketing, including Arnold School, REM, and Country Lane Homes together with rapidly expanding Birmingham based group of Companies 4BG. Welcome, and we promise you that we will strive to fulfill our mission which is to ‘delight our clients’.
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