The key to our approach is that we become so steeped in the client's own business we are like an external member of the internal team - without this involvement we are less successful and less interested, and find it harder to enthuse the client in turn.
More than once we have gone on radio or into print media standing in for the client, representing whatever they are looking to promote.
SPECIAL 2011 OFFER - we're currently offering fixed-price reviews of your marketing and/or other promotional activities, with a written report at the end (more details here) which you can give to another agency to deliver, use in your own marketing plan or ignore altogether. Although of course we'd love to take on the work ourselves, and if commissioned, will discount the cost of the review from the ongoing project cost.
On the portfolio pages are some of the projects we've been involved with; in brief some of our services include:
marketing strategy
we
analyse a client's current position in the marketplace, contact (with
permission) key customers of theirs and find out the real truth about
perception and service
we make recommendations
about future strategy and work with partner organisations to ensure our
clients' strength going forward confidently
graphic design
corporate identity from simple one-off logos to long-term implementation of the full monty
magazines, newsletters, brochures, communications material
catalogues and brochures from databases
annual report and accounts
photography, photo manipulation and access to millions of copyright-free images
simple promotional material - flyers, posters, instruction manuals
exhibition material - stand graphics with or without matching print
publicity and events
we
organise and coordinate successful profile-raising events on behalf of
clients, where necessary arranging sponsorship, media and database
management (see recent example here,
with PM David Cameron as the keynote speaker to 250 guests)
we use our extensive
personal and professional contact lists where possible to supplement our
own knowledge and experience in any given field
copywriting
we get to the nub of the matter very quickly, and are passionate about plain English and cutting jargon from technical language
we work with information from scratch or re-writing existing tenders, manuals and promotional text, often translating wordier print text for use on the web
building personality for a company - from simple strap-lines to introductory passages, getting quickly to the nub of a client's offering
(Marketing types are the worst at
blowing their own trumpets. We know this is a simple website, we have
it only so we can keep it updated ourselves with little fuss. We spend
the rest of our time selling our clients' businesses, not developing
flash whizz-bang material for ourselves. It doesn't mean we can't, or
that we haven't done so for our own customers. When we get the time
we'll update this website - we have a much cooler one that's been 'under
construction' forever, but frankly, at the moment our business comes by
word of mouth through satisfied and loyal customers. Until we have to,
or until we get snowed in for a week and can't communicate with the
outside world, we're not going to distract ourselves from our core
business and finish it. But one day, we will.)
