So it’s been a while since my last post. Have I got nothing to say? Nope (well yes), I keep thinking of no end of ideas of posts but it’s simply been a lack of time for various reasons I’ll detail below. Last month I thought to myself “Christmas is coming that’s a great time to catch up on blogging” or catch up on this or that and a whole number of things but...
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I was at the Royal Norfolk Show this year helping on a client’s stand in the food hall. It’s actually the first time I’ve been (for various reasons) but next year I definitely want to go along as a visitor. I had a long tiring day but learnt a lot and enjoyed it. Now maybe my view was some what unfairly biased by working in the food hall and not getting to see much outside but...
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A couple of weeks back I had the privilege of  being a mentor on a schools enterprise day working with a bunch of year 9′s (that’s 13 yr olds ). The idea was to come up with a new smoothie flavour and market it including branding, packaging design and strategy including competitor research. This is a complete day out for the youngsters from their regular lessons and for many of them...
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Whether you’re a business owner, middle management or a customer facing shop assistant; engaging with your prospects, customers or service users is absolutely vital and now is integral with providing the best customer service that you can. This interactive talk, yes you will have to give some input too, should leave you pepped up to go and engage with your customers in a meaningful and...
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FSB North Norfolk branch host a marketing surgery for you to come along and ask a panel of marketing industry experts who can take questions on a wide range of marketing based services including: Traditional Marketing – Guerrilla Marketing – Website Design – Internet Marketing – Video Marketing Social Media (Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Linked In + more) Copywriting...
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A couple of weeks back I took my wife to a meeting for artists to get involved with furnishing the new Cromer hospital with art installations. The room was pretty packed with 30 odd Artsits and someone from NHS giving a presentation. A similar project had already been successfully completed in the main hospital in Norwich, about 25 miles from Cromer (for you non locals reading this). There were...
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