Often the need to procure print and promotional products gets in the way of doing ‘the important stuff’. Let us take the distractions away by doing it for you. We’ve already won a significant contract to procure all print and promotional products for a large Corporate across its estate of 18 UK offices.

We’d be very happy to discuss your requirements and to market test your current suppliers. Simply contact Caroline on 01245 328377 or via email at caroline@makespurple.com.

Caroline will be leading the print management side of the business, providing support on other client projects, and ensuring we devote time to our own marketing efforts.

This programme provides a combination of structured learning, coaching and mentoring on both a one-to-one basis and as a group to the account directors and managers. Personal development plans were drawn up, processes were reviewed and refined and individual agendas were drawn up. Subjects addressed varied from role-specific such as the role of an account manager, account management planning and creating client contact plans to the more generic such as time management, leadership and soft skills development.

With our creative partners, Fresh01, we’ve created a new identity, which sits outside the core Mazars brand. We rolled this out to event literature and provided advice, by means of a branding guidelines document, as to how to apply to other comms elements including the website, eNewsletters, exhibition stands and brochures. We also developed all messaging for the first event in the series.

We’ll be initially focusing on their database and the quality of its contents, prior to developing a contact programme for both clients and targets and implementing a communications plan that facilitates the deepening of existing relationships and the acquisition of new ones.

Being a lover of all things ‘Apple’ it felt somewhat disloyal at first to sneak a peak at the Spotify service, but good timing seeing as my 16 GB iPod Touch was maxxed out.  So now I support my iTunes playlists with some lists of tunes I’d never have previously bought with titles such as ‘Show Tunes’ (cool eh?), ‘Chillout’ and one helpfully titled ‘To Livey To Work To’.  And most recently, courtesy of a friend via Twitter (thanks @3djamie), I was introduced to Xfm’s Top 1000 tunes ever. That’ll keep me busy for a while – or approximately 2.5 days of non-stop listening it seems.

Having started out on the free version which streams adverts, it didn’t take me long to upgrade to the premium service for only £9.99 a month (I think!). So now, not only am I advert free but I can also listen to my Spotify tunes via my iPod on the way to and from work. Sweet.

By the way, you can pick up the Xfm Top 1000 playlist here. Enjoy!

Working closely with the MD, and spending significant time in their studio, we’ve already been able to identify a number of areas for improvement including trafficking, job quoting and time-tracking.

We’ve now been retained for 2010 to introduce new systems and ways of working, and to work closely with the individual team members to coach them through the changes in working practices.

We’ve got a great track record and in-depth experience in the professional services sector, gained both in-house and agency side. Get in touch if you’d like an informal discussion about how to get the best from your existing marketing resources or some insight into how to reach new audiences.

When The Wire finished this Summer on BBC2, there was a gaping hole I wanted to fill with more great US TV drama.  I asked my friends for their recommendations and made a list….Oz, The Corner, Homicide Life On The Street, The West Wing, Prison Break … It soon became apparent that I’d need a small fortune to buy all of the boxed sets – and a year off work to watch them all!

Not deterred, I discovered LoveFilm.com. A quick look around the site and it became clear this would be my saviour. I created my ‘playlists’ by genre, and selected how many discs I wanted at a time. Easy. Then the postal strikes hit. However, the service has never been anything less than great and my discs have always arrived in a timely manner. (The only slight niggle is that there’s a short wait on Oz so I’m halfway through a series and dying to know what happens next but will have to wait until its available. I guess I wasn’t the only one looking for an alternative to The Wire.)

I’m currently juggling Oz with The US version of Queer As Folk, Private Practice and Heroes. It’s like Christmas when the post comes!

Sara

I’ve been invited as a coach and as such will be leading some of the courses when they start next year. Should be fun!

Sara