http://www.marketing-geni.com en-gb marketing-geni.com 2012-4-17T00:00:00Z marketing-geni.com http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#116607 Some of you may remember last year I held a BIG Chocolate Tea Party at evolve business centre for The Sick Childrens Trust. This year I am hosting another Tea Party again at evolve and in partnership with Barclays Bank. Pop Thursday 26th April 11am2pm in your diary and come along for a cuppa and chocolate cupcake to support the amazing work The SCT do. Joining me once again will be the lovely Caroline from Crawford House The SCTs home from home at Newcastles RVI. Your presence and any donations of raffle prizes would be greatly appreciated. 2012-3-26 13:28:46 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#114767 Im delighted to have received the 2011 All Star Award from Constant Contact174 Inc. the trusted marketing advisor to more than half a million small organisations worldwide for the 3rd year running. Each year a select group of Constant Contact customers are honoured with the All Star Award for their exemplary marketing results and marketing genis results ranked among the top 10 of Constant Contacts customer base. If you would like more infomation on Constant Contact and the email marketing services I provide click httpbit.lymarketinggeni or contact me on 07984 145219 2012-3-16 15:45:42 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#116606 Its that time of year again folksSWIMATHON For the third year running Team Twimmers will be taking to the pool to complete the Team 5k swim and raise valuable money for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Just 6 months ago I unfortunately lost my Step Dad to cancer so I appreciate first hand just how valuable the services of Marie Curie are and how valuable they can be to people who are unfortunately suffering from this disease. Please if you can help Marianne Cobweb info Derek Bond Solutions and I to raise as much money as we can for this amazing charity. Go Team Twimmers httpbit.lySwimathon2012 2012-3-10 13:27:50 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#116609 Ive recently taken part in Sunderland Universitys mentoring programme aimed at Year 1 students. The University decided to embark on this to enable the Year 1s who volunteered for the programme to get a real life take on their chosen course from someone in that industry. My mentee Nadia born and bred in Sunderland is a smasher really she is. She is so enthusiastic so confident very knowledgeable and to top it off has great communication skills. Most of all what I like about Nadia draws me back to my corporate days at Brook Street and a little lesson on attitude There is little difference between people That little difference makes a very big difference The little difference is attitude The BIG difference is whether it is positive or negative 2012-2-21 13:32:38 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#116608 I was so fortunate to have amazing sales training in my corporate career with Brook Street. One of the valuable lessons in sales we were taught is that in order to gain clients you really must buid relatiionships. Not every sale is a quick one a good CRM Customer Relationship Management system is a must and persisentence not pestering really does pay. So this lesson has really stuck with me and just this month proved me right again when I won a project to deliver Social Media training to the biggest company I have worked with a 125 year old national retailer theyd had the proposal for nearly 12 months. Good CRM meant I kept following up and remaining on their radar. So sales people stick with it your next WIN could be just around the corner. 2012-2-1 13:29:24 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#93751 Click the link to read the latest enews from marketing geni ChariTea httpconta.ccgenimay11 2011-5-12 12:15:47 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#89331 We are delighted to be hosting a Big Chocolate Tea Party on Friday 15th April 12pm 2pm at e.volve Business Centre for The Sick Childrens Trust. Were cooking up a storm in the kitchen and making 100 chocolate themed cupcakes and we have raffle prizes galore on the day. We would love to see you there or if you would like to donate a raffle prize that would be gratefully recieved. Further information on The SCT can be found here httpwww.sickchildrenstrust.orgbigchocolateteaparty 2011-3-16 11:32:01 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#88261 Last year a team of 5 of us embarked on the 5k corporate challenge in the Swimathon and raised over 1631000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Unfortunately this year only 3 of us are able to make it hence having to swim longer eeek It would be amazing if you are able to support me in the challenge httpbit.lySwimathon2011 kindest regards Heather 2011-3-2 12:27:03 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#81973 I was reminded of one of my favourite quotes this week and thought Id share it with you There is very little difference in people but that little difference makes a very BIG difference The litte difference is attitude the BIG difference is whether it is positive or negative 2010-11-26 13:39:11 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#80466 One of the most important things about attending any networking event is your elevator pitch. The last event I attended 2 people on my table included this statement in their pitch and you can get funding working with us what message does that give to me That they have to sell the funding aspect to get you to buy their service Is their service not good enough to be sold without the funding bait So this leads me to wonder how many business models will have to change over the next 12 months when the funding diminishes... 2010-10-19 14:51:35 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#80467 2 weeks ago I ran a twitter competition for National Cupcake Week. Entrants had to tell me why their workplace should win a yummy box of 12 logo cakes. The response was fantastic but their could only be one winner....hmmm not quite there were two who recieved their boxes on Friday. The first box went to callagentsuk a business set up after being made redundant from CJ Garland amp Co. Rachel amp the team thoroughly deserved their box of cakes after enduring months of hardwork to get their business up and running. Well done x The second box went to codoherty who applied on behalf of The Sick Childrens Trust in Newcastle. I had the great pleasure of personally delivering Carolines cakes and meeting the fantastic team at Crawford House. What amazing place and an amazing charity. Enjoy x 2010-9-27 14:53:51 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#80468 Last Thursday I had the pleasure of hosting Dillies first Chocolate Tasting Evening. We had a great night as you will see from this videomontage by Lawrence Conyers from Anson Photography 2010-8-25 14:54:59 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#80470 I am so pleased to announce our partnership with Constant Contact the leading email marketing service.I have used Constant Contact for over 5 years now for our marketing campaigns and find it very user friendly. The statistics you get back are amazing and help you really understand your customer.Take a look at our latest newsletter created in Constant Contact httpconta.ccMarketingGeniEM 2010-7-15 14:57:33 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#80471 I got Marketing Genis first press release in to The Northern Echo on Saturday. It felt great especially as it was the first piece of pr copy that I had actually written. httpwww.thenorthernecho.co.ukbusiness8263593.Serviceisaimedatsmallfirms 2010-7-12 14:58:39 http://www.marketing-geni.com/page6.htm#80472 What is it Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are textbased posts of up to 140 characters.What do you use it for Communicating with other businesses in your local area promotingtelling people about the work you do following people or organisations that you have an interest in.Follow me follow you Hmmmm yes at first thought it can be a little bit stalkerish. You follow peopleorganisations and they might follow you back. But this is the whole concept of twitter you follow the people that you might be interested in companies that you like or yes even celebritites that you are a fan of.Whats the ROI the investment being your time Well actually it can be HUGE. Its amazing the amount of people and companies that can become aware of your business its products or service offering.Whats the BIG Deal The benefits could be an introduction an enquiry or even an order so yes it can be a BIG Deal.On www.... 2010-7-1 14:59:43