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We know that the global challenges we face can feel daunting, but we also know that when we work together, towards a common goal, we can do anything we set our minds to. We want to make the east of England the healthiest, happiest, and most prosperous place to live in the UK, resilient to climate change and with a landscape rich in wildlife.
To do this we are challenging ourselves to innovate constantly and to deliver ever better services.
Leading business-to-business marketing agency Full Mix Marketing have settled into city-centre offices as they look to support more businesses in 2021 and beyond. Following a move to offices in the centre of Norwich in September 2020, the successful full-service marketing agency have reported a positive start to the year as they help businesses promote themselves through and beyond the pandemic. “Though the easing of restrictions has taken longer than many hoped, even businesses relatively unaffected by the lockdowns appear keener than ever to get going. It’s exciting working with new and existing clients to ensure their marketing makes the best of the recovery” says Sarah West, co-founder and Managing Director. Full Mix Marketing’s new offices on Thorpe Road in Norwich have given them more space and made it easier for clients to visit. The move from their previous location in Cringleford, Norwich, was prompted when their lease became due for renewal. “At the time we were helping our team return safely to working part-time in our offices following the first lockdown. It’s hard to focus on the future during a crisis but it was something we saw as essential. We’re glad we did as it’s put us in an even better position to support businesses with their marketing” say Sarah West. In March 2020, as the restrictions on businesses required their team to work from home, Full Mix Marketing unveiled a new website and rebrand focusing on their expertise in marketing for businesses who work with other companies (known as business-to-business or B2B). “Most agencies focus on consumer marketing, but we’ve always wanted to work with the fantastic businesses who make or supply the goods and services other businesses rely on. Businesses behave differently to consumers, so we focus on delivering a full-mix of marketing which turns this to our clients’ advantage” adds Sarah. Full Mix Marketing was founded in 2016 with the aim to deliver the right mix of marketing to create meaningful results for their clients. This ranges from creating marketing strategies and brands, to delivering marketing including social media, websites, search engine optimisation, graphic design and content marketing. The company has subsequently become one of East Anglia’s leading business-to-business specialist, providing marketing for companies in sectors including manufacturing, engineering, technology, business services and logistics. The agency’s rebrand and move to larger premises has created the opportunity to put their stamp on their offices with a client meeting room, staff breakout area and new signage. “It was a proud moment when the roadside sign went up! The team celebrated with socially distanced sushi. However, we really feel for all those businesses forced to close or downsize during the pandemic. Both as a business and individuals, we feel we all need to play our part in helping them recover” adds Sarah. Now in their fifth year, the agency has long-term relationships with a number of clients who lead in their fields, including an increasing number of businesses from London. Key members of their team will also soon celebrate similar anniversaries with the agency. “Nothing would be possible without our team. They’ve all been outstandingly supportive throughout the last year and a real rock for our clients. It’s important to state just how important they are” concludes Sarah. More details of full mix marketing, the marketing they deliver and the sectors they serve can be found at https://www.fullmixmarketing.co.uk/
Book a place on our next two day video training course running in Norwich on 8th and 15th June, 9-5.
Our courses and bespoke training packages will help your business/organisation to utilise the power of video marketing, developing your skills and teaching you to produce quality videos for your business.
Email: [email protected] to book your place on our next two day course: 8th/15th June 2018, 9-5, in Norwich.
The cost of the two day course is £500+VAT.
Two Day Course:
On day one, you will learn how video can be used as a powerful tool for your business or organisation, what types of videos can be produced within your timeframes, what works and what doesn’t, and the basics of camera work, sound, editing, and equipment. You’ll get hands-on with equipment as to practice these techniques and begin editing the footage as well.
We usually offer the two days with a weeks break to allow you time to capture footage that will be useful for your final film, using the knowledge you gained from day one.
Day two is the chance to edit and upload your very own video for your business or organisation to use. We will guide you through the editing process, from cutting interviews to building a story and adding titles and graphics.
At the end of the two days, you’ll have a finished film and the skills and confidence to keep on producing.
If you or your organisation would like to talk to us about creating bespoke training to meet your needs contact [email protected] or call 01603 727750, we would love to hear from you.
“A great course! Charlie and his team were able to patiently show the basics of how to create a short video. A fabulous day. I can’t recommend Eye Film for their video training highly enough.”
The series finale is a chat with Karen Hester, Chief Operating Officer of Adnams brewery in Southwold. Karen describes her story as ‘from mop to top’ – starting her career at Adnams as a cleaner, she’s now an award winning, glass ceiling breaking COO.
She chats to Chris about all things lockdown, pivoting, the digital revolution, stay-cations, the importance of wellbeing coming out of the pandemic, and much more, but this episode is really about the story of Karen’s personal journey into the world of business, and of her successes along the way.
Karen started her career, as a young woman, in the army, in part to help escape a turbulent childhood home. When she became pregnant, she was forced to leave, whilst her husband, also in the army, could stay. So, she sued the MOD, and won! Her case is still cited to this day in reports and teaching, and this experience also led to her personal pursuit of justice for all, and her current role as a magistrate.
Karen later joined Adnams as a part-time cleaner, where her potential and work ethic was spotted. She began working her way up, gaining experience in all areas of the business, including logistics, and has spent decades breaking down the barriers that society puts up around women in business, and smashing stereotypes, particularly around executive roles for working mothers.
During her trailblazing career, she has overseen multi-million pound rebuild projects with a focus on sustainability; has been voted East of England Businesswoman of the Year; and has been given an honorary doctorate from the University of Suffolk.
Despite all of the focus on her success as a woman in a male-dominated world, she does not believe that women should be given roles they don’t deserve, believing that giving a woman the role of a director BECAUSE she’s a woman is just as insulting as NOT giving it to her because she’s a woman! She speaks candidly about the challenges women need to overcome in order to reach their potential, including resisting imposter syndrome, and combating emotional bias in decision making.
This episode is a must-listen, not just for business leaders, but for anyone interested in the role gender plays in the workplace, and anyone in need of a little bit of inspiration, and motivation to succeed!
If you are enjoying Tourism Business Chat, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts, so you don’t miss out on series three which launches soon!
Archant Local Impact is a new marketing services business brought to you by Archant in partnership with Hearst.
Local Impact aims to offer small businesses a full marketing service. It will offer customers everything from simple advice to a complete marketing campaign. With a range of products including print advertising, digital display, content marketing, social media, search engine optimisation, email marketing, pay per click and digital presence management, Local Impact aims to help local businesses to improve their marketing presence across a range of platforms.
Local Impact customers also have access to a unique, easy to use, reporting portal. This portal allows clients to track how each element of their campaigns is performing in real time, providing measureable and accurate results and allowing companies to simply and quickly see how ads are performing. It also allows them to make changes to their campaigns and elements all within one simple tool.
Archant have partnered with Hearst, who are one of the world’s major media and information companies and whose portfolio includes worldwide magazines and numerous newspaper titles in the US. Hearst is the parent company of Local Edge, its internet and marketing services business. Local Edge has been in business since 2004 and has helped thousands of customers in the US, Australia and Canada to grow their businesses. This new partnership with Archant means that UK SMEs are now able to benefit from the same service and level of experience exclusively through Local Impact.
This year is proving to be an exceptional time for Right Angle Corporate who have been delivering fun and engaging team building events not only across the UK but in exciting locations including Crete, Frankfurt, Vienna, Barcelona, Lisbon, Croatia and Amsterdam. The company has expanded again after a brilliant year in 2017 with an exciting promotion and a warm welcome to new members joining the team. Tess Ashwin has been promoted to Sales Manager and her skills and background will stand her in great stead for this new, challenging and exciting role. Whilst keeping her own high profile FTSE 100 clients, she will also manage the sales team and support staff. Director Kate Gaskin said “we are so happy that Tess is now managing the team, her drive and enthusiasm, coupled with her analytical ability is bringing new dimensions to our ever growing sales team”. Tess is introducing innovative KPI’s, team rewards and incentives whilst enhancing the training and encouragement to the team. Joining the team as Marketing and Events Assistant is Molly Hindle, a graduate in Event Management from Sheffield Hallam University. Molly has been very busy working at events across the UK and is excited to be part of the team at Right Angle and to utilise and develop her skills in marketing. Right Angle have also had the pleasure of welcoming Anaïs Vernageau from Vendee in France for a three month internship. Anaïs has been supporting the sales team throughout this busy period and said “I have had a great experience with Right Angle. Being given responsibility, learning to communicate and work in a team have been highlights of my internship”.
In what has been a very challenging year for so many businesses, Credo is delighted that it’s work to support a wide range of companies and SMEs has seen them honoured with three prestigious awards in quick succession.
It is not purely by chance that Credo has won these awards.
Credo Asset Finance is in it’s 15th year of trading and at the heart of our activities has been a real focus on customer service and listening to the needs of our clients. This has led directly to the development of a range of unique products and access to a wide-ranging portfolio of lenders which ensure we can tailor a finance solution whatever the individual or businesses circumstances.
If you’re considering a major purchase or interested in ways to improve cashflow, you can be confident that when you talk to Credo, you’re talking to one of the best in the industry.
Contact us today at [email protected] quoting Norfolk Chamber to experience our award winning service!
Ashtons Legal has advised easyProperty on an £800k fundraise to secure finances for its future growth.
easyProperty is part of the well-known easy family of brands owned by easyGroup. easyProperty is seeking to transform the way people sell their properties with technology and agents throughout the UK and is planning significant growth over the next 12 months through its franchised business model. This recent funding secures the funds required for this planned expansion of the business.
The team at Ashtons who advised easyProperty on the legal issues surrounding raising of funds was led by partner James Tarling and included members of the firm’s specialist franchise team. Investors came on board through the Seedrs crowdfunding platform with matched funding coming from the Government-backed British Business Bank Future Fund loan scheme.
David Brierley, easyProperty CEO, comments: “Working with James and his team was a pleasure and nothing was too much trouble despite the very tight deadlines we ended up working to and the need for calls with multiple participants dotted around Europe“.
James Tarling from Ashtons adds: “It has been great working with David and his team as they take such an iconic brand into a new market. We have worked with many businesses as they scale their business for future growth despite the significant challenges in the corporate marketplace over the last year. We look forward to continuing to work with the easyProperty team as they expand their business over the coming months and years”.
In celebration of Scale Up Week, Scale Up New Anglia have created a series of online events giving you the unique opportunity to learn about the support, programmes and development opportunities available to you and your business across our region.
Hear from the people that not only deliver the programme but from those that have lived it as well. These events offer the unique chance to ask questions and truly gain an understanding of what the programme can offer you and your business and compare and discuss them in an open and honest forum with other like-minded businesses.
Aimed at established businesses facing big decisions, this is your chance to find out about this unique support opportunity that goes beyond peer-to-peer engagement. The Sounding Board will introduce to your ecosystem people who have taken businesses to the next level and beyond – think of it as peer-to-peer on steroids!
In this session, Senior Innovation & Growth Specialist and Scaleup Director, Chris Ellis, will introduce you to the St John’s Innovation Centre Cambridge team and talk through the eligibility criteria for the portfolio of fully-funded support available to businesses driving growth and internationalisation through innovation.
The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses UK programme is designed to provide high-quality, practical education and business support to leaders of high-growth small businesses and social enterprises across the country. Designed by business education experts and run in partnership with leading UK universities and business schools, the programme is fully funded for all participants.
ELITE is the largest international SMEs network and private market connecting companies with capital and AIM, part of London Stock Exchange, is the world’s most successful growth market – empowering companies, investors and the economy. In this session, they will each present how they help founders and entrepreneurs fulfil their growth ambitions and potential.
Silver to Gold and Mastermind are SUNA’s dedicated fully-funded learning and development pathways for local businesses looking to scale up. In this session find out how both pathways, which are a mix of peer to peer and structured learning sessions, can give you the ability to expand your business and network with like-minded people in our region.
Tech Nation is the UK network for ambitious digital tech entrepreneurs and our vision is to make the UK the best place to imagine, start and grow a digital business. Lead by Entrepreneur Engagement Manager, Thea Goodluck, find out how Tech Nation supports entrepreneurs to grow faster through knowledge, connections and structured growth programmes, having supported the likes of Zoopla, Monzo and Deliveroo.
Are you an innovative company? Are you Growing? Are you interested in expanding internationally? Would you benefit from impartial, external innovation and growth support to help you reach your goals? If so, this is the seminar for you!
In this week’s episode of Impromptu Business Chat, James and Mark chat about the challenge for businesses and their people returning from furlough, including changes to anxiety, confidence and motivation levels. As always they end with 3 top tips, and along the way they take inspiration from Motivational Maps, Sir Clive Woodward and Mohammad Ali.
If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts. Whilst you are there, we would really appreciate a 5* review, as this helps other people find our podcast!
This Friday 21 May, marking the end of Action for Brain Injury Week and Hats for Headway Day, Headway will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the most hats thrown in the air, at the same time, online.
They’re aiming to get 200+ people to participate online (Zoom).
Would any of your team dig out a favourite hat and register to take part? And share a pic / video clip on social media in advance, to encourage others to sign up? Here’s all the info…
The charity is also asking a few businesses/organisations to shoot a short video, of their teams throwing hats in the air, to be used online on the day of the attempt. (Short clip, shot landscape). Could you help?
Further details below.
HATS FOR HEADWAY – GUINNESS WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT ONLINE, 21 MAY 2021
What’s happening?
On Friday 21st May 2021 at 4pm, Headway staff and supporters will set out to break the Guinness World Record for the ‘Most People Throwing Hats Simultaneously Online’ – hosted on Zoom. It’s all part of the charity’s Hat’s for Headway day (21 May) and aims to spread some laughter across Norfolk whilst raising awareness around living with the after effects of brain injury and stroke.
Want to take part? Join Headway Norfolk and Waveney and be a record breaker! Take part from the comfort of home or from work. All you need is access to a computer screen, a Zoom account, a hat and bundles of excitement.
Next steps
To register, simply email [email protected] ASAP with the name and individual email addresses of each participant.
Headway Norfolk and Waveney will send everyone the next steps via email. The Zoom invite will arrive before 20 May.
There’s no fundraising involved, no fee to take part, but any kind voluntary donations can be made via Headway’s Just Giving page.
Sign up and share on social
If you would like to be part of this record-breaking attempt, please tell everybody about it! And help Headway spread the word on social media.
Send [email protected] (communications officer) a photo of you wearing a hat, or even better, a short video clip of you throwing your hat up in the air.
Share your photos and videos on your social channels, and tag Headway Norfolk and Waveney – using #recordbreaker and #hatsforheadway. FacebookInstagramTwitter
Greatest Hits Radio and BBC Radio Norfolk have already booked interviews to get everyone talking about the world record attempt, and it has been in the EDP too.
This will help raise awareness about the incredible support Headway delivers to people and their families, after such a life-changing event. But; it’s also an up-lifting, feel-good charity event, and fun way to mark 4pm on a Friday!