When I was in charge of marketing at Newcastle’s Live Theatre I was promoting a play called Attachments written by the wonderful Julia Darling. In the opening scene, a vacuum cleaner salesman called Robbie knocks on the door of a… READ MORE
Category: What we think
Out of favour and all out of love?
How many of you reading this has LOST a client – not down the back of the sofa kind of lost but the kind where you thought they were all yours but then you find out that they’ve started seeing… READ MORE
Time out to think
Hello! yes, that’s me, taking time out to think! I have this image on my business card because a big part of what I do, both for tent and for my clients is take a step back, take some time… READ MORE
Getting personal
When we designed our first stationery set, we decided on a postcard instead of a compliment slip. it doesn’t cost much more and we thought it would stand out more as something to pop into an envelope with other items… READ MORE
Everything is Marketing
One of the best business books I have read in ages is Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson. If you haven’t already read this I urge you to do so; it won’t take long as it’s sharp, to the point… READ MORE
ffs do your #ff’s properly!
If you’re a twitter user you’ve no doubt noticed and taken part in the week’s #ff hashtag event, which stands for follow friday. I remember when I first joined twitter, logging on on a friday to see all these #ff’s… READ MORE
First steps with twitter
When you start to use twitter for your business, it’s all too easy to just leap in and spend most of your time thinking about how to get new followers, who you are going to follow, how to add value… READ MORE
In the studio: munchie & millie at home
We love to work with creative people, people with a spring in their step, tongue firmly in their cheek, who don’t take life or themselves too seriously, but take their business and their company’s image very serious indeed. So it… READ MORE