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FREE design - too good to be true? Not for some
Whatever anybody comes up with as an incentive to attract business can often be taken with a pinch of salt. No more so than when somebody offers you something for free! Where’s the catch is normally the first reaction, well it’s usually mine anyway. What we have found particularly in these difficult, recessionary times is that companies still need brochures, advertising and websites, along with similar marketing material, to be produced but are finding it difficult to get things moving. It’s obviously caution born out of necessity but doing nothing is not a suitable alternative. VAK DriverCPC found themselves in that exact situation. read more
DIY Marketing – training for decision makers!
Here at CS Communicate, we always like to go one step further and are now adding training to our portfolio of services. With many years experience of lecturing in marketing Jonathan has developed a variety of very reasonable short courses specifically to help in the current climate.
These bespoke courses can be delivered to individuals or large groups, equally they are designed to be adapted to individual businesses or specific business sectors, for the moment there are three main courses:
• Shoestring Marketing
– looks at how to get maximum exposure with minimal capital outlay
• Working websites
– shows how to develop copy and basic copywriting skills as well as use of images and basic design and search engine optimisation tips.
• Promotional Planning
– will help you to understand how to write a Marketing Plan that delivers results.
Don’t drop your sails
If all the doom and gloom banded about at the moment is to be believed we’d all be best staying in bed this year and that’s just what some businesses are effectively doing by freezing their marketing budgets.
Yes when times are hard all expenditure should be scrutinized (we’re certainly not sad we moved out of our swanky Leeds City Centre offices 18 months ago!) but you don’t throw the ships sails overboard to reduce the risk of taking in water in choppy seas and nor should you abandon marketing in difficult times. This is the very time to ensure you stay in front of the competition and visible to customers, looking strong. All the pundits say that the clever, determined and responsive will weather the storms and prosper; can you afford not be seen?
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We always look to provide you with great value for money quality services and intend to have different special offers running throughout the year; depending on what we can negotiate at the time with our suppliers. Keep on visiting our site, or get in touch, to see if we can help to save you money, whilst providing our first class service. read more
Promotional Events - We’re in the Mix
We are now moving rapidly into the events business, as a result of tying up closely with artsmix, a Leeds based organisation supporting, promoting and developing local arts talent across the region. If you need any help with organising events of any size, or just simply want some performers to enhance what you’re already planning, get in touch. We’re getting involved in all sorts, from providing a singer to organising festivals. read more
News in print - CSCommunicate Print Productions
November has seen a real upturn in our print services with newsletters, brochures, and catalogues all coming to the fore. This is fun work for us as it brings all our talents together, Phil’s vast knowledge of print, Mick’s design skills, and Jonathan’s writing. True team productions. read more
Arts Awards - Jonny ‘The Lips’ presents…
It’s rare we say “no” to any request we receive. One (rather strange) request was when Jonathan was approached by Artsmix to present and compare their inaugural Emerging Artists Awards at the Electric Press in Millennium Square, Leeds. This grew from presenting the awards to Jonathan being filmed, with a blacked out face and bright orange lipstick on, in the dark in a cellar in Oakwood, for his lips to be projected on the plasma screens around the Electric Press. Mick may well be the artistic one, but Jonathan is now officially art! read more
Golden opportunities with Goldeneye
We have now completed and launched the new Goldeneye website www.goldeneyeuk.com. Following on from our work rebranding and updating their corporate image, and of course designing their site, we are delighted to have also been asked to handle their PR and other marketing activities to ensure they capitalise on their position as one of, if not ‘the’, most innovative suppliers of Internet Protocol based security and surveillance systems. read more