January:
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This Month…
We’re happy to announce that Tracy has just won a fantastic award from Networking Mummies Solihull of Business Mum of the Month! Yay! Tracy was nominated by several members of the group and won for her continuous support and for passing on leads to help other members.
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December:
This month…
We’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! It’s been such a great year, full of learning, excitement, challenges and growth.
We hope you’ve all had a great year too.
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November:
This month…
We’ve been working away on campaigns for three new customers and planning for three more that are due to start soon! Complete campaigns of telemarketing, email and social media marketing, phew, we’ve been busy! Who says things slow down near Christmas? We’re still hoping to pop in and surprise a few lovely people next month with mince pies and chocolates even if we are busy…
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October:

This month…
We finished off September with a lovely coffee morning in aid of MacMillan, at The Corporate Pod, raising over £200. Thanks to all the wonderful people who came along, donated, and made cakes. Wonderful cakes they were too
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September:
This month…
We’ve been planning our MacMillan coffee morning, being held on Friday 26th September, 10.30am at our offices in St Paul’s Square. Come along if you’re free; there’ll be some informal networking, cakes made by us and Lil’s Parlour, and an opportunity to raise money with friends for a great cause.
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August:

This month…
We’ve been busy focusing on our own marketing and organic SEO, writing articles, publishing our newsletters on our website, naturally link building and seeing a resulting increase in enquiries generated. It just takes a little planning in diaries and a bit of dedicated time to do it, reading for inspiration and writing it all down.
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July:
This month…..

We have moved our whole IT system over to Google Apps for Business! It’s taken a wee while, but we’ve finally migrated across and are now using Google for our business operations. Allowing us to operate remotely, share, save and work on documents together, manage our calendars, and integrate our emails with our CRM system, whilst costing only £3 per user per month, well, we’d be mad not to!
It’s a great set of tools and really cost effective. Some really impressive companies use it, if it’s good enough for them! If you’d like to chat about what it can do we’re very happy to help. Just give us a call. …Read More
June:
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We’ve finally found the right office for us, at 35 St Pauls Square, Birmingham B3, pictured. With both Cre8’s Directors having started working in the jewellery quarter over 20 years ago, it’s interesting we’ve ended up back here! Cre8 will still work remotely for flexibility but having offices for meetings and training will be a great help to the business. Corporate Pod have a wonderful, friendly helpful team, meeting rooms available for hire and will be starting networking events soon. …Read More
May:
This month…..
We’re campaign planning for Cre8! We have long had a goal to work with a manufacturing company and so we are working on our own telemarketing campaign to make it happen. As with all campaigns it’s deciding on a specific target market that is so important and then identifying companies who fit, to build that database. …Read More
April:

This month…..
Is your business in a competitive market place? We meet a lot of people who tell us there is so much competition that they struggle to know how to market themselves effectively whilst getting a good return on their investment. With our experience we’ve come to see marketing as a circle that covers a range of activities; if there is a break in the chain the marketing starts to fall down and this is where investment can be lost. …Read More
March:

This month…..We’ve been meeting our networking contacts for one to ones and great coffee…As a company who do quite a lot of networking, we recognise that it’s relationships not contacts that are essential to our business, in terms of helping and being helped. Building relationships is the most pleasurable part of what we do. Focusing on the long term not the short term has meant we’ve made so many great friends along the way. Coffee is the order of the day ;-)….Read More
February:

This month…..We’ve been doing some more work for a company who are part of the Caterpillar group. With a very large database of almost 5,000 companies, they wanted to check their data was up to date. In December we successfully updated contacts and their details on almost every record we made contact with, demonstrating how important it is to regularly keep on top of this task….Read More
January:

This month….We’re focused on challenges………..what challenges are you facing in your business right now? Do you tap into the network of amazing and talented people that you have around you, or do you do it all yourself? Outsourcing to experts is the way forward if you want to free up your time and focus on what you love doing. 2014 is the year to do what you love and love what you do!
We’ve ummed and ahhed about whether to set new year’s resolutions. Did you set any? Getting fit, juicing, facing fears, a half marathon, finding great offices and developing our team, are among some of the things we’ve got on the list…. Read More