Yet another pitch win! Cheltenham Festivals have appointed us to build a website promoting and supporting their prestigious jazz, music, science and literature festivals. We’ll start with jazz. Nice.
The enormous table is in, the bubble wrap is off the chairs, the glass is fitted and the extraordinary helmet light-shades are hovering over the sofa. And could that be a real meccano kitchen partition? It could.
Vithleem Taliani has joined us as Project Manager on Travel City Direct, Wickes and npower. Thanks to the organisational and negotiation skills learned as a girl scout in her native Greece, Vithleem is already making a great impression.
Her long term ambition is to run a restaurant on a Greek Island fitted with a lovely Wickes kitchen and bathroom, naturally.
Ooh, the trials of finding the right toilet accessories. And where on earth can we put the coat stand? All part of the general mayhem since we moved into our fabulous and capacious new offices on Baldwin Street. We've got loads of room, huge windows and even trees to look at, on those rare occasions we're allowed to look up from our desks. So what if the meeting rooms have no walls? Give it time, give it time. We'll let you know when it's safe to visit.
There’s nothing like a win at Cheltenham. At 6 to 1, with some strong contenders in the running, the odds were long. But with Tim Jones, our very own Tony McCoy, at the reins, we thundered home to win the Cheltenham Racecourse pitch. We’re back in the paddock now to catch our breath before the preparations begin for starters orders.
We’ve got our Mickey Mouse ears on and are ready for take off with our first online marketing project for Travel City Direct. Fiona’s still banging on about the need to write from experience by visiting all of those Caribbean islands. Nobody’s listening though. Tightwads.
Dolby needed a team with the sharpest of business acumen, and they certainly got that when Andy Cole and Alex Williams arrived on the fabled Wootton Bassett doorstep. Armed with some of the deadliest creative, Team TD wowed Dolby with an incredibly insightful presentation. Dolby needed a mix of strong creative, backed up by technical know-how and knowledge of the market - and these things weren't in short supply that day. It didn't take long for Dolby to say "you're in". In fact, merely a few hours after the pitch TD got the call, and Chris is already embroiled in making the pitch work a reality.
Despite legging it across the Paddington concourse at record speed, the last train to Bristol left without us. No problem - yougo’s editor gave up his hotel room for us and the yougo launch party went on a bit longer than planned. Read more >