Content Creation Workshop Raises Funds for Bury St Edmunds Hospice

NEWS RELEASE from Cinnamon Edge

As part of their Towergate Accumulator Challenge fundraising activities for St Nicholas Hospice Care, Cinnamon Edge held a successful Content Writing and Marketing workshop on 14th July at the Farmers Club in Bury St Edmunds.

Jacqui Carrel, a writer and marketer, ran the workshop. ‘The whole day was fun: I enjoyed running the proceedings, not least because I had lovely people to work with. The best part was seeing how the group, using the techniques I taught them, produced some great pieces of writing in a very short time.’

Delegates enjoyed the relaxed, information and activity packed day-long session. Said attendee Linda Birnie, ‘Content Marketing was a very enjoyable one day workshop covering many ways of advertising your business. The format was very relaxed and interactive and I came away with several new ideas and constructive techniques for writing advertorials, web pages and general articles.’

Roy Everitt, partner in Cinnamon Edge, helped with the workshop. He says, ‘This is just one of the things we are doing for the Challenge, which we have dubbed ‘The Fifty Quid Challenge’. Cinnamon Edge intends to carry on raising money in a variety of ways. We have even built a site around it: http://www.thefiftyquidchallenge.co.uk

100% of ticket proceeds went directly to the Hospice, helped along by generous donations from other Bury St Edmunds businesses. The Farmers’ Club donated the room and coffee, Bedford’s estate agent donated lunch, and Peatling’s and Munning’s supplied soft drinks and delicious afternoon tea scones respectively.

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Contact Jacqui Carrel

E: jacqui@cinnamonedge.co.uk

T: 01284 753 912 or M: 07766 011 391

http://www.cinnamonedge.co.uk and http://www.thefiftyquidchallenge.co.uk

Search Engine Marketing

If you're wondering what 'search engine marketing' actually is, you're not alone!

When we started to put together a list of the topics we wanted to cover in our workshop on 11 May we soon realised we would have absolutely no problem filling an entire day.

But with our teaching and training experience, as well as day to day contact with the real world through running our own business Cinnamon Edge, we're confident we can give everyone who attends the SEM workshop at Bury St Edmunds Farmers Club astonishing value for money.

Frankly, each session we have planned will more than repay you the full price of the day's training. Multiply that by four sessions, plus the Q and A and interactive elements, and your business will be quids in by the end of the day!

We have had to limit the numbers in order to give everyone who attends this workshop our full attention and the best possible value, so tickets are already in short supply.

So, if you want your business to be ahead of the competition by using the most cost-effective marketing medium ever invented, can you afford to miss this one-off workshop?

You can book your place directly through our preferred ticket suppliers, Eventbrite, or call Jacqui on 01284 753912 to discuss multiple tickets and our first come, first served special deals.

Roy

Marketing Workshops with Cinnamon Edge and Bury Chamber of Commerce

Thank you to those of you who took part in our survey at the start of the year, where we asked you what marketing-related workshops you would be interested in attending during 2011.

In your answers, you said one of the subjects you would most like to know more about is the changes Google has recently made to local search and Google Places.

On that front, I have some bad news and some good news:

• The bad news is you missed our first workshop of the year, on Google Places Changes (it was on 11 February).
  
• The good news is we’re running it again on 31 March.
  

We received lots of really positive feedback from the first event, and the re-run will be even better. The price for the workshop is the same as before, and you can still benefit from our early bird discount.

(If you’re one of the first two sole traders to apply you can save even more.)

The new event is on our Eventbrite page, at http://newgoogleplaces.eventbrite.com

We have one before that on Business Writing, at http://bestbusinesswriting.eventbrite.com - that's on 23 March!

And ALL this year’s marketing workshops are at http://marketingworkshops.eventbrite.com

We're also running workshops on Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Domination, Mobile Marketing, Staging Your Own Workshops and even Writing Your Own Book - a great marketing tool for your business!

Have a look at the full list on http://marketingworkshops.eventbrite.com but seats at the first two are very limited - and the discount is still available - so book today.

Roy

Online Marketing Bury St Edmunds - Latest:

Our online marketing project is going even better than we could reasonably have hoped.

Now the Cinnamon Edge website has been updated and Google's faithful spiders have found it, it's jumped straight onto page one.

So we once again have five of the top six places. And even this blog, which is about much more than just our online marketing for Bury St Edmunds, appears on page two.

UPDATE: While this blog slipped to page four, our main website leapfrogged to number one. That means we now have seven of the top eight places on Google. Plus, we're on pages two, three and four.

As I said a few days ago, our updated version of the Complete Marketing Manual will include a lot of updated information about online marketing for local businesses and it's pretty clear by now we know a few things about the subject.

Meanwhile you can watch and learn - from this project and from the many articles that you'll find appearing on the Cinnamon Edge website over the next couple of months.

And you can always ask for our advice and help.

Roy

Bury St Edmunds Builder Joins BSE Online

Another Bury St Edmunds company, Murray Building Services and Maintenance, has joined Bury St Edmunds Online.

This general builder is based in Beck Row, just outside Bury St Edmunds and supplies all building services, from minor repairs to new builds.

Gary Murray, company owner, offers his skills as a general builder in the Bury St Edmunds and Suffolk area.

Gary focuses first of all on customer satisfaction and from his testimonials, it looks like Gary is one the best builders in Suffolk.

Roy

First Businesses Sign Up For BSE Online

The first business on the new Bury St Edmunds portal, Bury St Edmunds Online is 'Must Go', a courier firm based in Rougham, just outside the town.

Must Go Couriers operate in Suffolk and the whole of the UK.

With a range of vehicles available for loads of all sizes from single packages to pallets, Must Go are especially proud of their promise to deliver individual packets with great care, and if necessary your package will be allocated its own dedicated vehicle and driver for end to end security and safety.

With service like that, we're very proud to have Must Go Couriers as Bury St Edmunds Online's first client.

Roy