Thought Den have been working hard this year, with Kerve for Jack Daniels and Southern Comfort, meeting Mr Darling, kicking off Happy Packages, finishing Happy Packages phase 1, winning Happy Packages phase 2 (see this post) winning work with Bournemouth Media School, the Marketing department and the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice. When it’s written like that, it’s less of a surprise that we’re nearly half the way through the year…

So we decided to hold a meeting. In Bournemouth. On the beach. In the sun. A great chance to get a breath of fresh air and a new perspective, both figuratively and literally. But besides larking in the sun, we made a lot of headway on the Bournemouth Virtual Tour project, had a great debrief on the first Thought Den Industry Day and kicked off the biggie with CEMP. More news on that one to follow…

Being an avid member of the Bristol’s Great Western Chorus, meant one part of Thought Den was invited to attend the Barbershop Marketing day in Birmingham at the 138 centre.

The day covered many aspects of getting a chorus to think about what they’re promoting, eg, the GWC are a fun group of guys, love a sing + drink in the pub afterwards. Then taking those points and applying it into different areas of your Marketing Strategies.
Some chorus members were lucky enough (more…)

Sunday was absolutely beautiful! There were surprisingly few hangovers among us so we took the plunge (literally - Leigh Woods is near vertical!) and went for bike ride to Pill. I highly recommend it. Not difficult, very beautiful, and there’s lovely little boozer at the end, where you can watch the funny locals play with their out-board motors (ooh-er missus) It’s Bike Route 41, if anyone’s actually interested in pursuing this decidedly non-digital activity…though who knows, perhaps there’ll be some Happy Packages waiting for you if you give it a whirl in a week or two