Sophie Garrett Marketing

JellyNorfolk

sophie — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:58:20 +0000

JellyNorfolk is a new co-working community in Norfolk where people who work on their own meet once a month at Business Revolution based at the Kings Centre in central Norwich and work together for the day. Most bring a laptop, but there is a lot of variety in work done. Occasionally there is some chatter, laughter and sharing of ideas and tips; often companionable silence.

More and more people are working from home, as self-employed freelancers, small business owners and home-based full-time employees. Whilst this has some great benefits, homeworkers often report that they miss the office camaraderie and the chance to bounce ideas off colleagues.

JellyNorfolk is held on the second Monday of each month. The day is split into two sessions: morning and afternoon but people can stay for the whole day by booking both. JellyNorfolk is held at Business Revolution, a new co-working hub, which recently opened at the Kings Centre. JellyNorfolk is free to attend and includes free fast wifi broadband: food and drink are available from the Kings Centre cafe.

Jelly Norfolk is run entirely by volunteers, me and Cassie Tillett, and we both work from home. Jellies have no external funding.

OpenCoffee London

sophie — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:23:29 +0000

One of the best forums for internet startups that I know about is OpenCoffee London. Although the group is loosely based around a weekly Meetup at University College London, I understand that about 3000 people now subscribe to the user group and read the many discussion threads. Although the group generates a lot of emails (I filter them into a folder all of their own), this is an incredibly useful group with entrepreneurs (new and experienced) and developers, plus a wide range of helpful people who help startups such as accountants, lawyers etc.

There is a good archive of the discussions held here.

Learning to tweet

sophie — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:15:22 +0000

I seem to spend lots of time explaining the (many) benefits of Twitter to different people and showing them how I use Tweetdeck. It is almost impossible to use Twitter without using one of the third party aggregation services like Tweetdeck or Hootsuite - both of which I like and use constantly.

So I was pleased to find these three short videos which explain how to listen, engage and tweet: everything you need to know to get started and they are only about 5 minutes long.

I tweet as @yours2share.

Norfolk Cleaning & Removals

sophie — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:16:32 +0000

I’ve just completed a new website for a local cleaning and removals company, See The Difference. It’s often interesting how you get new work: I got chatting to Steve Crisp who runs the business as he was cleaning out windows. He has just expanded from domestic and commercial cleaning to removals, having bought a couple of vans. Much of their business is “end of tenancy” cleans, and these jobs also often require some house clearance. Once he’d invested in the vans, it seemed obvious to offer a removals services as well as offering a “man with a van” facility.

October JellyNorfolk

sophie — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:35:04 +0000

The second JellyNorfolk will take place on Monday 11th October at the King’s Centre Norwich. The last Jelly day was a great success with 10 people working together and enjoying a little company and the chance to bounce ideas off each other. There was also much sharing of Excel spreadsheet knowledge and munching of great food from the cafe downstairs.

To book and find out more click on the session you prefer: morning or afternoon (you can come to both, just book them both).

Indigo Partnerships

sophie — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:22:51 +0000

Just finished a new website for Indigo Partnerships for Eleanor Bannister. Eleanor is a freelance consultant specialising in search and selection & marketing for the drinks industry. She is based in Catalunya, Spain, and lives in the midst of the vineyards providing grapes for Cava wine.

The website is set up to be multilingual in both English and Spanish and this will be activated once the Spanish translations are completed.

Norfolk Jelly

sophie — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:09:29 +0000

I’m working with Cassie Tillet of Working Order to set up a new Norfolk Jelly. Probably the second Monday of the month, to be held at the Kings’ Centre in Norwich.

Email me or tweet me for more info.

Wedding bells

sophie — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:15:18 +0000

Last week we finished the website for Sheldon Manor in Wiltshire. Caroline Hawkins holds fabulous weddings there and also rents her cottages as second homes via yours2share.

The brief has evolved over the months since Caroline first contacted me. Initially I was just giving marketing and website advice and going to optimise the website. But when it became clear that the people Caroline was hoping would build the website weren’t able to do this, I agreed to build a WordPress website for her. On interesting aspect was that after initial problems finding any good images of the manor or weddings being held there, we ended up with a large number of images for a relatively simple website. I wrote all the copy for Caroline based on our many conversations.

There are still some pages still to be released, particularly the history and some testimonials, and these will follow in the next few weeks.

A new blog!

sophie — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:45:02 +0000

This is my first post on Sophie Garrett Marketing, but I’ve been blogging for ages on the subject of sharing on the yours2share blog.

This blog will be all about online marketing and any other related issues, mainly marketing and a bit of techy IT stuff.