Maldon networking group

Maldon has a new networking group!!


Friday, 21st January saw the launch of  the Maldon Business Network at the Oakhouse in Maldon High Street. With over 70 local business people attended which was a great turnout all due to the determination and drive of Stella Bradbrook, who organised the event but got her idea into action.


It was wonderful to see so many local business men and women from Maldon and the surrounding area getting together. I was certainly very proud to be mentioned in Stella's speech (I’ve added some of it below). It was great to be a part of it and I look forward to more to come in the future.

Thank you to John Linton of the OAKhouse High Street, Maldon for letting us use his lovely upstairs venue for nothing for our launch. Thank you to Julie Binder of J Binder Design for your help with the website. Thank you to Wayne Collier of WayneCollier Company Limited for helping me with my blog and the prize for the draw. Thank you for Glenn our toastmaster. And a special thanks has to go to Ian Cass who runs the Witham Networking Group for giving me the idea in the first place. Thank you everyone for your kind comments and help Stella.

The Photo shows Stella and Wayne presenting to the prize winner Glen Laing of Innovate FS.

For more information, please take a look at http://www.maldonbusinessnetworking.blogspot.com or call Stella at AboutMyArea Maldon and Burnham on mobile number 07860 718845 or E-mail stellacm9@aboutmyarea.co.uk

Hope to see you at the next one.

Wayne

www.waynecollier.co.uk

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Customer Relationships

Customer Relationships..We are very much in a mobile world with everyone being able to be contacted 24/7 that’s why communication and information is the key to effective customer retention. If you really know and understand your customers you can them arrange the service and respect they deserve.

Remember every person and every customer is different and yes I know it’s imposable to remember everything about everyone that’s why bespoke e-mail marketing can help you gather the information you require.

Start with the basic information from your first meeting you would have gathered the contact name, company name their address contact details and the business sector that they operate in.

The four basic things that you have to do by gathering as much demographic information, track all customer date and behaviours, conduct a customer survey and then listen to your customers. The basic four points.

Bespoke e-mail marketing can help you achieve all the above four things and help you to get to know your customers, and remember the more you get to know them the more they will respond with their loyalty.

What’s more it can be that easy as people love to talk about their business all you have to do is listen.

Wayne

www.waynecollier.co.uk

Internet mail

Internet mail.

E-mail marketing helps you keep your customers up to date with all your required information to keep them coming back by using attractive, professional looking e-mail communications so you can stay in regular touch with them.

First job is to make use of the information that you have gained from your customer or potential client (their e-mail address) you can work in different ways to build you mailing campaign information list, Trade Shows, Purchased lists, win a prize fill in your details card, opt-in on website for newsletters or win a prize etc, However once you have gained the information, it’s then what you do with it that is key.

Next up think about the content, what is the message that you want to get delivered across into their inbox. Then send away that’s when the real work starts by tracking your e-mail campaign so you can learn much more about your customer’s needs and requirements, along with learning about your campaigns in what works and what’s not so good in the information that you are sending out.

So remember bespoke professional e-mail marketing works in five very important ways.

1.     Tracks and drives traffic to your website.

2.     Keeps you in touch with your customers

3.     Tells you more information about your customers

4.     Let’s you interact direct with your customers

5.     Very cost-effective way to engage and communicate

For more information on e-mail marketing please do not hesitate to contact us.

Wayne

www.waynecollier.co.uk

Boost your Brand with Social Media.

Boost your Brand with Social Media. Social Media is just basically the communication of your brand on-line it offers you the opportunity to boost awareness through discussion and interaction and increased visible awareness by sharing with your community.

Ways you can get connected are through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Blogging to name a few. Then all you need to do is get a discussion going around your brand by asking people within you community questions about your business.

Once you are ready to get going figure out what you are looking to gain out of social media, plan your long term strategies, create your business profiles, learn about the community you are entering into, and then get going and become an active part of that community.

Remember social media remains one of the cheapest and most effective ways to build relationships and drive traffic to your Blog or Website by sharing news information from within you industry.

Good luck.

Wayne

www.waynecollier.co.uk

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