Some stuff that makes us tick plus information and updates from the Better team including business, enterprise and community support.
Jun 8 2009 by Karen McLauchlan, Evening Gazette.
THE search to find Tees Valley’s next entrepreneurial star is just days away from revealing a winner. The nebusiness backed If We Can, You Can challenge recently named its two local finalists Louise Bell, a 36-year-old, from Stockton, who set up Healthy Glow, a home spray tanning business, and 31-year-old Mark Easby, from Middlesbrough, who runs Better – a creative brand agency.
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Posted by: Mark Easby, Managing Director - Better Brand Agency
Filed in: Awards, Better Brand Agency, Better News and PR, Better Team News, Events, North East, North Yorkshire, Tees Valley
Tagged: entrepreneurs forum, ifwecanyoucan
From Mark’s IfWeCanYouCan Blog.
What a day. I’ve been lucky enough to attend a few Entrepreneurs Forum events before, including one annual conference but none have been as inspiring or interesting as this one.
The speakers were first class. As a young business, it was very interesting to listen to presentations from the likes of Matthew Riley (Daisy Communications), Martin Lightbody (Finsbury Foods) and Richard Farleigh (Dragon’s Den) covering their experiences, both good and bad. It was inspiring to hear about the challenges, issues, and opportunities that have moulded them and their businesses while trying to apply the lessons learnt to our context.
It was also really good to meet the other finalists for the first time. It certainly seems like a great bumch of people and we will certainly be maintaining contact with some of them once the campaign has reached its climax.
Both the main conference, and the following dinner were great experience especially as there were a number of activities lined up for the finalists throughout the day (and night). These included photo shoots, audio comments and video interviews as well as being asked to stand up in front of the conference audience to be highlighted as the ‘ones to watch in the North East’, and ofcourse the Better team got “punk’d” on the evening from Diva’s Incognito….so thanks to the EF team for making us feel a little like pop stars (we even had our own custome badges!).
Here’s looking forward to next year…
Posted by: Mark Easby, Managing Director - Better Brand Agency
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From Mark’s IfWeCanYouCan Blog.
Well, its been a crazy week. Its now over a week since the finalists where announced and time has just flown by.
Not only have we been hectic in the business working on a few proposals and the studio has been working all hours on client projects, we’ve also been trying to embrace the increased profile and new experiences that have come from being part of the IWCYC Campaign.
After just getting used to being featured in the local paper, The Evening Gazette, a number of times over the past week I was also asked to do a interview on BBC Radio Tees early on Friday morning. Although this is very exciting, I must admit it was pretty nerve wracking. It is now available on listen again on the BBC iPlayer website if your interested. I thought we both did a sterling job considering it was our radio debut!
…and then came the Entrepreneurs Forum Annual Conference…as mentioned in the other post (see below) this was an experience and a half! Photo shoots, interviews, drunken ‘divas’ as well as a number of people we didn’t know congratulating us and wanting to speak to us. What an experience.
So I am now wondering that the next few weeks will hold for us. No doubt we will continue with our day jobs and our work in the studio and look forward to some more new experiences to come. I’ll keep you updated as and when they do…
Posted by: Mark Easby, Managing Director - Better Brand Agency
Filed in: Awards, Better Brand Agency, Better News and PR, Better Team News, Events, North East, North Yorkshire, Tees Valley
Tagged: entrepreneurs forum, ifwecanyoucan
Apr 7 2009 by Jez Davison, Evening Gazette – view article online.
MARK Easby had to face his mum’s cancer and a confidence crisis before becoming Tees Valley’s king of communications. JEZ DAVISON discovers how the Big ‘C’ transformed his life
THE year is 2000 and a young Teessider is caught in a crisis. Former college drop-out Mark Easby had just scraped through university with a third class honours degree before being crushed by the death of his mother Gwyneth from leukaemia.
With confidence and motivation at rock bottom, he decided the only way was up and embarked on a post-graduate qualification “as much for my mum as for myself”. (more…)
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Filed in: Better Brand Agency, Better News and PR, Better Team News, North East, North Yorkshire, Tees Valley
Tagged: Better News and PR, nebusiness, North East, North Yorkshire, Tees Valley
We’ve looked long and hard for the right person to be the cornerstone on which we build our web development offer. Our criteria was pretty big. We wanted someone who had buckets of big agency experience, who had spent a considerable amount of time working through the product development cycle at the very highest level and who could shape how we offer web development to our clients. (more…)
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On the back of winning some exciting digital projects, the Better team is growing again. We are looking for a talented and exciting PHP/MySQL web developer to join us.
The web developer role requires demonstration technical ability but more importantly the passion required to forge a career in digital media that by its very nature requires continuous learning. You should have a love for all things web. You will see web projects as being not only design and functionality, but also understand the marketing and communication requirements for the project (including SEO). You should find code and problem solving interesting and have a genuine interest in perusing a career within a vibrant commercial studio and an environment where deadlines change daily.
Software and skills:
Expert knowledge of Object Orientated PHP/MySQL., Javascript and AJAX
Expert knowledge of building sites in CSS/XHTML
Content Management System Models
Hosting and Email Set Up and server support
Search Engine Optimisation
Aware of Accessibility particularly W3C and WAI
Web 2.0
Design standards and technology
Salary/Package: Negotiable based on experience.
You must be able to join the team to support both existing projects (additional work, problem solving) but also lead on new projects using your technical understanding to help with scoping out technical website specifications. You needs to be able to work comfortably on your own while maintaining close communication with the rest of the team. Having a strong attention to detail is critical.
Posted by: Better Brand Agency
Filed in: Better Brand Agency, Better News and PR, Better Team News, North East, North Yorkshire, Tees Valley, Web and Digital
Tagged: Industry - Web and Digital, jobs, Web and Digital, Web Development
At Better Brand Agency, we like taking photos. We’re developing quite a library of photos and wanted to start sharing them so we’ve launched our own Flickr Photostream.
Check out our latest photostream updates including our Better Client Work Collection, Better Team Collection, Tees Valley & North East Collection, plus some of our own favourite personal photos.
We’ve also built in a clever little Flickr plugin into the bottom of our website and our facebook page showing our latest photostream updates to share the wealth.
If you would like further information about any of the photos featured in our photostream, please contact the Better team.
Better Brand Agency a brand agency offering brand, graphic design, marketing, social media and social networking, web and digital services based in Tees Valley, North East and North Yorkshire.
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Tagged: Better Brand Agency, Better Team News, Digital, flickr, social media, Social Networking, Web Development social media
Influenced by all of the beautiful Kinetic Typography currently showing on YouTube we set our Creative Director the task of going back to school and actually learning a new skill.
So, with a few hours of scratching his head and getting acquainted with Adobe After Effects here’s what he came up with. We don’t think it’s too bad for his first go?
Better Brand Agency is a brand agency offering brand, graphic design, marketing, social media and social networking, web and digital services based in Tees Valley, North East and North Yorkshire.
Posted by: Peter Jones, Creative Director - Better Brand Agency
Filed in: Better Brand Agency, Better Team News, Graphic Design & Creative, North East, North Yorkshire, Tees Valley
Tagged: Better Brand Agency, Better Team News, Creative, Design, Graphic Design & Creative, Kinetic Typography
We get asked by both clients and contacts how social media tools support our business development and increase brand profile. The answer is pretty simple. Through creating individual and agency profiles within some key social media tools we are able to improve the transparency of our business, our experience, our recommendations and possibly most importantly, our personality.
One of the main tools we use is LinkedIn, so what is it?
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 30 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you. Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals.
So how do you use this to help expand your professional business network?
Take a look at this video, available amongst others, at the Better Brand Agency YouTube Channel…
Posted by: Better Brand Agency
Filed in: Better Brand Agency, Better News and PR, Better Team News, Social Media & Social Marketing, Web and Digital
Tagged: Industry - Web and Digital, LinkedIn, social media, Social Networking, Web 2.0
We have an exciting announcement…
Paul Bell has joined the team at Better Brand Agency to develop new business and look after our growing client base.
A marketing professional (Chartered Institute of Marketing) with a strong digital pedigree Paul will help clients’ develop their digital brand strategy. Having gained a great deal of experience running his own design agency and heading up the digital team at Charles Hollywood, Paul will develop new business in the North East and North Yorkshire.
“The company is growing rapidly and we had the opportunity to bring Paul into the business.” says Mark Easby, Partner at Better. “Paul’s experience will be invaluable to us, as we needed someone who is comfortable talking brand and the importance of developing a brand’s digital footprint.”
Paul is our first new member of staff so it was important to bring in someone who first and foremost had the same drive and determination we had. As a new business we need people who buy into the vision and are prepared to put the time into help building it.
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We at Better enjoy the odd twitter. To find out what 'we are doing' click on the links below for the Better Studio account and Better team list.
We're all on LinkedIn. Below is a link to our Better company profile and links to the team members LinkedIn profiles.
Our channel is a store for sharing videos and content relating to our industry, region and some of the stuff the team get up to.
If you've got a facebook account then keep in touch with the goings on at Better by joining us on our Facebook page.
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