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Better Brand Agency regional news and updates relating to Teesside and Tees Valley including Middlesbrough, Stockton, Darlington, Hartlepool and Redcar and Cleveland.

Transformation & Growth. That’s Better.
Date:: 26/01/2012

After a year of transformation, our vision for 2012 is growth. We’ve matured and grown dramatically since setting up in 2008, and with our exciting plans for growth it’s time to up our game again. Sounds grand we know, however it’s definitely not all talk. To prove it we’re delighted to announce the appointment of Kate Burton as Brand Director.

Kate will add considerable experience to our existing agency team in terms of creativity, brand communications and client servicing, reinforcing our audacious ambitions for Better. Kate’s pragmatic and innovative approach to brand creation and management is based on over 20 years consulting with some of the world’s most iconic brands including ICI, Vodafone, Nike, BT, British Gas, Virgin, Diageo, Royal Mail and Nestlé. During her career, she has worked with London’s leading branding and design agencies – including Wolff Olins, Identica, JKR as well as WPP-owned Coley Porter Bell (as a Board Director) and Enterprise IG. (more…)

The new Better Studio
Date:: 23/01/2012

So, we’ve been having an early spring clean in the studio ready for 2012 with a new studio space and board room with break out meeting area. It’s only been one day and we’re loving it so far. We’ve still got some final bits to finish off and some creative ideas for what we’re putting on the walls and then we’re pretty much done. (more…)

Better Studio, Springboard Centre, Stokesley

Refresh Teesside’s February Event. Be there and be square
Date:: 12/01/2012

In Teesside there are hundreds of creative businesses who can benefit from knowing each other. Many of the businesses are relatively small in size, focusing on a specific skill or service. Everyone can benefit from knowing other professionals in their own trades and networking with other professionals who offer skills and services they may require in the future.

Registration will be between 6 and 6.30pm. The Refresh team will greet you and ensure you are registered. At 6.30pm there will be an introduction to the event with any announcements. After this, it’s up to you to get out of the event what you want. (more…)

A TOUCH OF CLASS 2011 RAISES £13,500!
Date:: 19/10/2011

The fabulous Touch of Class Ball, which has been supported by Better now for over 3 years, is the annual fundraising dinner that is hosted in aid of the Holistic Cancer Care Centre and this year’s glitzy sell-out event was held on Friday 7^th October at the delightful Gisborough Hall Hotel.

Steven who owns Chapters Hotel & Restaurant and with his Brother Peter, the house designer wear , has spoken of his delight at raising another fantastic amount of £13,500 with the event held at Gisborough Hall on Friday 7th October. This now takes the total raised over the 6 years to £113,500 – an amazing feat!

Steven and Peter would like to express their thanks for the continuos support and generosity received from sponsors Glamal Engineering, KAEFER Group, Better Brand Agency, Gisborough Hall Hotel, Court Homemakers, Whittakers Jewellers, Middlesbrough Football Club, &The Flower Box to name but a few.

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Connecting Communities – FSB meets Codeworks
Date:: 08/10/2011

What: Connecting Communities – FSB meets Codeworks
Where: BoHo One, Middlesbrough
When: 26th October 18:00-21:00
How much: Free
Register: TBA

This event will be held in connection with the Federation of Small Businesses, and will bring together Connect members and businesses for 4-5 key presentations regarding:

Business support – what is and will be available
How small businesses can use tech/digital companies to better market their business and who is out there within our Connect membership (including @easbynow discussing social media and ‘Building your company’s digital footprint)

There will be networking with food and drinks as always. (more…)

Social media, mobile marketing, SEO, CRO, web analytics…get up to date on it all and more at ‘Marketing: the art of’ 2011.
Date:: 21/09/2011

Date: 10 November 2011
Venue: The Sage Gateshead
Time: 9.00am – 4.15pm

This year’s ‘Marketing: the art of‘ conference will give give you expert insights into how to dramatically improve your digital marketing strategy.

A number of keynote speakers will be there to inspire you throughout the day, and local marketing experts (including our MD, Mark Easby) will help you to explore how you can develop your own digital marketing strategies effectively to win new customers, build brand recognition and grow your business, in a series of interactive workshops. (more…)

Fighting Fit Conference, The Hilton, Gateshead 2011
Date:: 15/09/2011

If you know me you’ll know fighting fit doesn’t refer to my personal training plan! Following the success of the popular “Keep your Business Fighting Fit” workshops, Business Link hosted a one day conference, “Fighting Fit 2011″ yesterday at The Hilton, Newcastle Gateshead.

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Keep Your Business Fighting Fit Conference
Date:: 03/08/2011

Many conferences make the claim that they are designed for their audiences, but -Business Link has literally asked attendees at the popular “Keep Your Business Fighting Fit” series of workshops “What do you need to be Fighting Fit?”, using the feedback to design this year’s Fighting Fit programme.

Over 50% of delegates attending the workshops answered “Social Media”. With such interest in this area, the programme was put together to include a Master Class on the subject delivered by Stokesley based brand & design agency, Better. Declan Metcalfe, Marketing Director is delivering the master class which will give the big picture on Social Media, looking at strategy, case studies of successes and how to make Social Media really work for your business and include Better’s own story of success. (more…)

Winning New Business: Developing your Digital Footprint through Social Media
Date:: 02/08/2011

Date: Thursday 13th October 2011
Time: 8:30am – 11:30am
Location: Gateshead College , NE8 3BE

Tweeting, hash tags, mashable, SEO, tiny URLs – these are all terms that a few years ago didn’t even exist, yet today they play a fundamental part in organisations’ marketing strategies. Due to the popularity of this workshop in 2010, Service Network is repeating (and enhancing!) this event which will take you through the step by step process of developing a digital footprint for your business. A digital footprint is a collection of activities and behaviours recorded when an organisation interacts in a digital environment. It includes the recording of activities such as clicks on e-newsletters, visits to a web-page, tweets and Facebook updates. (more…)

Thinking about Thinking Digital Conference 2011
Date:: 27/05/2011

It’s like when the fair leaves town or your favorite show finishes on TV, the come down is always hard in the days immediately after something momentous finishes. And so it was with Thinking Digital 2011. (more…)