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Make it colourful!

This is a great promotion from Fiat, showing passion for what the company do – and won’t do in the future. Click on the image below to watch the video I was delighted when I read that Fiat are to stop making grey cars, so refreshing. Apparently 25% of cars sold are shades of grey […]

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Specialist Digital Awards

Really excited to be able to offer the new CIM / Chartered Institute of Marketing Specialist Awards – these provide in-depth understanding and expertise in focused areas of Digital marketing with an Ofqual approved qualification. The five awards available are: We’ll have full details of our packages for these available next week but wanted to […]

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End of term

For the first time we brought a cool box to the office with the end of term cakes for our students – it has been so hot we wanted to make sure they were kept cool for as long as possible. Made the cakes yesterday, they were in the fridge at home overnight and packaged […]

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Results are in!

We are delighted to report that for the CIM April assessment session we achieved a 100% pass rate across all modules, just to make them even better over 45% of our submissions achieved Distinction grade. A massive thank you and congratulations to all our students for these great results.

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Pricing for convenience

I visited my local Co-Op yesterday evening and was struck by the pricing being used here. I noticed it because I hadn’t seen the 1/5 litre oat drink before so it caught my eye. But then I saw the prices and it made me wonder how much convenience is worth . Buying the small carton […]

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2022 Assessment results

Our pass rate for CIM assessments in 2022 was 99%. Results received in 2022 for our students, across all subjects and delivery methods gave an overall pass rate of 99% with 100% in both the July and September sessions We are really pleased for all our students who have achieved these results – they represent […]

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Are you really talking to your customers?

Whether we are in a marketing, sales or customer service role (along with many others) clear communication with customers is essential. One thing I have regularly said in general and during training courses we run for sales and customer service is that scripts aren’t ideal because they restrict people from communicating in a way that […]

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Personal touches

We do try hard to make the experience of studying with us for Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) qualifications pleasurable and a personalised experience. This email from a student who started her studies with The Marketing Partnership on the Isle of Man before we took over the admin and management of students from them but […]

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Brand Strategy

At the end of April we were at the Marketing Showcase event in Manchester, a really great day with lots of visitors at the show. I gave a talk on Brand Strategy to a packed audience (wonderful to see the normality of people sitting and standing together again) which was an extract of content from […]

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98% pass rate!

Congratulations to our students for achieving a 98% pass rate in the CIM December assessment session – really pleased for everyone. The hard work and many hours paid off with 100% pass rates for many modules including Applied Marketing, Planning Campaigns, Digital Marketing Techniques and Digital Optimisation. Whilst we only had two students taking the […]

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Murray Walker – Commentator and Ad-man

By profession I may be a marketer but at heart I am a motorsport loving petrolhead and saddened to hear about the death of Murray Walker – to me he was the voice of motorsport. But I have to relate a tale from his autobiography to show that he was more than just a commentator. […]

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Weetabix and Heinz

Today there are great tweets from Weetabix and Heinz suggesting having beans on Weetabix for breakfast – https://twitter.com/weetabix/status/1359074254789165059and https://twitter.com/weetabix/status/1359074254789165059 What makes it really good, however, is the involvement it has created with many other brands. Ones I’ve seen so far include Specsavers (“*removes glasses* *puts on blindfold*”), Nandos (“You okay hun? DM’s are open if […]

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