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M8MC Undertakes Banks Mill Open Studios Work

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:35:14 +0000

M8MC is proud to have been selected to produce a series of marketing materials to promote the Banks Mill 10th year anniversary Open Studios. These include postcard invitations, the new Banks Mill annual tenant brochure and the production of direct e-mail and advert designs.

As well as an opportunity for members of the public to visit each of the tenants in their creative environments over a three day period, Open Studios also offers complementary drinks, live music and events for children, including face painting, plate decorating and a superb trail for the over 6′s.

Dates and times:
Friday 27 November 6pm-8pm
Saturday 28 November 10am-5pm
Sunday 29 November 11am-4pm

Banks Mill is one of three business incubators owned by The University of Derby and are part of the wider East Midlands Incubation Network (www.emincubation.co.uk)

For more information on Banks Mill and Open Studios 2009, visit www.banksmill.org.uk

M8MC Provides eNewsletter for Leading Business Incubator

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:11:58 +0000

M8MC now provides Derby’s iD Centre with a monthly e-Newsletter and broadcasts this to the centre’s list of technology, local and regional government and education opted-in database.

The iD Centre is a high growth technology business incubator and part of East Midlands Incubation Network. Now owned by the University of Derby, the centre, located in the heart of Derby’s globally recognised technology hot-spot, is home to an array of exciting businesses from operating in the rail, automotive and computer games industries, to name but a few.

The newsletter, iD:entity, is created with what is known as ‘in line’ formatting which ensures that the newsletter is reproduced well in all mail clients and webmail services. It includes a link to an online version, should over-zealous e-mail servers inhibit correct viewing, and it allows readers to forward to friends and one-click share through all social networking accounts.

To comply with current data protection legislation, all e-mails are ‘Can Spam’ compliant, meaning they carry opt-out features and clear sender information.

To view a recent edition of iD:entity, click here!

To learn more about effective, affordable e-mail marketing, please get in touch!

M8MC Promotes No.1 Download Single

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:51:00 +0000

M8MC is proud to announce that a single that it has recently promoted has achieved:

No.1 in the overall sales charts on Dancetracks Digital, the world’s leading dance music download store

No.5 in the overall sales charts on Juno Download, the UK’s dance music leader and;

No.5 in the overall sales charts on Traxsource, another leading store.

The release in question is Atjazz, Domu & Yannah Veldevit’s ‘City Madness / Info People E.P’, released through Development Music, a release that achieved extensive global radio play, along with magazine and web coverage thanks to the M8MC / Promoyo music promotion system (more) which utilises cutting-edge online music streaming, feedback capture and pin coded release of anti-piracy tracked promotional music and resources.

To listen to ‘City Madness / Info People’ and to see the promoyo system in action, please click here!

Mini Festival ‘Audio Illustrated’ a Success

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:11:22 +0000

M8MC recently managed and promoted a unique mini-festival named Audio Illustrated, which featured the cream of Derby talent, including leading dance music producers and illustration and urban artists.

Hosted at Derby’s QUAD arts centre on Friday 21st August, hundreds of people flocked to enjoy new music from CDR, a platform for electronic music producers the world over, the official launch party for DUCK, an album featuring Derby’s leading dance music producers and to see artists affiliated with Subism realise the name of the event, by creating illustrations reflective of electronic music.

More on Audio Illustrated and the DUCK album can be found at www.derbyduck.co.uk