Middle 8 Marketing Communications

Vehicle Graphics a Go Go

clive — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:32:13 +0000

Thanks to Visual Impact Promotions of Derby for fitting our vehicle graphics. Professionally designed, printed and fitted vehicle graphics are a really effective way to expose your branding to a decent number of your local target market on an ongoing basis.

Because Honda is officially the world’s most reliable car brand, we went for the Civic, which we hope is an apt brand to align ours with.

Look out for us around Derbyshire and the East Midlands and if you see u,s let us know where on our Facebook page!

Merry Christmas from Your Derby Marketing Company!

clive — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:39:33 +0000

Middle 8 would like to say a big thank you to all we’ve worked with for what was a really enjoyable and successful 2011.

Here’s to an ever more successful 2012. Enjoy your well deserved break!

To integrate how you celebrate, call Middle 8!

New Derby Wedding Photography Website

clive — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:58:16 +0000

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve finished a website for Derby Wedding Photographer, Perfect Image Weddings. It was a really enjoyable project to work on, as the images really are superb. Impressed by Perfect Image Weddings so much was Director Clive Astin, Perfect Image Wedding swill be documenting his wedding to local Graphic Designer, Debra Yates of Vivid Violet Design. And who said the creative industries was incestuous?

To see some of Perfect Image Weddings work, click here!

App-reciate technology

clive — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:55:29 +0000

Firstly, m8mc is now officially Limited. Middle 8 Marketing Ltd is now in full effect. This move is meant to reflect Middle 8′s successful 2011, a preparation for forthcoming expansion and a confirmation of our intentions.

This is not meant to be 2011′s journal, but there has been a real ramping up of the technology shift to mobile and cloud based devices this year and a lot of the work we’ve done reflects this. Cloud based computing has finally taken off with a vengeance, further asserted by Apples iCloud. By next year, Vodafone for example, won’t supply a non-Smartphone device and the iPad2 (which I’m writing this on now) was a huge hit. Apps are the way forward and even Windows 8 and several car brands incorporate app integration.

We’ve launched and promoted ArtPad for the iPhone, an app that allows the creation of fun graphics for all social media accounts, caller ID’s and more.

We’ve been managing newsletter, blogging and social media for Derby’s Strawdog Studios, producers of Peppa Pig and Doctor Who apps and we’re currently producing their dedicated business app wing, FirstApp’s website, along with SEO, newsletter, blogging and social media management.

We conducted Market Research in conjunction with local telemarketing company, Hatch and Capture, to identify trends in the market and potential target industries for FirstApp too, which was an extremely eye-opening excise indeed!

We’ve promoted a great Golf training aid, Golf Power Hour, by Clear Thought Sport through blogging and social media.

Another great project we’re involved in is the release and promotion of Inventory Photos, a very intuitive inventory app for the iPhone that allows the user to take time and date stamped, geotagged, watermarked images at the touch of a button. Look out for it this week on the App Store!

I’m even writing this blog using a WordPress app, which will geotag this post with my location. You have to app-reciate this shift in technology. If you’re looking to develop or promote and app, M8MC can help you to research your market to identify clearer target segments, demand, potential app features and more. We can also introduce you to some of the best app developers in the region too.

To integrate how you communicate, call Middle 8.

Ho No – Christmas Cards At The Ready

clive — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:51:51 +0000

As well as going Limited very shortly, we’re also preparing for Christmas in earnest. We’ve commissioned a regular supplier of Graphic Design and Illustration to M8MC, Vivid Violet, to design us a personalised Christmas card to send to all of our clients.

We’re def’ with you if you think its still too early to be promoting Christmas. Too much! However, it’s not too early to have your personalised Christmas cards designed in time to send to your clients to make a superb and lasting impression.

For more details, please get in touch!

Website Live

clive — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:18:09 +0000

We’re not going to deny that we’re a little embarassed to have had a holding page up for so long, but it’s simply down to the fact that we’ve had a real spike of work due to a number of clients securing funding at once.

The new M8MC website is built in WordPress, the world’s most popular content management system. In fact, we build WordPress websites more often than not for clients, the reason being that it is extremely well supported, intuitive to populate in the ‘back end’, it integrates superbly with blogging, social media and newsletters and its free to use!

Here are a few examples of WordPress siktes we’ve recently worked on:

www.vividvioletdesign.co.uk
www.williscooper.co.uk
www.essentialprintservices.co.uk
www.themodelbank.co.uk
www.neishconsultancy.co.uk

Thankfully, we’re working on a whole lot more WordPress websites, helping our clients to integrate how they communicate!

Marketing

clive — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:05:15 +0000

Middle 8 Marketing Communications is a full service Derby Marketing Company. By this we mean that we provide a broad array of services to clients including:

Marketing Research – To help you to understand your market, to segment and target effectively

Direct Marketing – From Direct Mail to Email Marketing

Advertising – Developing and managing radio, television, print and web adverts

PR – Public Relations including Newsletters, Press Releases, White Papers, Newsletter, Blogging and Social Media

Web Design – From simple brochure websites to full content managed and ecommerce websites

SEO – Search Engine Optimisation, to get you found online

Social Media – Generating positive discourse surrounding your brand

For more information, please get in touch.

Branding

clive — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:04:23 +0000

M8MC is a Derby Marketing Company providing Public Relations incl. Press Releases, Case Studies, Newsletters, White Papers, Social Media, developing interest and credibility in clients.

Effective Branding needs to be distinct, communicate your values and yet position you firmly within your industry. Branding is literally everything that communicates any aspect of your company, from fonts to colours, to the language you use and of course, the most recognisable aspect of most brands is the logo.

M8MC researches clients’ industries, target markets, unique selling points, culture and personality and cross references these against leading marketing research, reports and journals.

For more information, please get in touch.

From a simple logo design, carried through stationery and web resources, right through to a detailed style e and brand bibles – To integrate how you communicate, call Middle 8

Web Design Derby

clive — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:03:02 +0000

For superb Web Design Derby‘s Middle 8 Marketing Communications provides an effective solution to businesses of all sizes and industries.

For many of our clients we tend to provide websites built using WordPress; the world’s leading content management system. WordPress integrates exceptionally well with blogging, social media, newsletters and allows clients to update their own content, news, events and even products.

We also provide simple html brochure websites, right through to full e-commerce shops.

For more information, please get in touch.

Public Relations PR Derby

clive — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:02:13 +0000

Public Relations, or PR, involves any communication from a business, organisation, individual that promotes goodwill with the public, customers, stakeholders, employees and so forth. M8MC helps to build interest and credibility in its clients and it does so through:

Press Releases – Generating print and web coverage, enhancing SEO at the same time

Case Studies – Adding tangibility and credibility. Often used in conjunction with the above

Newsletters – Printed and email. Fostering relationship and positioning the client as an expert in their field

White Papers – Factual documents detailing technical product specification

For more information, please get in touch.