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Marketer to
Marketer advice:
How to beat
the recession

Tips for survival in an
economic downturn.
More

Exam Countdown

10 things you’ve still got time to do that will help you get the best grade you can. More

Star student to
inspire us all

This member took all
four Certificate
modules in one go
– and lives to tell
the tale. More

Marketing in GLR Case Study

Havering Borough Council accounts for every penny spent on their latest campaign. More

Smarten up your
act Part II

The sequel to
September’s
Introduction to
Image by GLR’s
Personal Branding
expert. More

Day in the Life of a GLR Marketer

Fairies, princesses, WALL-E and Ratatouille, this might just be the most fun job in GLR. More

Win a free tutorial with a CIM revision expert!

Don’t panic about revision, panic about entering this prize draw before it closes. More

Win a Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Hamper!

Tell us what you think and you could win the most chocolate you’ve ever seen in one place. More

12 November

Crank up your charisma, Croydon

13 November

Unleash your copywriting potential, Central London

14 November

Marketing Network 18th Birthday event, London

19 November

Digital marketing - bootcamp, London

25 November

Meet with Drinks, Central London

2 December

Shape the Agenda, London

3 December

Marketing: past, present and future, Central London

5 December

Writing for the Web, London

11 December Getting the most from an exhibition, London

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Beating the recession for marketers

Didn’t get chance to attend The Institute’s Annual National Conference in Birmingham on November 11? The one about marketers surviving a recession? Well we’re sure you have a decent reason but we’re not sure how you’re planning to make it through the economic doldrums without hearing what the expert speakers had to say…

Which is why GLR decided to eavesdrop on conference rehearsals to bring you some top tips straight from the speakers you missed....

Improve your results through digital channels

  • Read magazines or attend training courses to find out about the latest best practice for cost-effective digital marketing.
  • Create a plan for your digital marketing through a strategic framework.
  • Get to grips with your search engine marketing, affiliate marketing, email marketing and web design.
  • Find out how to best exploit the Web 2.0 techniques like social networks, blogs and feeds.

Tips presented by Dave Chaffey, author of Internet Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice, Director of Marketing Insights Ltd.

Explore the rise of sustainability

  • Embrace much more than a new green communication strategy, but a whole new business model, service and value proposition.
  • Develop innovative solutions for carbon-conscious consumers.
  • Think about marketing that does good, rather than marketing that just looks good.
  • Have environmental best practice as a key performance indicator.
  • Make changes now so that you’re ahead of the game.

Tips presented by John Grant, author of The New Marketing Manifesto, co-founder of St Luke's.

Segment segment segment

  • In mature or slowing markets, faced with many competitors, smarter target marketing can produce handsome rewards.
  • Key to better targeting is segmentation.
  • Carve-up the market and select the most attractive customer groups on which to focus your resources.
  • Although there is no standardised off-the-shelf approach to segmentation, understanding how it really works will ensure that your organisation ‘goes-to-market’ with clear differentiation.

Tips presented by Lyndon Simkin, co-author of Market Segmentation Success: Making It Happen!

Engage employees to drive growth and change

  • The primary driver of employee engagement is the appetite and ability of leaders at every level to share power by engaging their people in decision-making and change.

Tips presented by John Smythe, author of The CEO: Chief Engagement Officer: Turning Hierarchy Upside Down to Drive Performance, founder of Engage for Change.

What do GLR members think?

Chris Russell-Smith MCIM, Chartered Marketer from London says

“I work in a B2B business of 42 people, decent enough turnover but keeping fixed costs down is crucial. The list of specific things could go on for ever, so I would first of all say look at everything you're doing and ask yourself exactly what each component either brings to the bottom line or whether the business would suffer if you removed it. Do you really need to attend every trade show for instance? What did the last one really deliver? Is that agency really delivering you value for money? If you can't say for sure, cut it out. Secondly I'd say look at what you're good at, and where the potential is and focus on those niches. Basic stuff but hard to do well. Angle your expenditure into that niche. Marketing to a niche allows you to customise your proposition far more tightly than targeting the masses and you can get far higher ROI from less investment, as well as achieving far more standout in that sector. Everything else will flow from there.”

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GLR Marketer Case study

If you’re enjoying GLR News’ series of case studies from real GLR marketers, then try this one. The recently launched campaign from Havering Local Authority Better Together.

If anyone knows about justifying every penny of marketing spend in uncertain economic climate, it’s GLR Member and Havering’s Campaigns and Marketing Manager Dominic Ridley-Moy. Find out his views.

About you

Name: Dominic Ridley-Moy
Age: 30
Company name: London Borough of Havering (Local Authority)
Job title: Campaigns and Marketing Manager
No. of direct reports: Two – an Internal Comms Officer and Design Manager (as well as a web editor and the design team, via the design manager). We will shortly be recruiting to the post of Campaigns and Events Officer
No. of marketers in your company: There are 17 in the Central Comms department
Brief description of your job remit: To deliver a consistent, council-wide programme of internal and external Communications. To run campaigns that are designed to change an audience’s behaviour and that the scope of this change is measured.

Brief career history:

June 2008-Present

Campaigns and Marketing Manager, London Borough of Havering
May 2006–June 2008 Marketing & Communications Manager, Circle Anglia
Jan 2005-April 2006 PR & Communications Officer, Circle Anglia
Jan 2004-Jan 2005 Events Co-ordinator, Brent Mind
Oct 2001- Dec 2003 Events Officer, The University of Westminster
July 1999-July 2001 Finance and Commercial Services Officer, Sussex University Students’ Union

 

About your company

Location: Based in the Town Hall, Romford
No. of employees: 7,802
No. of households: Over 97,000

What are the difficulties/challenges of marketing in this sector?

In the current economic climate it is now more important than ever that Council communicators deliver effective and strategic communications, which focus on changing the opinions and behaviours of residents and customers. Council leaders will be looking to make savings so it is important that the communications function adds real value to the organisation.

Providing a service that puts out a press release or produces a publication for the sake of producing them is no longer acceptable. Communications needs to be joined up with service delivery and aligned to your Council’s aims and objectives. And if there are cutbacks to frontline services, professional communicators will be needed, more than ever, to engage with residents during this time of economic uncertainty.

What are the advantages?:

Working for a local authority, you have the opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives. You’re not marketing dull consumer products, but dealing with real issues that affect the community. This could be about celebrating cultural diversity, drawing up a consultation plan for a multi-million pound community redevelopment programme or helping to improve awareness of your recycling schemes. The variety means that you get to be involved in aspects of the community, and get the satisfaction of seeing how your work is of real benefit.

About your current marketing activities:

Following a comprehensive restructure of the communications team, there will be a greater focus on running targeted marketing campaigns. In early October, we launched "Better Together", a new ‘call-to-action’ campaign that aims to improve the quality of life in the borough, as well as encouraging residents to take an even greater sense of pride in their community.

Please describe the stages/elements of your campaign:

It will focus on four main strands identified as key priorities through the 2007 MORI poll of residents:

Cleaner Together:
working with residents to reduce the amount of litter, as well as cutting down on graffiti and fly-tipping.

Greener Together:
working with residents to increase the amount of waste that is recycled and ensure that the borough is more environmentally friendly.

Safer Together:
working with residents to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour, as well as increasing their safety.

Stronger Together:
continuing to bring communities together and increasing Havering's sense of community.

The two-year campaign kicked off in October 2008, and will use the 2008 Place Survey of residents as a baseline for evaluation. The Place Survey measures satisfaction with a wide range of council services, from recycling to libraries, as well as opinions about the local area. This survey will next be repeated in 2010 and will act as a final evaluation for the campaign.

Focus groups will be used to test messages during the course of the campaign. Measurement will include web hits (to the campaign website), key messages in the media and take up of ‘call-to-action’ giveaways such as pooper scoopers and dog waste bags. Finally, the Giant Map roadshow will be travelling through the borough during the campaign. Residents will be invited to write on a post-it note and place it on an aerial photo of the borough, highlighting what they like and don’t like about where they live.

What marketing media are you using to reach your target audience?

The campaign will encompass a variety of channels: direct-mail, media, print, advertising, web, events and internal communications. The campaign is designed to target a wide range of people from young people, right through to the older and more vulnerable sections of the community. A variety of channels have been chosen to ensure that messages reach such a diverse set of audiences.

What results has your campaign/activity achieved so far?

The campaign was launched at Romford Dog Track in early October, by giving out free pooper scoopers, dog waste bags and leaflets on how to dispose of dog waste to dog lovers.

Following the launch, the giveaways were distributed through Havering’s libraries and park kiosks; over 1,000 pooper-scoopers and dog waste bags have already been given out. An anti-littering drive will shortly be launched, asking takeaways to put up posters that urge residents to bin their rubbish after “they’ve had their fill”.

To widen the scope of Black History Month, a four-week series of events and activities have been staged to celebrate Havering’s diversity. Residents will be invited to send in pictures and stories about themselves that will be turned into the 100 Faces of Havering publication.

Other initiatives will include an advertising campaign to encourage recycling and a call-to-action for residents to be better neighbours.

What are your worst fears/greatest hopes for the campaign?

My main aim for the campaign is to achieve a significant increase in resident satisfaction across the four strands of the campaign. The biggest challenge will be to ensure that the campaign delivers real benefits to the Council and that this can be effectively measured with robust evaluation techniques. With the possibility of budget cuts looming, communications spend needs to justify itself.

What have you learned so far from this project (as a marketer and in general)?:

I’ve not worked for a local authority before, so dealing directly with politicians poses a whole new set of challenges. However, the biggest change has been the increased level of scrutiny. Council communicators face frequent, and often hostile, Freedom of Information requests particularly about communications spend. It is therefore vital that you can justify how you spend every penny of your budget.

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Ten things you’ve still got time to do before your exams

We’re now in the final days of CIM revision/study, so keep your nerve and use this guide to gain a better grade. Don't forget you can log in to The Institute’s website for studying members at www.learningzone.co.uk to gain access to several study resources. Other useful resources can be found at www.studentsupportgroup.co.uk

1. Find out exactly what the CIM Examiner wants

To discover what the Examiners want, look at the most recent Examiner Reports (from June 2008) for your CIM subject. Then draw up your own 5-point checklist to help you when preparing your answers/reports.

2. Find your knowledge gaps

There’s an SSG online diagnostic quiz for each CIM subject. You should aim to score more than 70% in this knowledge test, if not, more study is required.

3. Build your knowledge – train your brain

Take 10 minutes to jot down as much as you can for each syllabus topic, perhaps making a mind map, and be encouraged by what you know already. Check this against the Core textbook to see if you have missed anything major.

4. Research plenty of examples to illustrate your understanding of the theory

List out your syllabus topics, then find relevant case studies and examples for each topic – you can never have too many and they can never be too up-to-date. Don’t forget that your own organisation and its partners can provide a source of good examples.

5. Watch out - avoid making common exam mistakes
Read the FREE article on “Common Exam Mistakes to avoid” from the CIM revision specialists, Student Support Group.
6. Practise your exam technique and time management
Develop your own ‘time plan’ using past exam papers, taking the marks allowed for each into account. Allow time for reading each question, planning your answers, answering the questions and checking your answers. Put yourself through one or two past papers to see how you fare. Perhaps attend an SSG revision class to hone your exam technique.
7. Benchmark your work – check you are up to CIM standard and beyond
See how other students have answered exam questions. Consider what they have chosen to cover and what they have left out. Use their answers to help you judge exam-pass standards and exceed them.
8. Self-check your assignment
Read through your assignment report to check that you have covered each and every task in the brief; provided well referenced marketing concepts/theories and adapted/applied them to suit your chosen organisation; answered in the style required (e.g. report style); made clear recommendations (when required) and justified your choices.
9. Check your calendar and your diary
It sounds obvious, but check now that you have the correct dates, times and venues for all your exams and assignment deadlines. Familiarise yourself with the exam room rules, such as items you are permitted to take in. Make sure you allow enough time to ensure your completed assignment arrives at your college clearly labelled and on time.
10. Relax and visualise how it will feel to pass
When you find the pressure too much, think back to why you set out to get qualified in the first place. Then daydream for a moment about how good it will feel when you are qualified. Imagine how you will celebrate when you have finished. You may have been burning some midnight oil in the exam countdown but on the night before exams, give yourself a good chance by turning up refreshed rather than exhausted. Exercise is a good way to get rid of exam nerves and relax your body for sleep.
Enter the Prize Draw by 13 November to win a revision seminar workshop or tutorial with CIM study experts at Student Support Group.
Click here to enter.

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Win a Revision Session with CIM study experts Student Support Group

Enter this prize draw exclusively for GLR studying members and you could win an SSG Revision Voucher worth up to £100. Your voucher entitles you to one workshop, seminar or tutorial with CIM study and revision experts SSG.

We’ll draw three winners and contact them on Friday 14th November with their voucher code. As a winner you then call SSG with this code (lines open til 7pm). You’ll have an in-depth phone consultation with Jon or Caroline – both CIM revision experts – to help you decide how to spend your voucher. They’ll help you consider your study needs, your priorities and based on event availability, they’ll book you in to your chosen revision seminar, workshop or tutorial free of charge! Please note - this prize must be redeemed during Nov 08 and no cash refund will be available.

You’ll also be able to book any other revision sessions at the same time if you like. Jon and Caroline can help you squeeze every last drop of support out of these remaining few weeks.

We close this prize draw: 5pm, Thursday 13 November
Thursday 5pm: We draw three winners
Friday 9am: We contact you to tell you that you’ve won. You can then call SSG to claim your prize as soon as you like! Hurry though - revision classes are getting full.
Want to see what SSG can do for you? Look at their revision support sessions available between now and the exams at www.studentsupportgroup.co.uk

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GLR student takes on Certificate four modules at a time…

Name: Olando Salina
Lives: East London
Studies: London School of Business and Finance
Works: Warren Evans
Study level just achieved: Certificate

What did you think of the exams? Tougher or easier than expected?

Neither, they were exactly what I expected.

What made you decide to take all four modules in one go?

I was not aware how much doing all four would require of me and therefore decided to attempt them all in one semester.

Which was your favourite? Why?

I would say Marketing In Practice because it gave me the opportunity to be creative and use what I had learnt in the other three papers.

Would you recommend that other students try to do four modules together?

I would actually, but only if they are 100% dedicated, self motivated and have the time to put into each paper.

How did you prepare for so many exams at once?

With great difficulty, but seriously, I read over the lecturers slides after each class along with the BPP study manual and made my own notes. I read every newspaper and marketing magazine I got my hands on and attempted as many past papers as possible. I also gave up most if, not all of my social life

What study support did you use?

I would always try to hook up with one of my study buddies. This worked well for all of us because we each encouraged the others who were not in the mood or feeling too tired to at least do one hour, which always ended up being about four hours. I also asked my tutors as many questions as I could think of about the exams, the structure, past trends etc.

What are your three Top Study Tips?:

  1. Dedicate at least four hours each day to studying. I would rack up between 35 and 40 hours on a weekly basis.
  2. Read the tutors' notes along with the study text and make your own notes, it's time consuming, but written in your own words makes it easier to remember.
  3. Do as many past papers as you can and ask your tutors to grade them and give feedback.

How did you manage to keep any work/life balance throughout your studies?

It was very difficult at first, but my employers were very understanding and flexible which helped and every so often I took some time for me, to do what ever I wanted to. It is very important to take some time out from studying, but not too much because the freedom can overwhelm you and distract you from the task at hand.

What's the next step for you in terms of professional development?

I am currently pursuing the CIM Professional Diploma and looking for a marketing assistant role to put into practice what I have learnt, and gain relevant work experience in the field I am studying.

What are your career ambitions?

My aim is to complete the CIM Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing and then do a masters degree in digital marketing, because I strongly believe that that is where the future of marketing is and where I want to be.

Tell us more about the LSBF Student Charter Committee you're chairing. What are the aims and activities of this charter?

Well, the Student Chapter is designed to be a student run marketing society within the college. Formed through the commitment of students who want to get "hands on" experience in areas such as marketing, communications, public relations and advertising and supported by the Chartered Institute of Marketing and London School of Business and Finance. The aims, objectives and activities of the chapter are :

  1. To create an early opportunity for all students of all disciplines to be involved in some form of marketing activity.
  2. To develop an awareness of marketing as an essential business function.
  3. To provide strong on line learning and careers support opportunities.
  4. To position the Institute within the college as the essential career partner for all marketing professionals.
  5. To host social activities in order to demonstrate the fun side of marketing.

Narinder Uppal, Programme Director at London School of Business and Finance was Olando's tutor. She says "Throughout his studies, Olando was very focused on his studies and was very proactive in organising other students to conduct extra work also. I am very proud of his achievement and wish him lots of luck and encouragement on the Diploma level.”

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Personal Branding – The Sequel

In the September issue of GLR News we talked about the importance of non-verbal and visual communication in creating and developing your Personal Brand. In this article we are going to turn our attention to the less visible aspects of this fascinating and career-defining subject...


Some examples of strong Personal Brands

Strong personal brands are not accidental they are the results of careful management and marketing. Think about the Beckhams, the restaurants they dine in, where they holiday, their friends, the cars they drive, the clothes they wear even the charities they are associated with are all components of their personal brand and carefully orchestrated for maximum impact and effect. You too can market yourself in the very same way, but first you have to understand how defined your brand is and what you still have to do to develop it.

How to ‘manage’ your Personal Brand

Think of yourself as a product, how will you package and promote yourself? What are your service standards? You can express your intangible brand values through tangible behaviours. Good manners, acts of kindness, your words, actions and behaviours are all perceived and measured by others. You can express your character and personality through your clothing, dress and appearance. Developing your own Personal Brand is a journey of discovery and sometimes re-invention, why not start your journey now?

Some Personal Branding exercises

Think of a brand that you admire, what are the values of this brand and how are they communicated? Ask yourself if you were a brand, what brand would you be and why? Make a list of all the words that define you for example you may consider yourself to be innovative, creative, forward thinking. Spend some time on this exercise and aim to get about 40 words in total. Now look at these words and ask yourself how would you exhibit these in your personal brand? What should brand YOU look like and sound like? How should you behave, present yourself and communicate?

Whether you have consciously developed your personal brand or not, you will have one. Just ask your colleagues, friends and family. You may ask for comment on specific things for example, character and personality, professionalism, posture, body language, voice, manners, dress and appearance. If you are brave you could even stop people you don’t know and ask them what first impression you make?

Once you’ve gathered feedback from friends, family and colleagues, be prepared to use the feedback constructively, look for your strengths and possible areas of improvement. The more consistent the comments the more likely it is that this is a general impression that you are giving out. Devise a plan of how you want to move forward, how will you change or improve, do you need professional help to learn a new skill or do you need to simply polish an existing skill.

Keep it real

As you develop your personal brand think about your individuality, authenticity and consistency. Personal brands are always individual, so don’t copy someone else, be yourself. Remember imitation may be the greatest form of flattery but it will get you recognised for all the wrong reasons.

Your brand should also be authentic. If we say something we don’t believe then it will often show in our body language or facial expression. This incongruence will be noticed by others and undermine your personal brand. Allow your personality and character to shine through at all times. As you develop your personal brand you will find more and more ways to express it and bring it to life.

Ursuline Edwards-Sutton is the founder and lead consultant of Modus Operandi. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing & IDM, a Chartered Marketer, NLP trainer and corporate image consultant. She runs a one-day Personal Branding workshop and a Brand Ambassadors programme for organisations. For more information call 01442 244654 or email ues@modusoperandi.co.uk

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A Day in the Life of a London marketer

Michelle Keaney, Retail Sales and Marketing Manager, Disney Consumer Products

“In 2008, the Disney brand made it into the top 10 of the Interbrand Index, a position shared only with brand royalty such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Google. It’s for this reason that for me, a young passionate marketer, being offered a job with The Walt Disney Company was an opportunity of a lifetime. The last 9 months have lived up to every ounce of expectation that I brought with me in my suitcase from the quiet lanes of Norfolk to the bright lights of London. I like to think that my Professional Postgraduate diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing and recent Chartered Status helped me on my way by showing my dedication to marketing as an accountable profession but I also note the little bit of luck that probably played its part.

Mickey Mouse in sparkly pants

I am reminded of this transition every day when I get into the lift of our building in Hammersmith, walking past the giant Mickey Mouse in sparkly pants – no boring lift music here. An average Monday morning starts with either “The Bear Necessities” from The Jungle Book, something from High School Musical or the very hot band, The Jonas Brothers. You have to hear it to believe it…

My 9 to 5 job sees me taking responsibility for one of DCP’s strategic accounts, Toys “R” Us. My role is split between sales and marketing and I work for a division of The Walt Disney Company called Disney Consumer Products. DCP are the business segment of The Walt Disney Company that extends the Disney brand to merchandise. Today we create Disney-branded merchandise inspired by characters from Disney's beloved animated films, including its first - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - to more recent films like Lilo & Stitch and Disney•Pixar's Finding Nemo, Cars and Ratatouille. DCP also supports live-action films with imaginative merchandising programs including most recently the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and Enchanted as well as shows from Disney Channel and Playhouse Disney.

Running retail support events

Having worked hard on the launch of Disney’s two new summer blockbusters, Disney•Pixar's WALL•E and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, my attention is turned to the new financial year which started on October 1st. October 18th saw the launch of the annual Disney Princess celebration event at Toys “R” Us. This is the biggest and largest piece of marketing and support of the Disney Princess brand at Toys “R” Us every year and this year is no exception. The event is supporting the release of Sleeping Beauty from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment this October and is in-store theatre at its best. A wonderfully beautiful Disney Princess branded catalogue will be sent to over 40,000 loyal Toys “R” Us Princess fans to start the event which continues in all stores across the UK for 4 weeks, bringing the Disney magic to little princesses all over the UK.

TV Campaign launch

As if by magic I take you from one little girl’s dream of becoming a Princess to one of magic and friendship and the secret world of Fairies. One of my biggest projects this year has been working on the launch of Tinker Bell, an amazing Disney animated movie releasing directly onto DVD about Tinker Bell and her magical world of Pixie Hollow. So, needless to say November is definitely Fairies month for me and sees the launch of my TV campaign on Disney Fairies in addition to some fantastic online activity on toysrus.co.uk and disneyfairies.co.uk. Oh and one other thing amongst all this hard work is the play … I will be going to the Tinkerbell premiere held in London at the beginning of November and cannot wait!!!!

Making retail magic

My biggest challenge from DCP’s then VP was to “go land the Toys “R” Us feature wall”. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the store layout, the feature wall at Toys “R” Us is without a doubt THE biggest statement for a brand at retail in the UK. The wall is 24ft full of product specific to one brand and the POS alone scales some 10ft in height with moving parts, lights and music. Every store in the UK now has a Hannah Montana and High School Musical branded feature wall. This has been a mammoth project but as I write this, the final t's are being crossed and the last 'i' is being dotted. The feature wall encompasses every element of marketing that you could envisage – amazing in store POS, press advertising, in store eventing, gift with purchase spend mechanics, highly targeted direct mail campaigns, TV advertising, consumer competitions and simply amazing tween products. This is by far the proudest feather that I add to my marketing cap and one that has been fantastic to work on.

Tiaras and Tweens

I still feel like a complete newbie at Disney and every day brings new challenges and my job is touched with that little bit of Disney magic. So next month I may be working on tiaras for little princesses, the following could digital music players for tweens. In such a dynamic and fast moving company blessed with a schedule full of fantastic content, I cannot wait to see what magical products we will inspire and genuinely look forward to working with my retailer on bringing that Disney Magic to life.”

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Facial hair fundraising – raise money for The Prostate Cancer Charity without even trying!

Ever wondered what you’d look like with a moustache? Well this is your chance to find out!

Grow a ‘Mo’ is the new November campaign from The Prostate Cancer Charity. ‘Movember’ (the month formally known as November) is an Australian charity event held during November each year and this year The Prostate Cancer Charity is the UK partner. Here’s how it works…

At any point in Movember, guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants known as Mo Bros then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo. Compete against your mates for the best Errol Flynn, Magnum PI or Handlebar!

Movember finishes with the mo-mentous Gala Parté in London where Tom Selleck, Hulk Hogan and Borat look-a-likes battle it out for their chance to take home the prestigious Man of Movember title.

The aim of Movember is to change attitudes, raise awareness, make male health fun by putting the Mo back on the face of fashion and in the process raise some serious funds for the number one male health issue, prostate cancer and The Prostate Cancer Charity.

Become part of the mo-vement. Sign up to today!

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Prize Draw - Six lucky winners will get...

This mouth-watering Green & Black’s Ultimate Chocolate Hamper worth £70!

Hamper Contents

  • Seasonal 24 Miniatures 300g Box
  • 1 x Seasonal 200g Assortment Box
  • 2 x 3 pack Miniature Bars (Milk & Dark)
  • 12 x 100g Bars (Various flavours)
  • 2 x 150g Seasonal Bars (Mixed Chocolate & Spiced Fruit/Dark & Gingerbread)
  • 1 x After Dinner Mint Leaves 150g Box
  • 5 x 35g Bars (Various Flavours)
  • 1 x Organic Hot Chocolate 300g Jar
  • 1x 200g Shortbread Biscuit Tube
  • 1x After Dinner Squares 200g Box

A brand you can trust

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Green & Black's offers a comprehensive service for Corporate customers - an ideal source for staff incentives and rewards, loyalty schemes, customer and client gifts and suitable for a wide range of other promotional initiatives. Corporate services available include:

  • Complete management of your promotion
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Call Green & Black’s Direct on 0870 242 2597 or visit www.greenandblacksdirect.com

Plus all Chartered Institute of Marketing members can get 10% off any online orders between now and 31 December 2008. Just enter promotion code CIM at checkout to get your discount. Steady now...

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