Archive for the ‘Propellernet’ Category
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
The past couple of weeks have been livelier than usual in the Propellernet offices thanks, in part, to the buzz caused by winning Best Use of Search at last month’s New Age Media Effectiveness Awards, but also because of our hard working SEO-PR team. We’ve indulged in a bit of shameless self promotion and have been entertaining journalists, photographers and even a BBC film crew!
Local paper, The Argus, was keen to do a business profile on us after we explained that we’d not only been winning awards for Search, but also for being the Best Employer and the Healthiest Workplace at last year’s Sussex Business Awards.
We therefore invited them down to the office to show them firsthand why Propellernet was such a great place to work, and why we firmly believe that a happy workplace means healthy profits.
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Tags: BBC, dave lees, Marketing, News, Propellernet
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
Last night the 2010 new media age Effectiveness Awards took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
With Claudia Winkleman presenting, and comedy from Milton Jones, it was billed as one of the biggest events in the interactive media industry calendar; as usual, bringing together some of the best people from the digital sector to recognise hard work in the industry and consume numerous bottles of champagne in the process!
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Tags: dave lees, Propellernet
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
This month Propellernet will be exhibiting at Internet World from 27th – 29th April, where we are set to challenge people’s perceptions of Online PR. Our team will be sharing some of its valuable SEO, creative link development and online PR expertise with Internet World visitors, on-stand and at two talks by members of the team. We will invite people to ‘explore the vast galaxy of SEO-PR’ and challenge visitors on their perceptions of Online PR.
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Tags: Gary Preston, Lucy Freeborn, Natural Search (SEO), pr, seo, SEO PR, Social Media
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Outrage and then heated debate reverberated around Propellernet Towers yesterday when our daily news scanning found a story in the Metro generated by A&M University in Texas, about the University’s research on the effectiveness of brainstorms. The story claims that people get their best ideas when sitting quietly on their own and that brainstorms are counter productive.
What rot! As Creative Director at Propellernet, reading the story fair made my blood boil and I felt compelled to answer these broad brush and ill considered claims!
Brainstorming with a team is one of the most valuable methods we use to come up with the fresh and exciting ideas we do for clients and if they are prepared for, facilitated properly and focused, deliver creative yet realistic and achievable results.
I absolutely accept that people’s brains are wired differently. Some of the team here are ‘creative perculators’ going away from a brainstorm still brimming with ideas and developing these in their own minds over coming hours or days, but some of the team are ‘creative builders’, who take nuggets of ideas from other team members and build on them to make an idea bigger, better and more focused.
Brainstorms at Propellernet are always productive, energetic and an exciting meetings of minds, never ‘random thoughts in the boardroom on a Monday morning’ and here’s why:
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Tags: Brainstorming, Content Creation, Creativity, Ideas, Lucy Freeborn
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
On Monday 15th of March a few of the Propellernet team travelled to the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in London for an evening of glamour, cocktails and posh nosh and came home with a cube-shaped bright pink Travel Marketing Award (which happens to look completely at home in our colourful office.)
Judged by movers and shakers in the travel, creative and marketing industries; the Travel Marketing Awards recognise, reward and showcase the best and most innovative work across the sector. The Flourishing Family campaign we ran for Sovereign Luxury Holidays was the winning entry in the Search Engine Optimisation category and judges were impressed with the results we achieved with our unique blend of SEO PR. In a nutshell, here’s what we did…
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Tags: Annelies Van de Velde, Natural Search (SEO), Online PR, Propellernet, SEO PR, Sovereign, Travel Marketing Awards
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
As you’ve probably already seen, Propellernet has recently relocated to lovely new and inspirational offices in the centre of Brighton!
One of the things that makes our new office space really unique is the 30-foot graffiti mural, depicting the journey from Brighton to London. We commissioned Dave Samual, from RareKind to complete our piece. RareKind are a specialist graffiti agency, responsible for some of the UK’s best graffiti artwork.
A few months back, as the graffiti was in the planning stage, we decided we would find someone to help us produce a short time lapse video, capturing the creation of the Mural. We found Brighton-based camera man and video producer Greg Brand, who has done an fantastic job of doing just that!
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Tags: chris clapham, Propellernet
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
After 7 years at 40 Church Road in Hove, the time has finally come for Propellernet to move to swanky new offices in the centre of Brighton!
The Hove office has served us well, but as we continue to grow and win new clients, it’s time for a fresh and much needed change. We started with one room in the Hove office and over time we took over the entire building, eventually running out of space. Now we’ve joined the vibrant digital community in the centre of Brighton, with some inspirational open plan offices.
Months of planning have gone into our new office move and it’s been a love/hate project for Jim, our finance director who has done a brilliant job pulling it all together in such a short period of time.
Jim worked with a number of people on the project including our designer, Nicola Gobat, whose brief was to deliver a creative, functional and innovative space for Propellernet staff to work in. Nicola has far exceeded expectations, creating a wonderful office environment to accommodate our future growth. Thanks Nicola!
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Tags: chris clapham, Propellernet
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
This week saw myself and Stu Bowker presenting on behalf of Propellernet at the MDHub 100 SEO & Google tools seminar, at the Sussex County Cricket ground.
Our presentation gave a basic overview of SEO, exploring some link building tactics and the role good online PR can play. We also touched upon the power of conversion optimisation and detailed lots of free tools available to get you started.
One of the key themes that came out of the session was that Google wants to provide the most relevant search results to users, offering the best user experience possible, encouraging searchers to come back time and time again.
So how does Google decide who gets the top spot and ensure results stay relevant…? Well Google’s search algorithm looks at a host of factors, but particularly important ones include good and relevant on page content mentioning the keywords you are targeting, as well as relevant and authoritative external links to that content.
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Tags: chris clapham, Conversion Optimisation, Google, natural search, Online PR, Propellernet
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Topping off a fantastic month of award entries and wins, we were victorious at the Sussex Sports Awards! Following on from our Healthiest Workplace award win at the Sussex Business Awards, we were selected as winners for the Active & Healthy Workplace Initiative award (sponsored by Wave Leisure).
The other finalists included Nibbles of Worthing Ltd and Wellbeing at Work (Brighton & Hove City Council).
To find out about some of the healthy workplace activities and initiatives we have in place here at Propellernet, check out Annelies’ recent blog post: Is Propellernet the healthiest workplace?
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Tags: chris clapham, Propellernet, Wellbeing
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Friday night saw some of the best of the Brighton and Sussex business community turn up for a night of glitz and glamour at the Sussex Business Awards. A fantastic evening was had by all and it was a particularly triumphant night for the Propellernet team!
We were shortlisted for three award categories on the night: Healthiest Workplace, Best Employer and the Innovation in Business award. Despite some very stiff competition from some great Sussex businesses, we are pleased to have walked away with the award for the Healthiest Workplace (sponsored by the NHS West Sussex), as well as the Innovation in Business award (sponsored by the University of Brighton).
As regular readers to the blog have probably seen, we’re keen believers of a healthy body = a healthy mind and have put in place a ‘wellbeing team’ to drive forward continual improvements in this area. So it was fantastic to win an award for our wellbeing efforts and we’ve got plans to continue investing and improving employee wellbeing well into the future. Annelies’ blog post from a few weeks back gives a great overview of some of the things we’ve been doing to keep Propellernet active and healthy.
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Tags: chris clapham, Propellernet, Wellbeing
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