Posts Tagged ‘Propellernet’

From PPC to the BBC!

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

BBC CameramanThe 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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Propellernet wins Best Use of Search at the nma Awards!

Friday, June 25th, 2010

nma Awards 2010Last 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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Propellernet’s SEO PR wins it from traditional SEO at the Travel Marketing Awards!

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Propellernet wins Travel Marketing Award

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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Propellernet’s (Brighton to London) Graffiti Mural - Time Lapse Video

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

propellernet_graffitiAs 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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Propellernet HQ relocates to Brighton!

Monday, January 25th, 2010

pulpfiction_sceneAfter 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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MDHub Seminar: Introduction to Search Engine and Website Optimisation

Friday, January 15th, 2010

mdhub100_logoThis 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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Propellernet win at the Sussex Sports Awards

Monday, November 16th, 2009

sussex_sports_award_logoTopping 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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Propellernet win two at the Sussex Business Awards

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

sba-winner-logoFriday 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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Six weeks in agency land

Friday, October 30th, 2009

sussex_internship_logoI’m writing this blog post on the day that my six-week internship as an online PR assistant at Propellernet comes to an end. I’ve enjoyed the experience so much and learnt a great deal in a relatively short amount of time, which I’m certain is a testament to all the great people here!

I was offered the internship as part of the Sussex Internship Programme, run by Wired Sussex. It’s one of the best schemes of its kind in the country, giving graduates not only the opportunity but also the funding to get real, valuable work experience in media companies in Sussex. I was lucky enough to be selected by Propellernet!

Rather than spending six weeks just watching what everyone’s been up to, I’ve actually been involved in a huge range of projects and have completed high-responsibility tasks- I’ve interviewed case studies, sold-in press releases to journalists and written copy and press releases myself. It’s given me the opportunity to boost my CV and gain further confidence in my abilities while also freeing up time for the team here to work on other projects.

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Some great promotions for National Obesity Week in Sussex

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

weight_lifting_cartoon_manBy 2050 almost 60% of the UK population could be obese… now there’s a scary fact.

Regular readers of our blog and newsletter will know that we are an active and healthy bunch of people here at Propellernet. We regularly take part in events such as the Brighton half marathon, Tough Guy and we reached the semi finals of the Brighton Business Volleyball tournament.

We’ve even launched our own ‘wellbeing’ team focused on continually improving employee wellbeing, which has seen us receive nominations for ‘the healthiest workplace’ and ‘best employer’ at the BAHBAs, The Sussex Business Awards and the Sussex Sports Awards. So we can definitely vouch for the concept of health body = healthy mind.

All this brings me neatly onto the purpose of this blog post, to highlight a couple of great offers being promoted in the Brighton & Hove and Worthing areas, in association with National Obesity Week (2nd - 8th Nov 2009):

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