Great news… today we received an email to notify us that we have made it through and been shortlisted for the Observer Business of the Year Awards (Innovation).

This is super exciting news for us, last month we celebrated 1year of trading and so to be shortlisted for the awards is fantastic news after all our hard work in 2009.

Launching a new consultancy, bang in the middle of a huge recession was always going to be a gamble. We took a strategic approach and quickly developed a strong and diverse portfolio of clients and quite lietrally have grown from strength to strength, month on month.

So time to dust of the tux ready for the awards ceremony on the 26th March… good luck to everyone that has been shortlisted, its going to be a fantastic night!

Since our official launch in February 2009, NBG has successfully taken over 20 highly innovative products to the market and assisted in the substantial growth and development of several businesses within West Sussex.

In recognition of our own success, we felt it only right to enter NBG for the Observer Business of the Year Awards (Innovation category). After careful consideration, we selected the innovation category as we felt it best reflected the hard work and efforts we put in over the year.

Growing our clients businesses whilst the country was gripped by one of the worse economic downturns in history took some highly innovative marketing clever PR, exceptionally clever campaigns and a strong focus on growing and strengthening our clients brand awareness.

NBG has grown at a phenomenal rate throughout 2009 and this growth has meant we have had to implement new and innovative marketing tools and online services to assist and support our growing portfolio of clients. These tools include secure log-in areas for clients to file share, communicate and monitor project progress. In addition, we have implemented a highly sufficticated email marketing system, which again allows our clients to log-in and monitor campaign success.

NBG is based in Chichester and is fast growing to establish itself as the leading marketing consultancy in Sussex and with our application for the awards now handed in we wait patiently with fingers crossed and eagerly await the judges decision.

Good luck to all the businesses entering this years awards!

The team at NBG is delighted to announce that we will be launching our new website in early January 2010.

Our business has grown at a phenomenal rate throughout 2009 and this growth has meant we have had to implement new tools and online services to assist and support our growing portfolio of clients.

One of these new tools is the secure login area on our new website, this will enable clients to login to the NBG Base Camp in a safe and secure environment where they can access their files, message and chat with or file share with colleagues. Our new website boasts a long list of exciting and innovative marketing tools that will ensure we continue our growth and achieve our ambition of being the best marketing consultancy on the south coast of England.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Buckhurst Ltd, owners of the Mobi brand today announced that they have signed an exclusive agreement with the UK cycle giant, Raleigh UK Ltd. The partnership will increase the availability of the Mobi range of products for retail partners throughout the UK.

Since hitting the UK market back in March of this year, the Mobi brand has grown at a phenomenal rate within the cycle industry.
With an exciting and highly innovative product range, Mobi have pushed the boundaries to dominate the bike cleaning market with what in their opinion is the best, most effective and safest bike washing system available.

The distribution agreement will enable Mobi to leverage Raleigh’s supply chain into an extensive customer base that includes well-known high street and online retailers, mail order companies and independent retailers.

Andy Parker, Product Manager at Raleigh commented: “The Mobi range is a combination of quality design, great value and amazing technology. With numerous reviews in the leading bike media stating how good every Mobi product is, it was important Raleigh was involved at the earliest opportunity”.

Parker continued: “Mobi has simply made a perfect product for the cycle industry, a fully portable pressure washer that won’t destroy your bike! Using Raleigh’s strength and the Cyclelife network, I expect Mobi to rapidly become a true cyclists must-have item.”

Tune Up brings the best of UK Jazz to Petworth, West Sussex.

newbrandguru are delighted to introduce Tune Up and their debut concert at The Leconfield Hall, Petworth on November 14th. The night will feature a fantastic line up of the top UK Jazz performers including BBC Broadcaster and Jazz legend Julian Joseph. Support is coming from Kevin Robinson on Trumpet, one of the most in demand session musicians with a CV including Mica Paris, Will Young, Simply Red and Sir Paul McCartney amongst others, Patrick Clahar on Saxophone, a regular on the London Jazz scene and with credits including Stevie Wonder and Incognito, Oroh Angiama on Bass who has been musical director for Tom Jones and Corrine Bailey Rae and on drums is Tune Up! Creator and local boy Chris Mountford.

The performance will feature the very best of Blue Note Records, the most iconic Jazz record label of all time. Everyone from Herbie Hancock to Miles Davis recorded on the label and such Jazz classics as Cantaloupe Island, Song For My Father, Moanin and many more were recorded during the labels most creative period during the early 60’s. The set will draw on and celebrate this golden age in Jazz!

The evening is a real town event with The Coco Café and Sugar Lounge providing interval chocolates, sweets and ice creams and The Angel Inn running the bar. Lombards, a long established Petworth eatery, are providing pre-concert meals.

Tickets are £15 for what promises to be an unbeatable night of Jazz. Pre concert meals are available at Lombards; tickets including meal are £25.

To book tickets call the box office (Rosewarnes Estate Agents, Petworth) on 01798 344134 and don’t forget to mention that newbrandguru sent you!

www.tuneupjazz.co.uk

The team at newbrandguru is busy collaborating with Muc-Off on the official launch of their all-new car cleaning range.

With what are possibly the finest looking products on the auto cleaning market, newbrandguru has been pushed to the max to design and deliver a clever PR campaign that not only gets the products the attention they deserve but ensures the campaign is delivered in total style.

At this stage, exact details regarding the ‘Heavenly? Devine? or Sublime?’ campaign are top secret. What we can say, is watch out all you auto editors; Muc-Off is coming your way like you’ve never seen before!

To register your interest in the Muc-0ff 2010 Auto Cleaning range, contact the team at newbrandguru for an official press pack

Over the last 6 months, newbrandguru has designed, produced and delivered a variety of innovative and stunning marketing videos for our clients to assist in boosting their product sales.

Video has been gaining popularity in all aspects of marketing; almost all of the successful marketers online are using video in some form or another. It is being used in many different ways and the possibilities are ever expanding in any type of business. Whether you are selling a product, dream holidays, or even a car, videos are being used to market all of these products. We as a society have become used to expecting to see something visual as an aid to the buying process. The concept of using videos in any type of marketing has become a necessity in order to sell goods or service.

Video just seems to get stronger as more and more new product launches come out involving video as their prime mode of selling and promoting new products. Building anticipation by showing a new video each day for two or even three weeks prior to a new product being introduced. Video has really become the focal point to a new era of marketing online.

The viral effect of videos can have a phenomenal effect in creating new customers. Put simply, if you are not using some type of video in your marketing efforts you are leaving money on the table and your marketing efforts are in the stone ages. With YouTube, Google Video, and all the other video submission sites, the possibilities are endless. With millions of visitors each and every day to each of these sites marketing online has become the “Video Marketing Age”.

Last year Twitter usage grew 422%. In February this year, it hit the frankly ridiculous growth rate of 1,382% according to Nielsen Online. There is some suggestion that growth has peaked further recently, but no matter which way you look at it, Twitter is huge.

Twitter has the ability to turn every day chatter into a must have marketing tool and invaluable source of intelligence for businesses, while engaging potential consumers in a way that seems to have become increasingly tricky for traditional media.

For many people, advertising has increasingly come to be seen as an irritating interruption. Consumers, once a captive audience, now fast-forward ads on their digital TVs, complain about pop-ups on the internet and treat emails from companies they are otherwise happy to do business with as spam.

With Twitter, you choose to hear from people and more importantly interact with people in a two-way dialogue. Companies, including Starbucks, already use Twitter to pump out their latest offers to those customers that sign up. Much of the mainstream media is using it to promote their content, offering links to articles in newspapers, magazines or promoting events and product launches.

There is simply no avoiding social media within your marketing plan and for those of you that are not Tweeting, you could be missing out on a great deal of business. Using Social Media tools as part of your marketing plan is a great cost effective method of communicating with your target audience.

Follow the team at NBG by following our Twitter updates.

We are delighted to announce that we have secured official sponsorship for two of our clients with UK Cycling Events.

UK Cycling Events specialises in running road sportives and off road MTB events. Each event has a choice of three distances, giving novice and experienced riders the opportunity to sample the best, most picturesque and challenging road and off-road riding in the UK.

With two major events lined up for October, the Wilier’s New Forest 100 Sportive on 11th October and the Wilier’s South Downs 100 Sportive on 18th October.

We are thrilled to have two of our clients Muc-Off and Mobi supporting the events.

For further information about the upcoming events visit UK Cycling Events.

Following a meeting last Sunday at Goodwood Motor Circuit, we are delighted to confirm that two of our clients Muc-Off and Mobi will be presenting their brands and some ’super hot’ exciting new products to the attendees of the next breakfast meeting ‘Maserati Magnifica’ – a tribute to the Trident and other Italian Icons.

The synergy between these two brands is fantasic and with Muc-Off demonstrating their new car cleaning range combined with Mobi and their new portable pressure washer, the two brands are a perfect match for any auto enthusiast.

We simply could not ask for a better back drop for the occasion than the Goodwood Breakfast Club and we look forward, licking our lips in anticipation for one of Goodwood’s finest egg and bacon rolls…yum!