Everybody was kung fu fighting

Congratulations to Lisa and Mitch from Trade-It who on Saturday passed their first belt in freestyle Kickboxing.

After an intense 90 minutes of work-out and sparring they were awarded with their new yellow belts.

Lisa said that she thought they both look a state in this picture, but I won't comment as they'll kick my a**e!

Job vacancy: Online Content Marketing Assistant

I am currently recruiting for an Online Content Marketing Assistant to work within our new team.

You can view the job advert here but basically I am looking for people who are really interested in the Internet and all things digital (and not just for shopping!), are creative and can write well.

The role is full-time and based in Sayers Common.

If you are interested in this role or know any family or friends who may be then email a CV, plus covering letter to me or call me on extension 7733 for more information.

Other current vacancies within the company include:

Search Marketing Executive - Joe Kidger (Sayers Common)
Place An Ad Marketing Manager – Joe Kidger (Sayers Common)
Web Designer – Alan Stuart (Sayers Common)
Part Time Community Field Reps in Brighton, Hastings, Eastbourne, Bedford & Luton - Gllie Fuller

GONEBoarding

We recently completed another boardsports website acquisition, this time for GONEboarding.co.uk, the UK's number 1 site for the snowboarding community.

GONEboarding was created by our very own Marcus Starnes, who has grown the site into one that is well used and respected by UK snowboarders.

Marcus is now running GONEboarding on a full-time basis here at Sayers (when he's not on the slopes that is!).

Here's a bit of background info:

Launched in 2001, GONEboarding.co.uk was developed by snowboarders, for snowboarders and quickly became the UK's largest independent online snowboarding community.

The site generates an average of 291,933 page impressions per month, 51,442 visits per month and 22,920 unique visitors (Jan – Jun 08).

Every day thousands of visitors log on to join in the snowboarding related discussions, write reviews, upload photos and check out what the rest of the GONEboarding community has submitted.

GONEboarding has four main areas for visitors to browse and members to get involved in:

Forum
Review
Gallery
Events Diary

The site is a great addition to our group portfolio and fits in well with the other sporting 'community' sites of Natives and A1Surf.

For more information contact Marcus or visit GONEboarding.

Sales Rule No 1 - Do your research first...

As those of you who work in our sales teams know, before you pick up the phone to speak to someone it's often worth doing a little bit of research first...well at least to check whether they are owned by one of your competitors!

Kate Kidger received the email below in response to the promotional ads she is running for ClickPets in the Friday-Ad at the moment (name has been removed to protect the innocent sales rep!)...

Dear Kate,
I note that you have an advert in the cuurent issue of the Friday Ad., and would like to make you aware that you could place a full colour ad., same size in The Argus, Friday & Saturday, on the internet for one week at a cost of £10 inclusive of vat.
If you are at all interested please call me on 01273 544300 or email xxxxxx.xxx@theargus.co.uk

And Kate's reply?

No thanks.......

I
It’s simply the best…..

My ad is free!!

Kate

Blog 'n' Roll

To help our niche classified musical site, MusicalAds.co.uk, Rob Watts has created his very own blog.

This is packed full of musical news and gems, including a post that will appeal to all of you fans of Guitar Hero - Rob's fantasy Guitar Hero set list.

There's also a regular 'video of the week' from Rob, plus other music-related goodies including 'How to impress a girl with your musical skills'.

Make sure you check out the blog and give Rob some thoughts on what he's posting too by leaving a comment or two.

The Battle of Pembroke

The New Business team in Pembroke recently held a 'Battle Incentive Day'. This seems to have been a great excuse for people to dress up in camo gear and play with toy guns, but they did generate a very respectable £5.5k to add to the Homes & Gardens supplement war chest.

Pictured below is the victorious 'Major-General Morris', complete with victory cigar, with one of his troops....

And a photo of Field Marshall Gould, who loves any excuse to dress up!

Calling all musos...get your music on our video reviews

A request in from Boyd at UKBike.com who is after any staff with musical talents to contact him as he's after bands to volunteer their music to be the soundtrack for one of his video reviews.

Two current reviews already have music from talented staff. One is for a Buell XB1200SS and features Ger (from our design department) and his band Dogzuki (buy their debut album here).



The other is for a Harley Davidson FLSTF 'Fatboy' and features the talents of Stephen Burke (from marketing) with his band School for Scoundrels.

So if you're a tub thumper or plank spanker then drop Boyd an email or call him on extension 7836.

Trade-It do the Cotswold Show

A report from Jon Chamberlain about Trade-It's attendance at the Cotswold Show...

The Trade-It promotions team recently attended the Cotswold Show in Cirencester Park on 5th and 6th July. The excellent, hard-working team gave away thousands of extra copies of Trade-It, Trade-It Local and the latest Bike-It magazine, despite some very inclement weather on the Sunday morning!

As part of a deal brokered by Jon Chamberlain, Trade-It also produced the show programme for the second year running, which this year brought in over £5,500 of extra revenue. All in all an excellent weekend for Trade-It!

The deal also included free stand space adjacent to the main arena, enabling the staff to get an excellent view of the monster trucks and dog agility displays!

The team present at the show were Jon Chamberlain, Ruth Pitman, Neil Ackerman, Pete Ward and Carly Modessa. The Trade-It Business Sales team, in particular Caroline Lewton, brought in the revenue for the programme, which was printed by Uckfield Press.

Hey hey we're the monkeys

Marion found some new Friday-Ad readers on her recent trip to our Gibraltar office, who seem to go 'ape' for the latest issue.

Perhaps his mate is thinking "why is he reading it upside down?"

Surf's up with latest acquisition

Friday Holdings recently acquired A1Surf.com, one of the UK's leading websites for the surfing community.


The site is packed full with content including news, video clips, a forum, surf forecasts, daily surf reports.

And if you're looking for a present for the surfer in your life (that will be me or Dai then!) then have a look at the online surf shop.