Happy New Year and all that – seems soooo long ago now though! When do we stop wishing everyone that?

Anyways…

Potato? Tomato?

Just before we broke up for Christmas, we sent our clients a Merry Christmas and thank you for 2008 email newsletter. Whilst we were writing it, we began noting down the achievements of the year, hopefully not in an anal-gazing kinda way, but more to let everyone know how they’d contributed to an amazing year for us. In case you missed it…

• Grantham Journal, Business of the Year Runners up after 1st try!
• 4 to 12 folk increase
• New office expansion
• Major audio-visual investment
• Business coaching investment
• In-house development team
• 308 free muffins provision for downhearted business folk
• Stephen Fry review of B&T
• YouTube Dance Off fever
• Major pet investment
• Kimeera rebrand
• Tripled turnover

When I look back now to this time last year, I’m pretty sure no one could have forecast what we’d go on to achieve (well except for Scott probably). What is clear to me, is that there are things you can plan and prepare for (of course), but there’s so much that you can’t. I don’t want to write on about the credit crunch, there are far better qualified writers than I to do that, but I am so optimistic right now, more so now than ever and when next Christmas comes along, I’m hopeful that there are even more collective achievements to pat our clients on the back with!

Also, we promise to get our new site live before February!!! A case of plumbers bathroom I’m afraid.

Eddie.
R&D Director and Co-Folker.

Snowballs of Steel, created for the Christmas period can be custom-designed for any business to use on their website. Website visitors can target snowballs at moving staff members who appear from behind trees and mountains. Each competitor can then enter their score on to a leader board. The whole game is set in snowy backdrops which are tailored to reinforce the client business’s branding and products.

It is a really inexpensive way of using your website to generate more interest over the Christmas period and bring in crucial orders.

We have created a whole range of affordable products for new businesses to help them get noticed – things which will not cost a huge amount of money, but which will give them the marketing edge they need as the business environment gets tougher.

For more information contact a Kimeera folker on 0845 260 6057.