Maxxd Marketing

Spent a few hours on the internet submitting our company onto various internet search engines and directories. There are hundreds out there. Yell.com, Thomsons Local, Nottingham Businesses, etc etc.

Alot of them give you a free link and basic listing in a certain category. We are not expecting anything to come from these, or should I say we are not depending on business from these, BUT, it helps having links in from other sites and having your name plastered all over the place.

We are off to a photoshoot this afternoon for a local company and to get some pictures for the new magazine. Lets hope the weather stays nice.

Back on Monday morning.

Have a nice weekend.

A quick run down of today:

• The Getting Into Work Team logo has been changed again, we have done about 10-15 different designs. They now have a final version which they should get approved over the next few days.
• The “Maxxd Magazine” is currently being designed and we should have some visuals in the next few days. If all goes well, we’ll have the advertising and editorial sorted in time so they can be printed and given out at the Donny Show in April.
• More market research has been carried out, this time about the car insurance market. We have been finding out who the best companies are to use for modified and performance vehicles. As we are going out and grabbing the busienss we need to make sure we are approaching the right ones. We have alot of affiliates at the moment that are not really working right, mainly due to them not being “mod friendly”
• Maxxd.com is still undergoing maintenance and updates, Olly is always on the look out for new plug ins for the site and finding any useful information that may help the members. We need a constant flow of new stories and cars to feature.
• The hosting side of the business is looking promising, each week there seems to be another addition to the server. Its not a massive earner but it helps pay the bills.

Next week should be the one we have all been waiting for, the sales drive. Phone call after phone call and as many letters as possible will leave the building along with our sales literature. CANT WAIT..

Looking at what lies ahead, we are gonna be very busy, the hard work hasn’t really started yet. We are coming in tomorrow to do a few bits and release a bit of pressure for next week. ROCK ON !!!!

Today has been the busiest day ever.

Olly has been working on another website today which is now finished - click HERE for a quick look. This is for a young lady who races a Mk1 Golf at events up and down the country. The content was supplied to us by Karen and we had to design and build the site. We have also designed a logo to give the site a more cutting edge look and create a brand for her racing team.

S&B have sorted out everything that we need to start the website, the domain has been decided on and we are cracking on with it.

The MaxxDirectory re design has been started also, this has been outsourced due to us being too busy. We are told it will be finished by Saturday/Sunday, we’ll be checking it and making a few changes if needed then it’ll be ready for the launch.

Our business cards and letterheads will be ready over the weekend so we’ll be able to start sending letters out on Monday along with flyers of course. We are having a huge push on the sales next week. We need to contact as many companies as possible, starting locally then branching out a county at a time. Theres ALOT to go at but we now have all the tools we need:

Sales Letter
Sales Literature
Letterheads
Business Cards
Data
Phone

All ready to rock. Next week is gonna be crazy. Lets hope the directory starts filling up.

We had to pop to a customers in the afternoon to collect some images for his site, on the way back we called into see a guy from West Notts College who runs the Motorsport department. After a long chat with him it looks like we’ll be doing something in conjunction with them at some point this year. I won’t say much at this stage but it looks positive and there are so many ideas to be put forward.

More networking. We are constantly on the lookout for ways of creating awareness and are willing to get involved with local projects if it helps other people or organisations.