Maxxd Marketing

When we first set the business up we bought a computer desk each and a cheap set of chairs but overtime these have become too small or we have broke the chairs whilst racing down the corridor

We have been looking all over the place for some new office furniture, something a bit different with a bit more style. So far we have found a few bits from Ikea but am not convinced about the quality.

There seems to be alot of online shops and office furniture stores but all of them seem to sell similar looking items, there is nothing out there that’s unique.

The hunt continues……………………

We were invited to take part in a Dragons Den style event held by Leo next to the Dakota hotel in Mansfield. We didn’t know what to expect, apart from the fact we were going to be part of a panel that listened to fund raising ideas thought up by year 10 school kids from all the local schools.

We arrived to a buzzing room full of colourful designs on huge sheets of paper, laptops being used to design adverts and powerpoint presentations and lots of school kids, teachers and assistants buzzing around all working on their little projects.

We were given areas to work with, and each area had 3 schools, with 2 teams each – totalling 6 teams. We had to walk around and make notes so their ideas were not alien to us when the ideas were being pitched.

I love anything involving psychology, and i love people watching and i love trying to work people out before ive had chance to get to know anything about them. It was quite evident when we were walking around that certain districts had poorer (not in wealth, in standards etc) schools – and within the groups, there was usually one or two people who stood out as the most confident and as the leader.

The event went really well, the group that i picked as my favourite from the start ended up winning, and they got £250 to take their idea to the next level. Some of the dragons also gave in some money to the winning teams, and one of the non winning idea was actually picked up by some of the staff there and they are going to be helping them get it off the ground.

Dave has agreed to help one of the projects that was pitched to him, its about supporting children forced or being forced into child prostitution – and getting them re-homed and looked after -  so look out in your facebook inboxes for something about that!

We have offered to help out in the future with any similar projects in school as we both agreed it was really beneficial for the kids, and for us too. it gave us an day out talking to some of the most interesting people on the planet – todays youth.

The things we do as a business are things that are going to appeal to a lot of youngsters nowadays, more so than many of the other career paths they lay before you during your education. So hopefully by working with schools we can find people who would be perfect employees, and snap them up before anyone else does.

Were always up for helping develop young peoples skills and promote business within schools and colleges as we beliove that more people should do what we do, as we love it

Yes, its true. We have officially had the best month ever since starting the business back in 2006.

Over the past three months we have been working hard on developing new areas of the business and have now secured some good contracts and are continuing to expand the little empire we have. We have a number of online marketing campaigns underway, all of which are doing well.

The industry has been under quite a lot of pressure lately, we have seen some alloy wheels distributors and manufacturers go bust, a performance exhausts manufacturer has also been forced into administration and many others are struggling. Luckily for us, things have not been quiet, infact we’ve had too much work on so certain sites have had to be put on the back burner as work for customers has been taking up most of our time.

The modified car scene has definately changed over the past few years with the price of petrol going up and the police cracking down on the illegal cruise scene. Not that they are the only factors but they have played a big role.

When we first got into the modified car scene we were amazed by the amount of different products available, things such as body kits where once a big thing and custom body styling. Nowadays alot more people are getting into the Motorsport side and spending more money on engine tuning and performance car parts.

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