THE SUPER BOWL SENSATION IS COMING TO WALKABOUT!

THE SUPER BOWL SENSATION IS COMING TO WALKABOUT!

1st February 2015 Walkabout will be hosting their annual Super bowl party on Sunday 1st February! Expect big screens, electric atmosphere and bundles of American treats including hot dogs, chicken wings and of course buckets of Budweiser! The 49th edition of the Super Bowl at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, home of the Arizona Cardinals and will be shown live in HD. The Super Bowl is an iconic event and UK popularity for the sport is at an all-time high, following the success of the NFL international series. Regular season matches had been played once a year at Wembley Stadium for the last 7 years and British fans were treated to three games in London. Diehard fans consider the Super Bowl as the pinnacle event in the sporting calendar and one well worth drinking through the night for. Fans across the globe are preparing for February 1st and Walkabout is offering the best viewing experience with big screens, full...
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Magnify awarded ‘Campaign of the Year 2014’ by iNTERTAIN

Magnify awarded ‘Campaign of the Year 2014’ by iNTERTAIN

Fantastic result for us here at Magnify Marketing to win "Campaign of the Year" for the World cup activity we produced at the annual Intertain suppliers presentation and awards. A combination of creativity, passion and effort by the team to deliver an industry leading experience on a national level. This has provided us with the perfect sports platform to build on and deliver again through all the big sporting occasions over the next 12 months. See Our Wold Cup Case Study ...
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2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil – Activity and Review at Walkabout Bars

2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil – Activity and Review at Walkabout Bars

Now that Brazil 2014 has drawn to a close, we're left to review its success for our clients and Walkabout in particular, where we implemented an unprecedented level of activity for a UK bar group.   Screach TV Prior to the World Cup, we helped install Screach TV into the majority of Walkabout venues and then worked on the content that would shape our World Cup experience. Here's an example of some of the team content that we produced for customers to view prior to the match. We produced team profiles, player profiles, match promo clips and squad lists for each of the 32 nations and scheduled it accordingly for each of the 64 matches!       Partnerships We secured a commercial partnership with Kitbag (market leading official sportswear provider) in addition to our existing deal with BetVernons.  Kitbag suitably provided us with the kit for our staff to wear during the matches. Both Walkabout and Kitbag were equally 'giddy about Brazil'.     BetVernons representatives were also on hand during...
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Talk back to people, they like it…CRM

Talk back to people, they like it…CRM

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is about managing a company’s interaction with current and future customers. CRM can encompass a wide range of tasks, from encouraging customer interaction on social media sites to dealing with customer feedback on public forums such as Trip Advisor and Facebook. In the past, interaction with customers has been limited to personal interaction on site, over the phone or by writing letters. This meant that in the past, customer’s opinions about your establishment were only spread through word of mouth and was very limited. The World Wide Web has introduced a variety of new and public ways for customers to interact with an establishment and future customers. Sites such as Trip Advisor, Yelp, and Google reviews and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter offer a place for customers to write a review of their experience that future customers can read. 80% of consumers read online reviews, 70% of consumers trust online reviews (Nielsen) Customers will write both...
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Why your venue should be on Google Plus

Why your venue should be on Google Plus

Reading an article on Forbes satisfied my recent curiosities about the benefit of businesses getting on board with Google Plus.   Google is very good with integrating its services and apps into one account which in theory should encourage users to utilise the google+ service to their benefit from a social media perspective. The problem is that facebook still dominate the social web and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future rendering google plus relatively insignificant in terms of building a community of brand advocates.   Google's strengths currently lie elsewhere, notably their search engine dominance and business solutions although with the ability to intertwine their services, google have provided a solution to at least make Google Plus an attractive proposition to businesses with the revelation that registering your business on the platform would improve your business's SEO performance.   Do you ever get the impression no one is on Google Plus? That it’s utterly devoid of the vast audience that makes Facebook so...
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TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor

Despite the growth in social media, managers are still unclear as to how it can be used to benefit their organisations. Part of the problem stems from confusing customers with online community members through the popularisation of the term ‘social customer relationship management’ (social CRM). This term is a misnomer because online community members are not necessarily customers of the organisation. A better term is community relationship management (that is, CoRM) because it more accurately reflects what people do in online communities – connect, converse, create and collaborate. Organisations can take advantage of these predispositions by using marketing research and public relations, nurturing opinion leaders or advocates, placing and creating advertisements, developing new products, lowering the cost-to-serve, building brand loyalty and sales, and amplifying buzz and visibility for the organisation....
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