tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32329877749836677612024-03-05T14:03:14.759+00:00narzipanFashion and Music BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029924985921676383noreply@blogger.comBlogger278125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232987774983667761.post-74795007803612968492017-12-12T17:55:00.002+00:002017-12-12T21:27:34.957+00:00Digbeth Arts Market Exhibtion 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Digbeth Arts Market launched their first ever exhibition on Nov 17th at the Zellig building in Digbeth and it showcased a stunning range of talent, art and design. Founder Kay Fisher curated the 30 artists on show including illustrators, portrait artists, interior designers, vintage card specialists and some tremendously gifted craft specialists. It runs until Saturday 16th December.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above is the amazing MnM Lamps with some brilliant original designs and below is Famous When Dead's striking cheese lady.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The astonishing range of inventions by Mostly Curious Games was so impressive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rose Fraser's portraits had so much personality and character. This one is of Jimmy a Big Issue seller in Lancashire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Periscope King artist Amrit Singh created a special bespoke piece of art for the show which attracted bids from New York no less.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The range of vintage cards from the 1950s and more by Mrs Flower's Fabulous Card Company was glorious and sweet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That Bloke Wilson is an illustration legend for good reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am huge fan of ROOTS 0121 and her work. Prints to make your walls very cool indeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Koo Arts do an incredible range of decorated skulls and have an exciting exhibition lined up in London early next year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Left Luggage do gorgeous furniture such as these wonderful pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a few highlights of the launch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> What a blessing the Independent Birmingham Festival was on a rare sunny Sunday in September. We were so excited to go that we were amongst the first people there when the entrances opened at noon. This coming together of Birmingham's best independents is thrilling as you find so many new places to try and they quickly become your new favourite places to go, eat and drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We headed straight for the halloumi fries and they were a big hit. I'd recommend sharing a plate as they are very filling and you need to leave room for other goodies. Lovely texture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Indian Brewery Company were soon very busy for both their craft beers and tasty street food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sun was shining on Faculty Coffee and Sixteen Bakery. I love their coffee and cakes in the Piccadilly Arcade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I could not resist the vegan snickers brownie and the raspberry and white chocolate blondie. Both amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Next we headed to Buddha Belly and their exceptional curries and stir fries created by Sai Deethwa of Masterchef fame. I had the Thai chicken curry and it was one of the dishes of the day, everyone loved it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I think I'll try the marinated crispy chicken next, it looks lush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Bar Opus blew us away with their cocktails. I had the whisky smash and it puts you in the mood for some serious drinking. The whisky does not dominate the flavours with lemon juice, mint and angostura bitters combining beautifully.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clink Beer had quite a display going on. The craft beer wizards have a new bar opening in Harborne on Saturday 30th September called <a href="https://twitter.com/thepaperduck" target="_blank">the Paper Duck</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The art of drinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> An incredible range of flavours on offer including chocolate, passion fruit, grapefruit and guava.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Wonderful Lebanese flavours were dished up the Middle Feast in their kebabs and mezze. Next time I catch them I'm going to try the triple mixed kebab with Lebanese chicken, harissa glazed lamb and halloumi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Independent Birmingham founder Joe Schuppler has a crazy obsession with G&T slushies created by 40 St Paul's in the Jewellery Quarter. I too now have a crazy obsession with these slushies! You must check out <a href="https://twitter.com/40StPauls" target="_blank">40 St Pauls</a> as they have over 120 gins to choose from and a flavour chart you can use to find your perfect drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It was time a well-earned break to give the stomach a chance to make space for the next round of feasting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cocktail legend <a href="https://twitter.com/InRobWeTrust" target="_blank">Rob Wood</a> was delivering incredible drinks made from ingredients that we normally throw away such as apple cores and mint stalks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I chatted to Rob about his forthcoming collaboration with meet maestro Andy's Low 'N' Slow. It will be unmissable and for one night only.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Mint stalk mojito was one of the drinks of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 2nd Brew Pina Colada was super tasty and peppy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Two Cats team were happy to unveil their next project </span><a href="https://twitter.com/saltandearth" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Salt & Earth</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> which will popping up on selected evenings at the new </span><a href="https://twitter.com/kanteen_life" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Kanteen</a><span style="font-size: large;"> cafe in the Custard Factory. Looks a fab place. Seabass ceviche with sweet potato, corn, lime, red onion and chilli sounds gorgeous</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">You can't beat a classic such as The Bureau's smoked pork hot dog and toppings such as beef chilli, applewood smoked cheese and habas fritas. Hot diggety dog!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's my favourite restaurant <a href="https://twitter.com/ElBorrachoDeOro" target="_blank">El Borracho de Oro</a> wowing everyone with pork, paprika and garlic burgers, juicy stews and delicious churros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> They have just launched their Autumn menu. What would you try first?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> They also do fun nights such as learning to paint which looks a lot of fun judging by these wannabe Picassos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has been quite the year for the multi-award winning team at Loki and they go from strength to strength with plans just announced to open a third store in Edgbaston in October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Quality selection as always.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I regret not having a fragola bellini. I'm a fool!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Just one of the cool pooches supporting Brum's independents. Hope he got to try the amazing food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The Bournville Waffle Company surprised me! I'm not a big waffle fan normally. My family normally buys those awful soft ones from the supermarket which are so meh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> These babies are as far from meh as you can get. The waffle has a nice crisp texture which is yum with the cream, strawberries and chocolate sauce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Or how about some honeycomb, vanilla cheesecake and caramel sauce. Omdddddddddsssss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We next headed inside to the craft market upstairs and the Chocolate Quarter's goodies had brought all the boys and the girls in from the yard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> See this sushi candy hiding at the back of the display. You must be able to sniff these things out if you want to considered a true gourmand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Mississippi for me please.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/JamVsCustard" target="_blank">JamVsCustard</a> you rock man! Look how plump these doughnuts look. I had the raspberry pavlova and it was 10 out of 10 greatness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A blurry photo forgive me but you need to know that there are jaffa cake doughnuts around that you need to hunt down ASAP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The fudge store went all out to impress with an incredible range of flavours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I'm very proud of my free festival tote bag :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cheers Joe and everyone involved in the festival. A fantastic day and one to remember with a beaming smile when you replay all the highlights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can sign up to Independent Birmingham card <a href="http://www.independent-birmingham.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a> and enjoy discounts all year round at these fantastic places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Words and photos by Paul Clarke <a href="https://twitter.com/lovenarzipan" target="_blank">Twitter @lovenarzipan</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you like the finer things in life then you need to head over to the <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMeatShack" target="_blank"><b>Meat Shack</b></a> on Thorp Street close to the Birmingham Hippodrome. Gorgeous burgers such as Buffalo Blue, Hell Shack and Dutch Piggy will rock your world. All containing a '5oz hefty hunk of well-aged grass-fed beef''.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Garnish with blue cheese, Dutch cheese, American cheese, green chilli relish, candy bacon crumb, hot sauce, buffalo sauce, chipayo and streaky bacon and you take burgers to another level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These little beauties below are Frickles, deep-fried cider-battered pickles with blue cheese dressing and they are amazing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Shack is full of great artwork and a kwl place to hang out and grab a drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This family run restaurant is the new kid on the block or Bennett's Hill to be precise. Pop in for a grab and go lunch from 11:30 to 2:30 or go proper restaurant stylee from 5pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Pani Puri spice bombs on the right caught me out a bit as I put too much spiced water in the puri and even my big mouth struggled with the spice explosion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The highlight was the amazing butter chicken made with a lot of talent by head chef aka Mum in the kitchen. So creamy and tender it oozes flavour. Its only rival on the menu is the Methi chicken which I cannot wait to try.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a pleasure to pop into the <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCanalHouseUK" target="_blank">Canal House</a> a week before it's official launch. It's a beautifully designed restaurant in a perfect setting. A place to relax and slow down a little for a bite to eat before changing to party mood and working your way through the exotic cocktail menu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If SIA was here she would swing from these quirky chandeliers. The mini office is above the entrance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take your drink outside and enjoy the large terrace by the Gas Street Basin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I need a bit of spice in my food so I really enjoyed the jerk salmon kebab.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cookie dough was fantastic. Warm flavoursome sponge with a rich sweetness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Afogato is my dessert of choice lately. Don't be a slob and pour all the espresso and amaretto in at once, add to taste instead dear boy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The newly opened <a href="https://twitter.com/BTPcafes" target="_blank">Boston Tea Party</a> in Edgbaston has pretty rooms such as the Orangery and Pineapple themed areas to choose from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The former bank is now full of comfy seating, colourful details and those amazing cakes and milkshakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I liked the Orangery most. it's perfect for meet-ups or catching up on your laptop to do list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Head here to beat the big queues at the Harborne branch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally, Starbucks do not make the best Frappucinos, Java Lounge does! The iced mango blend is also a pick-me-up from heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You have until the 28th October to see the fantastic In The Eye of The Needle exhibition at the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Willard Wigan's art really is so small you need to look through a microscope to see the wonderful creations inside the eye of a needle. He even uses an eyelash to paint these miniature beauties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Willard began doing miniature work as a child when he disturbed some ants in the ground and decided to make some furniture for them. If you are reading this on your phone zoom in on the photos below to get a better look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check out the Ascent of Man and remember that apes did not start this war but apes will finish it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christ The Redeemer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hummingbird </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mammy from Gone With The Wind</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Pieta. Brought back a nice memory from the one in St Peter's in Rome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What big teeth you have Granny!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To See or Not To See.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Willard spends 18 hours a day on his art and holds his breath whilst working to get the absolute stillness needed to work on the art. He is even visiting Oxford University who want to study his hand control whilst manipulating stem cells.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">BMAG Thresholds</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I headed to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for their VR photography exhibition Thresholds as part of the Developed in Birmingham season. It featured VR replicas of some photo prints from 1839 originally displayed at King Edward's School.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You looked into the cabinets and then used your hands to magnify and move the photos. It was really kwl and I loved it. You could look out the windows to see a Chartist protest, there was a mouse running around on the floor and moths buzzing around the lights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">School of Code at Google Digital Garage</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://t.co/BosYGpzPm0" target="_blank"><b>School of Code</b></a> ran a beginners guide to coding inside Google's Digital Garage on New Street. School of Code has just started a coding boot camp that lasts for 16 weeks and is absolutely free to the lucky 20 participants who will go from beginners to fully-fledged programmers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You should check out all the free classes being offered by the Digital Garage as they cover everything from social media to spreadsheets.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Below School of Code explained the difference between HTML, CSS and Javascipt by getting you to design and animate a little character. This was my Batgirl attempt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Birmingham Social Media Cafe July </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Birmingham Social Media Cafe headed over to the classy <a href="http://www.opusrestaurant.co.uk/" target="_blank">Opus restaurant</a> on Cornwall Street. It was great to catch up with social media whizzes such as My Jewellery Quarter Twitter account which does an amazing job, Gleeson Recruitment and Biddle and Webb Auctions who use Periscope to market forthcoming events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A lively meet-up at Tilt included LinkedIn guru Ian J Preston (below 2nd left) who runs the Coffee and Natter networking club giving everyone a pep talk on nailing marketing of yourself on LinkedIn. David Glenwright of JC Social Media was also nearby hosting a free social media clinic for small businesses. He is full of wonderful advice and expertise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/The_Ting_Thing" target="_blank"><b>The Ting Thing</b></a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/lauracreaven" target="_blank"><b>Laura Creaven</b></a> Brum Bloggers arranged a co-working evening at the AC Hotel to get everyone to stop procrastinating and catch up with their social media activities. Interesting bloggers included <b><a href="https://twitter.com/1techtraveller" target="_blank">One Tech Traveller</a> </b>who is off to Hong Kong and the Far East for 6 months amazing travel blogging and Galina Thomas who has an incredible 19,000 Instagram followers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Birmingham Heritage Week Lazarica</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally I was one of the many people that swarmed over to the Lazarica Church on Griffin's Brook Lane for its Birmingham Heritage open day. The church is breathtaking and truly a hidden gem. The first purpose built Sebian Orthodox Church in the UK dedicated to the Holy Prince Lazar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The stunning murals are all the work of one man completed over a 5 year period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The middle doors of the altar are reserved for the priest and royal family only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a glorious sight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Words and photos by Paul Clarke</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you recognise this tunnel of crime? If you do you are either a police officer or a criminal because it links Steelhouse Lane police station with the courts on Corporation Street. Fred West himself has been taken down this corridor. So too were the Peaky Blinders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In July we got to do a tour of the police station as part of the Hidden Spaces and West Midlands Police summer collaboration. The Victorian station which closed in January, is still full of character and a foreboding atmosphere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These cell doors still automatically lock if you are silly enough to close one. They are very stark and I think that they would really rub in the sorry state of affairs you must be in to find yourself locked up in one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Crime is no laughing matter my dear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This photo is of Birmingham's first female police officers. Front centre is Evelyn Miles Brum's first ever police officer who joined in 1917.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Criminals were better dressed in the past I'd say. Although I think the bottom line of his profile states that he was a pimp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The shackles on the centre of the table are horrible things to hold. They reminded me of the Green Mile. "Dog tired boss, dog tired". There was no sign of Mr Jangles though.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Katy Tromans and LOWLFE</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://katytromans.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Katy Tromans</a> wowed everyone with her storytelling jewellery ranges that include How To Train Your Dragon, James and the Giant Peach and Rapunzel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Katy is a CAD designer and it was amazing to hear that the designs will be transformed into wax prototypes by computer rather than by hand. It can take around 37 hours to print so do beat her to the printer queue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Toothless looking spectacular.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really liked how she thought of a creative way to store jewellery rather than shoving it in a box or tray.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next up was Tam Bernard and Key Powell of <a href="https://twitter.com/LOW_LFE" target="_blank">LOWLFE</a>. They are humble and self-deprecating but seriously talented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They use small figures in an extremely clever way to get you to think about important issues such as homelessness, the environment, political figures and overuse and reliance on technology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Part of their inspiration is fun movies such as Honey I Shrunk the Kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Venus flytrap acting in self-defence against human encroachment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Punk attitude to combat the Trump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bees are so important to the ecosystem. We must solve this question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pop into Bar Opus to see the free exhibition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its been a fantastic year already for Birmingham's Instagramers aka Igers Birmingham. The summer social at the Edwardian Tea Rooms at Birmingham Museum heralded the announcement of the Best in Birmingham exhibition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The exhibition, to be held in the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter will feature the best 25 Instagram photos of Birmingham using the hashtag #igb_comp_bestofbirmingham</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You have until the 20th August to enter images that celebrate Brum's heritage, people and landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These beautiful bears raising money for Birmingham Children's Hospital are only around until the 17th September so you better cherish them whilst they are here. One of my favourites is Peabody Bear. Wonderfully designed and surrounded by lavender in St Paul's Square.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cool dude Harley bear is by the church too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr Bear Brawn is super sweet by the Children's Hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember Florence Nighting Owl from the Big Hoot?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Guardian of St Martin church by the Bullring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bearmingam Bear features Birmingham's coat of arms in his design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He says a little prayer for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ewok Bear by Thinktank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Busting makes me feel good in John Bright Street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">William Shakesbear is by the Apple shop on New Street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such a deep-thinking bear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It would be illogical to leave out Spock in Chamber Square.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't forget BMAG's Little Bears guarding Lucifer in the Round Room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Little cuties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some cool stuff in the gift shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bluebearies!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How many people cut through pigeon park on Colmore row without realising the beauty inside Birmingham Cathedral?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a spiritual baroque masterpiece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At 300 years old it's one of the oldest buildings in Birmingham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's deservedly famous for the stunning stained-glass windows by Edward Burne-Jones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We found a few gems in the RBSA gallery by St Paul's Square. Check this orangutan's lovely lashes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Glenn Ibbitson's Emerald Archer and Horus the Magician retail at £3,400 if your walls need a talking point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come with me my friends on a odyssey of temptation around some of Birmingham's best street food vendors. Look at this glorious street market themed decor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since going to the Seasonal Market at the Bond Company in April I have found some amazing restaurants and left in no doubt that Birmingham is having a foodie renaissance of lip-smacking tastiness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.zindiya.co.uk/" target="_blank">Zindiya</a> in Moseley wowed me with the best Indian food that I have ever tasted in Brum by some margin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This lovely snack corner produced gorgeous onion bhajis, spicy chickpeas and delicious masala chips. Such strong yet delicate flavours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For dessert how about Indian style carrot cake, mango sorbet or chocolate balls filled with strawberry pieces?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Add in a cocktail range designed by maestro Rob Wood with flavours featuring curry leaf and it's a big thumbs up from me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A beautiful Spanish restaurant in Edgbaston is my idea of foodie heaven. I love the decor, you could fill your Instagram page with all the glorious fine details.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tapas are incredibly authentic and that's why I give them 10 out of 10 for quality and taste.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Delicious squid, terrific chorizo, juicy chicken skewers and amazing patatas bravas. You must try everything!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It started with a succulent cubano in Quarter House Coffee and led to the best burgers I have ever tasted. Best Burger in Brum! The aged beef so full of flavour, the creamy cheese and indulgent toppings will wow you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have a sweet tooth you will die for the bacon with maple syrup and the Big Vern donut burger was magnificent! The spiced fries below are even better with the ODB coleslaw added. How do they think of these things?! They must have world-beating taste buds to create such loveliness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was lucky enough to be in <a href="https://twitter.com/OriginalPattyM" target="_blank">OPM</a> on the night they launched new special the 'Bourbon Squealer". It comes with a jam made from whisky and bacon. It's lush!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Even the drinks are cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I showed my friends this bakery's location they commented it reminded them of Jack The Ripper! Don't let that put you off though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are Creative with a capital C. They do this amazing cinnamon swirl with pistachio, orange and raspberry. It's mind-blowing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.peelandstone.co.uk/" target="_blank">Peel & Stone</a> make great sour dough bread, amazing sandwiches with fillings such as refried beans with avocado and Korean pulled pork with slaw and coriander. Below right is the amazing white chocolate and raspberry croissant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A cute shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Birmingham seems to have taken the <a href="http://www.indianbrewery.com/" target="_blank">Indian Brewery Company</a> very quickly to its heart. As well as the eclectic and unique beer range they have great street food which is amazing value and generous portions too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bombay wings, fat naans and masala fries all hit the spot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The genius that is <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidWMassey" target="_blank">David W Massey</a> hosted the Birmingham Social Media Cafe meetup for June at the Alpha Tower cafe. Carefully look at the descriptions below. Don't they all sound like your new favourite! I had the raspberry and white chocolate brownie. Best brownie I have ever had as it's so juicy and sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On weekends they make ice cream sandwiches. We are talking brownie crinkle cookies with cherry vanilla swirl ice cream. This is serious business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As soon as the Birmingham Social Media Cafe had finished on June 30th me and the cream of Birmingham's food bloggers headed straight over to the Colmore Food Festival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All the top restaurants were doing dishes priced at only £4. For example Purnell's did slow cooked Ox cheeks which everyone devoured. I went straight over to Opus for the pork belly with cherries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What a find <a href="http://www.hindleys-bakers.co.uk/" target="_blank">Hindley's Bakery</a> was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take the day off from Greggs and tuck into a pie from Jake's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We must innovate or die. Look at this dessert treat by <a href="https://twitter.com/WeDoLoveWaffle" target="_blank">Super Bubble Waffle</a> in Grand Central. Buy one and everyone will stare at you with green jealous eyes. We had mango, strawberry ice creams and sweet strips in ours. Yum!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> For May's Birmingham Social Media Cafe with <a href="https://twitter.com/clivereevespr" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">CliveReevesPR</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BrumHour" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Brum Hour aka David W Massey</span></a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/theblogtrainer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Phil Choi aka The Blog Traine</span>r</a> took us to the quirky cool <a href="https://twitter.com/Tilt_Brum" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Tilt</span></a> coffee bar in City Arcade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Craft beers, first class coffee and delicious treats such as <a href="https://twitter.com/BAKE_Birmingham" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">BAKE's</span></a> Snickers and lemon cheesecake bundt are all on offer at Tilt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">By the Tilt window was the delegation of 4 from digital marketing agency <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ConnectingE" target="_blank">Connecting Element</a> </span>led by Client Service Manager <a href="https://twitter.com/mattbowell" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Matt Bowell</span></a>. Matt talked about their clients from the restaurant industry and their work with bloggers and influencers to promote brands such as Miller & Carter and Harvester.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Near left in the photo is brilliant copywriter <a href="https://twitter.com/agunning" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Anna Gunning</span></a> who turns company jargon into beautiful content. To Anna's left was the <a href="https://twitter.com/mac_birmingham" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Mac Birmingham</span></a> team who are fighting back against huge funding cuts with exciting promotional content and events. To Anna's right is charismatic vlogger <a href="https://twitter.com/sineadlatham_" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sinead Latham</span></a> who was a wiz at DigiCities week. Next to Sinead is the legend that goes by the name of <a href="https://twitter.com/brummiegourmand" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Brummie Gourmand</span></a> aka Ryan Parish. Ryan's blog is full of brilliant foodie finds.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://t.co/VJTMMCKuKS" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">BrummieGourmand.com</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To Dave's left is accounting maestro <a href="https://twitter.com/PracticalEdd" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Practical Edd</span></a> who gives Ryan a run for his money with kwl restaurant tips. It was an eclectic group at Tilt working on some exciting upcoming projects.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKcMAUYcShe9lxhlPiVBwB6KPWP-PEiV-Iq86t12odFYLW6IBppicxz5GtdOy_K4TOfVXHNbC_J6_zrXkWLKE1DKkFzlwYJEGW1LT5mV1ithnlpTb0KA_FD1cQhAcr7wdEip18wK-pCs/s1600/20170526_104256.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKcMAUYcShe9lxhlPiVBwB6KPWP-PEiV-Iq86t12odFYLW6IBppicxz5GtdOy_K4TOfVXHNbC_J6_zrXkWLKE1DKkFzlwYJEGW1LT5mV1ithnlpTb0KA_FD1cQhAcr7wdEip18wK-pCs/s640/20170526_104256.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b>Brum Night Cafe in the Gunmakers Arms</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wood you believe how good the <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://gunmakersarms.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Gunmakers Arms</span></a> </span>looks since it's recent refurbishment? The Two Towers Brewery real ale pub had just been completed before our visit mid June and hosts everything from gigs to board games nights and soon the <a href="https://twitter.com/BVbeerfest" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Brum Vegan Beer Fest</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Attendees included PR specialist Karen from <a href="https://twitter.com/cupnstring" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cup & String</span> <span style="color: blue;">Communications</span></a>, visual communications designer <a href="https://twitter.com/rachel_khor" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Rachel Khor</span></a> and Kelly and Becca from the <a href="https://twitter.com/JCsocialmediaUK" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">JC Social Media team</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Dave introduced first speaker of the night Marketing Manager Adam Snelleksz from <a href="http://www.cmavideo.co.uk/portfolio/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">CMA Video</span></a> who work with clients such as the Sealife Centre, Sport Birmingham, Legoland and Coventry Gin Festival. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I was really impressed with what Adam said about a video communicating so much more personality than just a few lines of text. You can show off your knowledge, skills, enthusiasm and expertise to impress a customer with why they should hire your services. Adam mentioned the power of filming customer testimonials and user-generated content.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 1) Plan what you are going to say in the video by only having one or two main takeaway messages for viewers rather than a rambling conversation about everything you do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2) Choose a short video length of 30 to 90 seconds to get your message across as many people may be watching whilst travelling so have less time to browse</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) Have a call to action message in your video e.g. call us now, for more information, to sign up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4) Tell customers what they want to hear rather than generic phrases such as we have the best staff, reputation etc. They want to hear that you will save them money, time, make them look more attractive etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Next speaker expert copywriter <a href="https://twitter.com/agunning" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Anna Gunning</span></a> told us that for you to resonate with your audience you will need to imagine that you were talking to one individual person rather than a generic crowd. So you personalise your content as if you were speaking to a customer named Joe and you imagine Joe's background, job and personality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Next rather than describing your product you talk about what problem it solves for Joe. You start broad then empathise then specialise. Work out where they are in the decision-making process and give them the information they need to guide them towards a purchase. Great advice!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuJ2aFpcIXH6lZOx5IZUBf4A5dIMvMsFMxcsx9B0KxsexelPdrYFx9LQLA5YoBz1-WzBniCZiflOO2lF_zbZZ1TF_AIS0IFd7Sd1Hl3nB3NEXU4L9Qd1WMdXb9zh5Ew5vc1T1ux4oHVM/s1600/20170613_212311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihuJ2aFpcIXH6lZOx5IZUBf4A5dIMvMsFMxcsx9B0KxsexelPdrYFx9LQLA5YoBz1-WzBniCZiflOO2lF_zbZZ1TF_AIS0IFd7Sd1Hl3nB3NEXU4L9Qd1WMdXb9zh5Ew5vc1T1ux4oHVM/s640/20170613_212311.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b>June: BrumSMC Alpha Works</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone who visits <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/alphaworksB1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Alpha Works</span></a> </span>gets excited by the surroundings, vibrant offices, amazing views and creative energy there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It was a great turnout with some new visitors. You may notice that a certain multimedia journalist and podcasting enthusiast <a href="https://twitter.com/AdelaEarlington" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Adela Earlington</span></a> likes to be centre of attention in group photos. 😃</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Community Manager, Theresa White told us about the diverse community of freelancers, entrepreneurs and small businesses in the offices. The hot-desking options are brilliant as you can pop in for a day, a week or a whole month depending on your needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> "Meeting you with a view to a kill".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love these views from the 21st floor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> On the ground floor the Alpha Cafe is run by the team behind the highly regarded Faculty Coffee shop in Piccadilly Arcade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Blog Trainer Phil Choi is doing a free workshop as part of NatWest's Set For Success series.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029924985921676383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232987774983667761.post-28292574362248288282017-07-08T23:04:00.001+01:002017-07-08T23:04:41.618+01:00Enterprise Nation Birmingham May and June Highlights <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There is no such thing as a routine <a href="http://enterprisenation.com/" target="_blank">Enterprise Nation</a> meet up when Debbie Assinder is the organiser. For May's meet up Debbie arranged a visit to Enterprise Nation member and champion Rosie Ginday's wonderful boutique shop <a href="https://missmacaroon.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Miss Macaroon</span></b></a> in the <a href="https://www.greatwesternarcade.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Great Western Arcade</span></b></a> in Birmingham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you will note from the photo below what makes Miss Macaroon extra special is that it combines producing outstanding luxurious quality macaroons with its social enterprise values.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ocia below left, is a star graduate of Miss Macaroon's training scheme helping those overcome difficult experiences and it was a joy to hear her talk about all her new skills, confidence and enjoyment from being part of Miss Macaroon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the business side Miss Macaroon is thriving on some big name corporate clients such as Karl Lagerfeld who is a regular customer of some super stylish personalised macaroons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Miss Macaroon are fantastic at marketing the brand and are always trying new activities for promotion. Francesca Chong headed to the Bullring in June to run an eye-catching boutique pop-up hosted by <a href="https://www.appearhere.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Appear Here</b></span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elyssa Horton talked about the collaboration with <a href="https://www.blowltd.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Blow Ltd</span></b></a> the Uber of the beauty world delivering beauty services direct to your home or office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> After a successful launch night in May the Blow team are back on Friday July 14th offering free makeovers and up-dos with every £5 spend. Add in a glass of prosecco and some exclusive ice creams and it's the perfect way to start your weekend off with some fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Grab a free ticket here: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/miss-macaroon-x-blow-ltd-summer-beauty-blow-out-tickets-35507222057" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Miss Macaroon x Blow Ltd Summer Beauty Blow Out</span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Miss Macaroon is a wonderful example of the talented and inspiring members of Enterprise Nation who benefit from supporting each other's success through sharing skills and meeting up at networking events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In June Debbie treated us to a trip to the Jewellery Quarter and the very sophisticated surroundings of <a href="http://assaystudios.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Assay Studios</span></b></a> "A creative place for curious minds".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Assay Studios Manager Ally Mitchell told us that the building founded in 1877 was home to the Assay Office for over 130 years and used to hallmark millions of precious items a year. One can picture the safe below full of glorious silver items.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The great Matthew Boulton played a big part in petitioning parliament to establish Birmingham's first Assay Office in the 1770s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nowadays it's where the top talent of Birmingham's tech and creative community hangout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Glide up the beautiful Victorian staircase and you will find plush offices aplenty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Assay Studios is home to John Lewis Tech and Deliveroo so there is a tremendous energy and momentum in the building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The offices range from 300 to 10000sq foot</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Debbie had the female entrepreneurs of the West Midlands scrambling to write notes about places on Enterprise Nation's forthcoming trade missions to New York and Singapore potentially being partly sponsored by the local DTI.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) In 2017 Facebook has 2bn users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2) Daily active users open Facebook 14 times a day and spend 4 minutes on average browsing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) The optimum number of times a business should post a week is 3-5 times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4) Videos get 2.5 times more engagement than text posts. Longer videos attract more people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5) 60% of Facebook users are mobile only.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) Choose a good profile photo as it will appear on every single post you make. Your logo or image should be clean, simple and text light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2) You can now have a video cover photo at the top of your page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) Use apps such as Quik to group still photos together into a video with music and a text overlay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) The algorithm which determines what posts are shown to who and how often is influenced by 1000s of factors. These include who you are close to, your previous actions, location and how your friends are reacting to posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2) You are competing for attention so choose only your best content to post and the optimum time to post it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) If you post something at 9am and no one likes or comments on the post, Facebook may not show any more posts from you that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4) The more likes you get the more people Facebook will show the post to. If your post is a hit Facebook may show your next post to a bigger audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5) Shares are the most valuable reaction to a post as the viewer must be highly engaged to want to do this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7) The optimum post length is around 250-300 characters and be sure to use a catchy opening line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">8) Facebook skewer the algorithm to promote new products. At the moment that would be live streaming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Good examples of Facebook practice are:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/innocent.drinks/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Innocent Drinks</span></b></a> for fun content.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/birminghamhippodrome/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Birmingham Hippodrome</span></b></a> for promotional activity.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3) <a href="https://en-gb.facebook.com/KLM/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>KLM</b></span></a> for customer service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A big thank you from all to Debbie for all the wonderful support she gives to local entrepreneurs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the 14th June <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/" target="_blank">BBC Academy</a> hosted four leading digital media stars at the BBC Birmingham Mailbox studios as part of the excellent Digital Cities week. Social media superstar Habiba Da Silva who has over 700,000 followers on Instagram gave a lucky few of us a masterclass on how to have an amazing Instagram page. Below is the super-talented Habiba's first class advice on succeeding on social media.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Tip 1 : Start With A Great Bio.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is instead of filling your personal account with product photos which might bore fans. You need to tailor your content to each account.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Habiba's business account retails scarves and features photo shoots of products, models and customers wearing her label. Habiba has plans to move into ladieswear garments and her own make-up line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You must stick with content that your fans want to see and that ties in with why they follow you. It is a mistake for businesses to feature their personal life in business accounts as this can drive fans away. It does not make sense for to post random photos of things such as meals out on business pages. "Show your personality first before your business and don't then jump in front of your business."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Habiba gave 2 famous Instagrammers as reference points. Paul Stringer likes to post his photos in groups of 3 to give this matching grid effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have lots of photos of one occasion you should use slides to show them in one post rather than fill your page with 6 or 7 individual posts. Similarly use Instagram Stories to show things that you don't want to clutter your page with e.g. behind the scenes footage. You can also use the Layout app to combine photos into one slide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Habiba collaborates with other beauty bloggers to share access to each other's following and to increase fans and viewers. She also recommends collaborating with photographers, videographers and music artists as "a new form of networking".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hashtags are important as Instagram uses them to index your posts and in deciding who to show your posts too. Habiba creates her own hashtags for customers wearing her product range.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They say the average person eats 6,000 calories on Xmas day and it's very tempting to try and match that consumption on feast days such as <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://independent-birmingham.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Independent Birmingham's</b></a> </span>Festival. It's frustrating you can't try everything! First up I have to say what a triumph this was for founder Joe Schuppler. Since 2013 Joe has highlighted the best of Birmingham's independent outlets and now has 16,000 cardholders and 25,000 Facebook likes. Here's just a few highlights from day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://thechocolatequarter.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">The Chocolate Quarter</span></b></a> are based in the Jewellery Quarter on Spencer Street and are known for innovation, amazing flavours and delicious truffles such as the peach bellini special created for last year's Pride Festival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These fab hot chocolates come with a little test tube full of tasty flavourings for you to add to your own level of perfection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.kimchiandcoconut.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Kimchi and Coconut</span></b></a> really impressed me with these original designs laser cut by computer then hand painted. A big hit on instagram, the designs are going down a storm in Australia with hundreds of pieces recently shipped over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Check out the cute sloths hanging out with David Attenborough who looks really well for his age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was the best fishcake I've ever had. it had ten times the flavour of a normal one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Soul food legends <a href="https://twitter.com/churchJQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Church</span></a> tempted many with their boudin sausage dogs and cajun grilled pork.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/peelandstone" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Peel and Stone</span></b></a> were quite simply one of my best finds of the day. I tried the pistachio bun and was blown away by it. With blueberry scones, blondie cakes, rocky road and those quality sourdough breads this is not a stall to leave empty handed from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><a href="https://twitter.com/JamVsCustard" target="_blank">JamVsCustard's</a> </span></b>doughnuts were so good they completely sold out in no time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Catch them at the British Oak Farmers Market on 20th May.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/pingameuk" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Pin Game</span></b></a> deserve a special shout out for pulling out the stops to get ready 2,000 of these precious beauties so all us lucky visitors have bragging rights about attending this sold out event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Brumhaus" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Brumhaus</span></b></a> art is inspired by Bauhaus, Picasso and Paul Klee. I really loved the skyline cushion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Apologies for the blurry photo but this is a super kwl shopping bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/ElBorrachoDeOro" target="_blank">El Borracho De Oro</a> are riding an enormous wave of popularity. Now into their second month of residency at 1000 Trades the word of mouth for their exceptional tapas creates queues everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Forgive me for waffling on about these desserts by <a href="https://twitter.com/Wafflespeak" target="_blank">Bournville Waffle Company</a> but the menu is irresistible. Forget your diet in style!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://badego.org.uk/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Badego</span></b></a> are on a real roll of organising fantastic creative events having put on a wonderful talk by <a href="http://territorystudio.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Territory Studios</span></b></a> at last month's Flatpack Festival. That talk gave an insider's look at working on movies such as Guardians of the Galaxy and The Martian and they followed up last week with an event at <a href="http://1000trades.org.uk/" target="_blank">1000 Trades</a> brimming with talented and inspiring creative speakers called Small Talk. Let's start with the amazing Amrit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Creative Designer and artist Amrit is one of the top 10 most popular live streaming artists in the UK. His engaging, warm and interactive live art projects attract thousands of viewers with one video receiving over 100,000 views. He is so popular and his style so entertaining that Periscope invited him over to their San Francisco headquarters. Amrit decided to stream his projects to explore his more artistic side over a year and a half ago. Way before video exploded in importance in social media.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Amrit has learnt a lot and his success continues to grow. It a joy that he has used his large following and influence to help those in need such as refugees and street artists who he videos with all their contact details so people can donate to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) Be yourself, your genuine self not your Instagram filtered self. Amrit has had to deal with some challenging people online and has handled them gracefully. He takes ris</span><span style="font-size: large;">ks even if it means it puts him on the spot.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2) Focus on content not number of followers. People can buy fake followers so be more impressed by engagement levels and impressions across media rather than high follower numbers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3) Give, give, give some more then ask for something back</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4) When you teach you learn twice. I love the thought of that!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5) Smile. People respond to smiles and humour, it's infectious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cynthia opened our eyes to the potential power of poetry through movements such as poetry of resistance and poets such as Maggie Smith whose sad words moved many. Cynthia has just been published in Nine Arches Press's Primers Volume 2. Check it out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For a minute it looked like Aston University's Social Media Consultant <a href="https://twitter.com/JordMuckley" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Jord Muckley</span></b></a> was going to challenge <a href="https://twitter.com/BrumHour" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Brum Hour's</span></b></a> David Massey to a follower count over at Conference Aston during the Birmingham Social Media Cafe. It would have been unnecessary as they are both social media geniuses!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since Jord Muckley (he doesen't Muckley about)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> has come in to Aston University he has updated and revolutionised their social media content away from serious corporate vibes to engaging storytelling, student Snapchat takeovers and communication by emojis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The key theme is storytelling and as over 80% of Aston University students do placement years there are lots of exciting stories to be told. Over the summer 6 students will be employed as digital ambassadors with an emphasis on getting out and about and creating great photography.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Watch out for the #yoursforthetaking campaign which will showcase the whole student experience of life as Aston and justify those high tuition fees!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Enterprise Nation</span></b> </a>members were treated to a fab meetup in the newly launched <a href="https://t.co/HIRunqt1wn" target="_blank"><b>Alpha Works</b></a> ultra modern offices in Alpha Tower. Community Manager Theresa White (above far right) gave us an impressive tour of what for many will be an inspiring place to work and dream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A high-rise building needs high-flyers and these talented individuals fit the bill. </span><a href="https://www.blenheimwatch.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Blenheim London's Dennis Chen</b></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> announced plans for an exciting new watch whilst Alex is working with branding maestro <a href="https://twitter.com/NPAlvi" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Naeem Alvi</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b>on his modern office furniture leasing company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/annaassinder" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Anna Assinder</span></b></a> made Birmingam Chamber's Future Faces sound an irresistible group to join and mentioned that they are partnering with Independent Birmingham for the forthcoming festival on 13th May. Creative Designer <a href="http://rachelkhordesign.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Rachel Khor</span></b></a> highlighted some of her wonderful designs for theatre companies across the UK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/Debbie_RCL" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Debbie Assinder</span></b></a> can sniff out potential Enterprise Nation members faster than a speeding bullet! Vicci and Selina have just launched virtual business support company<b> <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/wearetuki" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Tuki</span></a>.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was brilliant to catch up with hot PR company <a href="http://www.wearestorycomms.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Story Comms's Sophie Drake</span></b></a> whose team came up with the amazing Alpha Sunrise photo shoot campaign to promote Alpha Works launch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Story Comms invited the regions top photographers such as Tim Cornbill in conjunction with Birmingham's Hidden Spaces for a series of shoots that provided some stunning, refreshingly original shots of Brum's ever-changing skyline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone loved the images. Amazing PR!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had to pop along to this when I heard that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/bakedinbrickuk/about/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Baked in Brick's</span></b></a> mini would be on the scene. The chicken tikka wraps were tasty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I practically emptied this <a href="https://twitter.com/BAKE_Birmingham" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">BAKE Birmingham</span></a> </span><span style="font-size: large;">display.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With gems such as a Snickers cake, BAKE are everyone's favourite go-to-guys for a treat that's sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In October
2014 <a href="https://www.heckfood.co.uk/"><b><span style="color: blue;">Heck Sausages</span></b></a> had 9% of the premium sausage market. Within 2 years this
would be up to 42%. With a no-nonsense approach to business, incredible experience and a determination to make up for a previous mistake of selling a precious family business that ended up being controlled by a large corporation low on morals and values, Andrew Keeble gave a turbo-charged performance at <a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/"><b><span style="color: blue;">Enterprise Nation's</span></b></a> Food Exchange last summer hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/Debbie_RCL?lang=en-gb"><b><span style="color: blue;">Debbie Assinder</span></b></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now as Heck Food prepare to join Enterprise Nations <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/go-global-mission-to-paris-tickets-31090368128"><b><span style="color: blue;">Go Global Mission</span></b></a> to Paris Andrew Keeble is a business man who mean’s business!</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Full coverage of other brands at the Food Exchange here </span><a href="http://narzipan.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/food-exchange-birmingham-by-enterprise_61.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Food Exchange Summary</b></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>“A brand has to have attitude and </b><b>a voice.”</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Develop a
brand with a clear goal in mind”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Who do you
want to appeal to? You cannot be all things to all men”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Saying you
are ‘niche’ doesn’t cut the mustard anymore and don’t be too niche as that’s a
small market.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Decide if
your brand is a lifestyle brand, regional, national, deli or food show
specialist".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Heck’s
market research showed that most sausage buyers were in the 45-70 years’ age
group. The 18 to 45 age range was not engaged so they would need a new specific
marketing campaign to target them. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So,
the brand was developed with this clear goal in mind</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">. The Elmwood agency
subsequently used consumer insights to design a campaign. They did not use
focus groups as Andrew said “groups can be easily led by someone with a strong
opinion”.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">AIM: “To be mainstream enough and
premium enough.”</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Heck have a no compromise approach to quality. They don't cut corners and use fresh ingredients and do small-batch production to keep flavour quality high.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>“We are a
fun brand, we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Our attitude is ‘Be humble,
we’re not worthy’ ”.</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The youthful vibe of the brand is reflected in a workforce
with 40% of employees under 26 and a fun, energetic working environment. To
promote the brand, they go all over the country attending more than 500 events.
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For example, to crack the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland markets they
sent two teams on a road trip around the counties giving out freebies, chatting
and engaging with people. They got a proof of demand for the product in that
area that they could then go into meetings with buyers to demonstrate Heck’s
potential to make money.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We don’t do
a discount brand as dual-branding is very expensive.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>“The
consumer is king and they want everything now.”</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b>Andrew
advised doing extensive market research using consumer insights and buying lots of data on customer trends such
as <a href="http://www.kantar.com/"><b><span style="color: blue;">Kantar Insights</span></b></a> and Tesco Clubcard data from </span></span><a href="http://www.dunnhumby.com/"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>Dunnhumby</b></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">. T<span style="color: blue;"></span><b></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span>esco has around 13% of the market so the data is extremely useful and
relevant. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Andrew also recommended
using Mintel reports.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To drive the
business forward Andrew spends 10% of Heck’s turnover on marketing both
above and below the line. They do lots of PR and social media advertising. He
warned that <b>“price promotion will get you volume of sales but not loyalty.</b>
Customers will just switch brands depending on what’s on special offer that
week i.e. Tropicana juice one week, Innocent the next”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of Heck’s 70
employees, 4 work full-time on social media. They prefer to post mostly on
Facebook and Instagram as ‘Twitter is boring!”. The tone is not sales dominated
“we are only £2:50 in Tesco this week!!”. They don’t talk too directly about
the product or scream “look at me, look what I’m doing”.</span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“A complaining customer is your best friend.”</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Why are they unhappy? Turn them into a brand advocate and give them their money back plus more.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>"The best
brands do evolve and change, unlike Kodak”.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Keep
current, Andrew pointed out that the Amazon logo has changed 28 times since inception. Heck launched in
2013 and only 3 years later decided to do a brand refresh. People asked him why
update when you’re doing well? Andrew’s answer was that the pace of change and
future trends are so rapid that it’s worth spending £25k on a few tweaks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The sausage
market in the UK is worth £840m which dwarves even the baked bean market at
£600m. <b>“We are swimming against the tide by growing sales in the premium
category in a declining overall market”.</b></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Food is too cheap, so premiumising
is a good thing.”</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
Andrew did contrarily mention that shoppers can be promiscuous and that
discount supermarkets had grown market share from 3% of the market to 11% in
just three years. He wondered whether shoppers will get fed up of going from
shop to shop just to save a few pennies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With
Richmond having a commanding 65% of the market he asked a key marketing
question: </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“can we get their customers to
spend just a few pennies more to trade up to us?”</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need to
approach buyers ideally early in the year as after April you will struggle to
get listed and you will have no chance at all after September as they will
already be planning the next year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Andrew advised
that it’s important to understand that all buyers are under immense pressure
from their bosses.</b> They focus on sales; waste reduction and profit margin is
key. They are super busy so aim to keep meetings to a brisk 20 minutes and make
sure you know how the category is performing and how you can grow sales. Be
chatty and remember personal details about them. Heck uses a small paper flip
chart rather than PowerPoint for presentations. “Take notes on what they want
the focus over the next year to be e.g. price. Confirm later that your
understanding is correct”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Download
sales figures daily and provide retailers with suggestions weekly to improve
selling.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Always deliver your sales targets:
hit your targets every quarter or you will your future meetings difficult.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The better you perform, the more
shelf space you will be given”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Retail changes
so quickly, if you take a year out you can lose contacts quickly”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To deliver
the kind of profit margin buyers need, Heck works on a lean production model
and make everything themselves including labels with direct labour accounting
for less than 5% of costs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Andrew encouraged
everyone to grow their list of suppliers and not be too dependent on one
company. Tesco used to account for 80% of Heck’s business but now is down to
40%. Having said that you also don’t want to take on all of the big suppliers
at once and they even turned down a huge order as they knew that they could not
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Getting listed is easy but standing out on the shelf is difficult. Sausages used to have ‘bodybag’ packaging so Heck went for an innovative and colourful cardboard packaging.</span></span></span></div>
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done all the hard work to get listed and stocked you must double check that
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supermarket data to track stock replenishment and follow up in-store to check
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marketing challenge is to move from being famous for sausage products and gaining
a reputation for variety and vegetarian products. They began this by moving
into chicken and healthy burger markets as Andrew bluntly put it “Quorn and Calder
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opening a Heck World customer experience building in 2017 covering over 25,000 square
feet housing a factory, picnic facilities and cookery school. They are also going
to target the slimming community and health community as they are very vocal
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mel Bound's fab keynote speech at the end of </span><a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Enterprise Nation's</span></b></a><span style="font-size: large;"> Start Up 2017 event in Birmingham was for many the highlight of a very exciting day.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">Here's what you missed (you missed a lot!!)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>A need!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A desire for some much needed headspace, exercise and me time led Mel to post on Facebook asking if any other busy mums felt the same and would anyone like to go for a run next Wednesday? 75 people showed up! Talk about discovering a need and a demand for something missing in these enthusiastic ladies lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Mel quickly set up a This Mum Runs Facebook page and within days had hundreds of members. Most businesses can only dream of such momentum. Using an online coaching template for an 8 week beginners guide to running she quickly set up some structure and trained up additional TMR (This Mum Runs) running coaches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Important</b>: Mel has done nearly all her marketing through Facebook and spent less than £2k on advertising. The caring and supportive attitudes of the TMR community are a big attraction and it is this inclusive attitude to welcome everyone that gives the concept mass appeal. There is no confidence-bashing focus on weight or competitiveness and a goal "to empower more mums around the world to be happier and healthier". </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Checkout the inspiration category on TMR's website: <a href="https://blog.thismumruns.co.uk/category/inspiration/"><span style="color: red;"><b>Inspiration</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mel stated that she needed money to scale the business up from its current locations in Bristol and Bath. She turned to <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.crowdcube.com/"><span style="color: red;">Crowdcube</span></a> </span>who have raised over £200m for over 400 businesses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before the campaign went live Mel and her team spent 3 months promoting the forthcoming fundraising round. This preparation was vital to gaining attention on launch and a prominent position on the homepage. Mel raised 50% of her target in 20 minutes and 100% in 10 days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you can see above she now has 300 investors who provided £100k in return for 14.68% of her business. Over half of the investors are TMR runners and 80% are female. Refreshing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mel has proven a master at building TMR with an inspiring and supportive community spirit that generates phenomenal word of mouth and positive recommendations. There are now over 6,500 members. Through working with Facebook on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/business/a/shemeansbusiness"><span style="color: red;"><b>She Means Business</b></span></a> campaign Mel had access to data confirming there has been more than 10,000 posts and 52,000 comments on the TMR page. Mel herself has made over 10,000 comments. Try and beat that for customer engagement!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b><span style="color: blue;">Building Income</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">TMR offers 90 free runs a month but generates most of its income from paid courses for beginners to seasoned pros. To supplement this Mel has also launched a cool range of clothing which is extremely popular with members proud to show they are very proud to be in TMR. Mel admitted that the first attempt at a clothes range was a bit rushed so they took more time and care second time around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mel has a super confident altar ego that she uses to appear more confident than she feels. Mel was so nervous when pitching at E Nation's Festival of Female Entrepreneurs that to hide that her legs were shaking she kept moving them from side to side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mel recently took herself away for a few days isolation to mentally detox and gain much needed headspace to think clearly what to do next with the business. Helping mothers such as Kelly Pike below, who needed a boost to her confidence is the why that drives every step forward TMR takes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To build your confidence Mel suggests watching this Ted Talk on body language by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Amy Cuddy. It gets you to notice the effect your body language has on others and how they view you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What a wonderful job <a href="https://twitter.com/Debbie_RCL">Debbie Assinder</a> did putting together this fantastic Start Up 2017 event for Enterprise Nation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a memorable day at </span><a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Enterprise Nation's</b></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> ScaleUp 2016, the perfect event to help you take your small business to the next level and dream bigger!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was fitting that the first speaker at the event Jason Stockwood of <a href="http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/" target="_blank">Simply Business</a> is a former philosophy student as the quotes below are often extremely thoughtful, inspiring and ethically minded rather than some lets get rich quick mentality. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jason wants you to ask yourself <b>"Is what you are doing today really what you are about?"</b>. Jason stated that businesses should not define their values as values are actually how you live your life. <b>"Don't leave your values at the door"</b> he urged as there is no point defining values such as integrity if employees then see you acting differently.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>2) "I will get you the returns you need, just leave me alone".</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jason said not to bother explaining emotional intelligence to investors, just talk about return on investment and figures as they won't understand or care about what you mean. Investors help you to be ambitious but don't drive your culture. <b>"The language of numbers is different to the language of the heart."</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jason said you need to be best version of yourself. He does not believe in the work/life balance mantra as those two things are diametrically opposed instead you should love going to work and behave in the same way as you do outside work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simply Business has such a strong culture that even if he left there would still be 14 senior staff that share his values that would keep the culture in tact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During his first two years with Simply Business Jason interviewed and hired every new employee. Get as much data as possible and as many opinions as possible he suggests. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Are you excited to work with this person?"</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">If anyone on the team says no we won't employ that person.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>5) "We had to move on 53% of employees we began with".</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When he took over Simply Business it was £10m in debt with 70 employees. Many of these did not like the new more accountable style of management where he asked:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>6) "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that matters".</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So stated Emma Jones enthusiastically. Tim took it all in laconic style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was a quote Emma particularly connected with. Former Criminal lawyer and founder of <a href="https://www.purplebricks.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Purplebricks</b></span></a> will be your judge, jury and executioner if you don't have the drive and talent to think and act big. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't start a business just for money Michael warned. If you care about the things that create wealth then money will follow. Don't be shallow people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />It's possibly the most dreaded dilemma an entrepreneur can face. Should you give up equity and how much is the correct amount to give up. Michael said that he would rather have 20% of a big company than 50% of a tiny one. Purplebricks which launched in 2014 after 2 years of prep floated after 20 months at £240m. It is now worth £300m.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">13) "All are customers are Gen D".</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you don't know who the Digital Generation are then you may not be cool enough to drink <a href="https://www.sandows.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Sandows Cold Brew Coffee</span></b></a>. Co-founder Hugh Duffie explained that it's important that they speak to their young customers in their own language. "We take risks and we use txtspeak to show that we are Gen D and not the older generation".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nigel Botterill of <a href="http://entrepreneurscircle.org/" target="_blank">Entrepreneur's Circle</a> ordered that you should not be scanning your emails or being distracted by anything trivial. <b>For many businesses the most critical thing they should be doing is finding and keeping new customers.</b> You must set aside time to do this key thing and Nigel even has a sign on his office door stating "Do not disturb unless the building is on fire". He even gave two employees a disciplinary to enforce this rule.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is tip for the procrastinators of you out there taking your time, avoiding deadlines and lacking urgency. Nigel said that if for example you had to get a Facebook ad campaign running in 24 hours or you died you would do it! Get your plans into action!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My favourite moment of ScaleUp 2016 was getting to chat with Mel Bound of </span><a href="http://www.thismumruns.co.uk/" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;">This Mum Runs</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and Enterprise Nation's Female Start-up of the year 2016. You cannot fail to be impressed with Mel. When talking about being able to analyse her Facebook group page Mel was astonished to find out that she had commented 10,000 times on members post. There can be no finer example of engaging with your customers with enthusiasm and dedication. Amazing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are looking to crowdfund to raise investment for your business your marketing campaign must start long before your launch day on the website. Chris Rea sitting third left on the finance panel explained that you should already have some investment lined up so you attract attention on the homepage and start with a good momentum towards your target.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was an incredibly eclectic range of fashion and accessories at <a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Enterprise Nation's Fashion Exchange</span></b></a> in London. Can you predict who are going to be the iconic brands of the future? There was brands from Turkey and Spain, cutting edge sportswear, personalised shoes, nostalgia brands, charity jewellery startups, 'world keys', poetry inspired lingerie and even kawaii customised iPhones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nakeid design sportswear that's highly comfortable, super stylish and performance enhancing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nadia Minkoff</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nadia Minkoff is a boutique style brand established for almost 30 years now. They design their products to be timeless companions and avoid passing trends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nadia Minkoff is stocked by Wolf and Badger which is a terrific London boutique that supports emerging designers. Co-founder Constanza Di Gennaro was one of the speakers on the panel providing great tips on making sales on the high street.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Constanza Di Gennaro (2nd left) of <a href="https://www.wolfandbadger.com/uk/" target="_blank">Wolf and Badger</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2.26 Jewellery, Chapputz, The Hopes</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you would expect in London there was a lovely international flavour from the people and the brands that attended. <a href="http://www.leleka.co.uk/" target="_blank">Leleka UK</a> brought along 3 very individual and artfully curated brands. The Reflection by 2:26 jewellery collection above and the Chapputz handwoven bags below are inspired by Anatolian nomads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Hopes world keys is a brass jewellery collection with cool multilingual messages etched on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Founder Ben Barnaby took part in Enterprise Nation's Go Global Mission to China in 2015. His mission is to transform the image of menswear away from standard, boring and old fashioned designs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Santamaria Shirtmakers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Santamaria is a London based online startup that import luxurious Italian fabrics to their workshop in Madrid to hand stitch. Interestingly they have a collaboration with Made In Chelsea star Andy Jordan which is something guest speakers Tom Cridland and Phoebe Gormley point blank refused to do when they considered PR strategies. Tom was advised to save up £2,000 to pay a Made In Chelsea star to wear his trousers on their Instagram account.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Santamaria caters for everyone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Triia</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Triia was one of the newest brands at the Fashion Exchange at only a couple of weeks old! Founder Cathy was inspired by her travels to start a jewellery company with a heart of gold. 10% of profits go to the charity <a href="http://www.maitinepal.org/">Maiti Nepal</a> which has rescued thousands of girls from sex trafficking. Triia's bespoke jewellery is handmade in Bali.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stephie Ann specialises in silk lingerie inspired by poets such as Lord Byron. Beautiful hand drawings and photography are digitally printed onto silk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you like a bit of nostalgia? Love to rock a slogan tee? Then you need to checkout Fan-Club Clothing and roll back the decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Emma Jones was particularly taken with this brand even confiscating designer Destiny Rose's phone to admire on stage. Destiny can customise everything from bags to jewellery, clothes and shoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's no surprise that these glorious coloured accessories are stocked in such prestigious museums as The Royal Academy of Arts, the British Museum and Wolf and Badger as mentioned earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her prints are a very interesting mix of hand painting, photography and collage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This label specialises in multicultural influences to design stylish conversation starters such as the Fly Higher tulle skirt for confident women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">OSingulierS</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">OSinguliers like Santamaria shirts featured earlier let you use a 3D designer to create your own unique, personalised footwear. You can choose everything from the style to stitching to personal engraving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HotSquash specialise in cutting-edge fabrics that are so clever they can keep you warm or cool and secretly use technology to make you look your absolute best with no hassle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't quite catch the names of these last 3 labels but I liked them all a lot. You can see the passion that goes into making the naturally produced leather handbags.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two of the star speakers at an action-packed <a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Enterprise Nation</b></span></a> Fashion Exchange in London this September were the amazing <a href="http://www.tomcridland.com/pages/about"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Tom Cridland</b></span></a> and <a href="http://www.gormleyandgamble.com/"><b><span style="color: blue;">Phoebe Gormley of Gormley & Gamble</span></b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These groundbreaking entrepreneurs were full of unique, interesting and unmissable tips on how to create a successful fashion brand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Phoebe did not want to spend £9,000 on her final year at university in return for just an hour of tutoring a week. She knew she could do more with that money! She took a gamble hence the name Gormley & Gamble. She began by joining an incubator startup with Bathtub 2 Boardroom </span><span style="font-size: large;">which only charged her £120 a month for a desk in the office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whilst also studying at university, Tom's dissatisfaction with the throwaway culture in fashion grew from watching other students buy cheap dresses every week instead of buying 1 really nice dress every 6 weeks. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do at the beginning so started with the desire to make 'the perfect pair of trousers'.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">The new and wonderfully named Entrepreneur's Shirt in Pink Panther</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tom, in his own words foolishly only took out a £6,000 loan to start his business which quickly ran out after 3 months. However it got him up and running and despite some comical situations at times (not having stock ready for the launch) his passion and flair for PR would start to quickly build his brand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As Tom says <b>"It's lovely not having to follow anyone else's rule book".</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.luxworldwide.com/magazine/fashion/lux-events-sheep-savile-row/">www.luxworldwide.com</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Savile Row was pedestrianised in 2015 for a Wool Week promotion that involved sheep grazing on a specially built pasture. Phoebe took the opportunity whilst visiting Savile Row to speak to a tailor friend and cheekily ask if she could share space in his shop. He agreed she could for the same rent she was already paying elsewhere. Phoebe wanted to move in around 6 months when her contract was up but the tailor insisted she do it "next week or never!". Phoebe agreed and took the pain of paying double rent for the next 6 months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was still a good saving as it costs £25,000 to a month to rent a ground floor in Savile Row. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The prestige of this location would mean that some patronising people would now have to stop dismissing Phoebe as just 'a seamstress doing alterations' and respect her a professional tailor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the things I loved most about Tom's talk was his determination to ignore PR advice that he should save up £2,000 and pay a Made In Chelsea star to wear his trousers on Instagram. Instead they drew up a list of people they genuinely admired to cheekily approach with the offer of a freebie! Tom is a keen drummer so first on the list was Elton John's drummer Nigel Olsson. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tomcridlandmenswear/">Tom Cridland Instagram</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tom's approach is now legendary and went along the lines of "Hi I'm 23 and I've started a new business. Would you like some free trousers?". Drummer Nigel loved them so much he wrote back asking to buy more pairs and crucially for Tom he then forwarded Tom's email to stars such as Daniel Craig and Leonardo DiCaprio who have since worn the brand. Tom's tip is to not send expensive freebies to people until they have given you permission to do so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Phoebe used her father's professional network to ask if they knew of any professional ladies who needed tailored clothes. Her first client was the CEO of Virgin Money and at 6 foot 2 inches tall and struggling to find clothes that fit was perfect to benefit from Phoebe's skills. She purchased 12 items.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tom used MailChimp to email everyone they knew about the label launch. They worked really hard on promoting to friends, friends of friends and everyone in their personal network. His sister Debra brought in contacts from her previous position with Universal Music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The press Phoebe got for being the first female tailor on Savile Row sent her organic web search ratings for Gormley & Gamble through the roof with top listings in every applicable category and helped her sales figures leap from 5 to 6 figures in a year.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/emmaljones">Emma Jones put together a wonderful Fashion Exchange appreciated by all.</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Phoebe mentioned how she once wasted £2,000 on a PR agency and all she got was a one-liner in the Metro. She recommends London Fashion Agency with fees starting from £39 and Fashion PR Resources which start at £28.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tom worked really hard on PR for both the label launch and crowdfunding campaign. To generate lots of press attention he said:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"A good idea and a good story about your product are preferable to just having a celebrity wear your product".</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) Create a story to make you stand out.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2) Drive sales with PR and not Google AdWords. 40% of Tom's customers are from the USA due to TV exposure over there.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3) Pester journalists with stories and updates until they feature you. Tom did not let tetchy journalists telling him to get lost deter him</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4) Have a Dropbox set up with high resolution images for PR purposes that you can easily invite journalists to view.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">5) Stalk celebrities online! Tom said you can find out what nearly every celebrity is up to on MailOnline. This is very handy for finding proof that a celebrity has been wearing your clothes and is where Tom spotted Leonardo DiCaprio wearing his trousers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">6) If celebrities accept the offer of a freebie ask them to send you a photo of them wearing it, they may not do so though. Dame Judi Dench actually photo-messaged and said use this photo in any way you like. Stephen Fry also wore his free trousers on a Valentine's Day date with his partner that got lots of coverage.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7) Check with photo agencies if you can use any photos you find and ask for a discount if you are a new or small business.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">8) Set up a Google on celebrities you have targeted.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">9) Use <a href="https://www.thehandbook.com/"><b><span style="color: blue;">TheHandbook.com</span></b></a> to find celebrity contact addresses "but don't go mad!". Tom once had an email back from a publisher complaining that he had literally emailed everyone in the entire office. It's £30 a month to subscribe.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">10) Be so good you can start your own PR company! <a href="http://www.tomcridland.com/pages/tomcridlandpublicrelations"><b><span style="color: blue;">Tom Cridland Public Relations</span></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Phoebe's maxim is "for just a little more money than the high street I can make things that fit perfectly for you". Most women may settle for trying something on and if it's a reasonable fit they purchase it. Phoebe wants to give you an A* made to measure vibe not a B+ it will do vibe. One of her customers loved all the clothes she ordered so much that she instantly ordered 5 more of everything. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Face-to-face contact with customers is crucial to Phoebe. She did not go down the internet only route (where people key in their measurements) as it makes no sense for tailoring. She is currently looking for her own space to sell that she can make hyper-feminine and pretty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Phoebe's Top Tip: "It's so hard to find excellent manufacturers, look after them, if they like a tipple drop whisky off to them on a Friday afternoon, pay them on time." A sourcing lady once wasted six months of Phoebe's time supposedly trying to find her a supplier. Another supplier backed out of a deal with her stating that she was too young. The massive inconvenience that this caused led to Phoebe sending him a glitter bomb envelope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the fantastic success of his first product Tom now moved on to finding a way to do something unique with the sustainability vibe that really drives him, Talking to manufacturers led to his next innovation the 30 year sweatshirt. They were able to show him samples from the 1970s that were still in good condition which therefore made the 30 year longevity a reality. The durability is achieved by luxuriously manufacturing the garments to last longer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tom often stays up working until 2am and self-shipped all his products in the early days of the business. Phoebe works 6 days a week including Saturdays and stays open some nights until 10pm to suit when her very busy clients are free for fittings after long days at work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://narzipan.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/fashion-and-jewellery-exchange.html">Blog on Fashion & Jewellery Exchange Birmingham</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://missmacaroon.co.uk/"><span style="font-size: large;">missmacaroon.co.uk</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was an amazing collection of new food brands at Enterprise Nation's Food Exchange in Birmingham hoping to impress buyers from both Sainsburys and Selfridges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most of these brands were based on incredibly healthy recipes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Natural flavours were to the fore and anything bad for you was on the naughty list: sugar-free, salt-free, preservative-free, gluten-free, are you free?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another dominating trend was the flavours and recipes from Africa and the Caribbean. When you consider all the supermarket space given to countries such as India, Italy and China it makes you realise how forgotten about these recipes are and the massive potential they have to wow everyone with new tastes.Give them some more space buyers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Neema specialise in spices based on recipes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Founder Rose Yombo-Djema below got to pitch to the Selfridges buyer Adrian Boswell who approved of the packaging and the taste with some feedback that the bullet chilli sauce was maybe too hot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rose had the clever idea of pairing food with fashion by incorporating African fabrics into the design and branding. Amazing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rachel Yvodne Campbell is on a mission to show everyone the sweet side of the Caribbean. Her delicious recipes including flavours such as banana rum and guava aim to add to everyone's fondness for Caribbean staples such as jerk chicken and fried dumplings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Feast on flavours such as pineapple and plantain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Co-founder Melanie Sampson may be an architect by day but she had no problem creating delicious gourmet flavours such as hibiscus infused drinks both alcoholic and non-alcoholic that stand out as a nice upmarket treat for the home and parties. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the nicest treats I tasted at the exchange was the cookies below. Dark chocolate with orange flavour, simply lush! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jems Marvellous Mixes is inspired by cooking with her children and these cookie mixes aim to inspire both adults and children to whip up fab cookies in an instant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you like your sauces traditionally flavoured, try beating Seville Sauce's family recipes dating back to 1890! With red and green chillies and peppers to the fore they have an intriguing new Spanish whisky sauce in the pipeline. Both the buyers from Sainsburys and Selfridges mentioned that you better not be a member of the one-trick pony club as they constantly want new flavours and products from your range to keep customers coming back for more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With successful subscription companies such as Graze and Hello Fresh racking up huge sales it's good to see smaller businesses getting in on the action. Tyga post beautiful spice and paste blends to your home to make it easier to whip up delicious curry recipes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What's your flava? Tell me what's your flava? Is it salted caramel? Pecan pie? Rich chocolate? They all tasted dreamy to me. 'Kernel-in-Chiefs' Laura Jackson and Samuel Robert Feller hand-make gourmet popcorn with natural ingredients and top it off with indulgently textured toppings that mass brands simply can't compete with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Claire Dinan also got to pitch her brand to Selfridges and did a great job of it too. Claire's vision is to change the way people look at snacking so that you no longer have to choose between taste and health. This was a key point I picked up on amongst these food entrepreneurs, traditionally many healthy foods don't taste that yummy so they don't become a habit food. The next step in healthy eating is to get a taste to die for as well as the nutritional benefits. Not easy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Claire's treats range from caramel slices to 'cheese-less' cheesecakes and donuts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Selfridges buyer Adrian Boswell made a crucial point that not only does your product have to be excellent to make it into his shelves it must also grow that category and not cannibalise sales from existing brands. In Nutty Cacao's case Claire needs to compete with and beat Livia's Kitchen to get listed in Selfridges. Claire stated that her wider range of flavours is her strategy to make this happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Joe Devereux Kelly gave an extremely well-polished pitch to the Selfridges buyer Adrian Boswell who said Joe's pitch and product impressed him the most. Joe's relaxed nature was key to clearly promoting his brand and listening to Adrian's feedback and countering any doubts about the brand's potential.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Selfridges want 75% of the shelf life of your product from when it's produced to be on their shelves. So if your product has a 100 day shelf life Selfridges will want 75 days of that total. Cool Cold Brew Coffee are changing their packaging to Tetra Pak to dramatically increase the shelf life of their product from 6 weeks to 12 months. They are also taking the chance to further improve the branding and packaging too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can't get any healthier than Matchola's winning granola, gluten-free, organic ingredients plus trendy Matcha green tea. Time to ditch Cornflakes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A daughter's love for her father and a desire to create treats that he could enjoy after being diagnosed as coeliac is the driving force behind Pure Treats. Choconut and date snacks to put a smile on your face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unique Balkan flavours and great branding makes Granny's Secrets a standout brand at #FoodEx. A focus on natural products such as ajvar pepper relish and artisan juices such as wild blueberry fruit juice brings a taste of the countryside to the big city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I loved these sauces below for the instant punch of flavour they gave me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This full range is already stocked online at Holland & Barrett and they have a no nonsense attitude to keeping their products salt-free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Their aim is help to support your dietary choices with truly simple natural products.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Liven up your breadbasket with a red quinoa loaf, golden linseed loaf or even an onion and seeds loaf. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lyco Life contains antioxidant Lycopene if you need to detox whilst Rejuvenation Water's ginger and lime drink wowed me with it's delicate tasty flavour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No brand gave out more freebies than Aqua Carpatica!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Five top journalists gave us top tips on how to maximise your chances of getting them to run a story about you or your company. The <a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Enterprise Nation</span></b></a> event at digital start-up specialists <a href="https://www.innovationbham.com/about/"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Innovation Birmingham</span></b></a> focused on identifying the correct media to target, how to approach them with a relevant press release and how and when to send it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tom stated that he is interested in stories that are related to his subject rather than your business success, contracts won or prizes etc. So your press release will need to have something exciting scientifically to catch his attention. A story he liked recently was about the train app that rail travellers use to tell each other how busy the train carriages are that they are travelling on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tom's preference is for stories to be around 500 to 600 words long. He also likes statistics behind websites for example the Okcupid dating website had interesting stats about the average age gap in relationships and popular keywords used in member profiles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Steve likes to run a mixture of short stories and features in his Business Quarterly magazine and email newsletter. He prefers to focus on innovation and collaboration articles that look at the people behind the story and new jobs created.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Steve does not like jargon and unlike many journalists is happier to be contacted by phone rather than email. You can also contact him with updates, progress and results of your story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kurt, like most journalists is a very busy man and you better get to the point when you approach him. No small talk, no 'how is your day?' as<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">you only have ten seconds to pitch your story</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">.</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span></b>Kurt has a fondness for stories of small companies taking on the big boys and is more accommodating about stories dealing with figures, profit and loss amounts, investment expenditure etc.</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">Kurt's key questions about running a story are:</span></u></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">What is the utility of this article? </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">What purpose does it serve my readers? </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">How does it help them knowing this?</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Richard Cockett, The Economist</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Richard's key point was that as The Economist has two thirds of its readers from overseas your press release will need to have global relevance and interest. Richard travels often to visit sites to get real in-depth stories. </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>He wants to know what makes you different?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c2022; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><u><b>3 tips to get Richard's attention</b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><b>1) Trends: is your business involved in a new or developing trend?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><b>2) Set-up: is your start-up arrangement new? How is what you are doing revolutionary?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><b>3) Socio-political: does your story have relevance to larger political and social issues?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Duncan finds the social media platforms good for engagement but is also happy to be contacted by phone. He is more interested in your press release if you are creating jobs and is happy to meet you in person if it will improve the quality of the article. The Business Desk like to react quickly to stories with Duncan once publishing an article in 20 minutes after hearing from a source that a business was closing down. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Provide information not marketing.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ask yourself should your press release be factual and to the point or contain deeper analysis to make it more interesting?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Who is your audience?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1c2022; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Who do you want to see your press release?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>No blanket emails.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;">Many journalists will spot emails that have 100s of recipients and treat that email as junk. You should personalise your email to the journalist and their area of expertise.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>The right journalist at the right time with the right content.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: #1c2022; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Have you researched who is most suitable to publish your content? Do you know the magazine well? With Richard for example are you a long-term reader following a story with an insight to add to his story? Tom suggests to try and tie-in with a current news story or adding an expert opinion to an ongoing piece. This has potential to get you national coverage if your information links to a wider story.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Grab interest with your header: y</b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>ou have 2.4 seconds to impress.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1c2022;">Use 5 or 6 key words in the header that summarise a unique angle for the journalist. They want an original story. Kurt's tip was to write as if you were explaining something to a child. </span><span style="color: red;"><b>Simplify your pitch</b></span><span style="color: #1c2022;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Tell your story in 6 paragraphs.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Make sure you personalise the main story to the magazine you are approaching.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 22.4px;">Think laterally! If you are a florist for example, trends from your customers buying habits on Valentine's day can give insight into the nation's love life and mood. As Richard so insightfully pointed out:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c2022; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 22.4px;"><b>What you think is interesting about your business may be very different to what I think is interesting about your business!</b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029924985921676383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232987774983667761.post-8648631219566951332016-08-29T09:50:00.000+01:002016-08-29T09:50:09.664+01:00Mind of the Fashion Buyer<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DebraJH">Debra Hepburn</a></span></b>, founder of <a href="https://www.youngbritishdesigners.com/"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Young British Designers</span></b></a>
gave a masterclass of advice on impressing fashion and jewellery buyers to new fashion
start-ups at <a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Enterprise Nation's</span></b></a> Fashion and Jewellery Exchange in Birmingham.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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British Designers is the only retailer dedicated to new designers and stock an
incredibly unique range of fashion and accessories. Debra mentioned that she is
especially interested in applications from new jewellery designers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Key Point: Buyers are super
busy and look for reasons to discard people.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It takes a
leap of faith for buyers to stock new designers and trends so you must be fully
prepared when you approach them for an order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Buyer’s Mind</b><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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Perfect Brand Name</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Your brand
name must be memorable, pronounceable, easy to spell and future-proof. It may
not be suitable to just use your own name for a label as it may not evoke the
image you want to project. It may be too plain and simple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be able to clearly, concisely, and memorably describe your brand. Buyers
receive 15 to 20 approaches a day so you must stand out with your first
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some good
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Renli Su: ‘Explores
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Aries: ‘Streetwear
Provocateurs’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Do your homework
on the buyer and company that you are approaching. Find out their name and job
title. Do not send post or emails addressed ‘FAO The Buyer’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Do you have a stockist
strategy of which stores are the most suitable to approach?</span></b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What stores
fit your brand profile? Have you visited them? What space do they have? Do you
complement their other brands? Do not appear to be desperate to be stocked when
meeting buyers. Use the #designers on twitter to find potential leads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Once you
have the designs finalised you will then need to back up your creativity with
the organisation of your business to match.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Have a great lookbook
with no weak images or designs included.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Line sheet pricing:
this is all the technical details a buyer needs to know about placing an order.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Link it to your lookbook. You need
to describe the fit, available sizes, delivery deadlines, minimum order
quantities and country of origin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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up and deliver on all the steps in selling to a stockist. Orders need to flow smoothly
from the line sheet to production to retail. Sometimes production can go wrong
so you must keep your buyers fully informed of any issues or potential delays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You don’t
have to keep reinventing your brand and offering every few months. Young
British Designers prefer one main collection to four seasonal ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In May we attended a wonderful fashion and jewellery exchange event
hosted by </span><a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Enterprise Nation</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> founder </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/emmaljones" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Emma Jones</span></a> </b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">and West Midlands Enterprise
Champion </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Debbie_RCL" style="font-size: 13.5pt;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Debbie Assinder</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. The event brought together top buyers from retail
giants such as Selfridges, John Lewis, Net-A-Porter and River Island to give us
first class tips on how to attract a buyer's attention and get your product
stocked in these prestigious stores.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Eleanor Robinson, head of accessories buying provided wonderful
advice and excellent tips on how Selfridges find new brands and the key factors
that help them decide whether to stock the brand and place an order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Selfridges group has sales of over £500m with own-bought stock
accounting for £200m of selling. All products have to be right for the
Selfridges brand and extremely well made. Eleanor mentioned that there is a
trend of customers veering away from made in China goods. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Selfridges
customers are interested in the story behind brands and care that goods are
ethically and sustainably produced. Before approaching Selfridges, you should
research their current brands and make sure your brand fits in with their range
and values.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Most brands are found in boutiques, trade shows and showrooms
rather than through contacting a buyer. You can still directly contact buyers
with a lookbook and through email but responses are rare. If you do send in a lookbook,
Eleanor emphasised that there is no need to also send in expensive samples to
impress and you may be wasting your money if you do so. A simple cover note
introducing your brand will suffice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">To source many of their goods Selfridges visit large trade shows
in Paris and Milan such as the Tranoi exhibition for luxury retailers. These
are highly competitive to be selected to exhibit at and very expensive to be
part of. On a smaller scale, multi-brand showrooms are often visited by buyers
looking for fresh talent as are the best boutiques.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Buyers are most influenced by their peers, what's in the press and
if bloggers are talking about and wearing new brands.</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> If they spot a fellow buyer or PR
employees wearing a new brand it is a key endorsement and the starting point of
wanting to know more about a brand and its potential as a Selfridges brand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Once a potential brand is spotted they may watch its progress for
a couple of seasons before considering stocking the label. This gives
businesses a chance to grow and get the correct systems in place such as
manufacturing to ensure they are organised and capable of supplying orders on
time and to high quality controls. For this reason, it may be better for brands
to start with being stocked in small boutiques before chasing big orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Key question buyers from Selfridges will ask from new suppliers is:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>‘What is unique about your brand?’</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">They recommend using social media to tell your brand story in more
detail rather than relying on a catalogue for example.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">You will need to use great photos tell your story and your website
must be totally on-point to represent your brand. Using Instagram is important
for fashion brands to attract attention. Having a large number of followers is
not essential if the key influencers that do follow the brand introduce their
large following to the brand and wear the clothes in their posts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The busiest period for buyers ties in with the major fashion
seasons and is from January to March and September to October. Some business is
also done in June and July. </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>You
may have a better chance of a positive response if you approach buyers in
quieter periods. </b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Orders are
placed in line with the seasons with the influence of pre-collections becoming
more important in recent years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">With online shopping becoming more important, it takes more effort
to get customers into store. Selfridges approaches this by aiming to make the
shopping experience more personalised with a sense of theatre and
entertainment. They want to ‘surprise, amuse, amaze’. In-store displays can use
demonstrations and videos to bring their brands to life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;">Brand exclusivity</span></b><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">is always wanted by Selfridges and they will promote a brand more
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Events are anchored around key trading periods i.e. Christmas and
the aim is to also tie-in with special occasions. The ‘Live and Loud’ Selfridges
campaign in Birmingham was their response to the dramatically changing retail
environment in Birmingham with the opening of Grand Central Station, John Lewis
and the expansion of The Mailbox.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The campaign celebrated the very best of Birmingham art, fashion,
beauty, music and food. Exciting events included an in-store exhibition space,
Michelin-starred dining experiences, Bollywood cinema screenings and live
music. A collaboration with Birmingham City University involved an in-store
catwalk, a showcase of student graduate final projects and flash mob
performances on all floors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Selfridges will look for a margin of at least 2.5 times your trade
price. So a £100 trade price handbag will retail at £250. They may start with a small order
to begin with and you will need to plan how quickly you can replenish stock if
all goes well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">If sales are slow, you will need to reassess your offer and
consider more marketing, social media promotion, staff training and promotions.
You may be faced with having to sell products at a heavy discount or buying
back your stock. You can also try a pop-up stand and these can last anything
from a weekend to 6 weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029924985921676383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232987774983667761.post-17336351283009886192016-05-13T01:30:00.000+01:002016-08-25T14:45:22.089+01:00Met Gala 2016 Red Carpet Fashion<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 2016 Met Gala had some fantastic fashion for me and an improvement on recent years. One of the biggest hits was Alicia Vikander in Louis Vuitton. A unique look and those boots are wonderful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beyonce in Givenchy was understated so didn't quire reach the heights of previous years,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="in Givenchy
" src="http://hbz.h-cdn.co/assets/16/18/480x720/hbz-met-beyonce.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If Zayn didn't use the phrase 'I'm going to look so cool in this!' when getting ready I will be disappointed. I keep saying themes are naff most off the time. Leave it out Sonnie! Kwl gown for Gigi Hadid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="in Tommy Hilfiger and Versace
" src="http://hbz.h-cdn.co/assets/16/18/480x720/gallery-1462238179-hbz-met-gigi1.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">More suited to Alice in Wonderland than the Met I'm afraid Miranda. Alicia obviously bagged the best LV look.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="in Louis Vuitton
" src="http://hbz.h-cdn.co/assets/16/18/480x720/hbz-met-miranda-ker.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Blake Lively in Burberry. This is very bold for Burberry and a refreshing choice of colour.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="in Burberry
" src="http://hbz.h-cdn.co/assets/16/18/980x668/hbz-met-blake.jpg" height="436" width="640" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This is lovely. Adriana Lima also going for a fairytale look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="in Giambattista Valli Haute Couture dress, Chopard jewelry and Roger Vivier bag
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now isn't this a rare thing. A photo of a couple that seems genuine and not contrived. I've seen The Weeknd live. Amazing! Givenchy wow moment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="in Givenchy
" src="http://hbz.h-cdn.co/assets/16/18/480x720/hbz-met-gala-2016-couples-the-weeknd-bella-hadid_1.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A fantastic moment for Claire Danes in Zac Posen. The Met Ball at it's best.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Claire Danes" src="http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/claire-danes-df31a101-20be-48ec-87d7-28403a9e162c.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Poppy Delevingne did the theme best. Subtlety is not dead! With a theme it's kwl to not take it literally. She could be an alien in a Star Trek movie.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Poppy Delevingne" src="http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/poppy-7dede791-75b9-4912-a171-e98c0a2c0e94.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Forget what I said about subtlety being dead. I presumed Gaga had grown out of this behaviour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Emma Stone looks like Megan Fox with this look. Why? Bring back the red hair! Not Prada's best look, seems unfinished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You scrub up well Luther! Tom Ford master class. Dashing.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Idris Elba" src="http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/idris-elba-8d8e4a24-7f6f-4c86-be44-cd03b98deec0.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Orlando is not as dashing as Idris Elba. Is it just me or do the shoes look funny?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Orlando Bloom" src="http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/orlando-bloom-5013f110-4668-4c74-bb72-a3721794ac0b.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A bad night for KP judging by the stares. This Prada gown resembles some kind of gothic Xmas cracker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Continuing the Xmas cracker vibe Solange wore all the party hats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This look isn't' immortal' Kristen. Chanel are not in form.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm a fan of Taylor but this new look is the wrong side of egdy. Don't give me attitude gurl! LV mayhem.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Taylor Swift" src="http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/taylor-swift-f908b7a9-51e0-4e0d-8d0e-7e7070a7c6bb.jpg" height="640" width="437" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Another poor LV look for Selana Gomez. What's going on with this label?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Selena Gomez " src="http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/selena-gomez-6a7eba09-2c5f-4dfe-a6d5-ca8941755bf8.jpg" height="640" width="413" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You nailed it Calvin Klein and Emma Watson! Glam and gothic but not OTT.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Emma Watson " src="http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/emma-watson-d87c3a3e-9cb5-4721-839a-99e405e4294c.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This is okay Kylie. For me most of the ladies in Balmain were very samey. A bit more individualism would have been great.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Kylie Jenner " src="http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/kylie-jenner-dfd9461a-c756-4ee4-8aca-6095f9be62ea.jpg" height="640" width="391" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Fab curls and a wonderful textured Boss dress for Anna Ewers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Anna Ewers" src="http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/anna-ewers-e7fe8ecc-0c79-4049-a512-49336d591544.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Another good Zac Posen look for Katie. Sophisticated but a little safe.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Katie Holmes " src="http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/katie-holmes-ef34ddaa-78e5-434a-9c75-d5bf23a99847.jpg" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Nicole Kidman in Alexander McQueen was an eclectic way to do fairytale style. Just needed edgier jewellery to spice it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was interesting Ciara. Respect!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brie Larson in Proenza Schouler. The robotic stare defo fits in with the techno theme! I like the top half but the bottom resembles Chanel and does not quite work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="in Proenza Schouler
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hair and makeup brilliant Sienna. Dress colour is wrong and ill-fitting. Needed to be sharper with more shimmer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Front and back perfection for Liu Wen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most photos are from <a href="http://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/red-carpet-dresses/g7193/red-carpet-met-gala-2016/" target="_blank">Harpers Bazaar</a> and <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/met-gala" target="_blank">US Magazine</a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029924985921676383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232987774983667761.post-91082818943665873582015-08-31T16:13:00.000+01:002015-08-31T16:13:54.406+01:00Rosie Huntington-Whiteley For Harper's Bazaar<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">A hugely impressive shoot by Rosie for Harper's Bazaar September issue really caught my eye. Above in my favourite designers D&G for a sweet look and below in what has to be my favourite Dior look since Raf Simons took the helm. A perfect blend of modern feminism without being too minimal. A seriously influential look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rosie's Marks & Spencer collaboration is a credit to her for the effort she puts into the collections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A strong performance in Mad Max Fury Road should hopefully lead to similar roles and not more Transformers type parts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the best I have seen McQueen look in ages. A fairytale look but not OTT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These Max Mara coats are well on the way to iconic status. The pink is a fresh colour too compared to the normal beige.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nice styling with Amy Adams Fall 2015 campaign too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saint Laurent wows with this wool jacket and tulle dress look.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">More Rosie</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Quite a fashion moment in Paris this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kate Moss vibes here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really like this look. Imposing in a good way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A class look. Love how the material sits and it's fit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Quite striking for Balmain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clueless vibes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simple yet chic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A stunning maxi dress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also in that September issue is Katy Perry styled as Elizabeth Taylor. Maybe acting is worth a go KP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/fashion/fashion-news/rosie-huntington-whiteley-is-our-september-issue-cover-star" target="_blank">Harper's Bazaar Rosie Feature</a></b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029924985921676383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232987774983667761.post-7484420484086123942015-08-30T15:14:00.001+01:002015-08-31T16:15:53.716+01:00Allie X<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's been interesting watching the career of Foxes recently. She seemed to struggle to follow up smash hit 'Youth' with a similar vibe and quality. I found her image and make-up in the song 'Let It Go For Tonight' to be a cliche and not reflective of her personality. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her recent fashion collaboration with H&M was good though and new tune 'Body Talk' is decent. Anyway to get to the point Canadian singer Allie X reminds me of Foxes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An atmospheric voice and evocative lyrics are reflected in 'Catch'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">"My hands are tied behind my back.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">I'm paralysed, my heart attacks.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">It seemed to me you were the one.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">Turns out you shot me up for fun."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">"Thought you got away with murder.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">Left me at a loss for the words.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">Just wait until I catch my breath.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">Wait until I catch my breath".</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love hurts!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heartbreak is a common theme reflected in 'Tumor'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">"When this is over, I'll need a surgery</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">Cause you were a tumor</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">You'll leave a hole inside of me</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">It’s high risk, not hopeless, I'm conscious</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">When this is over, when this is over</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19.1428565979004px;" /><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">I'll still be letting it grow".</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.1428565979004px;">Damn those cheats causing huge NHS waiting lists for tumor removals!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Loving the lace and the red lipstick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like Quasimodo she believes in 'Sanctuary'. Another good tune.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Synth-pop can be excellent when done like this and by artists such as Chvrches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Make a spectacle of yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What's causing the freaky shadow? Godzilla or another pointless re-make?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want some fed up glasses too.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029924985921676383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3232987774983667761.post-18464773934064989732015-06-09T10:18:00.000+01:002015-06-09T10:18:00.688+01:00Peter Pilotto SS15<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">You either progress or decay in life, there's no standing still! The dynamic duo behind Peter Pilotto have brilliantly advanced their designs on from those kwl futuristic digital prints that they are so renowned for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They referenced the Sixties for the SS15 collection but were not a slave to the decade. "We wanted to take aspects reminiscent of that era to a new place. We were fascinated by the images of the rainbow warriors of the Sixties and the crazy colours and graphics associated with them".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's brilliantly done and I love the detailing and pattern work for its freshness and individuality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For me this is the type of fashion that should be experimented with at festivals instead of repeating boho fringing like some kind of endless fashion banality loop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Celebrities such as Zendeya have elevated the looks with great style and brightness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lily Aldridge gave this look an exotic flavour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bella Thorne nailed the styling with this look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Accept those plaudits. You deserve them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I preferred Rodarte in their early days when they had that cool grunge/punk aesthetic. They have changed themes with great creativity in their collections but I have not always been a fan of them. This is refreshing, fun and that detailing is unique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is why Michael Kors makes money. Classy but not unobtainable. A bit like myself!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't feel Diane Kruger's Cannes outfits but this demands attention. A less provocative thigh split and tailoring gives a wonderfully flattering look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now these are the kind of boots ootd posters put on only for a shoot to get lots of likes and attention. Of course they take them straight off after the shoot. Is there a point to doing fashion that way?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is bad times. At least Victoria kept hold of him though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Karlie continues to rock the Taylor Swift influence. They best not do that twin dressing thing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Smile more please Anna. You can be fun! I think the guy with the mic has just seen Hamish's suit, Radio for backup boy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am a big fan of Coco Rocha but it's been some time since she's basked in the spotlight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really like this look by January Jones and she seems so happy and confident. Luxe fabrics compensate for a more laid-back theme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Symmetry is not always a good thing. Those V's point like a 'you are here' sign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Very flattering with a matt sheen that stops that quality street vibe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A really kwl look Tinashe. Stylish and with character.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone was glad to see the back of this look.</span></div>
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