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Californian Inspirations… Southern California

April 20, 2010

I’ve just spent two weeks travelling up and down the West Coast of America. Nowhere enormously ambitious in stateside terms – a week chilling in Mission Viejo, in Orange County, followed by a drive up to the Napa Valley for a spot of wine tasting, followed by a whistlestop tour of San Francisco, down Highway [...]

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How’s your chard doing?

April 19, 2010

Psst! Look! It’s up! And I did nothing more than fling a few seeds in the ground. After three weeks of neglect following our holiday I’m delighted to see that with a spot of water the Flourish rainbow chard is up and looking good! Already you can see the difference in colour between the deep [...]

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Hello England! It’s good to be back…

April 15, 2010

Things have been a little sparse on the blog and twitter front for the last few weeks, but I’m back now, and if you give me just a couple of days to get over the jet-lag I’ll be raring to go again!

I’ve just returned from the most inspiring, fun and relaxing holiday with my family [...]

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My book is now available on Amazon

April 10, 2010

Excuse me a little moment of self indulgence here… My book, Exhibit!: The SME’s Guide to Using Exhibitions to Grow Your Business is now available via Amazon. It does exactly what it says on the tin: shows you how you can plan your next exhibition much more effectively to significantly improve the result you get [...]

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Invitation design: essential if you want to create the right atmosphere for your party

April 8, 2010

I thought I might share a “so bad it’s good” invite that we created for my birthday last year. It’s an absolute crime against typography. but it was necessary you see. We’d planned a 70’s disco themed birthday party. And boy, did the bad fonts and photoshop effects come out in full force! You can [...]

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Grow Your Business is back! 12th May, Guildford Spectrum

April 2, 2010

Just a quick one to let you know that the Flourish and Guildford printing.com sponsored Grow Your Business event is back. It’ll be a veritable extravaganza of expert speakers, inspiring seminars, free one to one clinics and more than 70 exhibitors. Held at the Guildford Spectrum the event is now in it’s third year and [...]

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Have you planted your chard seeds yet?

April 1, 2010

If you’ve met Flourish at an exhibition recently or you attended our launch party then you’ll most likely have a packet of chard seeds. Why? Well more on that later… The point is that it’s time to plant them. I threw mine in last weekend in a rare moment of sunshine and I’m waiting expectantly [...]

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Workshop: Graphic design tips for the uninitiated!

March 30, 2010

I’m really looking forward to this month’s Marvellous Marketing Workshop: How to create designs that build your brand: design tips for the uninitiated. I LOVE running this workshop because the practical exercises and before and afters mean that people really “get it”. And Izzy, our Account Exec tells me that this is her favourite workshop.
I [...]

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How to use exhibitions to grow your business

March 10, 2010

I’ve always used exhibitions as a core part of my marketing strategy. At my first exhibition I picked up 100 leads and converted 70 of them into paying clients over the course of the year. When I tell this story people are always astounded – they don’t often find they have such a profitable experience! [...]

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Flourish picks up design award for the Wedding Community’s brochure

March 9, 2010

We have just found out that Flourish have been awarded Best Prestige Design in printing.com’s Annual Design Awards. The competition which pulls together top talent from more than 300 design agencies has been running for six years now, and Flourish (and Guildford printing.com) have won no less than four awards in that time.

We’re delighted that [...]

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