The Brand Surgery - Branding Agency, Graphic Design and Website Design in Worthing, West Sussex

We are very proud to add event marketing (including PR, branding and organisation) to our list of services.

Recently we have marketed and managed several large events including:

• The Wow Factor – starring X Factor 2011 artists – we were given just three weeks notice until the event date and we sold over 600 tickets at £12.50 each without advertising – using just social media and our PR services;
• Broadwater Royal Wedding Picnic – this event attracted 3000 people and raised £1500 for charity, using our social media and PR services;
• Worthing Idol (2 years running) – attracted 20 acts each year, funding and audiences of 400+.

The Brand Surgery, the number one design agency in Sussex, designed all logos, marketing material, wrote all the press releases and managed the PR, designed the websites for these events. Plus we organised the events including venue location and hire, catering, prizes and tickets.

Our event success is largely down to our Facebook and Twitter setup and posting: Branded to match your existing company branding or new event branding. The benefit of setting up a specific Facebook or Twitter page for your event is that your event will get found more easily so will lead to new customer acquisitions, create lead generation, encourage client retention, improve marketing because of its viral effect which is excellent for event brand building.

Earn cash by telling your friends and acquaintances about The Brand Surgery

We are offering incentives for referrals: We will give you £50 per referral which will be paid to you once an invoice has been cleared by the new customer. Just think about all that Christmas shopping you could be doing!

If you would like further information (no obligation) on any the above services, please call Richy or myself on 01903 824229.

The Brand Surgery has been extremely busy over the last few weeks with logo designs, press releases, magazines, charity work and blogging and we thought it was about time we let you in on what your favourite award-winning branding agency has been up to!

Anyone celebrating the Royal Wedding this year? Why not come to the Royal Wedding Picnic on Broadwater Green?  We have been organising the event as well as promoting it with our fantastic PR, not to mention coming up with a fantastic logo for the day! The event promises to be a special occasion with entertainment from Splash FM’s Simon Osborne and Dave Hunt, Children’s Entertainer Dave Benson Phillips and live music from last year’s Worthing Idol winner, Rebecca Buxton. The picnic and entertainment will be running from 4pm-9pm allowing you to watch the wedding at home and then enjoy the bank holiday in the sunshine with The Brand Surgery, Splash FM and Worthing Borough Council.

Speaking of Worthing Idol, with this year’s competition, The Brand Surgery is in the community again! We were so happy with the way last year’s competition went, we felt we had to get involved again this year! The date has yet to be announced but Worthing Idol is already looking for contestants so visit Talent Within You website (designed by The Brand Surgery) for more information. Make sure you keep checking our website as well, as we have some exciting news to announce in the coming weeks, watch this space!

Do you use the Stagecoach Coastliner buses? Yes? Well you’ve probably seen our work then! Our illustrations are all over the back of the buses and as part of our ongoing relationship with Stagecoach, we produce their magazines, aimed at providing bus users with offers, competitions and information about attractions along the coast. We have been copy-writing, designing, publishing and printing the Coastliner, Buzz East Sussex and Buzz East Kent magazines, covering a massive area from Margate to Portsmouth including places such as Canterbury, Rye, Hastings, Eastbourne, Brighton, Worthing (of course), Chichester and many more places between. You can find our latest magazines from April-September on all the Coastliner buses and in various tourist information centres and bus stops. We have also been putting our web design and development skills to use by launching the  Coastliner 700 website.

Buzz East Sussex

In addition to all of this fantastic and exciting stuff, The Brand Surgery has been continuing with it’s normal high quality blogging services, keeping AVS Fencing and Proto Restaurant Group at the top of Google search results for their chosen search terms.

Does your company need a re-brand? How about a new logo? Maybe a new website? If you answered yes to any of those questions or are interested in PR work, copy-writing, magazine and advert design, SEO or any of our other fantastic services, please phone Vicky Vaughan on 01903 824229 or email us at info@thebrandsurgery.co.uk; as part of our commitment to great customer service, we aim to respond to all enquiries within one working day.

The Brand Surgery supports The Community

It’s been nearly two weeks since Worthing Idol 2010 took place for the very first time. My charitable organisation, Talent Within You,  has been inundated with requests to make Worthing Idol an annual event. First of all …. congratulations to Rebecca Buxton who won £250 towards her talent (first prize) courtesy of Worthing Town Centre Initiative. Very well done to Tara Hill (Irish Dancer) and Team Foxy (Paige Latham and Harry Morley) – both teams danced their way to 2nd and 3rd place and received M&S vouchers kindly donated by Cllr Carol Molineaux.

We are very grateful to the local press, The Argus and Herald newspapers for giving this event such excellent publicity. The day was fantastic – Simon Osborne gave his fee up to Pete McIntosh, so he could help us with the running of this event. We have to say – Simon’s immaculate attention to detail meant that Worthing Idol ran like clockwork. Even though our co-founder, Mike Pisko, our co-founder, was away playing golf on the day, he did help with the organising most of the raffle prizes and the auditions – thank you Mike.

The line-up of talent was amazing. Anyone who watched this event will agree that this team of Worthing talent would have definitely got through to the final of Britain’s Got Talent.

Thank you to everyone who helped. Worthing Town Centre Initiative who helped us to fund this event, Foundry Press of Horsham, who printed all the brochures and programmes, Ivy Arch Studios, Barclays Bank, Glue who filmed the event (we’ve yet to see their work, but feel confident it will be excellent), Proto Restaurant Group (Andy Sparsis who gave up his time to judge the event), Tim Loughton MP (who also donated money to Talent Within You and give up him time to judge), Carol Molineaux (who judged and has also been most generous in her kind donations to Talent Within You), not forgetting Amelia Regnante who was our expert judge, and helped us with the auditions.

Last, but by no means least. Thank you to all the volunteers who gave up their time on the day. This includes: Cllrs Paul High and Kevin Skepper, my wonderful family (mum, Bill, Oli, Yvonne & bump), Loraine from Barclays Bank, Lorraine Hawkes from Worthing Town Centre Initiative who played the keyboards wonderfully, and all my staff at The Brand Surgery who worked tirelessly on the website, programme design, blogging, PR and kept me sane through the event planning process.

If you want to set up a charity and run an event, we are now experts in this area too! If you want good PR, we can create  successful press release writing which will give you good results.

Call Vicky Vaughan at The Brand Surgery (also founder of Talent Within You), on 01903 824229 if you would like us to help you with event branding or planning.

Worthing Idol 2010 is nearly upon us. Wow! What an experience it has been organising a talent show on behalf of my charity, Talent Within You – if you need a launch party organising – now you know who to call: The Brand Surgery!

Worthing Idol takes place at Worthing Lido on Bank Holiday Monday 30th August 2010 between 12 noon and 3.30pm. It has already been pointed out that Lido is an anagram of Idol – so the location was obviously meant to be. We are all doing a ’sun dance’ in the office so that the weather is nice to us on Monday.

The line-up for Worthing Idol 2010 is amazing. You can click here to see it. Simon Cowell would be most envious if he saw the show – it is official – Worthing has definitely got talent!

Here is a movie clip of round 2 of the Worthing Idol auditions.

The Brand Surgery team have played a major role in the preparation of this event.

• Logo design and branding
• Website design and development
• Blogging and Facebooking campaigns
• T-shirt and banner design
• Marketing collateral
• Press releases and all PR
• Event planning

TalentWithinYou is now officially LIVE!

Visit our brand new website to find out more about Talent Within You, and how we helped Jack Ford. If you’ve got a talent why not register on our new website and chat to other talented kids, add applications and widgets to your profile page, upload pictures, videos and much more!

To contact us about your talent you can use our online form.

To register for Talent Within You click here.

Talent Within You finds, helps and cares for children who have a special talent. We believe that every child has a talent no matter what. It is our job to unleash that talent and help to develop it.

Talent Within You has achieved Gift Aid status

The Brand Surgery have been working hard to get Talent Within You off the ground so we can start receiving donations. The website will be live very soon and businesses will be able to choose the child they sponsor, and then also check a Gift Aid box which means we can claim tax and more money will go towards Jack Ford and talented children like Jack Ford, Worthing’s potential British ice-skating champion.

The Talent Within You website also comprises:

• A community-style website so talented kids can talk to one another
• Animated banner graphics
• Search-engine optimised copywriting
• Stunning photography taken by our very own in-house photographer
• Excellent graphic design and Talent Within You logo and branding
• Paypal gateway for donations and sponsorship
• Blog writing for SEO

The Talent Within You website is a community-style website with the functionality of Facebook, such as user feeds and group and page creation. You will also be able to create your personal easy-customisable profiles (drag and drop design facility) as well as take advantage of the photo album facility and also add a video onto your profile page.

So, you will soon see what The Brand Surgery (website design company in Worthing, West Sussex) have done for the launch of Talent Within You. Let us help launch your business too.

Call Vicky at The Brand Surgery on 01903 824229 or email vicky@thebrandsurgery.co.uk.

Well we’ve done it! Talent Within You has been officially launched and Todd Carty is also our very first patron.

Talent Within You is a charitable organisation set up to find talent within children, then we nurture and develop that talent and take it to the next level via sponsorship from businesses.

Talent Within You is a national organisation, but we have launched it in Worthing as Vicky and her friend and co-founder, Mike Pisko, both live in Worthing. Our first child with talent is Jack Ford, and we gave him lots of PR coverage, via press and radio. Plus we organised Todd Carty to come and dance-on-ice once again with Jack.

We are now looking for businesses to come on board and sponsor Jack and other children like him. We are very grateful to these businesses who have kindly sponsored Jack’s development: Worthing Borough Council, Worthing Town Centre Initiative, The Chatworth Hotel, Face Media Group, CAM Central, and of course of the staff at The Brand Surgery who have helped to launch this worthwhile charity.

If you can’t wait to see our new website, and are desperate to help fund Jack and his parents with his training, or to help another child with talent, please make a cheque payable to Talent Within You, and post to us at Talent Within You Donations, 23 Harrow Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 4RB.

Or you can click the donate button below.

To take this organisation to market, we,  The Brand Surgery – branding and website agency based in West Sussex – have used our extensive range of in-house marketing services to:

• Write effective press releases which successfully gave Jack prominent local press coverage;
• We are raising funds via sponsorship arrangements to help take Jack to the next level;
• We designed the Talent Within You logo, leaflet, stationery, banners and other marketing collateral;
• We have liaised with celebrity agencies to help get Todd Carty and other celebrities on board;
• We have designed and developed a simple website holding page while the main website is being worked on;
• We are in the process of designing a CMS website for Talent Within You which will include: website optimisation for good SEO (get good Google and other search engine presence); data capture form; payment gateway to raise funds for our charity; effective copywriting to help promote our children with talent; funky design to engage with our target market; blog and latest news section to promote our children with talent;
• We are liaising with organisations across the UK to find more children with talent;
• We will be using our emarketing expertise and will be sending out regular eshots to promote Talent Within You.

If you would like our branding and website agency in West Sussex to help take your business or organisation to market, give Vicky a call on 01903 824229 or email vicky@thebrandsurgery.co.uk.