DO A MADONNA

The day has finally come. DO A MADONNA!™ has been printed! Hoorah!

The book should be available on Amazon.co.uk within the next two weeks. However, you can pre-order the book on the website by clicking here.

Writing a book has been a steep learning curve. The writing was the easy part! The proofing, liaising with the print company and pre-press was the main challenge – and we deal with pre-press departments every day! I can’t imagine what it would be like dealing with these book printing companies if you had no experience whatsoever.

With the above said, we are looking forward to marketing DO A MADONNA and I am looking for speaking opportunities to launch it. So if you know of a venue or organisation who would like to book an interesting talk, this is the one for them. Guaranteed to stimulate people, even during the graveyard shift!

A little bit about DO A MADONNA …

Keeping your brand alive takes much more than plonking a new logo on a new brochure or website. You are your business and this ten-step book will help you on your way to business success. DO A MADONNA!™ is a handy-sized book which will help you discover the ten secrets of successful branding and it also contains tips on colour psychology, plus much more!

You will learn that even well known companies make branding blunders. DO A MADONNA!™ will teach you how to learn from their mistakes

It’s time to get your business into the groove. It’s time to Express Yourself! Soon your business will be good enough to grace the cover of Vogue!

Priced at only £10. Let Your journey to WORLD DOMINATION begin.

5% of all book profits go towards Madonna’s charity: http://www.raisingmalawi.org

Click to launch the full edition in a new window.

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.

Worthing RFC and The Brand Surgery

We are pleased to announce that we have just signed contracts and will be working with Worthing Rugby Club. This means that we will be offering all sponsors, friends and colleagues of Worthing Rugby Club a one hour session of  branding advice absolutely free!

Networking your way to Success

As part of our commitment to help local clubs and organisations, we will also be helping Worthing Rugby Club to find new sponsors by promoting this amazing new package. If, like us, you consider business networking to be one of the most effective methods of gaining business, you should give us a call and we can tell you more about this amazing package.

This package promotes an old saying: Givers Gain. It is only open to businesses who are prepared to GIVE an incentive to Worthing Rugby Club members, friends and colleagues. Giving to receive is an excellent way of marketing your business, and the package below means that you can get everything below for just £650 if you are prepared to offer an incentive to Worthing Rugby Club members, friends and colleagues. The only tiny catch is that we would need a commitment in the way of part payment (deposit) by Friday 18th December.

1. A large pitch-side, pitch-facing advertising billboard (3,000mm x 1,000mm) in a premium location, guaranteeing you maximum exposure and community kudos
2. Run regular seminars and workshops, including ‘Questions and Answers’ opportunities with our corporate members
3. Exclusive access to the club’s membership database for private mail-shots and promoting special offers such as additional discounts and incentives
4. Direct access, via networking, to our corporate partners such as ARGYLL, Mortgages Options, Michael Jones, Yeomans, Winner Plant Hire and Splash FM to name but a few
5. Exclusive access to corporate partners on your company headed paper. An opportunity for offers, promotions and incentives, which you are free to change as you see fit – nothing has to be set in stone!
6. Direct access, four times a year, to the entire club/commercial membership database via an electronic ehack newsletter, which is also offered as an easy-to-navigate online magazine – two excellent viewing options for both club, community and corporate members. You will be allocated space in this online magazine for advertising, advertorials, editorials, competitions and reader-offers
7. Facilities for displaying promotional material on match-days, social and corporate events
8. Access to our mini, junior and youth members (over 500 children are registered to play for the club) – over 1,000 parents many of which are local company Directors and business owners with a high disposable income
9. Use of the Worthing RFC crest and Raiders (1st XV) brand, plus action-shot images, in your marketing and promotional material, including website (artwork is subject to written sign-off from the club)
10. Your logo, company profile and web link featured on the club’s official website, ensuring maximum traffic generation (please consult www.worthingrfc.com)
11. Permission to display your company brochures, flyers, business cards and other point-of-sale material strategically within the clubhouse, which is used by over 2,000 visitors per week. Visitors are able to read or take away your promotional material and then contact your organisation at a later date
12. Two match-day passes for the whole of the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons
13. Quarterly business networking events, including refreshments, at the rugby club and other prestigious local venues
14. Players’ and coaches’ endorsements including appearances at your corporate events such as business-networking meetings and exhibitions (subject to availability)
15. Use of the clubhouse and club facilities for your own corporate events, meetings and private functions at heavily discounted/preferential rates
16. The opportunity to purchase tickets for rugby internationals (subject to availability), including the Autumn Internationals and RBS 6-Nations Internationals

The Brand Surgery will not make a bean out of this! We are simply helping a non-profit organisation in hard times! In our opinion, this offer is too good to miss.

Call Vicky on 01903 824229 for further details.