Event Management:
Case Study - Connecting Mendip
Broadband and IT Information Day - Connecting Mendip
Connecting Mendip was an event designed to promote the benefits of the web and broadband to the business community in the Mendip district of Somerset.
Tickbox Marketing organised the event on behalf of Connecting Somerset, working with the Federation of Small Businesses, Mendip District Council and the Mendip Association of Chambers of Commerce.
As well as running the event - which attracted over 75 Mendip businesses - we organised the PR, with Connecting Mendip getting wide coverage in the local media, including lead story in the Mid Somerset News' Business Today section.
Other achievements included:
- Bringing in high calibre speakers to give keynote speeches. Including Mike Perreau, who has an international reputation and David Price owner and MD of CosyFeet.
- BT supported the event with a presentation by Richard Auld – South West Regional Director for BT Local Business Web User Audits – one to one web surgeries with Mendip Businesses held before the presentations
- Enabled Bishops Palace to install permanent wireless broadband installation
- Following the success of Connecting Mendip, we were asked to join Frome Online in organising a similar event called Connecting Frome - which attracted a further 35 businesses and achieved some positive PR. This event was sponsored by Connecting Somerset and Frome On-Line.
