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Great British Tennis Weekend

I found out recently about the Great British Tennis Weekend. It’s a campaign to increase participation in tennis, and sounds like a good one. It was piloted in 2013 with 39 events, and got great results, so is being rolled out with over 1,000 events this year!...

A short Google Ads case study

Here’s the headline stats from a Google Ads campaign we ran for Greenwich Council as part of the Greenwich Get Active campaign. Impressions – 850,000 Click through Rate – 1.08% Clicks – 9,172 Average cost per click – £0.22 Total budget...

Wandsworth segmentation and marketing workshop

Jill Cobbett from Wandsworth Council asked me to run a segmentation and marketing workshop for them recently. This was a full day workshop for sports centre managers, the sports development team and sports assistants covering: Why segmentation is so important and how...

An idea for promoting your Facebook page

I saw this poster on the wall at my local gym, and thought it’s a good example of how to encourage people to follow your Facebook page. Obviously this will only work if you do have instant updates on class changes, information, news on events, great new...