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Some things take months of planning to get right. There's no other way. Were there another choice I'd take it. But I'm going to use the C word. Christmas is coming. There, I said it. Because we're headline sponsors of the Festive Games! It's team building, friendly competition, and festive cheer for businesses and teams of 3–5 people. And it's put together by our friend Dennis Kennedy, and the team at Community Games. The games are always a lot of fun and slightly silly – the Festive Games promises to be all that, with a Christmas twist. Sprout-and-spoon racing, speedy gift wrapping, fancy dress! I know, right? PLOTT are lovers of physical activity and silliness, which is why we're so excited about sponsoring this event. Get in touch with Dennis to secure your spot. Full read linked in the comment below! #FestiveGames #CommunityGames #Christmas

Every business is unique, if you know where to look. So why do so many say the same thing? They don’t know where to look to get started. Here’s the answer. It’s you (and your staff). Your brand has a personality – lean into it and be yourselves. That’s how you attract clients that are the right-fit for you. Andrew Simpson of Cobalt Wealth came to this understanding before he came to us. That’s a time saver! We’ve helped him to refocus his website to his ideal client niche. New imagery and copywriting throughout speak directly to clients. And these folk are busy folk – there’s no time to beat around the bush. His fantastic new PLOTT website is LIVE now – link in the comments. Got a project in mind? Connect or DM us. #BeYourself #BrandPersonality #FinancialAdviceWebsite

🏆 🙌 Two years. Two award ceremonies. Twice nominated. 🏆 🙌 It was the Midlands Marketing Awards on Thursday. We were shortlisted for Agency Team of the Year again. We may have mentioned it once or twice ;) But. It wasn’t to be our night. Another team took the prize. We congratulate them. And PLOTT will be back. We weren’t disappointed for long however. The food, drink and entertainment took care of that. As always, MMA put on a fabulous night. In a room full of creative talent from across the Midlands there really aren’t any losers. Congratulations indeed, to everyone shortlisted. It’s a really good networking opportunity too. It’s great to catch up with so many creatives from all across the industry. Who knows? Maybe we’ll be third time lucky in 2025. Ashley won a Microwave in the raffle! So we didn’t leave empty handed. I guess we are lucky after all :) Emma Jones Kim Leary 👩💻

Let's build some dramatic tension, shall we? Tomorrow, starting at 7pm – we're gonna find out ... If we've won Agency of the Year Midlands Marketing Awards! It's the 2nd year in a row we've been shortlisted and we're as excited as the first time. Plus it's a nice excuse for a black-tie evening at The Grand Hotel Birmingham. All the nominees are winners really – but there can be only one. We did make the top-spot in the Chambers magazine though. Here's hoping we can nab the top-spot on the day too. Fingers crossed it's our year. Wish us luck!  #Awards #MarketingAwards #MidlandsMarktingAwards2024

Meet Clements + Church, our wonderful, friendly and fashionable new client. They’re a custom-made, premium fashion brand. ✨ We’ve been discussing their branding and planning a new website with them, which is all very exciting. And they’d visited us at our lovely offices at Coppice in Middleton. So now it was time to visit them. We wanted to get a feel for the tangible, real-world Clements + Church. We met in their first and flagship tailor shop on Church Street (naturally), just off Colmore Row. But with four PLOTTERS and three from C+C we were becoming a bit of a nuisance. There’s important work to be done! So we decamped to the impressive and truly grand, Grand Hotel. Handily it’s right across the street. What a lovely and comfy location for a meeting. We’ll always get the work done, but at times it felt like we were just having tea with some friends. What a lovely way to work. #NewFriends #Teamwork #Branding

Today we're celebrating Roald Dahl, by picking our favourite stories. He was an extraordinarily prolific author, publishing over 37 novels for children. In his lifetime he was also an RAF fighter ace, and wrote the screenplays for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the James Bond movie, You Only Live Twice. But it's his beloved children's stories he's rightly remembered for. So, the PLOTTERS have each nominated their favourite. Richard -- George's Marvellous Medicine Ashley -- Matilda Ewan -- James and the Giant Peach Alex -- Fantastic Mr Fox Jo -- Danny the Champion of the World Mark -- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Anna -- The Twits It's an astonishing list of classics from a truly great storyteller. What is your favourite Roald Dahl story? #RoaldDahlStoryDay #Storytelling #Creativity

Life begins at 40, or so they say. If that’s true, Mark Christian’s been a PLOTTER his whole life! Mark’s been with us for 8 years, though between you and me, he looks older than 8. That’s 56 in dog years. I asked Mark for a quote, but he just grumbled something about spending 20% of his life at PLOTT. In this day and age, 8 years with one company is impressive. Mark must be doing something right—I really should ask him what. We must be doing something right too. A high staff turnover can be costly and a sign of poor culture. At PLOTT, we’ve worked hard to appreciate and reward our team, and it’s paid off. So, congrats to Mark, and here’s to the next 56 dog years! #WorkAnniversary #Belong #Career

Remember when print was a thing. “Everything” is digital now. It can be a bit ... sterile. But print has it all. It's all about feeling, literally. A tactile experience. We even love the smell. Such a tactile experience is unusual these days. And we miss it. But this is an opportunity – to mark yourself as different. Take this example we recently designed and printed for insurance and financial adviser firm, Macbeth Insurance Brokers & Financial Services. From the get-go we designed the brochure with the target clientele in mind. The end result combines beauty and obvious no-expense-spared quality. Sleek, smooth touch, perfect bound, and with a die-cut logo detail on the cover. It just feels so premium. Perfect for Macbeth's high and ultra high net-worth clients. We're not high-ultra anything, but we love it too :) And last week unbeatable satirical "news" outlet The Onion announced they’re back in print. After 11 years of digital only. It seems I'm not the only one who misses print. Got a print project in mind? Connect or DM. #Print #Brand #Experience

The phrase “client retention” is just the kind of business-speak jargon that sends me to sleep. But it describes a rather lovely thing. That your client loved what you did, and came back for more! In this case the client is SW Group - Pallet Network | Warehousing. We built their website and have maintained it over the last five years. Five years is a good innings for a website, and we do recommend replacing your site every five years or so. Because the code gets out-of-date compared to the infrastructure, and all the patches and security hotfixes are good and necessary. But eventually you’re papering over cracks. And SW Group had evolved since 2019, so the website didn’t fully reflect their business as it is today. We recommended a replacement site, based on the above and – sensible fine folk that they are – they agreed. First we started with refreshing their brand identity. Followed by a shoot at their depots with lovely authentic real-life photos and videos of their people. All new copywriting throughout the Google-friendly website and a lovely new design. All of which lives on our “PLOTT OS”, the software that runs the website. Fast, secure, accessible, as all our sites are. Ready to go for the next five years! Got a web project in mind? Connect or DM. #BrandingAndWeb #ReturningClients #WebDesign

I've got the Power! Cut. We love references to 80s bangers, but what we really love is electricity to power our computers. Well, there's no sense worrying about it, as they say, "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." Today, we're beggars. So we'll embrace the stone-age and spend the time productively and together, using just our brains. We split the team, with half the PLOTTERS off to the Belfry to meet with a client while the Devs stayed at The Fig & Olive for some planning and process improvement. While all this was going on Mark was writing. This very post, as a matter of fact. Old school pen and paper. We may lack power but we're not powerless. Creativity only needs a spark, it doesn't need to be plugged in. #Branding #Creative #Unplugged