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Marketing News: UKFast helps myParcelDelivery.com on the road to success

It's down to the business community to encourage young entrepreneurs to generate new ideas and start their own companies, according to serial entrepreneur Lawrence Jones. Jones talks as one of his projects, the UKFast entrepreneur development scheme, supports the launch of myParcelDelivery.com. Since being selected as one of the 2009 winners of the scheme, online courier comparison site myParcelDelivery.com has now come to fruition and is seeing fantastic results. Founded by entrepreneurs, David Grimes and Paul Haydock, myParcelDelivery.com is an online portal for courier services across the UK domestic and international market. Recently appointed as a 'Preferred Shipping Partner of eBay', the company is also on target to hit its predicted first year turnover of £1.25-2M.

Marketing News: Martin Lambie-Nairn awarded Honorary Doctorate

The University of Northampton honoured Heavenly's Creative Director, Martin Lambie-Nairn, with an Honorary Doctorate this week at their final day of graduation ceremonies which celebrated the success of students from the University's School of The Arts.

Marketing News: Spectacular digitally-printed invitation produced for Specsavers Midsummer Ball 2010

Global eyecare brand Specsavers is hosting its annual midsummer ball on 24 July. The theme this year is the hit TV show Strictly Come Dancing. The black-tie event is called Strictly Specsavers and includes celebrity guest, former Strictly judge Arlene Phillips. This dazzling event has 350 guests and a sparkly metallic invitation. Craig Le Lerre, Head of Artwork and Design at Specsavers, identified a purple Mirri Silk material and found that with guidance from Mirri, a division of Celloglas, and digital printer Image Evolution, a short run digitally printed invitation could be produced with spectacular results. Andy Kirby, Operations Manager at Mirri, said: 'Working together with Image Evolution, the production method we used has produced a fantastic result with minimum material waste. We started with Mirri H purple, a Sapphire coating was applied, then Image Evolution digitally printed white to the metallic side and 4 colour to the reverse with their HP Indigo 5500 press (with

Marketing News: Q Magazine puts lucky golden tickets in U2 vs Muse - Glastonbury Special issue

Q Magazine is the UK's biggest selling music magazine, with music news, reviews and features. Q Magazine is published monthly. 20 lucky readers of Q Magazine Q288, found golden winning tickets inside their copy.

Marketing News: CASE STUDY : FAMILY BUSINESSS SMART MOVE TO HALVE MARKETING SPEND

Extra Windows saw a 40% growth in sales in 2009, its marketing costs have been halved and the company conversion rate has grown. Sales are now being secured with between 55-60% of clients visited from leads generated online.

Marketing News: Networks First gains highest possible distinction from Cisco for Customer Satisfaction

Redditch, 3rd March 2010 - Networks First, an independent provider of support services for network infrastructure (www.networksfirst.com) has attained Customer Satisfaction Excellence, the highest distinction possible in the Cisco Channel Partner Programme. This follows the completion of the independently audited Cisco Customer Satisfaction Survey in which Networks First achieved an impressive customer loyalty rate of 100%. As part of the audit process to achieve silver partner status, customers are asked to score the company on the quality of its service delivery. Networks First's overall score was 4.88 out of 5. Ian Hearn, head of sales, Networks First, comments: "We are very proud of our reputation for providing some of the best customer service in the industry and are pleased that our high score reflects all the hard work that the team here puts into making sure our customers are both happy and loyal. "Cisco's audit now takes place every six months, rather than only once

Marketing News: Success : Ticketmedia www.ticketmedia.com reports of a 50% growth in business

The company behind the UK's bus ticket adverts, Ticketmedia www.ticketmedia.com, is continuing to defy the gloom of the recent recession with its latest uplifting reports of a 50% growth in business, an expanding media team and new premises to grow its print production facility. The new appointment of sales executive Jennifer Selby, following the recent promotion of Luke Evans to Head of Sales at Ticketmedia, indicates the speed of the company's growth.

Marketing News: How Xcite Digital Changed P&K Recruitments Marketing And Design To Win New Business Online

Case study illustrates how Xcite Digital increased the awareness of P&K Recruitment in the market and drive in more recruitment leads.

Marketing News: Turkey's Largest Food Delivery Website Relies on StrongMail's Email Marketing Platform to Reduce Costs While Growing Its Business

StrongMail has been selected by Turkey's biggest online food delivery portal, Yemeksepeti (translation: food basket), to power the delivery and management of its marketing and transactional email. The Yemeksepeti website allows customers to place food orders with 3,500 partner restaurants in 12 Turkish cities and includes many global brands such as Domino's Pizza, McDonalds and Wagamama. The website currently receives around 500,000 orders every month.

Marketing News: Lakeside, one of the UK's largest shopping destinations, has awarded an integrated brief to specialist marketing agency Baber Smith

Lakeside, one of the UK's largest shopping destinations, has awarded an integrated brief to specialist marketing agency Baber Smith, following a competitive pitch. Baber Smith has been tasked with driving awareness of Lakeside's improved retail and leisure offering and improving customer communications with the objective of increasing shopper engagement, encouraging repeat visits and attracting back shoppers that may not have visited lakeside for some time.

Marketing News: COOLPINK ARE HOTTING UP AFTER MBO

The sky is the limit for award-winning full service digital agency, Coolpink celebrating a multitude of successes after it's MBO, including the addition of six new account wins, five new staff and the launch of its new brand identity. 888.com, Co-operative Financial Services, Sands Beach Resorts, Heathrow Express, Illamasqua and the NHS are the next in line to embark on Coolpink's first class journey of digital discovery. Be assured this will not be any ordinary journey – think crème de la crème of experiences. The team promote in their new client charter the opportunity for: 'clients to touch, taste, feel the excitement of the digital world' and they are sweeping many of the big brands along with them on their journey. Leading the way as an agency in demand Founder and Managing Director, Mark Bower, is now in the driving seat having assumed operational control of the company following the buy-out of his co-directors.

Marketing News: Lisa Stockton and Ellie Pennington - Organic, seasonal and local food = Happy Kitchen

With a shared passion for organic, seasonal and local food, childhood friends Lisa Stockton and Ellie Pennington teamed up to launch social enterprise Happy Kitchen. The Happy Kitchen mission is to create food that is good for people and good for the planet. Lisa and Ellie source all ingredients from small scale, eco-friendly growers and prioritise using produce that is in season in England. A natural step "Ellie and I have always been obsessed with creating delicious, healthy food and we both have a strong belief in sustainable living – setting up Happy Kitchen seemed a natural step for us to take," explains Lisa. "Right from the start, we knew that we wanted to use the business to raise awareness of social and environmental issues." Lisa and Ellie set up their company as a social enterprise, with all profits going to initiatives that support the fair distribution of food and help to spread the message of health for the planet and for people. "We support farming and climate ch