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See our sneaky workshop preview video!

June 2, 2011

Watch our BRAND NEW 3 min video giving a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of our marketing workshop from 25th May. Featuring a range of individuals from brands including Wilkins Chimney Sweep, WPA, British Eco and Clive’s EasyLearn Pop Music Schools. What’s in a Coconut marketing workshop? – A fresh view from outside experts in marketing [...]

A helping hand for franchise lead generation

Franchisor Advice Article: “It’s vital that you are exploring every avenue possible to find and convert those hot leads that make the best franchisees”, explains Sarah Cook, Founding Partner of Coconut Creatives, the franchise industries dedicated franchise recruitment marketing company. As well as attending shows and exploring the more traditional recruitment routes, there may be [...]

Coconut Creatives Founder wins Service Provider of the Year Award!

May 12, 2011

Sarah Cook, Founder of Coconut Creatives attended the EWIF awards ceremony on Tuesday 10th May and discovered she had won an award! The Woman Service Provider of the Year 2010 title was awarded to Sarah Cook as recognition for her marketing work with Franchisors. This included, writing a book on franchise recruitment, a former trip [...]

How to sell more franchises & address fears

May 9, 2011

Sarah Cook was at the MatchPoint Summit this week with speakers from 8 different countries. What was very apparent was the similar pains and fears experienced by franchisors in growing their franchise network and their different approaches to overcome them. According to one speaker, the 3 most common human fears are: 1. Public speaking 2. [...]

We share our effective methods to recruit franchisees

April 26, 2011

The team at Coconut Creatives have organised another info packed workshop for franchisors looking to fine tune their franchise recruitment. Join Sarah Cook, Founder of Coconut Creatives and the team including guest speaker, Nick Strong (FranWeb) for the ‘Battle of the on/offline Marketing’!! on Wednesday 25 May in Bracknell The industry is changing fast. What [...]

March 29, 2011

Sarah Cook and Emma Carter at Peace One Day in London Racing 160 miles across the Sahara desert, travelling on foot through Antarctica, sailing around the world, launching a Sushi bar with Japense TV in Central London (yes Simon Woodroffe, we are talking about you!) – all sound impossible! But they all happened and Coconut [...]

Drinking with the Dragons

March 22, 2011

Sarah Cook spent an unusual evening on Tuesday 8th March. She met Duncan Bannatyne, Theo Paphitis and Deborah Meaden at the Royal Courts of Justice in London for an evening of fine dining and conversation, along with a handful of other high profile business individuals. The evening was organised by the Make a Wish Charity. [...]

Coconut Triumph at First Workshop

February 15, 2011

We had the very first Coconut Marketing Workshop on 9th Feb and it went even better than expected. There were 5 speakers in all and it was a very interactive day with franchisors, from a range of different sectors and from Franchisor newbies to the industry to a Franchisor that has been trading for 40 [...]

Coconut comes face to face with Egg!

February 7, 2011

Sarah Cook was in London last week on a ‘perfect pitch’ workshop with Mike Harris, founder and creator of Egg, the Internet bank, First Direct and Mercury. “The whole day was absolutely brilliant”, explains Sarah. “Mike was incredibly down to earth and spent the day with the audience of entrepreneurs working on creating, tailoring and [...]

February’s Franchisor Workshop is now fully booked!

After announcing the first 3 Franchisor workshop dates, Coconut Creatives has been inundated with enquiries from franchisors eager to take advantage of this brand new opportunity to spend quality time with members of the Coconut Creatives marketing team. Led by Chartered Marketer and franchise recruitment specialist, Sarah Cook, founder of Coconut Creatives, the day offers [...]