Sally Butters presents ActionCOACH UK Business Awards

ActionCOACH Business Awards 2013

Sally Butters, Director of Coconut Media, had the great honor of presenting two awards at this year’s ActionCOACH UK Business Awards Gala in London on Friday.

The 2013 ActionCOACH UK Business Awards celebrate the business success and growth of ActionCOACH’s UK clients. Coconut Creatives proudly sponsored the Customer Service and East Anglia Business of the Year award categories. Sally presented Wauton Samuel, who provide a wide range of ICT services to clients in the education sector, with the 2013 Customer Service Award.

And, Climate Control, who have been supplying, installing and maintaining air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment for over ten years, with the 2013 East Anglia Business of the Year Award. Coconut Creatives congratulates all the winners and wishes them further growth and success in the coming year.

 

Newest Coconut visits the office for the first time

Our newest Coconut

Our newest Coconut

 

Coconut Creatives welcomes the newest Coconut, little Annabella, to the office for the first time. Founding Director Sarah Cook became the proud mother of our little Coconut on the 16th of January.

Now three month old, Annabella is the pride and joy of our Coconut team, so we were all very excited to have welcomed her to the Bournemouth office for the first time.

Coconut Creatives celebrating Christmas Jumper Day in style

Coconuts on Christmas Jumper Day

Coconuts on Christmas Jumper Day

Make the world better with a sweater was this year’s Christmas motto at Coconut Creatives. The Christmas Jumper has been in style exile for many years so, this year, the Coconuts brought it back to raise money for Christmas Jumper Day, organised by Save the Children. Save the Children is a charity that protects the rights of children in more than 120 countries, reaching more than 80 million children each year.

Christmas is the time of giving. It is the time where families get together and where children get excited about what Santa’s is going to bring them.Unfortunately not all children have the good fortune of a cosy Christmas. So Coconut Creatives, the leading marketing company in the franchise industry dressed up in style and joined the fun to raise donations in support of this worthy cause.

This year Christmas Jumper Day was celebrated on the 14th of December. It is a day where the workspace is transformed into a festive place and all Coconuts wore Christmas Jumpers in all their crazy forms. In the UK, the money raised on Christmas Jumper Day will help buy blankets, school uniforms, beds and other necessities that make a difference in children’s lives. So far the woolly wonders have raised in excess of £1 million.

If you would like to find out how you can still support Christmas Jumper Day visit www.savethechildren.org.uk or if you would like to find out more about Coconut Creatives why not email us on info@coconutcreatives.co.uk.

Coconut Creatives Franchise Marketing Workshops go down a storm!

With just under a week until the next Coconut Creatives franchise recruitment marketing workshop (which is fully booked), on the 27th July, the timing for franchisors to get involved in future workshops could not be better.

The next workshop, held in Bracknell, is fully booked with a wide range of franchisors which span across industry sector and also in size. The content on the workshops is suitable for both new and established franchisors and covers the key areas of how to recruit more franchisees through marketing techniques, advertising, PR, copy writing, branding and utilising video in getting key messages across.

Sophie Brooks, Managing Director for Clive’s Easylearn Pop Music Schools attended a franchise marketing workshop a few months ago and now is working closely with Sarah on a specially devised mentoring programme. After winning the EWIF Franchisor of the Year Award, Coconut Creatives have been helping Sophie get booked up rwith activity ready for the show season ahead and ensure that she stays on track with marketing her franchise.

“I found the franchisor marketing workshop hugely beneficial, I have already been able to implement some great changes and improvements based on the advice and information given at the workshop. I found the one-to-one sessions with the experts very helpful as they were able to give specific advice on your business. Since attending the marketing workshop I am now working closely with Coconut Creatives in mentoring programme. This has so far helped us to look in more detail at our marketing campaigns, work on improving these, generating more leads and getting better results. The advice and support provided so far has been exceptional. I am really looking forward to continuing to work with Sarah and Coconut Creatives to build our business and would have no hesitation in strongly recommending Coconut Creatives to any franchisor,” Sophie Brooks, Franchisor for Clive’s Easylearn Pop Music Schools.

 

Coconut Creatives Franchise Marketing Workshops run monthly in different locations around the UK. Contact info@coconutcreatives.co.uk for an agenda and booking form or visit coconutcreatives.co.uk for a full list of published next dates and content.

Franchise recruitment marketing workshop, with guest speaker Nick Strong in June 2011.

Coconut Creatives Founder wins Service Provider of the Year Award!

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 to India, establishing Coconut Creatives as the only bfa accredited Marketing Company in the Franchise Industry and launching the popular Franchisor Marketing Workshops.

“The EWIF awards have succeeded in bringing together Franchisors, Franchisees and their Service Providers to recognise and celebrate excellence in the franchise industry. I am delighted to be recognised for the marketing work myself and the whole team at Coconut Creatives do in the industry across many sectors and with Franchisors both large and small,” says Sarah.
Clive Sawyer from Business Options both sponsored and announced the winner for this award.

Clive comments “We were absolutely delighted at the response to these inaugural EWIF Awards both from the number and quality of entries received. The large turn out for the Awards Ceremony is an indication of the level of support EWIF has from the whole franchise industry. As a Service Provider ourselves I was delighted that we could sponsor this Award. There was a lot of strong competition in this category and I am delighted that Sarah won as it is an acknowledgement of all she has done within the franchise industry.”

Coconuts for Christmas!

Coconut Creatives decided to present a different kind of Christmas gift this year in the form of a Christmas Coconut! And a hit they were!

The Coconuts arrived in their own little box specially prepared for the occasion and wrapped in red sparkly tinsel. “We thought we’d inject some light hearted fun in the week running up to Christmas as often it can be a stressful busy time trying to tie up loose ends before the Christmas holidays begin,” explained Sarah Dyer, founder of Coconut Creatives.

Coconuts at Christmas party

Once the Coconuts had arrived at their various destinations throughout the UK ranging from York to London to Weymouth, the response was quite funny! Some photos began to come in demonstrating Coconut activity! One got married, another went on holiday and some joined in with Christmas parties!

“We’re really glad we sent out our Christmas Coconuts this year,” says Sarah. “Just wait to see what we send out next year!”

Coconuts in love