Thursday, September 2, 2010 The Marketing Forum : Forget the Dark Knight ... the White Knight Two mothership has arrived  
Forget the Dark Knight ... the White Knight Two mothership has arrived
"I want to see commercial flights make a beautiful swing around the moon"
http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.ph...

White Knight Two

Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic, confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the White Knight Two, would be coming to next year's AirVenture in Oshkosh.

Whitehorn spoke with aviation pioneer Burt Rutan and Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson during a forum on the future of space tourism. White Knight Two will serve as a carrier for SpaceShip Two, the follow-up to Spaceship One, the world's first civilian rocket plane designed by Rutan to fly into space.

Will Whitehorn is a keynote speaker at
The Marketing Forum, Aurora, Southampton, 24 -27 September 2008.

Contact
Louise Henry, Project Manager  +44 (0)20 8487 2242. for more information.


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The UK convenience sector
Unwelcome news for Marks & Spencer
Waitrose to open convenience stores in pursuit of £27bn market
http://www.marketingforum.co.uk/

Mark Price, Managing Director, Waitrose The first Waitrose convenience store could be up and running within six months. Stores are likely to be 3,000-4,000sq ft in size and will sell a mix of premium fresh and ambient convenience foods.

A Waitrose spokeswoman said: "I can confirm that Waitrose is continuing to explore the potential for smaller shops. We've made no secret of the fact that we want to build the size of our business and we are exploring opportunities to take the brand to areas where it's not currently represented"

 ... What do Mark Price of Waitrose ,Will Whitehorn, Andrew Marsden, Lord Nigel Lawson, Scott Garrett all have in common? They are all speakers at The Marketing Forum, September 24th-27th, 2008.

Contact
Louise Henry, Project Manager  +44 (0)20 8487 2242. for more information.

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Nokia and The Marketing Forum
You don't need a map to see where
this sector is going

The Nokia N95 drives mobile mapping
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/31018/iPhone-and-N9...

Nokia's N95 and N70 handsets are the most-used phones for accessing mobile maps in Europe Mobile maps show the way.

Use of online maps via PC declines.

Nokia's N95 and N70 handsets are the most used phones for accessing mobile maps in Europe, according to ComScore. Users around the globe are increasingly turning to their mobile phones to get directions, according to new data again from ComScore.

The report found that 8% of U.S. wireless subscribers and 3% of European mobile subscribers accessed maps from their mobile handsets between March and May 2008. This represents a growth rate of 82% and 49%, respectively, compared with the same period last year.

Nokia is a confirmed supplier at The Marketing Forum in September.

Join them - call Louise Henry today 0208 487 2242.

 
1000heads and The Marketing Forum
1000heads looks at the possibility of Google as an estate agent
It could become a holy trinity of cash for the interweb giant
http://www.brandvocal.com/1000heads/2008/07/google...

Lively may not be the most incisive thing Google have ever done, but united with an advertising model and Google Earth, it could become a holy trinity of cash for the interweb giant 1000heads blog pondered this possibility recently...

Gigaom’s Alistair Croll has written a post on Google’s Lively, and in doing so offers a intriguing proposition – the possibility of Google as an estate agent.

Although
Lively, as Alistair points out, enters a market that is seemingly flooded leaving its only real differential being that it’s a Google baby, there are possibilities. Especially when the Google well studded stable is considered.

1000heads is a confirmed supplier at The Marketing Forum in September.

Join them - call Louise Henry today 0208 487 2242.
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Shine Communications and The Marketing Forum
Themes and trends that will influence consumers’ lives in 2009 ...Shine Communications
Help for marketers with new micro­trends study
http://www.utalkmarketing.com/pages/Article.aspx?A...

MD Shine Communications, Rachel Bell MD Shine Communications, Rachel Bell, said,

“The current speed of social and cultural change means that we are experiencing a much higher frequency in the turn around of trends. Although more niche, fragmented and perhaps short-lived, these trends are more powerful than ever before.”

Is your brand suffering from ‘Authenticity Fatigue’? It’s one of a number of emerging industry trends identified in a new microtrends study from Shine Communications.

'Embrace the Chaos' – a book detailing 100 leading themes and trends that will influence consumers’ lives in 2009 - offers marketers an insight into the minds of the nation.

Shine Communications is a confirmed supplier at The Marketing Forum in September.

Join them - call Louise Henry today 0208 487 2242.

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The Marketing Forum in figures
Clients demographics : Organisations’ average annual turnover - £522m
Average number of employees – 10,163
http://www.marketingforum.co.uk/

Average number of employees – 10,886



The Marketing Forum 2008
confirmed clients demographics:

* Company classification: B2B 30%, B2C 24%, Both 46% 
* Organisations' average annual turnover - £522m 
* Average number of employees - 10,163 
* Average organisations' annual marketing budget - £45m 
* Average personal marketing budget - £13m

The Marketing Forum, Aurora, Southampton, 24 - 27 September 2008 

Contact Louise Henry, Project Manager  +44 (0)20 8487 2242.
 

Harvest Digital and The Marketing Forum
You can treble the amount of traffic to your site by being prominent in both natural and search

Spotted at Harvest Digital's
insight page...

One of the classic "well they would say that wouldn't they" is Google's argument that it is important to be top of both natural and paid search. Here's the standard bit of Google research on the subject, which suggests that you can treble the amount of traffic to your site by being prominent in both natural and search.

But is that still true if there is no competitive activity on PPC? According to our recent research - which is covered  in iMedia Connection- many prominent UK brands simply don't bother to bid on their own brand terms.

Harvest Digital is a confirmed supplier at The Marketing Forum in September.

Join them - call Louise Henry today 0208 487 2242.

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Best read story Jan - June 2008
Stansted Airport, London. 7 hidden cameras. 14 undercover actors. 1 unexpected performance...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZuHlDuulk

Short film for Lastminute by Farm. Just over 3 minutes - stick with it, it's worth it...

"Made me fall off my chair with laughing!  Brilliant!"

"Absolutely fantastic - a neat idea and stellar performances - from both the professionals and the onlookers!"

Also enjoy this spontaneous musical in a food court.....
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The Marketing Forum September 24 - 27th
Mingle and network

Mingle and network with
the very best of
the marketing world

The Marketing Forum
has teamed up with mad.co.uk, CIM, eDigitalResearch and the London School of Marketing to launch a competition offering two fantastic prizes for aspiring marketers.

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Join 300 other leading marketers later this year at The Marketing Forum 24-27th September 2008 on board the Aurora cruise ship.
 

Mike Hoban, Marketing Director, Scottish Widows

"The Marketing Forum is the equivalent of three weeks of marketing conferences and three weeks of agency credential meetings all in three days   
Mike Hoban, Marketing Director, Scottish Widows.
 


To apply for your place at The Marketing Forum
please contact
Hanna Leerink directly
on 020 8487 2254.
 

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at the Axe cottage"
  
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