If this is something your company would be interested in, please call Mark on 01295 266644 or email.

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From talking to our clients, Toast know that social media marketing is high-up on the agenda; but we also know that many people we work with are unsure how to quantify the results of our combined inbound marketing efforts.

There’s email marketing, Facebook, blogs, twitter and other campaigns that companies run, but short of knowing who clicked a link, opened an email or followed you what else can you do?

The answer is one hell of a lot more.

If we were to tell you that you could create email and social campaigns that identified, in person, the visitors to your marketing channels that are interested in your service or product, it would be a step-up. If we then tell you that we can help you name them, track them, friend and follow them and also set up a series of lead-nuturing actions that automatically move that visitor down your marketing funnel to convert them into a happy customer - whoa – that is some useful marketing data and something that can set you apart.

Let’s add that we can also prove what social media, blogging and other campaigns are working; how many leads, pipeline-data, conversion rates and eventual customers you get from your efforts. You see where this is going…

Toast are shortly to become a Hubspot certified partner in the UK. What makes us different is that we’re able to offer you all the stuff you need – from effective creative, keyword-packed copy writing, in-house strategic management, consultancy, a dedicated PR team and lead generation experts all under one roof. We’re not just ‘resellers’, we’re everything you need to get your inbound marketing on-track and to prove how well it’s working.

The ROI on your social marketing and blogging is now measurable – imagine being able to stand up in a meeting a be able to say ’15% of our new customers this month have come directly from our twitter, facebook and email campaigns, and I can show you which tweet, post and blog has made this happen.

If you’d like to find out more about how we can help you maximise your web and social media opportunities, call us. 01295 266644. We can help you with inbound marketing, content marketing and social media marketing; and we can prove and show you how effective we are. Ask your current agency if they can do the same.

I have a real passion for working with foodie brands, particular the artisan, smaller companies that really care about what they’re producing and have a passion for it.

There are some great artisan food company brands out there that I really admire and wish that we at Toast had produced the design for, to name but a few Dorset Cereal and Higgidy Pies are great examples of representing the ”smaller” artisan food company that is trying to do something different and have some fun along the way.

Over the past year we’ve been lucky to find and start working with some like-minded food companies that are right up there with the Dorsets & Higgidys. The Grown Up Chocolate Company, Little Turban Cooking Sauces and Ross & Ross Foods, who we have created brand designs for.

They all share one key ingredient ”Passion”. As well as having great tasting products, they all love what they’re doing, enthusiastic and a pleasure to work with. We share the same key ingredient, but our passion is to create great design for our clients, design that works for them, tells a story and gets our clients brands noticed on the shelves.

It’s working too, our designs for The Grown Up Chocolate Companies bars can be found on the shelves of Fortnum and Mason and even though Ross and Ross only started out a year ago their potted meats and chutneys can be bought from Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge, we’re really proud to have helped both companies achieve their goals.

Of course it’s all about the product, you can really taste the passion, love and care that has gone into them, but good design helps the product get stocked by buyers, noticed by consumers and dropped into a shopping  basket, then they find out how great it tastes.

So, if you have a food or drink product that you’re looking to take to market, or even one that is in need of a re-brand, give me, Chris, a call on 01295 26 66 44, I would love to speak to you.

I’ll certainly bring the passion…..

Ross & Ross Foods branding & packaging design