Promotional staff Blog

This blog has been created to discuss and potentially help clients, as well as marketing professionals, to address specific issues and advances in promotional staffing or Brand experience.
We welcome feedback from clients and potential clients, helping us to improve our services and question elements of our market. We would also welcome anyone who would like us to address any area of interest, from promotional staff to promotional staffing, field marketing and brand experience. We would also like to use this forum to update you with the industry changes and improvements, as well as what activity we are involved with. Whether it’s quality of promotional staff / dependability / delivery of brand experience campaigns and promotional activity that you are interested in, then this is your one stop shop.

I am happy for you to contact me directly through our website at www.activ8live.co.uk

Brand experience Trends

by Mark Meurer | February 4, 2020 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

We cannot believe everything we read, or are told! So its not surprising that Brand Experience is the only authentic way of gaining customers trust. Brand Experience covers every interaction a customer has with your brand, but experiencing your brand...

Mystery Shopping

by Mark Meurer | January 30, 2020 | Brand Experience, Promotional Staff | 0 Comments

We are increasingly being asked to supply mystery shopping staff to brands and retailers!Initially we have three Quality assurance managers that travel the breadth and depth of the UK visiting our promotions and reporting back to us, it was initially very...

10 Exhibition Tips

by admin | January 9, 2020 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

Stand out with an engaging exhibition stand!Designing an exhibition stand that is an experience for guests as well as using engaging exhibition staff is important to achieve cut-through . Your exhibition stand needs to stand out from others in what can...

New Year, New You, New Us!

by admin | January 9, 2020 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

As we make our way into 2020, it is time to reflect on past achievements and share with you all, what an amazing year we have had!In 2019 we have accomplished a lot:Completed over 150 projectsChanged our online staffing database from Watu to...

Small breasts need not Apply

by admin | April 15, 2019 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

Small Breasts Need Not Apply! A Racetrack In Spain is in trouble as they have advertised for large breasted promotional staff at a speed circuit in Spain. The advert recently required Grid girls and stipulated that they must have "a size 95 or 100 chest,"...

Grand Designs Live Staff

by admin | April 15, 2019 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

Attending an Exhibition requires alot of planning. When you are spending large amounts on attending, thought needs to focus on what you get out of attending. With Grand Designs Live coming up Ngage can help! As the preferred promotional staffing supplier...

Trends in Brand Experience

by admin | August 15, 2016 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

It’s always interesting to keep track of what are the growing trends in brand experience and who is embracing these concepts. A recent Marketing Week article suggested that “live shows” are the “ultimate brand experience”.These live shows are aimed at...

Why successful Brand Experience will touch a range of senses

by admin | June 1, 2016 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

Can you smell a good marketing strategy? Will consumers like the sound of a new promotional activity? Well, according to the experts, all marketers should pay attention to more senses than simply sight when creating and delivering a marketing campaign or...

We think there are three types of promotional agencies

by admin | May 25, 2016 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

We like to think that there are three types of promotional marketing agencies. There are those that call themselves “promotional staffing” agencies. There are others that call themselves “brand experience” agencies. And then there’s Ngage. We call...

A guide to choosing the right promotional staff and agency

by admin | March 23, 2016 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

Who are the they?There are many names for promotional staff, such as Promotional Models, Event Staff, Field Marketing staff, Sales Staff, Exhibition Staff, Models, Leafleting Staff, Festival Staff, Grid Girls, Hospitality Staff, Roadshow Staff and Hit...

Why our promotional marketing approach is more affordable

by admin | March 23, 2016 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

To fulfill the complete promotional marketing needs of our clients we aim to deliver a host of expert services. These include:- Promotional staff- Operational staff- Specialist performers- Event Managers- Team...

Appeal to our competitors – Please only accept work you can deliver

by admin | January 4, 2016 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

At Activ8 we have had the busiest December in history! Not only has this been due to a high demand from our current clients but unfortunately there are a number of promotional staffing agencies who accept work that they are not able to deliver. As an...

Integrated Experiential Campaigns

by admin | October 22, 2015 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

It's rare to find well thought out integrated experiential campaigns. This campaign conceived by JWT London is a brilliant example of how to ensure the various disciplines of any marketing activity are delivered.Mr. Kipling devised an edible billboard in...

8 Great smartphone Apps for promotional staff

by admin | October 22, 2015 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

We’ve come up with 8 of the best Apps for busy promotional staff and event managers: -1) London tube map: It’s vital that you turn up for clients or events on time but London is a busy place and it’s not always the easiest to navigate. So make sure you’re...

Why pricing should be the last consideration when selecting a promotional staffing agency

by admin | October 20, 2015 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

Focus should be on staff quality and customer engagement rather than price!All too often clients contact us, along with a handful of other agencies, to provide pricing on promotional staffing – my answer is always the same!Are you sure you would like the...

The importance of managing promotional staff who work on their own

by admin | September 30, 2015 | Brand Experience | 0 Comments

We recently delivered a national sampling campaign for Wilkinsons to sample their new ranges of own brand products.Activ8 employed 50 promotional staff throughout the UK, for a single day of in-store sampling at 50 separate Wilkinsons stores. With this...

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