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Westley Richards.

We are very lucky.
As a creative agency we aspire to work with like-minded and lovely brands, Westley Richards is another one of those brands that we have been fortunate enough to end up working along side. We’re currently building their brand site, used gun site and their rather stunning online store.

Label Apeel website launch




Manufacturers of sticky labels for some of our favourite brands in the retail industry Label Apeel’s new website was designed with a view to creating a horizontally scrolling homepage with samples of their product whilst staying compatible with non-Flash enabled devices. Check out the full site at www.labelapeel.co.uk

Calais to the Tourmalet.

Just launched the site for www.detourdefrance.fr, after months of pulling everything together we went live this week. Rob and the team have been doing an amazing job organising a replica of the Tour de france for next June.

If you’re felling brave then click and sign up.

QR Barcode build; simply use this one to call us!

QR Barcodes are readable by compatible mobile phones and can be designed to send the user to a URL, receive SMS, make a call or transfer other data. It’s a great way of simply taking your user where you would like them or push content to their device. Use the one above and it will call us here at the office if you’d like to find out more….

Christmas has just arrived in the shape of……

Chocolate yule log!….

Kinect is here!

Having just taken delivery of the new Xbox Kinect hardware we’re getting to grips with kicking John’s ass at boxing….

It’s nice to actually play the game in the comfort of the studio after having months of keeping schtum while developing the rare.co.uk web site and something else which we really can’t talk about (yet)….

A spare seat at Nzime

Account Manager needed.

We’re not too interested in CV’s, couldn’t give a hoot about initials after your name and certainly won’t look at how many GCSE’s you have.
We simply need someone who loves everything to be in it’s place, someone who cannot let something go unfinished and someone who just lives for results and stats. You will have needed to have had a few years client facing experience under your belt and know how an agency works as we would need you to hit the ground running; well a brisk jog to start with would be fine. You would be directly dealing with 3-4 clients ranging from SME to international accounts as well as being involved in the new business process.
There’s no fixed salary for this position but we are looking for a mid to heavy weight so the salary will fit the person and their experience accordingly.

If this all sounds like your kind of job and you’d like to find out more then firstly have a click around our web site, if you’re still interested then please drop us an email with a brief description of yourself and why you think you are the person we’ve been looking for all this time.

No recruitment agencies please.

Please send all enquiries to anewjob@nzime.com

We do iPad apps too!

Always looking to offer our clients the latest in cutting edge design and development, we’re currently putting the finishing touches to our latest iPad application coming soon to an app store near you!

Using Social Media to promote your brand


With 28 million tweets a day emanating from Twitter and 3.5bn content posts per week on Facebook brands can no longer ignore the power of utilising social media as part of their marketing strategy.

And a lot of brands have indeed already tapped into this, but in many cases are not making the most of the opportunity or understanding the best way of engaging with the potentially huge captive audience.

A recent UK study of the top 50 brands revealed that although 90% of these companies have a Twitter account or a Facebook fan page 43% of them had never replied or retweeted anything on Twitter and only used it occasionally to push out information and ads for their brand, similarly 66% of these Facebook accounts had comments from fans, but only 25% of the companies are replying and engaging with their fans.

To properly implement a social presence for your brand you have to be prepared to put the time in, in much the same way as you’d dedicate your time to planning a press or online advertising campaign. These avenues have to treated in their own right and obviously the clue to doing this is in the name ‘SOCIAL’ media. Be prepared to reply to your Twitter followers or Facebook Fans. More brands are using this as a way to expand their customer service by searching Twitter for tweets that mention their brand and then sending an @ reply to the customer offering help or advice, likewise with Facebook reading the comments posted by Fans and replying to them or finding other accounts dedicated to their brand. Be it good or bad comments, the fact that the brand is prepared to engage with the customer and offer advice is always appreciated which can only be a good thing in the end!

One of the main rules of participating in these social activities is to always go where the conversation is. Don’t try to force your audience to start a discussion around a particular subject that you want to promote, track down where the conversation is already happening in a natural way and join in!
An already busy forum, Facebook account, Twitter account or blog that has established itself over the past few years is always going to have a dedicated and active crowd of people that are ready to hear from you and just by tapping into a fraction of this already established audience your social media activity can get off to a flying start.

By following a few simple rules your followers and fans will come naturally and if you keep the conversation light hearted and don’t try to push your product at every opportunity you’ll be surprised at the result!

De tour de France

Nzime have been appointed to work on a very, very exciting project which may even see one or two of us entering an event we wish we hadn’t. Sore bums all round.

We’ll keep you posted as the project develops and also if and when we commit!

OR….

Nzime avait été nominés à travailler sur un project très, très passionnant, ce qui peut même voir un ou deux d’entre nous de se presenter a un événtment vraiment penible. On aura tous mal au derriere!

Nous vous mettrons au courant des développements du project, et aussi même si nous nous resoudrons de s’engager!