Key Customer Analysis

Key Customer Analysis

In challenging economic times, keeping your existing customers engaged and making them feel valued is just as important as getting new ones. But who exactly are your most important customers? Here’s a simple 80/20 exercise to help you find out: Step 1 Make a column that lists in descending order of spend, every customer you’ve dealt with over the last twelve months (and how much they’ve spent). Biggest at the top, smallest at the bottom. Step 2 Add them all...

Marketing campaign for good communicators….

Marketing campaign for good communicators….

Press Release Marketing agency Central Designs has won a contract from a fellow Newcastle-based firm. Business telecoms specialists Qualitel has hired Central to promote MobiteQ, a voice, data and applications exhibition being held at the Brittania Stadium in Staffordshire. Central will be running postal and email campaigns to encourage local businesses to visit the event next month. Managing director Simon Hilton said: “We are delighted to have been given the opportunity to promote the MobiteQ expo” “Working alongside another successful...

Why marketing in a recession really matters


When things get difficult or our safety is threatened our human instinct is to back away. We withdraw to what we think is a position of relative safety in the hope the danger will pass by. The same is true in business. The natural reaction in difficult economic times is to trim costs, batten down the hatches and wait for the good times to return. But how long will that take? At Central Designs we see things a little differently....

2D or not 2D

2D or not 2D

Sad though it may be, at Central we’re a bit OCD about self adhesive labels. You won’t find us creeping around the supermarket peeling back the corner of the barcode label on a jar of pickled gherkins to see if it’s a water based acrylic or rubber hot-melt adhesive they’ve used, but we do get quite excited when something new in the world of sticky labels comes along. Enter the 2 dimensional barcode. They look like a Sunday Times crossword...

Performance is VITAL

Performance is VITAL

When our client need a high impact though invoking advert we thought irony would be a good approach. The results speak for themselves! View

Loanzone Brand Development

Loanzone Brand Development

Brand Development

Elev8 Brand Development

Elev8 Brand Development

Brand Development

Better ways to get your message across

Better ways to get your message across

CentralDIRECT is our brand new e-marketing service available from the 1st of March. We’ll help you formulate a strategy for your campaign, design a bespoke master template for your e-shots and even help you write the copy. It doesn’t stop there. Once you’re happy with the content, we’ll convert it to HTML (computer geek talk for the right way to send out an e-shot!), look after the broadcast itself, and make sure any unsubscribes are handled properly. CentralDIRECT – The...

Online Portfolio

Online Portfolio

Take a few moments to flick through a small sample of our advertising, brand development & logo design and literature creative achievements.

Vekta Composites Brand Development

Vekta Composites Brand Development

Brand Development