why blog?
I decided to start a blog to share thoughts, ideas and have the occasional rant if it takes my fancy. I'll try to make them interesting or entertaining (or both) but if you have any questions or ideas please get in touch.
How do I compare to the other Simple Stars?
Posted by iamemily on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
As a lot of you know I have taken part in trying to become a ‘Simple Star’. This is not (as has been suggested) for simpletons! It is a competition run by Simple to see who can run their own promotional campaign and promote Simple products.
I have a vast interest in social media and also in branding and design being both involved in the likes of twitter, blogging, facebook and Linkedin and being a designer creating branding for businesses along with advertising and marketing campaigns. I want to win so that I can prove my own personal experiment - the power of social media and branding and also promote ‘birds on the blog’ who have an avid audience of women who read blogs so what better place to get comments and views on the brand and start discussions.
So can I get enough people interested in my bid to become the Simple Star and win the competition?
I’ve blogged, tweeted, re tweeted, emailed, facebook’d, posted on Linkedin, commented and discussed about the products, campaigns, the competition, voting… but is this enough? I got into the top 10 in terms of votes, which was fantastic but there are some people ahead of me in the voting. What are they doing that I’m not? Will all my efforts of blogging and tweeting pay off as well as the votes?
I do wonder how much it means to the other people trying to win the competition and whether they have been using all the social media outlets they can to push the Simple brand and whether Simple have seen an increase in sales since the promotion has started. These things really interest me to see how effective the campaign has been and what other companies can learn from it.
There’s not long left in the competition so every vote counts, can I do this?
If you want to help me achieve the ultimate goal please vote at http://www.simple.co.uk/simple-stars/i+am+emily.aspx or go to my website http://www.iamemily.co.uk/contact where you can follow me on twitter, become a fan on facebook, become a contact on Linkedin and join in the fun.
And a massive thank you to all of you who have supported me and taken an interest and got me this far already.
