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Surfing into the future

Business:

Ann's Cottage Surf Shops

Location:

North Cornwall , Cornwall

Project:

Creation of an online surfshop and central marketing tool to support the Ann's Cottage brand.

Tools:

New website
Learn to surf videos
Video banners and buttons.
Webcams and surf report
Email news letters

 

Project Links & downloads:

www.annscottagesurf.co.uk

 

Riding the digital wave was easy...

Who made it happen?

Rob Harris, Managing Director of Ann's Cottage Surf Shops, was keen to make their first website an online shop and a market leading site worthy of the brand he had built up.

The project was coordinated by The Drawing Board who also produced the website and the bespoke database driven online shop. Email marketing, web cam integration, surf reports and podcasts were all included to make a really cutting edge and complete on line marketing communications package. The moving images and film were shot and produced by ikandi media to add extra drama to the site.

How was it for them?

"The actual process of getting an online shop, podcasts and all the video was not nearly as daunting as we first thought. I think the biggest lesson we have learnt is that you have to think of an online shop as another store, and that means you need to invest in marketing it just as much as you would a conventional store." Rob Harris, 2007

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Who helped them?

Supplier:

The Drawing Board

Supported by Cornwall Film's Digital Markets scheme.

 

Area of expertise:

Marketing consultancy, web design, project management, online shop design and implementation, podcast production and integration into existing surf report process, video editing for web.

Link :

www.sketchanidea.co.uk

 

Supplier:

Ikandi Media

Area of expertise:

Film production and Editing

Link :

www.ikandimedia.co.uk