Yes, already talking about it but no doubt many of you have been planning it for months!
If you've not already, this is a reminder about the Chamber promotion in the Christmas bumper Cumbria Life edition. You should've already sent details in to Suzanne by Thursday 29th September but if you've not gone for that and want something else, we have now got over 2000 emails addresses that we are looking to send an autumn newsletter out to.
These are people who want to hear from us, local, regional and national, all who love the town and area as much as we do.
We are on the route for the Stage 2 route next Monday with a sprint section of the days route and we would like you all to go green.
The winning rider of the sprint section gets awarded a green jersey and to celebrate our part in the day, we'd like you to decordate your windows, shops and businesses for the next week or so in green displays!
Our own marketing drive to support the town continues and has had 2 email newsletters sent to different segments of the Cumbria Tourism database. We're getting good results too. At time of writing, we now have over 1500 people on our own email database.
The next 'Taste' styled Cumbria Life advert will be going out at the end of August into the September edition and we are looking at sending our own newsletter in the coming weeks.
Just a reminder that the next meeting is Monday 8th August at 6pm at the Bush. Hope to see you there as we're looking at ideas on Shop 10 and the upcoming events including Tour of Britain.
I’m sure you’re aware that the Tour of Britain is returning to Cockermouth on Monday 5 September. The cyclists will be hurtling past Cockermouth School, down Castlegate Drive, down the main street to Wordsworth House and up Sullart Street / Gallowbarrow, turn left at the traffic lights, come down the hill past Lime-Lighting and then right onto Lorton Street before leaving town along Lorton Road.
This is the final call for any business wanting to be included in the towns double page spread in September edition of Cumbria Life. £30 and your business name, address and a product shot.
Spaces are limited for this promotion and are on a first-come-first-served basis. Please get in touch with Suzanne at elsworthcommunications@hotmail.co.uk to get involved.
I know it seems a while off but it takes time to coordinate and finalise and it needs finalising now!
In amongst everything, we are looking for offers and promotions that we can promote in the email out to our own list and others we can use with a Cumbria Tourism newsletter.
Do you have something we can shout about? An offer, a promotion, a sale or something else? Please let us know this week (before 1st August) so we can build this in to our plans in the next few weeks. Please email steve@flameconcepts.com with any offers/promotions.
As a reminder, tonight is the next chamber meeting with Marie Whitehead from CN Events coming to talk to us about the Northbound street party and Taste festival. This meeting is open to all, members and non-members, so please encourage as many people as possible to come along.
Meetings are held on the second Monday of the month at The Bush:
Next meeting Monday 11th July 6pm at the Bush with Marie Whitehead from CN Events coming to talk about Taste Cumbria and the Northbound Street Party
Thanks to a couple of people, we now have an active @CockermouthTown twitter account. This is a public facing (not business to business) account looking to promote whats on, the tour of Britain, events and what to see and do. Please follow, retweet and help grow this account for everyones benefit. https://twitter.com/cockermouthtown
Please follow the link below for information on a new scheme where businesses, charities and social enterprises in Allerdale can apply for grants of up to £3,000 to get better broadband.
