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A meeting with us

Posted by Philip | Nov 6, 2015 |

No two business related meetings are the same. Just this week a local business came in for a meeting with us and, together we talked about how to further grow their business and create new worth and value within it…. this opportunity is really exciting and is also filled with opportunities for us and the business we met with. So much of the usual tradition about how a website should look, how social networks should be used and how networking events should be utilised were set aside and re-thought. These are all useful elements but that’s all they are. Elements. Your ideas shouldn’t stop with them. The temptation to allow tired rhetoric about how a “new website is the way forward” or to ask “can we get funding?” or to say “we must create a marketing campaign” was avoided. This simply isn’t our way. We formed a strategy first and then decided what we needed to do. Strategy is key. A strategy that embraces a new way. If you are a business and are frustrated with tired, predictable methods and trying to navigate all the choices thrown in front of you, please get in touch with us. In a meeting with us, we will make sure you see that there is a new...

Handling choice in a new way

Posted by Ally Simpson | Nov 6, 2015 |

Is choice always a good thing? More shops, more menu options, more colours of shoes… Handling choice is something everyone encounters now. The luxury of choice is a value, a priority, a right. Or is it? …increase in choice and change leads to a decrease in commitment and continuity — to everyone and everything. Thus obligation melts into option and giveness into choice. But other effects are terribly obvious — above all the way in which choice and change lead quickly to a sense of fragmentation, saturation and overload. In the modern world there are simply too many choices, too many people to relate to, too much to do, too much to see, too much to read, too much to catch up with and follow, too much to buy. [Os Guinness | The Call | p.165–166] People like to blame the Internet when talking about declining retail in our towns. It might well be cheaper and easier but, at Ballymena Today we believe the array of options you and I are now exposed to is a far greater issue than price and delivery options. Why would you go to the shop around the corner and choose from their small range of products when you can buy everything on the Internet without even having to put your shoes on. Why oh why!! And if the black Nikes are heavily discounted in town but you...

Robyn G Shiels to perform at Braid Real Music Club

Posted by Cherry | Nov 5, 2015 |

One of our favourite musicians Robyn G Shiels will be performing at the Braid Real Music Club in a few weeks time. We first blogged about Robyn here, and he told us that he was looking forward to coming along and performing in Ballymena. Also performing will be Malojian. The event will be on Friday 20th November and is to be held in the Braid town hall. Her eis all the information you will need: Malojian – Armed only with his father’s battered acoustic guitar and a collection of Neil Young LPs, Stevie Scullion began writing songs in his early teens. Struggling to overcome a fear of singing in front of other people, he spent the next few years making lo-fi home recordings on a 4-track tape machine, before eventually finding his voice with acclaimed indie-folk act Cat Malojian. The band released two EPs and two albums worth of Stevie’s songs and were invited by Gary Lightbody to support Snow Patrol at Ward Park, Bangor, in June 2010, a performance that saw them play to 46,000 people – the largest ever music audience in Northern Ireland. In June 2011, midway through the recording of their third album, Cat Malojian split. Wasting no time, Stevie embarked on a solo career under the simpler moniker Malojian and soon released his debut solo album, “The Deer’s Cry“. The album gained widespread critical acclaim, culminating in...

Power Washing Service in Ballymena

Posted by Cherry | Nov 5, 2015 |

Maine Cleaning offer a power washing service. The cleaning company who are local here in Ballymena offer many different cleaning services, one of which is their Power washing. Power Washing Service in Ballymena Power washing by Maine Cleaning in Ballymena removes dirt, loose paint, grime, dust, and mud from all kinds of surfaces using pressurised water. Maine Cleaning is a family run business who work hard to keep make your surfaces look as good as new – whether it is a business forecourt or domestic patio. Power Washing can be a messy business but Maine Cleaning have the specialist equipment, the knowhow and the experience to carry out the job to the highest standard. Here are the other services which are offered by Maine Cleaning: • Driveway & patio cleaning • Graffiti removal • High level cleaning • Play area cleaning • Car parks & forecourts • Chewing gum removal • Steam washing Maine Cleaning are based in Ballymena and carry out power washer cleaning throughout Northern Ireland. If you would like to find out more about Maine Cleaning then click here to visit their...

What are you capable of giving today?

Posted by Cherry | Nov 4, 2015 |

“When it comes to your business, your writing, your body, or your body of work, there are always going to be people sprinting ahead of you and lagging behind you. Doesn’t matter. Obsessing over them — and making up stories about them — is just a way of diverting your focus and energy away from where it needs to be. (This is a lesson I keep forgetting — and re-learning.) “Other people” are not your competitors and they are not your concern. Your only concern is what you can give. You. Right now. What are you capable of giving today? I guarantee: It’s more than you think.” Alexandra...

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A meeting with us

Handling choice in a new way

Robyn G Shiels to perform at Braid Real Music Club

Power Washing Service in Ballymena

What are you capable of giving today?

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