Monthly Archives: September 2010

Good logo design: the 5 most important considerations

Good logo design: the 5 most important considerations

Your company logo is without doubt a key element of your overall business brand and reflects both the underlying ‘personality’ of your enterprise along with its core values. The commercial value of your brand logo should never be underestimated. If you want to know what the real value of a brand is worth, you need [...]

Postal VAT Changes for 2011

For those of you that use our fulfillment services, you might want to check out which services offered by Royal Mail will be subject to VAT as of 31 January 2011.  Whilst the majority of standard services will remain exempt there are some notable exceptions for the business user such as Special Delivery.

Top tips for writing search engine friendly blog posts

To many of us, the company blog seems to have taken a bit of a back seat in recent times in favour of the currently more ‘trendy’ forms of social media such as social networking or micro-blogging. True. The blog may lack the cosy familiarity of Facebook or the soundbite immediacy of Twitter, but it still remains an component of social media that can drive quality traffic to your website as well as the previously mentioned social media channels.

Listen! Do you want to know a secret?

Listen! Do you want to know a secret?

We love sharing stuff over here at The Escape so we thought we’d let you into a little secret. No. we haven’t recorded a cover of an old Beatles song, we’ve just had a bit of a play around with our company website. You know the sort of thing… to use ‘marketing-speak’ we’ve basically given [...]

Recent Posts

  • It's kicking off in the studio this Christmas

    Peace and good will to all… well, that’s the general theory this time of year isn’t it? Unfortunately, no one passed this message to the ‘troops’ in the studio at Escape Towers this year. Downtown Basra eat your heart out. There we’re no car bombs (we just couldn’t do it to our lego creations) but [...]

    Date Posted: 23 Dec 2011 Read More

  • Supporting INSPIRE-ing Businesses (sorry, couldn't resist)

    For a number of years we’ve been supporting a local business awards scheme, the INSPIRE Business Awards, which are organised by one of our lovely clients, Destination Basingstoke.  This year was no exception, and a few weeks ago saw the culmination of a year of hard work from all at ‘DB’, as the awards evening [...]

    Date Posted: 16 Dec 2011 Read More

  • New stuff: Honeywell F124 banner

    Its very early days, but we’ve started working with Honeywell. They’re based here in Basingstoke so our local-ness (pretty sure that’s not even a word!) is helpful when there’s a tight deadline to hit. This was the case with our first project for them, a pretty straightforward roller banner design for a show they were [...]

    Date Posted: 10 Oct 2011 Read More

  • Doing our bit for 'ch-ch-charidee mate': The Breast Cancer Care Fashion Show 2011

    Back in July I posted about our involvement with Breast Cancer Care and our charitable creative donation to help them out with the look and feel for their annual fundraiser… The Fashion Show. Time fly’s when you’re having fun and although (at the time) October seemed a million miles away, it soon came around, culminating [...]

    Date Posted: 07 Oct 2011 Read More

  • Beringer Tame website shortlisted for 'best recruitment website' award at the MARA's

    We just want to say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone that took the time and effort to vote for the Beringer Tame website in the ‘best recruitment website’ category of the MARA awards. The fantastic news is that all those votes have ensured the site has been shortlisted as a finalist in the category! [...]

    Date Posted: 04 Oct 2011 Read More