Tuesday, 18 August 2009

‘Feliz aniversário, John!’

We have a birthday tradition at THE DM GROUP.

We buy the lucky person a cake of their choice then sit them down to endure a cringingly bad recital of Happy Birthday.

We love it. They don’t.

Which makes the whole affair all the more enjoyable.

Unfortunately, today’s birthday boy – our managing director – couldn’t make it because he’s in Portugal.

So…feliz aniversáriopara você, John Kilgour!

If you’d like to see how much we enjoyed your special day without you, just click here.

Friday, 14 August 2009

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh…

We love a drink.

Occassionally, we like a drop of water too.

That’s why we’ve created drinkDM, our own custom-labelled, freshly-filtered, industry-certified water. In a handy 350ml bottle, it’s a refreshing addition to our client meetings.

And a neat way to get our brand into other people’s hands.

Thursday, 13 August 2009

Y so early…?

We love the Y.

It’s an iconic brand with a rich heritage and incredible values.

We’re embracing those qualities right now as we develop YMCA Victoria’s annual health and wellness centre member acquisition campaign for a second year.

But there’s more to the Y than gyms.

This morning we attended a fundraising breakfast at Melbourne’s Federation Square for The Bridge Project.

Its goal is to help rebuild young lives by creating employment partnerships between businesses and young offenders.

The event featured well-known speakers including Collingwood Football Club coach and The Bridge Project Patron, Mick Malthouse and World Vision CEO, Tim Costello.

Better still, it was attended by over 500 people.

Like the two early birds above – trademarkDM head of client service, Brandon Clark and our lovely YMCA client, Fiona Steer.

Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Happy birthday, DangerRay

A few years ago we created birthdayDM, as demonstrated above by the lovely Ian Ross, head of clickDM.

Bigger than a birthday card, slightly smaller than a Mini, it’s a black box we deliver to our clients to mark their special day.

When opened, a birthdayDM helium balloon rises up above the partitions and a personalised greeting is revealed inside the lid.

Today, we delivered one to Craig, one of our clients at UniSuper.

We believe he’s still at lunch, as we write.

So when you finally do read this DangerRay, ‘Happy birthday!’ (again) from everyone at THE DM GROUP.

Friday, 7 August 2009

Pockers pops in…and stays

If you’ve been following our blog, you may have seen Emily Pockley’s face in a few of THE DM GROUP snaps.

She’s obviously not camera shy.

She’s not shy of hard work either.

So after a few months contracting, trademarkDM has signed up ‘Pockers!’ as a full-time account director.

Her thorough advertising knowledge – gained in Australia and the UK on clients including Sky and Barclays – is a great asset for us.

And just as importantly, our clients.