Happy New Year from Beautiful Minds Promotions!

January has been a busy month for Beautiful Minds, beginning with clients including Altitude 360 seeing the New Year in with our hospitality staff, Sherene, Kat, Santucia, Lara and Liquid. Our committed ladies and gentleman were on the ball all night ensuring that all of the stress of staffing at the busiest night of the year was taken out of our clients hands.

January also saw Beautiful Mind registration staff as the show team for BETT 2011 for the second year in the row. We provided strong, focused customer service staff to deal with exhibitor and visitor enquiries as well as gophers. This year also saw Emap launch their fantastic exhibitor support, Beautiful Minds very own Natalie. Natalie was on hand to deal with exhibitors enquiries and to aid stands with smaller teams, acting as a go between, between the organisers and exhibitors. This was a valued service which was praised by the exhibitors and organisers alike.

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This week will also see Beautiful Minds reprise their role as registration staff at The Toy and Hobby Fair for the 3rd year. The team will be lead by Paddy Kerrigan, a favourite with the Beautiful Minds ambassadors and our registration partner RefTech. So if you are at Toy and Hobby Fair be sure to say hello to our guys and girls.

Our Talented Minds collaborate

Here at Beautiful Minds our ladies and gentlemen are more than just Beautiful Minds we also have some incredibly Creative Minds. We have young creatives such as fashion designers, illustrators, artists, graphic designers and photographers just to name a few. Wherever possible we like to collaborate with our creative minds to provide clients with the ultimate Beautiful Minds experience. With this in mind I thought I would take a moment just to showcase a few of our talents and introduce you to Paddy, Felicity, Bryony and Maddie.

 

Paddy Kerrigan

Paddy has been with the Beautiful Minds team from the start, one of our favourite supervisors he is also a talented photographer. Paddy has helped many Beautiful Minds ambassadors with their professional headshots, taking into account their personalities and how best to convey that to potential clients.

I specialise in Photoshoots of ‘People and Portraits’. My relaxed fun photoshoots capture the essence of the model creating beautiful images. I works with both natural and studio lighting.

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Two of our Creative Minds Bryony and Maddie have joined up to provide the events industry with In Your Dreams a brand new body painting concept. Bryony and Maddie both come from illustration backgrounds they are challenging our preconceived idea of face and body painting as being tacky and turning it on its head. They are providing a stylish, quirky, artistic service to the creative and events industry at high end events.

In Your Dreams - Body Painting

 

I also mentioned our creative mind Felicity who is an exceptionally talented fashion designer, receiving critical acclaim for her graduate fashion collection we are now very pleased to be working alongside Felicity. Nominated for the ‘Jon Adams Portfolio Award’ at Graduate Fashion Week, Felicity’s graduate collection caught the eye of numerous stylists, photographers and bloggers.

 

Felicity Doubleday

If you would like to see any more of our Creative Minds or would like to see what they cant do for you then pick up the phone and give us a call.

 

 

November 2010 Recap

Monthly summary of blog posts and what we’ve been up to. November proved a busy month with lots of new exciting clients as well as looking after all of our loyal repeat business. To view the top blog posts from last month please click below…

 

Why quality really is better than quantity when it comes to promotional staff

What type of customer are you?

Beautiful Minds brand ambassadors and Company Magazine team up for Britains Next Top Model Live

 

 

December see the first draft of our new website which might make an appearance in the coming few weeks where this blog will be transferred to. This month also sees us providing staff at the Clothes Show NEC Birmingham for a few clients, the ever present Vision Express eyeball campaign rolls on, providing staff for a Christmas gift wrapping service dressed as elves as well as market research assistants, party staff, sales staff and front of house staff for a number of events.

 

Beautiful Minds Promotions

Why quality really is better than quantity when it comes to promotional staff.

At Beautiful Minds our staff mean everything to us. It is our commodity in which we engage in our daily business with so it is imperative that we have the best service available and clients see great value in what they are getting. Our family of brand ambassadors is constantly streamlined, trimmed and restructured to maintain a manageable level. Over time we have found the optimum number for this is 1,000 shifting above and below this figure.

One thousand is the optimum number as it means we have a core team of people in the appropriate areas that we get to know on a personal level. Each member of the office team has an area of expertise so when a brief comes in it is sent to the right person. We really do count our staff as part of our team and get to know them very well. If you don’t believe us, test us! When clients come to us with a specific idea in mind for who they want we instantly know who would fit the brief perfectly. We are constantly updating our staffs’ availability and whereabouts which means when dealing with larger bookings they can be placed.

There are many agencies out there that make bold clams as to having ‘the largest database of staff’ or having ‘over 5000 staff on our books’. Beautiful Minds’ ethos is to keep the team lean in order to know our product and service better. We also shy away from the term ‘database’ as we work daily with real people who work in this industry as a full time job. Not a stop gap. So labelling them as another member of a database doesn’t give them the credit they deserve.

We have people from sales backgrounds, performing backgrounds, recruitment, sports and travel backgrounds. They are more than just event staff and we like to understand their weaknesses and what they aren’t capable of just as much as their strengths.

Another good reason for keeping the number of staff we can call upon trim is to make processes much quicker. Having thousands of staff to deal with would require a lot of time to keep informed and administer. We very much doubt that there has been a time when that many staff have been deployed at once meaning hoarding that many staff is pointless. Keeping our levels to the optimum means we can be picky about who we take on greatly improving the quality of staff available.