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Here’s a brain-scratcher for you; what is not invited but stays in your home on average for 4 weeks? No? OK, same answer, different question; what did 44% of people say they looked forward to and 88% of people say they paid more attention to during lockdown? Still no? OK, one last chance, same answer…
Read MoreA new and exciting chapter starts with Selbey Anderson
Julie and I set BURN up in April 2005. Prior to that, we’d both been part of the management team at Black Cat – an agency which we’d seen grow from a small team of 6 to over 150 by the time it was sold to WPP and merged into JWT in Knightsbridge. We set…
Read MoreSelbey Anderson buys award-winning brand response agency, BURN
London, October 19th 2020: Brand response agency BURN today announces its acquisition by Selbey Anderson, the fast-growth marcoms group. Founders Julie Cheetham and Guy McConnell will continue to lead the agency, which was established in 2005. BURN, whose brand response approach includes deep expertise in CRM, data and direct is multi-award winning and serves both…
Read MoreBest Email Marketing Agency – We Will See…
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been nominated once again as the Best Email Marketing Agency in the UK in The Drum Recommends Digital Awards 2020. At a time where marketers are tightening their belts and strapping in for a bumpy ride, efficient channels such as email are a lifesaver. However, email is often an…
Read MoreTRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY
It’s amazing to see how people are pulling together at this time of crisis and how positivity can be found in the darkest of places. Together, we will prevail. And on that note, the BURN team has prevailed again in The Drum Recommends Awards. Today, we were announced as the winners of three awards: UK’s…
Read MoreTHE NEW C WORD – COVID-19
AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOUR CUSTOMER COMMUNICATIONS Clearly this is a time for coming together, for taking care of others and for looking after customers. It is not a time to be overly transactional or self-serving. Never has there been a better time to understand what your customer really needs, how you can…
Read MoreSome Good News in Dark Times – More Award Nominations…
Let’s face it, we’re operating in a world unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. Many businesses are currently closed or not operating fully. Millions of workers are at home – being paid by the government to avoid lay-offs by their employers and businesses are going to the wall on a daily basis. And that’s all set…
Read MoreeCRM Newsletters: Our 9 Top Tips
eCRM (Electronic Customer Relationship Management) newsletters aren’t as simple as they can first appear. For one, the modern-day inbox is overcrowded and therefore the competition to cut-through the noise is intense. By way of contextualising this, the average office worker receives 120 emails every day. In addition to this, you can’t just send one fantastic…
Read MoreSecrets of Travel CRM
Travel CRM should not be this hard: “Our gift to you as a loyal customer.” “Our holidays are now reduced by 10% for the next 5 days.” Hang on! I am allegedly an important loyal customer, I have booked three holidays with you in the last five years and that has earned me the…
Read MoreTrending in 2020
Firstly, Happy New Year from all of us at BURN! In the spirit of getting back to reality after two weeks of not knowing what day it is or your purpose in life, we’ve pulled together some of the most exciting trends that will come to a head in 2020. THE NEW ECO-NORMAL As we…
Read MoreGDPR. The pains and the gains 18 months on
It was one of the biggest changes to data protection laws in many years. The arrival of GDPR in May 2018, was met by a collective groan by many marketeers who feared not only the decimation of their marketing databases but months of remedial work to achieve compliance. But what has the effect been 18…
Read MoreBURN voted Best eCRM Agency
Last night (3rd December 2019) at the Drum Awards, BURN once again walked away with the title of Best eCRM Agency in the UK. The awards were held at the Marriot Grosvenor Square. They’re based on ratings clients give to agencies for different disciplines, and as a result carry even greater value to us. This…
Read MoreMore awards nominations
We’re nominated for two awards at The Drum Recommends Digital Awards. We’re up for ‘Best for Strategic Thinking’ and ‘Best for eCRM’. It’s the sixth year running we’ve been nominated as the UK’s Number 1 eCRM agency and we’ve won it four out of the last five times. The nomination is testament to another great…
Read MoreAre you a Digital Developer with an engaging personality? Walk this way…
The agency We’re looking for an energetic, talented Digital Developer to join our team and help deliver a broad range of projects. BURN is a multi-award winning agency based in Richmond, South West London – voted Grand Prix winner in the RAR awards 2018. Clients are mostly blue chips, combined with smaller, fast growing ’start…
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