Tuesday 29th May 2018 - marketing ourselves

Posted 12:10pm

Am sitting in the offices of KPMG, just waiting to chzt with my mentor, Scott. So a good time to update our blog. I am going to push this again on social media today - so if you are reading this from that please do look back at our last few entries too - exciting times ahead we feel - especially as being a business set-up it has been a huge struggle.

We are preparing to do several of our programmes. With that in mind, it is important that we manage to market ourselves properly. There are a few events in the next few months where we will be able to chat to people and hand out flyers and leaflets.

Therefore, using the ever-present Vistaprint, we have now got A5 flyers for Healthy Minds, Healthy Bods, another for our Izzwalkz Clissold Park walk, and have just designed and ordered one regarding our Ajani Project - the main part of the business. Getting our foot in the door on mental health is not easy, as we have found. I think a lot of this is down to funding cuts, but also I think areas are protective around the work they already have. We are not copying anyone, and have approached this with a new fresh approach to not only dealing with mental health situations, but also aiming to be preventive too - something that has not always been done before.  We are, however, getting known - and in a good way.

We are updating our website again - looking at some new pages.  I really want to start utilising videos - especially as Luke is very photogenic (more so than myself). But we want, again, to do it in a new fresh way - with open discussions around issues - sometimes with guests too. We must start doing that in the next month. We are also looking at starting a new Izzwalkz website - naturally when we move to other boroughs we will have to come up with other names and new websites too.

I am very excited at the prospect of the next three months - I mentioned this on our facebook page. Again if people are looking at this who have not read our blog before, and coming off media:

Facebook - www.facebook.com/healthymindshealthybods  - please like and follow us

Twitter - @hmhb2016

And we have a new info blog  - www.hmhbinfo.blogspot.com - finding out about current research and news and putting it for people to see

Thanks everyone