As another busy working year draws to a close, it’s great to have the chance to rest and reflect before taking on the as-yet-unknown challenges of 2025. Whether we like it or not, 2024 will be remembered as the year AI went mainstream. As the technology evolves and...
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Ideal Marketing’s 20th anniversary marks a triumph over adversity
This year, we’re celebrating 20 years in business! Reaching this milestone birthday is a fantastic achievement for any small business, but here at Ideal’s it’s made all the more special by tour company’s poignant history. The beginning of Ideal Marketing Back in 2003,...
Why you should reinstate the tradition of an orange in a Christmas stocking this year
Christmas is different for many of us this year due to the rising cost of living, so it may feel like there isn't as much to be grateful for. It got us thinking about past holiday traditions like adding fresh oranges to stockings, which used to be a highlight and a...
2021 sees the return of the Alastair Campbell Award
With the easing of restrictions in Summer 2021, Race Harborough have been able to resume most of their events, and December will see the return of the Alastair Campbell award. Set up by Race Harborough and Ideal Marketing, the trophy is awarded every year (aside from...
The Ideal Marketing Company sponsors Friends of St Dionysius website
In 2021, The Ideal Marketing Company is a remote-based business with clients based as far away as Canada. However, this doesn’t stop us from remaining firmly rooted in our local community in terms of both our client base and the good causes we like to support in...
Memorial marketing award given to De Montfort University student
This month Ideal Marketing Company owner and MD Jess Shailes was pleased to give out the second Alastair Campbell Marketing Award. Jess set up the award in 2020 in memory of The Ideal Marketing Company’s founder Alastair Campbell. Alastair ran the company from 2003...
Springing forward: The secret to reclaiming your time
The key is in not spending time but in investing it. Stephen R. Covey. The lighter nights and hopefully warmer weather we welcome every year when the clocks go forward will be particularly welcome this year as the loss of an hour on Sunday morning coincides with the...
The Ideal Marketing Company makes a permanent move to remote working
When the pandemic hit in March 2020, like many businesses, all staff at The Ideal Marketing Company started working from home. Nearly a year on from these circumstances that were initially forced on us and so many others overnight, and after carefully weighing up the...
The gift of giving, this Christmas
Gratitude for the work Considering the year we’ve all had, we’re thanking our lucky stars to not only be surviving but thriving, with exciting things coming in 2021. It’s all made possible by the clients who’ve worked with us on projects and an ongoing basis through...
Inaugural Alastair Campbell Marketing Award given to De Montfort University student
This month, Ideal Marketing Company owner and MD Jess Shailes was delighted to give out the first ever marketing award set up in memory of The Ideal Marketing Company’s original owner and MD Alastair Campbell. Alastair set up and ran the Ideal Marketing Company from...