Ben Thorpe Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, United Kingdom

I have been making music from as early as I can remember, with over 15 years with experience playing trombone from classical to commercial and everything in between. I have been lucky enough to play music on extensive tours around the world including Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Croatia, Holland, Belgium, Italy, France, Ireland and the UK. These include.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• I created this company with the hope of offering sales & marketing services to companies within the music industry. This has been a great experience allowing me to continue to learn and develop as a marketing.
• Events - Working to a budget, planning and running events. This includes everything from trade stands at conferences and shows to educational workshops.
• Digital marketing - through email campaigns, websites, social media, SEO, Google Analytics and Search Console.
• Sales – Working to increase sales via e-commerce, contacting partners to reinvest and selling website space.
• Customer relations – being the first point of contact for enquiries and helping in a professional and polite way.
• Data Analysis – Looking through product data and cleaning where necessary to keep websites looking accurate,crisp and modern. This also includes managing and editing customer databases.

London, United Kingdom

• This role gave me a great opportunity to really harness and mature my skills in marketing, working for one of the biggest music publishers in the world.Key responsibilities
• Co-ordinating a team of 6 across Europe – This involved planning all marketing activities for the whole of Europe.
• Digital Marketing – Increasing social media engagement, email campaigns, corporate website development.
• Developing the consumer website – I was responsible for making sure all product data was correct, bannerswere up to date, creating promotions and helping customers whenever necessary.
• Planning and managing trade stands and numerous events across Europe – Working to a budget, doing everything from planning the stand layout to managing the stand at the events. The biggest of which was theMusikmesse in.
• Liaising with Press – Creating press releases for new deals and products, sending adverts and making sure thecorporate image of the company was represented correctly.Key achievement

Lodnon

Tasked with rebranding and creating a new website for Chimes Music.This included cleaning up the data of over 500,000 titles, liaising with website developers and our EPOS system. creating menus, categories and the general look of the website.Within this role I was also responsible for the online presence of the company, via social media, newsletters.

During my time at Kensington Chimes Music I have helped the company run more efficiently and made numerous changes, these include:Helped give the shop a much stronger online presence via social media and through email newsletters and website offers. Adding an electronic piano section in two of the shops which is running very successfully helped the.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba) Hons, Music, 2:1

As part of my degree I studied classical performance, opera, musical theatre, music and moving image, jazz, rethinking music, music.

Education record