Founder and Director of The Listing Magazine, the community magazines for Royston, Herts and the surrounding SG8 villages.The Listing's printed magazines are hand-delivered to 16,500 homes every month, shared out to over 4,000 social media followers and read by 2,000 online, offering businesses and organisations the most cost-effective, targeted local advertising around. The magazines include a lively editorial mix of community news, local businesses, organisations, leisure, homes and gardens, health and wellbeing and more. Cath was inspired to launch The Listing back in September 2005 when, in the days before Facebook, the Royston community was lacking in timely, accurate information on the local area. Cath has always had the drive and desire to run her own business, and with a strong customer service and marketing background, The Listing was born!Cath has gained a wealth of experience from her hands-on approach in the early years of the business.- Developing and sustaining a locally-recognised, trusted brand- Responsible for all advertising-based customer liaison, database management and relationship building with clients- Copywriting and content creation - community and business editorial- Designing client adverts in Indesign software- Advising customers on marketing plans and strategy- Taking the magazine to full production in Indesign, liaising with printers - Promoting the business through print adverts, PR, networking, website and social media channels- Building a rapport with local press and community stakeholders- Working to tight deadlines- Accounts and business acumen- Co-ordinating and managing a distribution team of 30+In more recent years, Cath has worked behind the scenes in the business, growing it from a one-person business to a team of four.- Responsible for the smooth production of the magazines- Empowering and managing the small, dedicated publishing team - Limited Company compliance

Founder and Director at The Listing Marketing Company.Based in Royston, Hertfordshire, The Listing Marketing Company specialises in marketing activities on a local level, offering businesses and organisations a range of services from print, design, copywriting, website creation and management, e-newsletter writing and social media management. Cath founded The Listing Marketing Company because of customer demand. Increasingly, Magazine clients were asking for recommendations for digital, print and design work. As Cath developed The Listing team to publish the magazines, it became possible for her to offer a range of marketing services to small-medium sized businesses in the region. The Listing Marketing Company works in partnership with your business, perhaps on a one-off project such as business card or leaflet design and print; or working with you more closely by providing ongoing marketing support, such as writing content, updating your website and keeping your social media on track.Cath is an experienced marketing professional with demonstrated online and offline experience across the marketing mix, and the experience to listen and understand individual marketing objectives and help a business achieve their goals.Recent marketing experience includes:- Developing the marketing strategy- Creating and implementing marketing plans- The set up and management of social media campaigns for clients- The set up and management of Wordpress websites- Organic SEO - The set up and management of e-newsletters- Copywriting of client websites and promotional material- Creation of design assets such as logos, images for web and social media use, and liaising with designers- Creation of promotional material in Indesign, to press artwork- Print management- Writing press releases and liaising with local press- Writing marketing reports

Delivering on the Marketing for the ERDF-funded Business Energy Efficiency (BEE) programme. We help businesses reduce their overheads and become more sustainable.BEE offers Free Energy Reviews and Grant Funding to eligible small and medium businesses in Cambridgeshire, North Herts, Rutland, Fenland and beyond. To date, we've supported 133 businesses and identified cost savings of £792,336 & carbon savings of 3,876 tonnes.We have grant funding available up to a maximum of £20,000 for energy efficiency measures such as LED lighting, heating and insulation for eligible businesses.If you think we can help your business or if you would like to Register Your Interest, please visit the BEE website https://www.beecp.org/sign-up

Delivering on the Marketing for Groundwork East on the Business Energy Efficiency programme. BEE offers eligible businesses Free Energy Reviews and Grant Funding. There are real business benefits to being more energy efficient. Not only can it make your business more sustainable from an environmental/carbon saving point of view, energy efficiency can save your business money. For example, installing a new heating system or switching to LED lighting will lead to a significant reduction in your utilities expenditure. Grant funding is available from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the message is that the pot of funding is finite - so businesses are being urged to register now to access this funding whilst it is available. If you think we can help your business or if you would like to Register Your Interest, please visit the BEE website https://www.beecp.org/sign-up

Owner and creator of Occasional Creations, specialising in handmade greetings cards and bespoke wedding stationery, distributed through local retail outlets, offices, fayres and directly.

Administrative responsibility for all day care centres, including customer service and accounts.

Identifying business opportunities and generating sales activity within Government, Education and Corporate market sectors.Production of sales reports.Introduction, design and maintenance of internal marketing database for UK sales team.Attending UK exhibitions.

Liaison with print, design and promotional companies.DTP design of product literature and marketing materials.Maintaining the marketing database.Co-ordinating mailshots and despatch of promotional materials.

Producing sales and marketing analyses for the director. Administrative support and frontline customer service for the business.