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Plymouth Comedy Tours are walking tours with a difference. Our tour guides are professional award-winning comedians, who specialise in taking groups around the city, telling jokes rather than facts.Our tours show a lighter side to Plymouth. We will show you some of the city’s many quirky places, regale you with stories of Plymouth life and tell you where to get your hands on a decent pasty. It’s daft, silly and very funny. As well as our public tours we also run private tours… Show more Plymouth Comedy Tours are walking tours with a difference. Our tour guides are professional award-winning comedians, who specialise in taking groups around the city, telling jokes rather than facts.Our tours show a lighter side to Plymouth. We will show you some of the city’s many quirky places, regale you with stories of Plymouth life and tell you where to get your hands on a decent pasty. It’s daft, silly and very funny. As well as our public tours we also run private tours which are perfect for corporate groups. If you are interested please get in touch via: info@plymouthcomedytours.co.uk Show less

- Responsible for curating the comedy stages at a number of UK festivals.- Producers of countless one-off comedy events.- In charge of recruiting and managing event crew.- Setting the production schedule.- Working with artists and their agents to ensure that they are happy with the processes in place.- Booked acts include Russell Kane, Jess Fostekew, Shappi Khorsandi, Paul Foot and Josh Widdicombe.

- Managerial responsibility for NMA Marketing Team.- Managing and developing impactful marketing campaigns in accordance with budget. - Researching and analysing data to aid decision making and identify revenue opportunities.- Conducting promotional activities for all of the OCT’s commercial programmes.- Evaluating campaign success against KPIs.

- Provided over 25 businesses with essential marketing support and guidance.- Clients ranged from start-ups up to established institutions such as Bristol City Council.- Recruited to evaluate clients marketing and brand position and help make improvements.- Trained business owners on best practices and new content ideas.- Produced effective marketing strategies for business of all sizes.

- Developed annual UK marketing strategy.- Coordinated implementation of annual strategy.- Analysed success with regular data reports.- Led UK marketing team.- Oversaw marketing budget.- Managed external marketing agencies.

- Promoted to Marketing Manager to design and develop all marketing and sales strategies.- Led marketing team to implement strategic plans and meet organisational goals. - Oversaw company-wide re-brand and launched 8 new events including the Cardiff Triathlon.- Partnership manager for Chain Reaction Cycles, Salomon, High 5, Scott Sports and Suunto.

- Responsible for all press communications and social media content.- Designed and wrote engaging content for popular regular e-newsletter.- Graphic design using Adobe Creative Suite.- Conducted market research to identify growth areas.

- Helped maintain corporate partnerships. Including Coca Cola, Google, Skype, Ocado and Dior.- Developed partnership agreements and maintained accurate records of partnership activity.- Identified new corporate fundraising opportunities and helped market charity events.- Helped implement marketing strategy for sell out ‘Peace Day’ concert headlined by Elton John.- Heavily involved in the writing of the successful proposal to work with the 2012 Olympic Games.

- Researching and contacting companies regarding corporate opportunities.- Responsible for keeping the website content relevant and up to date.- Daily management of social media channels.- Creating regular e-newsletters to issue to fans with promotional content and future events.- Helped to coordinate EBFC business and networking event, ‘Borough Means Business’.