Scottish Life integrates Print Management module into ComStore

Scottish Life has recently added full Print Management functionality into ComStore (the name for their customised PhinPro system developed by be the brand experience).

As of November 2009 all print quotes and orders are now managed through ComStore. Users can submit print quote requests to the Scottish Life’s print management company, who provide the quote back through ComStore for approval and audit ability of the end to end process. Print specifications for each item type have been predefined and are automatically pulled into the quote request to ensure consistency of print outputs.

Integrated reports provide a quick overview of total print cost in any given period including information on order originators, chosen printer and cost centres.

Liz Thompson, Scottish Life’s Marketing Compliance Officer comments: “The functionality is straightforward and easy to use and has enabled us to successfully standardise and streamline our print order process.”

Donation

be the brand experience had adopted the beaver as their mascot.  In keeping with our environmental awareness campaign, the team decided to send Christmas e-cards to all our clients.  The savings from printing and postage has been put towards adopting two beavers managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust, Charity # SC005792.

If you would like to make a donation to the Scottish Wildlife Trust please visit their website:  http://www.scottishbeavers.org.uk/

'Newsletter' Functionality is now live with Prudential Insight.

Prudential’s Insight Team send out a newsletter each week detailing the latest market research items (i.e. assets) that have been added to ‘The Hub’ (the name they give to their system). Previously this would have involved writing an email, downloading files from The Hub and sending them out with the email, which was not only time consuming for the writer but also required sending sizeable attachments.

The new functionality allows selected users logged into The Hub to create a branded newsletter with editable text fields (heading, introduction etc), the ability to select which items of research should appear within the newsletter (including certain metadata) and email this out to distribution lists. The branded email that is received then contains the entered text and the research item details along with a link to download the item directly from the Research Library (Asset Store).

The result is a simple, streamlined newsletter that provides consistency and saves both time and precious inbox space.

If the Newsletter functionality sounds ideal for your be the brand solution, please contact your Account Manager for more information.

10:10

be the brand experience employees have always been conscious of the environment and are quite excited about the whole idea of  ‘10:10’, a campaign set up and run in conjunction with The Guardian.

The whole idea of the campaign is quite simple; ‘Reduce your carbon footprint by 10% in 2010’.  Can this be achieved? Yes, it’s a matter of embracing changes and working together in achieving the ultimate goal – reducing the amount of carbon emissions going into the atmosphere.

be the brand experience have already started incorporating small changes within our office, for instance; recyling, reducing traveling by doing online demonstrations of our system, changing our electricity provider, conducting management meetings through Skype.

Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) & Co-operative Financial Services

Co-operative Financial Services have just gone live with the latest upgrade (version 1.8) of their “alf” system.

The main additions were adding functionality to automatically inform relevant channels whenever a new or updated item goes live and also further enhancing the suite of TCF reports taking the total number of customized TCF reports to 10.