Evolve - Business Developments

12/12/2024

You’re more than welcome … it was a pleasure!

08/12/2024

The German Shepherd Christmas jumper has had its first outing of the festive season!

No photos of me wearing it though because I’ve been busy taking photos of everyone else. If you’d like to see what I’ve been up to head over to Sunflowers Children’s Action Group and check out their Children’s Christmas Party!

An amazing day & I am now well and truly in the festive spirit 🎄❤️🌻

21/11/2024

Why does this feel like a term my Dad would use to describe me 😂😂

I’ve had a fab morning this morning at the Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce breakfast networking event where “Mouth of the Humber” means something completely different to where my mind went!

Fabulous event today as always 👍🏼👍🏼

01/11/2024

Today is our business birthday!

12 years of working with businesses and organisations supporting them with their Social Media, Marketing and (more recently) their processes and strategy in general.

It’s been a great 12 years and we celebrated yesterday with Hornsbys Bus & Coach and cupcakes from Cakes by Andrea!

Moving forwards there’s a lot of exciting things coming up, we look forward to seeing what the next 12 years brings!

19/10/2024

Yesterday was such a great event. I feel very privileged to have been asked to be on the panel at the Scunthorpe Tomorrow event - talking about my experiences living and breathing everything our town has to offer.

I’m proud to be from Scunthorpe and to be surrounded by 70+ other people who seemingly feel the same the buzz in the room was amazing!

“It reminds me of Los Angeles” has to be the quote of the day (in reference to lots of little pockets of activity - do we need one high street?!?)

I can’t wait to see where the conversations go and I look forward to seeing people’s pledges in action!

Group photo from Knapton Wright

04/10/2024

We are very pleased to be part of this group.

I’m on the panel in the day and then hosting some of the breakout events.

If you’d like to come along to the event sign up on eventbrite. Of to find out more google Scunthorpe Tomorrow!

Scunthorpe Tomorrow now has more than 100 members and aims to make Scunthorpe a better place to live

27/09/2024

I would like to welcome the new member of Evolve, Merlin!

He’s gone home with his mum and dad for the weekend but he’s got his resignation letter ready for Fortis Therapy & Training and he’s decided Marketing and Business Strategy is his passion!

I wish 😭😭😭 ….. Merlin was such a helpful fluff ball during this afternoons development session obviously I want to steal him ❤️❤️🐶🐶. Thank you for having me team Fortis! I look forward to seeing your future activity!!

Karen Locking - loves working with amazing local businesses, loves it even more when they have a dog I can fuss 😍🥰

07/09/2024

Networking at Scunthorpe Rugby and we’re winning!

Perfect afternoon for both Eighteen02 Media and myself 👍🏼👍🏼

21/08/2024

So last night was a little crazy ….. Alongside Evolve I’m supporting Scunthorpe RUFC with their Sponsorship, Communications and Marketing and last night I went along to help with two international legends coming to town!!

Dan Cole and Ben Youngs were an absolute pleasure to host at Heslam Park. They coached a session with the 1st team, recorded content for the RFU and then recorded their podcast (For the Love of Rugby) live to a packed rugby club!!!

How did I get involved - The club reached out asking if I knew anyone that would be interested in supporting them with their vision and focus towards tier 4 rugby! My reply ….. me!!!

Combining my desire to promote businesses in the local community and my love of all things North Lincolnshire and wholesome, working with the local rugby team ticks all my boxes!!!!

So if you’d like to know more about how you can get involved with Scunthorpe RUFC, how we can support your business while you support this local team reach the heights they are destined for GET IN TOUCH!!!

29/07/2024

This was such a brilliant night. I feel very lucky to work with such an amazing local company.

Everyone knows I also love an event and I loved being part of the team organising this! Definitely gave me the event planning bug again!!

Thank you Hornsbys Bus & Coach 🚌❤️🚌❤️

17/07/2024

We had a lovely catch up yesterday with a business connection who wanted to bend my ear about networking.

After running the Business Network South Humberside for years you’d think I’d love everything to do with networking ….. news flash ….. I have a love / hate relationship with it! 🫣🫣

I explained how moving forwards with my business I’m not attending groups for the sake of it. I’m attending events with content I enjoy, something for me to learn, people that make my soul happy ….. and if networking happens from me attending - brilliant, if it doesn’t then my soul is happy.

This morning is one of those meetings / groups. I’m very excited to be part of Scunthorpe Tomorrow and seeing the pilot website and chatting through about developments made me ❤️❤️.

Thank you so much to the organisers …. Roll on the next few months 👍🏼👍🏼

Ps …. How fabulous is this Peppermint Tea!!! Don’t get this service at your franchise coffee shops!

16/07/2024

I'm still processing a lot of the information I learned at last weeks CIM - The Chartered Institute of Marketing Digital Conference. Some of it was brand new learning, some of it was a nice refresher - the entire day was time well spent!

To help me with this learning I wanted to share some of my key takeaways from the speakers presentations. I hope you find them useful.

10/07/2024

Day 2 of learning for me! Very privileged to be invited to the first Yorkshire and Humber AI Summit.

I’ve recently dived into how CoPilot can support Marketing teams and I’m excited to see the impact on not only my industry, but others!

Learning from both days will be shared soon!

09/07/2024

What an amazing thought provoking day! With seminars around:
🌟 LinkedIn algorithms,
🌟 Whether marketers are wise owls or magpies (love this analogy)
🌟 Generative AI - things to consider and stay clear of
🌟 Not putting all our eggs in the Google basket - social search
🌟 Sustainable digital marketing - I shall be clearing my cloud storage shortly
🌟TikTok for branding, and
🌟 Being digitally disruptive!

It’s been a long time since I’ve had a day of learning for me and I’m buzzing with ideas and things to go away and research some more. I’m already thinking about my clients and what some of today will mean to them!

Thank you so much CIM - The Chartered Institute of Marketing - I can’t wait for the next one!

09/07/2024

We’re not in Kansas anymore …. We’re having a day out for the 16th CIM | The Chartered Institute of Marketing digital marketing conference - a day of learning all of me!

So far it’s been well worth the drive …. Lots to share and lots to implement!

But for now ….. without googling it …. Does anyone know where we am?

24/06/2024

My office for the day! I’m remote working for a client and I can’t help but want to work outside for a few reasons:

1) We’re finally having some sunshine - I’m a June baby and I need this brightness in my life
2) The noises - the sound of next doors water fountain, the birds, the breeze …. Something about it for me
3) My pooch - she loves this weather so we can both be outside together!!

So my social wonder - do other people take their offices outside on days like this or is this sunshine your idea of hell 😂😂.

22/06/2024

Fabulous morning yesterday with some of the members of the Marketing and Customer Engagement teams from Ongo UK

I’ve been researching AI and CoPilot for Marketing teams and yesterday was the launch of my new session!

Feedback includes
👍🏼 “I thoroughly enjoyed all the session, but particularly going into CoPilot and trying the range of features it has. It excites me to look further into and to use moving forward”.
👍🏼 “It gave me a great insight on how to get the most out of AI. I’ll be using some of the tips to expand on the information I give it!”
👍🏼 “I always enjoy Karen’s training sessions which are delivered in an engaging way and it’s given me lots of knowledge and information that I know will be of big benefit in my role”

What an end to the week! If your business would like to consider AI at a strategic and practical level get in touch.

13/06/2024

It’s always sad when one of your clients is closing …. But what a lovely bunch of local businesses we’ve had the pleasure working with on Premier Pitch’s behalf!

Check them out if you’re looking for local suppliers! ❤️👍🏼