Summary

Last week saw the inaugural Annual Conscious Client Conference (can anyone suggest a more snappy title?).  The conference was held at the Coombe Abbey Hotel near Coventry over Thursday & Friday 5th & 6th June.  We were pleased that 24 clients took time out of their busy diaries to come and listen, learn and have the chance to spend some time reflecting on plans for their website and other marketing initiatives.

Presentations

The two days covered a wide range of topics including online marketing and website ideas through to sales, marketing and client relationship surveys.  The speakers were a mixture of Conscious staff and external speakers for some topics.

Feedback

We had some great feedback from the clients who came (see panel to the left) who unanimously asked us to run the event again next year.  So, if you were not able to make it this year, here's early warning for next year :-

• Date : Thursday 15th & Friday 16th May 2009
• Location: Coombe Abbey Hotel, Coventry

Product Development Roadmap

The following table is the result of the quick "round the room" voting that we did on Friday morning.  Each person was asked to offer two votes based on the presentation we gave and their preference for where they would like to see our development effort focused.

We'll update you more on this over the coming months.  If anyone who was not at the event has an opinion on the list above (please see the Powerpoint presentation for more details) then please feel free to email Andrew with your two choices.

A Few Photos

As with any good conference, there should always be a bit of "play" and "fun" in there somewhere.  One bit of fun were the Lottery Scratch Cards that everyone found under their chair at dinner.  This resulted in the princely sum of £8 being won.  It was kindly donated to the charity of David's choice (Cancer Research) by the two lucky winners.

We also spent some time on Friday afternoon with a relaxing round of golf.  Four of us went to play, two from Conscious, two clients.  So of course we felt we had to have Conscious v The Clients.  Suffice it to say it's One-Nil to Conscious!  The funniest moment was walking to the green on the 15th hole, called Goose Corner, and being greeted by the family in the photo on the right.  A goose and her goslings!  Very cute!  Sorry about the poor photo, it was taken with my phone from some distance.