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Last day at the Therapy Agency

I have now spent 6 days with the Therapy Agency learning not only about aspects of marketing and PR but also about the organisation of the business itself. I have learnt about how blogs not only increase the detection of a business online, but also inform customers of the development and recent news about the company. I have also undertaken some market research on the use of occupational therapies within individual companies and have improved my telephone skills when calling businesses. The most important thing I have learnt during my time with the Therapy Agency, is that hard work and dedication put into a business is vital to its development. I hope to use the skills that I have learnt in a future career within marketing or PR in a large company.

I have enjoyed working with Jason Parlour and learning about his business and will use skills in the future.

Mairi Lucas

Labels: marketing, therapy agency

Microsoft Tag, a Barcode for your mobile, now on the Therapy Agency

You may now have seen the multicoloured triangular shaped thing on many of our website pages at the moment. This is part of a new free application for your mobile, called Microsoft TAG.

The idea being, you download and install the free application via your mobile, from http://gettag.mobi

Then on opening the application on your phone, hold up your digital camera to the tag, and it will automatically do one of 4 things:

Dial the number provided in the tag, from your mobile
Open a URL suitable for your mobile
Have a text automatically sent to your phone, with further information about whatever you've just seen
Open a new contact card, with the relevant company details, names, numbers, email, etc. onto your phone.

If you've got a 'new generation' phone (ie one with a built in camera, internet access, and the opportunity to install applications), then just visit http://gettag.mobi on your mobile, and hold up your phone to any of our tags on the website to automatically download our contact details.

Microsoft are expecting this tag to take off in a big way.

(other applications have already been developed to read standard bar codes from products, and then compare prices with local stores automatically, this system however should offer quite a lot more)

Over a million posters have already had this kind of tag printed on them, mobiles are of course a part of every day life for most people now (recent research shows that a 7 year old is more likely to own a mobile than a book in the UK!). So having a simple way for people to walk around with their mobiles, see a tag, and get the relevant information directly onto their mobiles could well be the future of things to come.

Labels: Microsoft Tag, tag, tag reader

May at the Therapy Agency

Today I have been contacting some of the top 100 companies to work for to allow me to send them a market research questionnaire about there use of massage therapies within the workplace.

The answers given will be able to show us whether massage therapies within the workplace has helped towards them gaining the award.

Next week I plan to contact more companies to send out more questionnaires. This task has allowed me to experience an aspect of market research. I aim to use the responses to analyse and publish on the website in the near future.

I shall keep you updated on my progress next week.

Labels: market research, questionnaire, top 100 companies

The Therapy Agency's Blog (web log)

Thursday, 17 June 2010

Last day at the Therapy Agency

Friday, 28 May 2010

Microsoft Tag, a Barcode for your mobile, now on the Therapy Agency

Thursday, 27 May 2010

May at the Therapy Agency