Awards we've received
Just some of the awards we've received
Reseller Marketing Award
We were tasked by a technology reseller to come up with a marketing campaign to explain cyberattack mitigation and include various vested security software vendors, the product os which, this reseller re-sold. We came up with the idea if taking all of the issues of a cyberattack and move it but in time to the 1920s, replacing the valuable asset of data today, with the valuable asset of silver in the 1920s. We called it DOWNTIME ABBEY and it used characters to either explain the technology, the company positions, or the hacking methodology.
We had characters such as
The Good guys
Lady Emily Enterprise - Representing today's Chief Executive Officer
Major Armadillo - The Hero (Named after the reseller)
Freddy Firewall The Footman - A Vendor
Mr D Dos The Gamekeeper - A Vendor
Steve Stealth The Valet - A Vendor
Inspector SIEM - A Sherlock Holmes type character
The Bad guys
Harry Hacker
Sally Spam
Troy Trojan
Max Malware
it was all co-ordinated by
Professor Persistence.
We delivered various versions of a Dynamic Illustration and a comic book, both in hardcopy and PDF. This gave us all the content to design and send out a campaign via email, direct mail, and social media.
It was their most successful campaign of that year.
Here are the videos
This style was set out as a trilogy and the keystone cops theme
(We did multiple themes)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Implementation Award
Tickling Trout® are delighted to have received a NATIONAL AWARD for implementation. Tickling Trout® is the first such company to receive this award for putting together processes, procedures and structures that have helped the company grow significantly in the last 12 months despite the current economic climate.
Jon Newlyn, one of the directors of Tickling Trout® was presented the award at a national meeting of some 600 fellow entrepreneurs. "I was surprised and delighted to receive the award, more so for the recognition of the whole team".
David Hopkins, Director at Tickling Trout® said: "We started giving ourselves structure by taking a 60-minute timeout nearly every day, for that time we were are not contactable and we focus on how we can grow our business". "During the first 6 months we were able to introduce three new services and now we are able to provide premium versions of other services that our customers have been requesting."
Tickling Trout® have been able to systemise a lot of processes to make the delivery more efficient.
"It's all about the customers" Jon continues "and knowing our numbers, and it's the detail in those numbers that enable you to make structured decisions based on facts, not guesswork".
Sandy Newlyn, Financial Director summarised "There has been a lot of early mornings and late nights, but the secret has been to work smarter and harder, not just harder".
Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We might not be geniuses at Tickling Trout® but we changed things and got the results we wanted.
Entrepreneur of the Month Award
Tickling Trout® are delighted to have received a NATIONAL Entrepreneur of the Month award.
Tickling Trout® saw an opportunity to develop and deliver a brand new service, but didn't have the required skillset in-house.
Jon Newlyn, one of the directors and a co-founder of Tickling Trout® said "We had seen these explainer videos (speed drawn cartoons) and knew that there was an opportunity to deliver these for the technology market. But, at school, I used to drink the paint water and David used to eat the crayons! Neither of us could draw"
David Hopkins, Director at Tickling Trout® said: "That didn't stop us. We found a supplier that could do the drawings, but we quickly learned that the foundation of a good explainer video is the script and we realised that we were pretty good at that. We soon found our own artist, built our studio and started delivering our own in-house videos called DYNAMIC ILLUSTRATIONS"
Despite all the obstacles we have succeeded in creating our own unique brand of Explainer Videos that have been loved by ALL our customers and we have even won awards for our creativity and delivery.
This work was recognised by the national organisation, the Entrepreneurs Circle, who awarded Tickling Trout® The Entrepreneur of the month award for "Getting shit done!"
