Mark to walk marathon for cancer charity

We know he can talk the talk. But will Mark from Marketing Zone be able to walk the walk? This weekend, on Saturday 21 May, Mark takes part in the South Downs Trekathon. According to the event website: “The full 26-mile walk should take approximately 8-10 hours for...

Will you celebrate National Curry Week?

As a proud British company, albeit a small Hertfordshire-based one, Marketing Zone proudly marked the occasion of National Curry Week. Owners Dee Twomey and Mark Ganellin took a trip to their favourite local curry house, the Viceroy, in Buntingford High Street. How...

Mark swims Channel – cough – in a swimming pool

We’re proud to say that Marketing Zone’s Mark Ganellin completed the Aspire Channel Swim. He clocked up an impressive 22 miles, the equivalent of swimming the English Channel. Although the challenge took place at his local pool! The swimming challenge was organised by...

Marketing Zone at the Anniversary Games

The Anniversary Games was the hottest program on the television this weekend. And Mark and his sons joined 65,000 spectators to celebrate a year on from last year’s Games in London at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. With tickets for the event on the Sunday, Mark and...

Michael McIntyre visits Marketing Zone’s town of Buntingford

Now then, working in a marketing agency we get to mix with more than our fair share of celebrities. Though we have to confess this is often not so much actually hanging out together as our people talking to their people and the like. So what a surprise to find a film...

Work Experience Day 5 with marketing agency

It’s now the end of my time at Marketing Zone and this has been an interesting, fun and educational week. I have learnt a lot about how a marketing agency works and I’m sure it will help me a lot with my business studies back at school. I managed to finish the survey...

Work Experience Day 4 with marketing agency

Today I have been doing a lot of work on my survey, as I have very little time left to get a lot of results; I have also been given a new task to work on at the local opticians. This has kept my time filled and I have had a productive day.   I have managed to...

Work Experience Day 3 with marketing agency

It’s my third day here at Marketing Zone and I’ve been learning a lot. I started, and finished another task, that involved creating an Excel spreadsheet, and have got more results for my survey. I have also done more work on some of my other tasks and have managed to...

Work Experience Day 2 with marketing agency Marketing Zone

It’s my second day now at Marketing Zone and I’ve finished the poll that was started yesterday and have started collecting results, as well as starting some of the other tasks for the week. I’ve enjoyed the work so far with the marketing agency and I’m not even...

Work Experience Day 1 with marketing agency Marketing Zone

I’m Chris and I am spending the week away from school on work experience to learn what the working world is like, as part of the curriculum at Freman College. I’m doing my work experience with Marketing Zone and started the day with a briefing from Mark Ganellin and...

Supporting the local community’s Buntylympics

Always keen to do our bit for the community, Marketing Zone supported our town’s ‘Buntylympics’ last weekend. Organised by the local Council for the families in the town, the sporting fun day had a packed programme of team and individual contests. Many of the local...