Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications
Medway Council Tinderhouse
Enterprise IG
Egg
Open...
Boots plc
Education and
qualifications

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I highly recommend Simon. He is an experienced marketing manager with excellent digital channel skills. He thinks strategically, is exceptionally reliable - always delivering on time and with good quality - and is also a good team player…It was great to have him on the team at Egg. Wendy Schratz, Egg

Simon has worked for our company on several occasions over many years. He has constantly delivered the desired outcomes, on time and to budget. Nick Bentley, Ether-Ray

I highly recommend Simon. He is an experienced marketing manager with excellent digital channel skills. He thinks strategically, is exceptionally reliable - always delivering on time and with good quality - and is also a good team player…It was great to have him on the team at Egg. Wendy Schratz, Egg

I wanted to turn an expensive print publication into an inexpensive, versatile online publication…I’d noted Simon Wakeman’s work in turning WordPress blogging software into full content management websites and asked if he could help with our magazine…his work is excellent. Richard Bailey, Behind the Spin

About me

Hello - welcome to my website.

On my blog I write about marketing, public relations and digital communications. To keep up-to-date with my posts you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or sign-up to receive blog posts by email.

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I am a qualified marketing and public relations professional with a wide range of marketing, strategy and digital communications experience. Since July 2004 I been a CIM Chartered Marketer. I am also an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and am working towards Accredited Practitioner status.

Since November 2007 I have been Head of Marketing at Medway Council in Kent, having joined the council as Marketing and PR Manager in September 2004. I have led the centralisation of all council marketing and the creation of a new team delivering significant improvements in marketing for the council. The breadth of the council’s marketing is large, spanning public information campaigns on issues such as recycling and carbon emissions through to database marketing programmes for gym and leisure centre memberships and commercial theatre marketing.

As well as this I work as a freelance consultant undertaking marketing and public relations projects for various clients. I’m also still involved with Tinderhouse - a small web design and marketing agency I co-founded in 2003.

I started my career as a marketing graduate trainee with Boots plc. I soon developed a passion for the internet and using new technology for marketing and public relations. Since then I have worked with some of the UK’s leading digital companies, including the world’s first transactional interactive television service, Open… (now Sky Active) and the world’s largest internet bank Egg.

I enjoy understanding and using new technology as part of the marketing and public relations mix. I passionately believe that the internet and, most recently, social media are fundamentally changing the way organisations need to act online.

More information about my career experience is available using the menu on the right hand side of this page, and copies of my CV are available to download using the links below:

Simon Wakeman - CV - MS Word version (48KB)

Simon Wakeman - CV - PDF version (29KB)

I also have a full public profile available on LinkedIn.

Simon Wakeman

I've been on the web since 2001 and have been blogging about marketing and public relations since January 2006.

I'm currently Head of Marketing at Medway Council as well as a freelance marketing and PR consultant.

The content and opinions expressed on this website are not endorsed by nor reflect the views of any company or organisation I work with.

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