What We Do
Areas of Activity:
Global Connect UK operates specifically within two target markets in the UK.
- MICE – Event Planning/Management Agencies, Venue Finders, Incentive Houses, Corporate Meeting Planners and other specialist agencies that organise business groups.
- Leisure – Tour Operators, Travel Agents, Airlines, Tourist Offices and other Leisure segment orientated organisations.
Service Offerings - Our Activity Pods:
Global Connect UK offers a modular approach to sales and marketing services, from full representation to a broad selection of individual and ad-hoc tactical actions built around specific requirements and budgets. All our services are designed to supplement and enhance existing Action Plans, to help clients achieve elevated brand awareness, exposure and increased market share in the UK. We are living in a constantly evolving economic and trading environment that requires a unique, creative and dynamic approach to successful selling, yet is based on the single, most important constant: “relationships”.
Global Connect UK has the skills, relationships, contacts and market intelligence necessary to create carefully crafted actions that will elevate a client’s brand and help open doors to a wider range of potential customers.
Activity Pods:
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Full UK Market Representation
A dedicated Sales & Marketing Office to fully represent your product and services, bringing the benefit of having a sales force in the UK whilst not incurring the significantly higher costs of your own UK office. -
Sales and Marketing Consultancy
Whatever your needs relating to UK MICE and Leisure, we can offer sound guidance and advice to enhance your sales efforts in this market. -
PR Services
Dedicated to maximizing business potential, we can provide specialist expertise in the world of travel Press Relations. We aim to fulfill and complement the client’s needs, providing a professional and knowledgeable, ‘hands on’ service to both ‘the client’ and the travel trade MICE and Leisure media, whether on a project, or retainer basis. -
Targeted Hosted Sales Blitzes
Face to face sales call appointments with buyers who have interest and potential. We make the appointments, plan the logistics and take you to each appointment, removing the hassle of planning and executing your own blitz and thereby leaving you free to concentrate on selling. -
Marketing and Sales Action Plan Generation, Analysis, Advice and Development
You know your product, we know the market. Together we can create or enhance your Action Plan with specific, meaningful and impactful actions in the UK marketplace. -
Telephone and Email Prospecting
Using Global Connect UK’s CRM system we target and call buyers in order to uncover those briefs that might otherwise find their way elsewhere.
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Distribution Analysis
We can help analyse where your current sales are being generated and advise where the greatest potential lies. -
Familiarisation Trips with targeted buyers
One of the most successful ways to generate sales is to get the buyers to see and experience the product - but only if they are the right buyers. We focus on identifying and recruiting only those buyers with genuine interest and potential for your product and destination. -
Trade Exhibitions
Enjoy a cost-effective presence at trade shows by joining us as Stand Sharers. Additionally you can benefit from networking opportunities with our group of Hosted Buyers. -
Telemarketing and Research
All research and telemarketing projects within the MICE and Leisure segments can be undertaken. -
Hospitality Events
Advise, create and deliver cost-effective hospitality events in the UK and in the destination. -
Electronic Marketing Communications
Get your product out in the market and effectively positioned in front of the right buyers. -
Database Cleansing
Bringing your database right up to date. The industry is ever changing, with people moving and companies relocating and rebranding. We take your database, ensure the companies listed are relevant to your product and sales efforts, update the address and contact details and add/delete contacts where necessary.