Engineers Insight Newsletter #59
Trying a Monday
No newsletter last week, I'm testing read rates on different day! - Thanks Jan Adams for the tip.
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Last week in the app we had:
🎙️Episode 14 - "Someone knew me and stayed".
Ariel Wynn is the marketing manager at SCHUBERT UK LIMITED and the author of the romance novel - "Now, Never or at the very last second"
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What have we been up to?
Last Monday I visited Loughborough College to see the T-Level media students, show them Engineers Insight and hope someone doesn't think I'm this lame old guy building a shit app.
Turns out they loved it. I think it also helped that I said "You get free reign to try everything. Manufacturing is years behind on social media so this is your chance to try every trend on any platform - organic and paid. If it fails we document why and we experiment to find things that work."
Mobbed afterwards with questions and kids showing me their TikTok pages and their video editing skills. Perfect.
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There's only so much time in a day and I can't afford to spend hours editing videos and not talking to customers.
Monday afternoon I met Steve Roberts from Fabory UK to look at EI and see if there's room for some fasteners in the app! I think there might be, just waiting on Steve's feedback 😁
Then I met with the Schunk UK team - Marcel M. , Mona F. & Rafal Glowacki to show them what we're building and who with. Turns out they were interested before I pitched and wanted more than I had hoped 😅
A bit of admin Tuesday to get ready for 2 days out of office at the Engineering Design Show (EDS) Wednesday & Thursday. I did squeeze a free meal out of Sam Baynham Tuesday night to say thanks for helping out.
We had a lot of attention on the ConeX Portal stand, mainly because people were thinking "this guy might be Robin Hood", as I smashed the top score on VR Archery.
Here's a pic of my friend Tom Chaldecott for people to understand how ridiculous we all looked to people walking past:
It was another great opportunity to gain some new connections, tell people about Engineers Insight and talk shop with some friends.
I ended my week with a Teams call with Jan Adams from iconsys - Automated Technology Solutions . Mainly because she likes EI and I'll talk to any fans! 😂 It turned out to be a fantastic meeting for me because I got to pick Jan's brains for an hour. Like trying different times to post the newsletter, exhibitions, email campaigns, Podcasts. We average 30-35% weekly readership, which is much higher than email campaigns, so let's see if we can hit 40%.
I always say to people "I know nothing about marketing, I just really like disrupting things".
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2moHappy to have been of help Thomas Flude, I can talk LinkedIn’s and marketing all.day.long as you now know 😂 Look forward to seeing what your experiments show! Next time, try Tues am then a Weds lunchtime, trust me 😉