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Plastic Free Forever

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Plastic Free Ocean

Will you join us in the challenge and ‘Choose to Refuse’ single use plastics this month? Please join our effort to help the environment and choose to refuse single-use plastic during July and beyond!

Barefruit currently employ a number of initiatives and a plastic-free challenge that gets us thinking about the amount of plastic packaging in our lives! The Barefruit mindset is to create forever habits.

Our rules:

1. Make sure everyone knows the rules of recycling
2. No single use plastics: NO disposable coffee cups — only keep-cups to be used, reuse coffee carrying trays, take own bowls/crockery to get food from local cafe’s
3. Bring your own lunch/meal- share lunch program — cutting down on takeaway containers
4. In-office swaps including clothes, books, unwanted gifts, etc
5.Sustainable switches: reusable rags instead of paper towels, keep cups, reusable shopping bags, metal straws, reusable cutlery and plates over take-away versions.
6. Compost food scraps
7. Office plants to detox the air
8. Natural, toxin-free cleaning products
9. Open windows and encouraging natural light. This saves energy and is better for overall wellbeing
10. Promote sustainable and healthy food (Food Challenges encouraged)
11. Adopt a ‘Double Sided’ policy when using the printer
12. Car sharing/pooling to meetings
13. Dropbox filing system instead of paper filing
14. Purchase recycled paper

If you offend twice in a week your penalty is to shout the team coffee (keep cups, of course) wearing the orange suit to the coffee shop through the Main Street (River St, Ballina)

Why participate?

Living plastic free can be a forever mindset.

Choose to:

  • Avoid products in plastic packaging (choose alternatives)
  • Reduce where possible (opt for refills, remember your reusable shopping bags)
  • Refuse plastics that escape as litter (e.g. straws, takeaway cups, utensils, balloons)
  • Recycle what cannot be avoided
Are you with us?

Click below to accept and join the Plastic Free July 2018 Challenge & contribute to the count!

Share your plastic free efforts with us

The Plastic Free July Foundation's mission

Build a global movement that dramatically reduces plastic use and improves recycling. Their vision is a world without plastic waste. Over 2 million people from 159 countries are choosing to be part of our annual Plastic Free July challenge, reducing their consumption of single-use plastics in July and beyond. This July, they’re calling for all global citizens to collectively address on of the world’s greatest environmental challenges, plastic waste.

Join the global movement by taking up the challenge to #choosetorefuse and go #plasticfreejuly. ​The Plastic Free July campaign raises awareness of our growing plastic waste problem and supports behaviour change by helping people to avoid single-use (disposable) plastic. But it's not just about changing our own behaviour, we want to scale our impact by sharing solutions and be part of a wider movement for change. Community groups, businesses, schools and other organisations can also participate in Plastic Free July - get started with our handy toolbox of resources.

Websites need more than just ‘Good Looks’

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Websites need more 
than just ‘Good Looks’ 

Having a website that ‘looks good’ is an essential part of your marketing strategy. But looks aren’t everything. The functionality and experience of the website user are just as important, if not more so.

Understanding the ‘User Experience’, which has been coined ‘UX’, is central to your website not only providing engaging, quality content, but helping your consumers to convert their interest to a lead or sale.

The design of any new website, or the redesign of any existing site, should have ‘UX’ at the core of any research and planning. It will help you appreciate how consumers are using your website, allowing you to create a journey through the pages that is simple and intuitive, therefore influencing the design of your ‘User Interface’ or ‘UI’ (what the user interacts with).

Websites come in all shapes and sizes. Depending on the objectives and budget, your website can range in scale, look and feel. With the plethora of ‘free’ website platforms available, anyone can be a website designer… producing sites that really look the business! But whatever your website, just make sure you put yourself in the shoes of your consumer. How are they going to use the site, what’s their journey, and what’s your objective for them? Is it to simply research your product? or pick up the phone and become a hot lead? Either way… ‘User Experience' is key.

If you’d like to talk about the ‘User Experience’ of your website, contact our team today at hello@barefruit.com.au

National Wear your ​Pyjamas ​to work ​Day

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We've all gone Pyjamas

At Barefruit Marketing​ we're all about embracing important National Days. Important and serious days, like ​International ​National Women's Day, Father's Day... and who could forget the best day of all, National Wear your ​Pyjamas ​to work ​Day.

​But we're sensible adults who would never drop their kids at school in our pyjamas​​. Wait, what? Claire did? Okay... We're sensible adults who would never forget to drop our kids at school... and ​we all wore our pyjamas to the office today​ because we are all game for a laugh.

Blues, yellows, shorts, t-shirts, polka dot​s,​ penguins​ and Wonder Woman adorned our business-bodies today as we worked to the (slightly hypnotic) lullaby-remixes of classic ​Disney tunes. We also started the day with a session of laughing yoga - you should try it, it's hilarious, and helps if one of the team has an infectious laugh (Sara).​

But it wasn't all for fun and laughing-yoga - there was a serious side to our shenanigans today. As a proud corporate sponsor, and several personal sponsors, our team is ​committed to supporting Rafiki Mwema - a charity run from our office that provides safe houses and therapeutic care​ for traumatised and sexually abused young children. ​All ​our ​pyjama participants donated $5 to the charity today. $5 in Kenya can go a long way, for instance it can buy 3 meals a day for one of our ​children for a week, or transport 3 of our children home for supervised visits with their family.

Rafiki Mwema ​urgently need funds to continue the life-saving work they do with these children - if you can go without your latte for a day, please consider donating it to Rafiki Mwema here, and make a difference - it is tax deductible too. When you donate please put 'Barefruit' in the notes - and we'll donate another dollar! 

For more information on Rafiki Mwema also #WearYourPyjamasToWorkDay And don't forget, we're hiring at Barefruit. So if you want to join in the fun that is our office, check positions available here.

Barefruit’s Co-Founder & Director To Report For Games

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Lennox Head local and our very own co-founder and Director of Barefruit Marketing - a full service marketing agency, located in Ballina, Evan Harding has been chosen out of 50,000 applicants to be a volunteer reporter for the Commonwealth Games being held April 4th – April 15th 2018 in the Gold Coast.

Evan Harding will work with 900 other volunteers as a member of the Games’ Press Operations team. This placement is well suited to the 40-year-old father who is also an avid athletics fan.

The official title of Evan’s role is ‘Flash Quote Reporter’ for the Netball competition; requiring him to interview the athletes courtside after the game. These quotes will be taken up by the world’s media during the coverage of the games.

“This is an absolute dream come true for me. I have been to the Sydney and Athens Olympics and the World Championship in London last year – I can’t wait to be a part of something just up the road from us”.

Originally from England, Evan has been following athletics his whole life and has also run two Marathons – London and Gold Coast. He’s thinking about registering for the Gold Coast Marathon this year in it’s 40th year – and his!

The application process for the games started over a year ago and the interview process took 6 months to get through a ‘shortlist’ of 25,000 people. 15,000 were selected for a 2-hour interview, and after a 3-month period Evan was informed, due to his experience, he had been selected for the Press Operations team.

Since then he has attended venue specific training, online training from home, familiarised himself with the rules of netball and been fitted for his uniform. After the Opening Ceremony dress rehearsal this weekend he will be relocating to the Gold Coast for the duration of the Games.

Evan is most excited to be a part of sporting history and contribute to the vibe. He will be close to the action and in the words of the training team ‘it will be one of the best 2 weeks of his life’.

Hi son, Cian (7) is excited to see dad on TV. Cian will also be travelling to the games with mum Claire to watch some of the events live.

Sport features prominently in Evan's life. He coaches his son's Lennox Head Football Team with training each week and games every weekend, thrashes it out at an F45 class every morning and is still an avid follower of his beloved Norwich City Football Club (the Canaries) in the English Championship League. He and wife Claire are also in training for a 5km run at the end of the Commonwealth Games for a bit of fun.

It is not the only volunteering role that Evan, Director of Barefruit Marketing in Ballina takes. Barefruit are a proud Corporate Sponsor of locally run charity Rafiki Mwema, with his wife and business partner Claire being on the board, assisting with marketing and fundraising.

With the Commonwealth Games kicking off next week, keep your eyes on the TV screens and the Barefruit Marketing blog for an update on Evan’s experience – www.barefruit.com.au

Web Developer

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We're hiring!!

We’re looking for a Web Developer to join our busy team in Ballina.
You know what it takes to makes a great website and you know what it takes to get it done!
You’re a techno-wiz, you don’t just understand code, you eat it for breakfast.
You want to learn, develop and produce some stand-out work, and you will do so in our growing team.
You will be working with our creative/digital team in a full service, integrated agency.

We’re looking for the following skills:

  • Full stack Web Development specialising in WordPress – templates and custom build
  • Competent in PHP/HTML/CSS/Javascript/jQuery
  • Competent with Adobe Creative Suite
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Efficient, independent and motivated
  • Collaborative with excellent communication skills
  • Experience with branding and corporate style guides
  • Knowledge of agency processes

You may have recently left Uni, already be working in an agency environment or on family/friend projects. If you think you tick the boxes then give us a call.

In return, we offer: A great working environment including lots of fun, agency pets and a ping pong tournament on a Friday. Oh, and we’ll pay you, how’s that!?

To apply please send your CV, links to your work and salary expectations to claire@barefruit.com.au

International Women’s Day – a fruitful day!

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IT is a beautiful coincidence for Claire and Evan Harding that International Women's Day is also the day their company Barefruit Marketing turns six.

On Thursday, the 12 staff of the thriving and growing Ballina based business will celebrate.

Of these 12 creative staff, 10 are women. It's a detail that is also a happy coincidence. "We just meet talented innovative women with the skills to help the agency excel," Claire said.

"Women are versatile and strong and it's important for us to be flexible so our employees have a healthy work/life balance.

After years of working in big name agencies in London and their home city of Norwich, UK, the couple started Barefruit Marketing a full service marketing company in 2012... Full article below,

‘Hello, is it you we’re looking for?’

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We are looking for a Strategic Creative to join our busy team in Ballina, with a focus on conceptual branding and design.

We want someone that wants to be part of something special. We want someone who is real and straightforward, capable of producing and presenting brave ideas. We want someone to challenge the status quo and someone to challenge us at Ping Pong on a Friday afternoon.

You will work closely with the strategic team to understand our clients and their brands, interrogating their briefs and shaping bold and creative solutions.

You understand the power of branding and great copy and you will oversee the creative output of the agency, mentoring the creative team.

We’re not looking for a graphic designer, or an illustrator, or a copywriter, we’re looking for the whole shebang.

You might already live close by, or looking to move to the beautiful Northern Rivers. You may be looking for full time, or for some on-going part time or freelance work. Whatever you are looking for, we want someone who is in this with us for the long term, to be part of our future.

To apply please send your portfolio, CV and salary expectations to claire@barefruit.com.au

Barefruit Juicy Bits

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You’ve got a top notch website but can people find it?
SEO. SEM. PPC. ROI. 
Just too many 3 word acronyms!

Let’s decode that for you:

SEO = Search Engine Optimisation
SEM = Search Engine Marketing
PPC = Pay Per Click
ROI = Return On Investment 

We always recommend taking a holistic approach to your digital marketing strategy​ and​ SEO and ​SEM
are a key part of the marketing mix. 

If you have a website​, Search Engine ​Optimisation
(organic) and Google Adwords Search Engine Marketing (paid) ​will help you ​​reach ​your most valuable customers​, before your competitors do.

And the best bit about digital marketing... it is trackable, enabling you, the business owner to ​know your ROI.

So if you’d like to get new ​and returning ​website visitors, grow your online sales​ ​and get the phones ringing, ​just give us a call​ for your free SEO​ or ​
SEM audit​*

Your Barefruit Team 

Word Of Mouth Marketing

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Word of Mouth
"Is it easy to generate word of mouth marketing for our business?"

This is a question the team at Barefruit get asked a lot, so we thought we would share a couple of industry tips with you.

First of all – stop thinking about marketing. Start thinking about real conversations and genuine recommendations.

1. Ask your loyal customers if they have ever recommended your business. If they have, thank them and ask why they recommended you? Keep a record of this!

2. See if there is a recurring recommendation e.g. great service, friendly team, value, best coffee ever. This is will be part of your marketing message.

3. Now where do your potential customers hang out? Social media? Community centres? Do they read the paper? Once you know this, this is where you can start to spread your message.

In a nutshell, find out why your customers love you and tell others about it.

Who doesn’t love a recommendation? We hope this information helps you grow yours.

Your Barefruit Team

New Fruity (& orange) Barefruit Towers!

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EXCITING NEWS: We've moved to our new office, dubbed Barefruit Towers, based in River Street Ballina! You can now find us at 1/144 River Street, Ballina, right above Subway.

It's a great open space, breakout sections highlighted with the Barefruit orange (of course), artwork and a meeting/brainstorming room with space for clients and the Barefruit team to meet and regularly create. The office is complete with air con, dedicated meeting space and a nicely stocked fridge (what good agency doesn't have a beer fridge!) allowing the whole team to work together and enjoy Friday afternoon beers!

If you are in town, please pop in and say hello - we'd love to see you!