Left: Andy Huggins - Managing Director, Rocket Marketing Group. Right: Alan Saunders - Operations & Marketing Director, Rocket Marketing Group.

The Rocket Marketing Group has worked with sit-up channels since July 2006 when they signed their first agreement to provide discount and benefits membership programmes for sit-up channels’ customers. sit-up channels has successfully gained incremental revenue from the sale of these discount and benefits membership programmes to its consumers. Now three and a half years later sit-up channels are extending their agreement with The Rocket Marketing Group to be the sole provider of discount and benefits membership programmes for a further three years. (more…)

The Rocket Marketing Group creates loyalty and membership programmes which offer discounts on major brands, to its members. The company has enjoyed huge growth over the last 3 years, and has gone from employing 12 members of staff to over 50, across all areas of the business including call centre, fulfillment, technical, marketing and creative.

Rocket has also increased the variety of loyalty and membership programmes it offers, working with new key clients and partners. The company now operates 7 clubs and a number of great rewards such as the exclusive Blockbuster 2 for 1 Movie & Game Rental Card, giving more and more members fantastic discounts on their favourite brands. The range of clubs include The Home & Garden Club, The Entertainment Club, The 241 Hotel Club, The Big Savings Club, The JML VIP Club, plus more on the horizon.

Alan Saunders, Operations and Business Development Director comments: “We have always believed in the importance of quality and this is what Rocket’s products and service have been built on. Our discount clubs offer consumers great value for money, clients a fantastic marketing opportunity and partners incredible incremental revenue. It is great to see that all of our hard work, attention to detail and quality is paying off. I look forward to Rocket’s bright future, having now established itself as a leader in the field of Sales Promotion.”

Rocket looks forward to a great 2010 and growing the business even further.

This timeline charts Rocket’s milestones over the last 3 years:

July 2006 Sign Agreements with sit-up.tv

October 2006 Alan Saunders joins Board as Operations & Business  Development Director

January 2007 Rebrand as Rocket Marketing Group & set growth strategies

February 2007 Become members of the Direct Marketing Association

March 2007 Introduction of AVAYA IP Office Telephone System

April 2007 Introduction of SAP Business One CRM and Business Management

April 2007 Become members of the Institute of Sales Promotion

May 2007 Launched The Entertainment Club

July 2007 Launched The Midweek Dining Club with Tio Pepe

August 2007 Moved Head Office to Enterprise Point to expand & allow further growth

January 2008 Sign Agreements with HSBC for new Merchant Services Facilities

June 2008 Accredited by British Standards Institute as ISO:9001 Quality Assured

August 2008 Sign Agreements with JML, and develop our first white-label product, the JML VIP Savings Club

October 2008 Launched The Home & Garden Club with HBOS

November 2008 Established Rocket Rewards to own and manage our own stand alone promotions

January 2009 Sign Agreements with New Image TV to market the Big Savings Club

February 2009 Sign Agreements with Guthy-Renker to market the Big Savings Club

June 2009 Expand offices and create a Marketing Suite

July 2009 Welcome Ashley Faull to the board

August 2009 Sign Agreements with Blockbuster. Conception of and Exclusive rights for a new product the Blockbuster 2 for 1 Movie & Game Rental Card

August 2009 Started selling The Home & Garden Club with sit-up.tv

August 2009 Sign Agreements with Flying Brands to market The Home & Garden Club

September 2009 Sign Agreements with iSUBSCRiBE, to develop and manage Rocket’s first online club

October 2009 Launched the 241 Hotel Club

November 2009 Sign Agreements with Harvest Media & Virgin Media

November 2009 Create and launch The Living VIP Club

November 2009 Reached over 50 staff

December 2009 Joined Brighton Chamber of Commerce

Contact Us for information on sales promotion and implementing a discount for your brand or reward for your customers. We operate a number of loyalty and membership programmes that offer members discounts, giving the brand access to a large membership base of loyal customers. This helps businesses to drive loyalty retention and revenue.

Ashley Faull joins Andy Huggins and Alan Saunders on the board of The Rocket Marketing Group. The Rocket Marketing Group has enjoyed substantial growth this year, currently employing over 40 members of staff. In the last 6 months Rocket has expanded its product portfolio to 7 great products including The Big Savings Club, The Entertainment Club and the 241 Hotel Club.

As a non-executive board member Ashley’s experience in growing businesses and his media and consumer knowledge will be a key part of this expansion. Ashley comes to Rocket having launched and worked on over 14 TV channels during his career with companies including The Discovery Channel, Telewest and ON Digital. Other business achievements include winning the Broadcast Magazine inaugural ‘Individual Achievement’ award and co-founding the sit-up channels (bid tv and price-drop tv), which won many accolades. The sit-up business was sold to Virgin Media for £194 million in 2005.

Ashley comments: “I have known Rocket and its Directors for several years and believe them to be the very best operators in their field. The company has a very exciting future and I am delighted to have become a shareholder and Director to help guide them through the next stage of their journey.”

Contact Us if you would like to work with Rocket on loyalty solutions for your business.

The Rocket Marketing Group has been upgraded from ISO 9001:2000 to ISO 9001:2008 following a very successful annual inspection.

The British Standards Institution inspectors found no non-conformances and were pleased to award Rocket certification for the integrity of the organisation’s management system over the current assessment cycle, enabling continuing assessment and confirming a forward strategic plan.

The business has a team of over 30 staff, covering marketing, creative, technical, fulfilment and call centre specialists, all fully managed in-house. The certification applies to all sectors of the business and confirms Rocket as a highly professional operation. By being responsible for insisting on quality and reaching excellent standards throughout the business Rocket are leading the way in this area of the Sales Promotion industry.

Roz Garnem, Operations and Quality Manager at The Rocket Marketing Group commented: “I cannot believe that it has already been a year since we were first assessed by the British Standards Institution (BSI) and given our ISO 9001:2000 certification. I am very pleased that I have had this opportunity to head up this project and pleased that we have managed to continuously maintain our Quality Management System (QMS) to such high standards since its implementation last July. Plus this year, we actually managed to be upgraded to ISO 9001:2008, which is the most up-to-date version of the standard.

Being assessed against this globally recognised standard has allowed us to continue the growth of this Company in a structured and controlled way and helped to heighten our profile when facing prospective new clients, whilst still allowing us to keep our customers’ interests in the foreground.

Many thanks to Terry and Andrew of TW Associates for helping us to make this happen.”

The Rocket Marketing Group is continually striving to reach the highest standards of service, confirming the company’s dedication to excellence.

The Rocket Marketing Group has agreed a new partnership with Blockbuster Entertainment. Rocket has come together with Blockbuster and created a 2 for 1 Movie & Game Rental Card.

Exclusive rights for the 2 for 1 Movie & Game Rental Card are held by The Rocket Marketing Group who will market the product directly to businesses, for use as staff and customer rewards.

This partnership is great news for consumers as it is a superb new product which could potentially save them a considerable amount of money. In the current economic climate it is important that any promotion matches the mood of consumers and this makes a cheap night in even cheaper, giving customers the opportunity to enjoy themselves more often.

Rocket will also be using the 2 for 1 Movie & Game Rental Card as a reward in a number of its loyalty and membership programmes.

Andy Huggins, Managing Director of The Rocket Marketing Group commented: “This is a great time to be working with Blockbuster. It seems that staying in is the new going out and so the 2 for 1 Movie & Game Rental Card is something that our club members will love.”

Bryn Owen, Head of Marketing at Blockbuster Entertainment added: “We’re delighted to be working with The Rocket Marketing Group to launch the 2 for 1 Movie & Game Rental Card. It’s a fantastic product that will help customers save money as well as enjoy great entertainment.”

Any company interested in buying this 2 for 1 Movie & Game Rental Card should contact The Rocket Marketing Group on 01273 66 88 22.

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