To celebrate Shaw Marketing Services' 15th Anniversary, we thought we'd look back on how our agency began. We asked our Marketing Director Georgina Shaw to share her story and explain how she started the business during the 2008 financial crisis, despite never thinking of herself as...
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As a Brit having lived on the Costa del Sol in Spain since 2008 and seen so many people come and go, I would say there is one key factor to making expat life work long term – learn the language! Although places like the Costa...
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Georgina was recently asked for her insight into having a baby in Spain, the intricacies of the Spanish healthcare system, childcare and schooling for expat parents for Spain Expo. Obviously, it is a big topic, but an important one, and Georgina was happy to open...
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September is here and now’s the time to say goodbye to the holidays and return to work. But this doesn’t mean that we have feel gloomy! There are a few things we can do to get rid of the post-holiday stress and get back to...
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Jeremy Ferguson and The Spectrum IFA Group are organizing a free presentation on the 12th of June at Los Naranjos in Marbella about what will life be like for British nationals after taking residency in Spain. They are bringing together six experts including a representative...
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Happy International Women’s Day 2019 everyone and congratulations to all those women who are succeeding in business and managing to balance the pressures of life and family. It can be tricky to succeed in what can still be a man’s world, but many women are...
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Eco Passion has launched to offer eco-friendly alternatives to plastic for home and business use and bring about positive change. They passionately believe that everyone can really make a difference and take steps towards eliminating the plastic epidemic and saving our planet. It may sound...
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August is a very strange month in southern Spain, where many businesses simply close and go to the beach, others work shorter hours, while tourism and hospitality related businesses make their biggest earnings. For B2B businesses such as ours, the summer months in general, but...
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A CDC study of contact lens wearers found that 99% of users surveyed had worn, washed or stored their lenses in unhygienic ways and Specsavers Opticas believes this is also the case for contact lens wearers in Spain. They have issued a warning that it...
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San Juan is on the night of the 23rd of June every year and has always been one of our favourite Spanish fiestas. It stems from the pagan midsummer celebrations which has been turned into a saint’s day and in true Spanish style it has...
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