Happy Birthday To Us!!

Six years ago we launched Shaw Marketing Services with just one small copywriting job at the beginning of Spain’s worst recession. Here we still are 6 years on, established with a great group of loyal clients and a fantastic stream of new business keeping us very busy and motivated.

Huge thanks to our loyal clients and supporters who have trusted and believed in us. Special thanks must go to property management and rental company HomeCareontheWeb who was one of our very first clients and who we still work with to this day as their blog writers. Also Specsavers, who we have worked with for four years now and helped to grow on the Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca and Mallorca.

We feel truly lucky to still be here when so many companies have failed and look forward to many more years ahead of us!

One of our latest projects is launching the first Marbella Classic Grand Prix which will see 50 classic cars take to Marbella’s streets on June 8th to compete in a regularity rally. This is an open road race following the rules of the Highway Code and is not a speed race, but an event of skill and timing including timed sections and special stages requiring split second accuracy, measured with hyper-sensitive timing equipment. These sections are completed at slow speeds without stopping the car and penalty points given for every 0.01 second difference from the allotted completion time.

There are still places available for people to take part in the race and there’s a special early bird price for anyone booking their place before Wednesday 15th June. All you need is a car made before 31st December 1980, two stop watches, a driver and co-driver to take part. If you would like to register to take part please visit http://www.chronomoto.hu/online/mcgp/

On Saturday 24th May, the family run country house hotel Hacienda La Herriza, in Gaucin, is holding a special garden party to celebrate its 10th anniversary and Shaw Marketing Services SL is promoting the event for them. This wonderful event will be held in the hotel’s beautiful grounds and include a cocktail reception, barbeque buffet with drink, live music, activities for the kids, traditional sherry servers, ham cutters and medieval Spanish musicians and then three hours of open bar with a DJ, for a special reduced price of 47€ per person.

They share this special anniversary with local award-winning bodega Cezar Viñedos and during the garden party they are coming together to offer a wine tasting of five delicious organic wines with the owner Rickard Enkvist.

La Herriza is offering attendees of the party a special rate of 40€ per person to stay the night in one of their cozy Junior Suites with breakfast included, so guests can relax, enjoy themselves and make a weekend of it.

La Herriza is also a fantastic venue for weddings, birthdays, retreats and networking/corporate events and their team is highly experienced in catering for up to 250 people. Their 10th anniversary party is a great way to see the team in action and have a fun day and if you decide to hold an event there during 2014 they will discount the ticket price from the booking.

To request your tickets to this event please email celebraciones@laherriza.com or call 699 264 929. To find out more about the hotel visit www.laherriza.com

Specsavers Opticas have launched the first Spectacle Wearer of the Year Awards in Spain to recognise specs as a fashion statement as well as a visual aid and celebrate the millions of ordinary people in Spain who look amazing in their glasses.

They are searching for specs wearing champions who make their specs a part of their identity, no matter what their age or style.

The competition is open from 1st-31st May and entries can be made via Facebook. Entrants simply need to submit a recent colour photo of themselves wearing glasses. The person crowned the overall Spectacle Wearer of the Year will win a makeover, photo-shoot and a pair of designer frames. There will also be 8 semi-finalists who will win a pair of designer frames each.

As you know, we’re always looking for cost-effective ways to reach target clients, so I wanted to share the opportunity to be included in Sotogrande International School’s Yearbook.

This is a publication which reaches all the students and parents of the school, as well as potential parents who visit the school for more information. It is a book that is created by the students and more than just a magazine, it is an important part of the school journey for the students and therefore is kept for many years.

There will be a guide at the back of the book, where all advertisers will be grouped by sector and easy to find with a user-friendly contents table. Prices start at 150€ for a third of a page, contact marketing@sis.gl for prices and more information.