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What I do:

What I like about my job is every day is different. At any one time I could be working on up to 3 accounts at a time. A typical day might include, solving queries from clients and making sure deadlines are met, sourcing prizes for a particular campaign, writing copy and terms and conditions to brain-storming with the whole Elevator team on a new brief.

Elevator Music Track:

Jason Mraz, I’m Yours- reminds me of good times!

Would share an Elevator with:

Patrick Dempsey, Alan Carr, Lilly Allen

Wouldn't share an Elevator with:

Anyone with a diva type attitude like Mariah Carey.

Up With

TV - Any reality TV show, e.g. America’s Next Top Model, Don’t Tell the Bride, The Family.

Film - Sex and the City Movie, Saw, Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Food & Drink - Anything cooked with Pesto and a nice glass of Sauvignon Blanc.

Down With:

Rudeness, arrogance, cauliflower, dark nights and mornings.

Favourite Promotion:

Tayto Nation was a really fun project and what I particularly liked was the involvement of the consumers who sent in their photos from all around the world enjoying Tayto and their Tayto Merchandise.

A promotion that I came across recently was on the Nivea website promoting their Christmas gift packs. This promotion involves consumers playing the Santa’s Little Helpers game to be in with the chance to win prizes. The higher the score the better the prize you will be entered for!

What I do:

I'm Senior Designer so I'm responsible for designing and artworking everything to do with a particular campaign. This might include pack artwork, point of sale material, press and outdoor ads as well as promotional merchandise such as t-shirts, mugs, socks and boxer shorts!

Elevator Music Track:

"We are the people" by Empire of the Sun

Would share an Elevator with:

Gazza & Ally.

Wouldn't share an Elevator with:

George Galloway.

Up With

Rangers / Norn Iron / Giants

TV - Mythbusters.

Film - Inglourious Basterds.

Food & Drink - Smoky Bacon Crisps in a Belfast Bap / Irn Bru.

Down With:

Smokers / People with delusions of grandeur.

Favourite Promotion:

Coca Cola - "Buy a Player".

What I do:

Changes daily but a little bit of everything - planning, meeting clients/suppliers, thinking up marketing ideas, copy-writing, briefing designers, the odd sneaky look at the latest football news....helping & advising clients where I can, so that Elevator has a positive effect on the performance their brand(s).

Elevator Music Track:

Hard to choose 1, but for pure 80s cheese I'll go with Nik Kershaw's The Riddle.

Would share an Elevator with:

Aside from my better half, family & mates - Eric Cantona, Norman Whiteside, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Stelling. (And I wouldn't close the door on Sarah Harding either!)

Wouldn't share an Elevator with:

No specific names - but any overly loud, ungrateful or a person with no sense of humour may be told to Jog On!

Up With

TV - 24/Gilette Soccer Saturday/Family Guy.

Film - The Dark Knight/ Goodfellas/ Shaun of the Dead.

Food & Drink - Any Meal from Lolita Restaurant with a beer, red wine, or two.

Down With:

Mayonnaise. People as per above. Pay Per View Sport - bring back Free to Air!

Favourite Promotion:

Pretty proud of our "Tayto Nation" promotion as it's something both client & consumers have really bought into. Further afield, I think the Coca-Cola 'Win a Player' was a great fully-integrated promotion, plus was a bit of fun to see how good or bad the winning club spent the money!

What I do:

My job varies from day to day but each day is focused around meeting the requirements of my clients. My role involves everything from creative brainstorming, sourcing and ordering promotional merchandise, meetings, creating and implementing tailor-made promotional campaigns, copy writing, invoicing, briefing promotional staff, campaign management and I have been known to enjoy boxing a few promotional kits here and there!

Elevator Music Track:

Anything that triggers great memories of my travels... Snow Patrol, Kylie and Kings of Leon would be on that list!

Would share an Elevator with:

Richard Branson, Morgan Freeman or Elvis (if he was still alive!)

Wouldn't share an Elevator with:

Anyone boring or rude!

Up With

TV - Greys Anatomy, East enders and Sex and the City of course!

Film - Serendipity, How to lose a guy in 10 days and my all time Christmas favourite Home Alone

Food & Drink - Roast chicken dinner, homemade Pineapple Roulade and Lemonade soda stream

Down With:

Bad Customer Service, airport delays and bad hair days!

Favourite Promotion:

This summer I really enjoyed Dale Farm's Freeze Frame campaign which involved a fully branded Dale Farm Ice cream van travelling throughout NI bringing a little bit of paradise to all who encountered it!

I also loved the Kellogg's Zookeeper campaign, an integrated campaign which successfully connected with it's consumer and offered a truly inspirational prize of the chance to be a zoo keeper for a day!

What I do:

I'm the boss so I get to do a bit of everything which is great - I can combine the creative process with practical and financial input . I really enjoy cracking a new brief and seeing great ideas start to emerge from our brainstorming sessions. I also give copy the once over from a legal point of view and check it for typos, grammar and spelling - I'm known to be a bit obsessive about the misuse of apostrophes!!

Elevator Music Track:

If the doors were closed and no-one was listening, I'd find it hard not to sing along to Aretha Franklin's I Say A Little Prayer!

Would share an Elevator with:

George Clooney - easy on the eye - Billy Connolly - to make me laugh - Stephen Fry for interesting conversation and perhaps Jools Holland to play a little piano in the corner!

Wouldn't share an Elevator with:

Anyone who has ever been in the Big Brother House. Or in the Jungle for that matter!

Up With

TV - The Wire, The Sopranos, The West Wing, ER - alas all over now!

Film - The Usual Suspects, The Graduate, The Talented Mr Ripley.

Food & Drink - A medium rare fillet steak or a plate of Italian antipasti - washed down with a robust red wine. And I hardly ever refuse a G&T!

Down With:

Pineapple on Pizza, Anchovies, and rude people!

Favourite Promotion:

Many years ago Ribena ran a fantastic promotion called Harry The Lime which was truly ground-breaking - definitely wish I'd done that one. But happy that I did work on Tennent's Football Fanatical, Tayto Nation and the Coors Light Road Trip.