{"id":18856,"date":"2016-05-09T13:17:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/seo\/https-www-nobraineragency-co-uk-blog-awards-new-consultancy-of-the-year-we-made-the-awards-shortlist\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:56:31","slug":"consultancy-of-the-year-awards-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/business\/consultancy-of-the-year-awards-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"New Consultancy of the Year \u2013 We made the awards shortlist!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we started No Brainer in April 2015, we\u2019ve not chased any awards or accreditations\u2026we just hadn\u2019t had time! That was until recently.<\/p>\n

We took two hours out of our days filled with PR-ing others, to submit our first ever awards submission. And we\u2019re proud to say that we\u2019ve been shortlisted for the North\u2019s \u2018New Consultancy of the Year\u2019 at the PRCA Dare Awards.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s industry gold standard stuff. And we couldn\u2019t be prouder. There\u2019s some amazing agencies shortlisted this year, agencies led by some people who we\u2019ve admired from afar over the years.<\/p>\n

Why you may not have heard of\u00a0us<\/h2>\n

No Brainer is owned and operated by Lee and I. You won\u2019t have heard of our company and probably won\u2019t have heard of us either. That\u2019s primarily because, by our own admission, we\u2019ve built our company the wrong way around.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gone out seeking to earn the right to win new business before we had a brand or a profile to that could help us win it. We invested nothing in marketing in the first eleven months of our operation. We didn\u2019t even have a website until we were a year old!<\/p>\n

We always said we\u2019d have achieved something when our clients told us so, not when our trophy cabinet bulges with awards, and when the outcomes we\u2019d secured showed us so. We\u2019re proud to say many of our clients gave us some lovely supporting statements as part of our application. And we\u2019d like to say a big thank you to them. They make our business. They are our business.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve invested everything in our 14 (and growing) clients. But they\u2019ve invested their trust in us, and to us that means everything. It makes it easy for us to give them our all.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the awards night!<\/h2>\n

We\u2019re shortlisted along with\u00a0Petal & Co<\/a>. and we\u2019d genuinely like to wish Jessica and the team the very best of luck too.<\/p>\n

After all we know what it takes to be a newcomer, to start a business from nothing, what motivation fear can be when you take a jump like this and what it\u2019s going to take to earn our right at the table with the big agencies.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019re ready\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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