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Reddishpink Media

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A marketing project for Edinburgh based National Farmers Union Scotland

A Scottish farmer photographed for the NFU Scotland membership campaign

The situation

Edinburgh based marketing agency Reddishpink helped NFUS increase its membership through a multi-media marketing project that included website design, video production, advertising, brochure design and strategic input.

Advertising design and creation

Engaging adverts that resonate

NFUS needed an advertising campaign that would speak to Scottish farmers.

What better way to do this than to utilise existing members, and their thoughts on NFUS, within the campaign. We created two series of adverts that are adaptable to both print and digital formats. Reddishpink handled copywriting, professional photography and graphic design.

NFU Scotland Champions advert — Alan Corrgall, beef farmer, Orkney NFU Scotland Champions advert — David Colville, arable farmer, Perthshire NFU Scotland Champions advert — Tom and Fiona Corsett, crofters, Isle of Mull NFU Scotland Promises advert — we can’t promise to make the sun shine NFU Scotland Promises advert — we can’t guarantee you six weeks holiday every year NFU Scotland Promises advert — press and digital campaign creative

Make it gritty

Reddishpink handled all photography for the campaign, visiting seven farmers spread across the length and breadth of Scotland.

Farming photography for NFU Scotland — a farmer beside a wind turbine Agricultural photography Scotland — a dairy farmer in the byre for NFU Scotland Farm photography for the NFU Scotland membership campaign

Commercial video production

Who better to sell membership to Scotland's farmers than current members?

A 2,015-mile, ten-day trip that took us from Dumfries and Galloway to the Orkney Islands yielded a set of eight mini-documentaries that highlight all of the benefits of NFUS membership and make it clear why it’s so important to be part of this 100-year-old organisation. Reddishpink handled the full project from concept and storyboarding, through to filming, editing and final production.

A recruitment-specific environment

When you have fabulous advertising media, you need to drive them somewhere for further information.

Our advertising and video campaign had one objective — drive people to the NFUS door or website for further information. The strategy dictated that we needed to directly address the needs of non-members, in a separate environment.

Reddishpink wrote, designed and developed a member recruitment website with all messages tailored to this audience. The website includes all of the videos produced and highlights all of the benefits of membership.

NFU Scotland membership recruitment website shown on laptop and phone NFU Scotland recruitment website on a tablet NFU Scotland recruitment website — supporting Scottish agriculture for more than 100 years

What we did

  1. Advertising creation

  2. Professional photography

  3. Video production

  4. Website design and development

  5. Brochure design and publishing

  6. Marketing strategy

The result

[ To be added — what happened afterwards. Membership, enquiries, traffic, reach, or simply what the client said about it. This is the section that turns a portfolio piece into a case study, and it is the one most agencies leave out. ]

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