Chris Birchall on October 20th, 2009

Ready to be revealed - the 2010 Classy Cobbs Charity CalendarYes the Proofs are back from the printers – and they’re looking great!

The presses are rolling as we speak churning out the BEST 2010 Charity Calendar ready for launch night – this Saturday (24th October)

All tickets for this star-studded evening are now sold out but you can order your copy of the calendar on-line through this website or at one of the outlets listed on the Buy it Now page

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Shan Rowlands on October 17th, 2009

I wanted to let you know that S4C will be calling at my house on Monday for a coffee and a chat with Gwen and I. They will be filming while we talk to them over coffee about our chosen charity and also about the making of the calendar.

The more coverage we have; the more calendars we sell! Which means ‘Ty Croeso’ can continue the great work of supporting families with poorly children at Glan Clwyd Hospital.

Please help us to spread the word about our calendar to raise enough funds to make a difference at ‘Ty Croeso’.

Let your family and friends know about our Fabulous calendar, by chatting about it, emailing or even twittering or facebooking!

Thank you for all your help and support.

http://www.s4c.co.uk/clic/e_level2.shtml?programme_id=341974574  click on the time bar at the bottom of the little screen and drag to 21:50 to watch The classy Cobs on S4C

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Shan Rowlands on October 16th, 2009

Well…the count down has started!!! With only 8 days to go until reality is kicked in for us calendar girls, and the fact that we’re going to be on show for all and sundry to see!! Oh…yes…we keep reminding ourselves that it’s all for such a worthy cause, but none the less the nerves still don’t go away!

The launch night should be a HUGE success for us girls and for all who will be there to share the unveiling with us. Family, Friends and business acuaintances will all be there, which means a few more nerves and jitters thrown in; just like a big red cherry on top of the ice cream!!  Happy days! :o)

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Chris Birchall on October 13th, 2009

Just ten days to go and the Calendar Launch Night is a SELL-OUT!

If you are amongst the 250 lucky people with tickets, don’t forget to have a look at the fantastic lots that are up for auction on the night. View them Here

Every penny raised will go to the charity so get ready with your bids.

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Shan Rowlands on October 7th, 2009

I’ve had a very interesting conversation this morning with a free-lance journalist who will be writing a story about our calendar for a national woman’s magazine and a national newspaper!!! Very exciting stuff!!!

I will keep you all updated!

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Shan Rowlands on October 5th, 2009

With only 19 days to go until the big unveiling of the Calendar to the calendar girls and the public, we are running around sorting out the final arrangements with Chris the photographer and the Jeff printer over the next few days.

Linda Davies one of the calendar girls is busy making up table cloths for the tables for the launch night.

Gwen and I are busy working closely with The Oriel House hotel arranging the table plans and organising the presentation of the evening. We’re also busy picking up the auction lots and ordering flowers and baloons which will be on each table on the night and kindly donated by Liptrots of Prestatyn.

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Chris Birchall on October 3rd, 2009

It is just twelve days since the Classy Cobs charity calendar web site officially launched and was opened up to the search engines.

And we are pleased to announce that today we have achieved twelfth position on Google.co.uk for the search term “2010 Naked Charity Calendar” – not bad for a little calendar from North Wales.

It is an achievement we are justifiably proud of. Normally, it can take months for a web site to get anywhere near the first page on Google. That is why so many owners succumb to the dreaded “Pay Per Click” to buy their way into the “Sponsored Listings” (Does anybody actually look at those?)

Worse still, they pay an SEO company on the promise of  “Number one on Google Guaranteed!”.  What they end up with is the Number One position for the search term “Joseph Llewelyn Bloggs Plumbing Services” as opposed to real world searches such as “Plumbers in Denbighshire”.

Search Engine Optimisation is not rocket science.  It is simply a matter of getting the right key words in the right place on the web site.  This very blog post is contributing valuable keywords such as Flintshire, Holywell and Clwyd. There I’ve said it!  Including town and county names helps when people do localised searches.

YOU can help

The more people who see the web site, the more chance they will buy the calendar, so you can help to by adding links back to the site from your own Blog, Facebook page, or Twitter Feed.  This also helps page ranking which takes incoming links into account when gauging the popularity of a site.

UPDATE: Just checked the stats.  Yesterday we achieved our highest number of hits to date.  289 unique visits – and that doesn’t include our own admin visits.  We can ony go from strength to strength!

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Shan Rowlands on October 2nd, 2009

Keep updated with all the goings on over the next few days, weeks and months by joining our Facebook group ‘CALENDAR GIRLS (TY CROESO, DAWN ELIZABETH HOUSE)’

Click Here – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=151245217096 to become part of something exciting – and help spread the word by inviting all your friends to join too!

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Shan Rowlands on October 1st, 2009

Charity Calendar Launch Night – 24th October 2009

The Oriel House, St.Asaph.

With only 3 weeks to go….the calendar girls are getting more nervous by the day!

Tickets are now on sale for this amazing night @ £10 each.

An evening packed full of entertainment and fun; This is one event that shouldn’t be missed!!!!

For tickets please email shan.rowlands@virgin.net

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Chris Birchall on September 28th, 2009

All the final touches have been completed and the photographs are winging their way to the printer.

Page proofs will be back soon.  Launch night is looming.  Exciting times.

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