Simon Bates Bio

Simon Bates

Co-founder & Creative Director, Touchpaper

London

With a career spanning film writing and directing as well as 20 years spent at the highest levels of corporate communications, Simon is an expert in connecting companies with their audiences.

He has created and delivered global marketing programmes for multinational brands like IBM, Canon and Motorola. Simon has briefed national newspaper editors and held the line on countless TV and radio news shows, leading major reputation recovery exercises in the full glare of the nation’s press.

Simon was also at the vanguard of digital marketing, quick to realise the potential for multimedia content and social media to get a message across.

Simon Bates

Upcoming Courses

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Marketing

Storytelling for Business

Are looking to build a brand quickly, with limited budget? Want to recruit a tribe of enthusiasts to do your marketing for you? If so, come along and find out how!

Business

Creating A Story For Your Business

If you're looking to build a brand quickly, on a budget, but need to figure out the story of your business, this talk will show you how.

Marketing

Content Marketing – the only marketing that matters

Content marketing gets better results at a fraction of the cost. Find out what ‘content’ actually is, why it really is ‘king’ and how it can help your start up stand out.

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