Movember – Week 2

Today marks the beginning of the second week of Movember. Many men across the UK, and indeed the globe are perhaps struggling with the hair growth of their upper lip hair.

(Nad and Chris looking unimpressed at posing for Movember week 2 update images)!Here in the office, itchiness began a couple of days ago for Nad and Chris, and daily shaving of beard related hair is becoming an irritant, but as I continue to remind them, ‘it’s the rules! And it’s for a good cause!’ and this seems to keep them on track.

This year, at some bullying from me, Win Marketing decided to get behind the fundraising month of Movember – which helps raise awareness and funds for men’s health.

In recent years, this has seen a small following – with many students joining in during the spirit of Movember. In the last 2 years, I have noticed that this has spread beyond the realm of the university, scraggly bearded student, and has moved to the businessman, the barman, the waiter and the shop assistant, the celebrity and even my granddad (although that might not be quite true – as he sports a dashing mo most of the time anyway)

I have noticed some Win Marketing clients are showing their support to the month of Movember – apologetically mentioning the reason for their impeccably neat and tidy mo is because of this month.

Trending on Twitter for the first 2 days, Movember has grown enormously through the increasing use of social media channels, mostly Facebook and Twitter, but also YouTube.
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So with that in mind, I bullied the team into joining in, and here’s the bit where we asking for your help.

We have set up a Movember team page – “‘Tache Marketing'”:http://uk.movember.com/team/836313 for the team on the Movember.com website – and this is where people can donate towards the cause – many mens health charities receive donations as a part of this month – and this website specifically donates any money received to 3 of these charities, Prostrate Cancer UK, The Institute of Cancer Research, and the Movember Foundation.

If you have read this and are thinking ‘good on them!’ or similar, please – drop by our Movember page and share it through your social media channels, share this blog post, retweet our tweets about it, anything to help us spread this message to others during this month.

If you are feeling particularly benevolent today, we would of course welcome any donations through our Movember page – and you’d get a warm, fuzzy feeling that can only be gained by helping others.

(My attempt – Mofakery)!With that in mind, I will get back to working on clients’ marketing needs, and I look forward to seeing any “likes”:http://www.facebook.com/?q=#/pages/Win-Marketing/90771350451?ref=tn_tnmn, shares, “tweets”:https://twitter.com/WinMarketing, donations, and any other support for the boys in our office who are pushing past the itchiness and the unfortunate patchy growth associated with growing a fabulous mo.

(I’m trying my hardest to join in, but for some reason, as much as I try, I cannot even grow stubble…)

If you are joining in this Movember, stop by and say Hi sometime, share photo’s of any mo’s and generally share the love 🙂