FMUK Features

Financial Marketing UK is designed to be a source of news, information, discussion and viewpoints from the UK's financial marketing industry. With the advent and growth of online communities, it's now possible to pull together information and data from a variety of sources and present them in (almost) real-time, on your computer screen. In addition, you can discuss anything with your peers without having to leave the comfort of your egonomially-designed executive chair.

FMUK has various sections:

News: - gathered from news sites around the nation, including Marketing Week, Brandrepublic, Mad.co.uk and more. We use RSS technology to pull this in automatically, mix it up and list it in chronological order for your enjoyment. It's updated every hour.

Jobs: - same as news, but gathered from any site that we can find that lists financial marketing positions and provides an RSS stream. This is also updated every hour.

Editorial: - proprietary content written by our experts and published either exclusively on FMUK, or here first and then syndicated elsewhere. This is our 'killer-app' and will be expanding rapidly as we bring in new experts and contributors.

Community: - the meat of the site and the area that will (finger's crossed) provide the greatest growth. Here we have specialist Groups, focusing on niches within financial marketing and split into Sectors (e.g. Alternative Investments) and Services (e.g. Direct Marketing). These are designed to allow people in those areas, both client and agency-side, to discuss topics close to their hearts. You can use them for more or less anything - including job postings, requests for and giving of advice, announcements and so on.

We also have Discussion, which is designed to be a higher level of chat based on the wider world of financial marketing.

Forum:- a discussion board for anything and everything to do with financial marketing. This features debates on pertinent topics, and allows members to post notices, including jobs, news and anything else you care to mention.

Directory: - a list of all the agencies and suppliers that specialise in financial marketing in the UK. There are always new ones springing up, and old ones disappearing, so we may not be 100% accurate at any given moment. But if you work client-side and are looking for a specialist, or are looking for a potential employer/partner, then here's the place to look. New features planned for the future include; example case-studies (a showcase for an agency's flagship work); a services matrix, so you can find the best supplier for any given project; 'ask an agency' - a platform to ask agency experts their advice on a potential project. And much more.

Word on the street: - a list of the latest blogs from people in the financial marketing industry. This is slower moving than news or jobs, but represents thoughts from the coal-face (so to speak).

Associate sites: - there are (believe it or not) other sites in the world that do a similar thing (though not as well as us, obviously). This section provides links to those sites we consider our associates - being of like mind. We aim to promote each other's content.

Coming soon:

Polls: - on a variety of interesting and thought-provoking topics and issues.

Glossaries: - lists of words and jargon that may currently fly harmlessly over your head in meetings, but then reappear ominously when you're trying to write a proposal. We're aiming to provide the essential guide to all things financial marketing and our glossaries will give you the inside track.