Massive Thanks – Summer BBQ

Well the first ever Optimus Performance Marketing event was a massive success with over 70 people attending, thanks to everyone who attended, sponsored and donated prizes.

Last Thursday was the first event to be organised by Optimus Performance Marketing and what better place to do it than in Mark’s hometown and the town of the company offices. After months of looking and planning for the event we chose the Quality Hotel in Plymouth which to be honest has one of the best views in Plymouth, overlooking Plymouth sound.

Well onto the event we decided what better to do than to organise a BBQ overlooking the sound and make sure there was space, loads of drink and lots to eat.
So the party started in the afternoon with various people arriving and either enjoying the sun at the hotel on the terrace with all the Optimus Performance Marketing crew, while others headed into the nearby Barbican for food and to look at some of the yachts at the end of the Fastnet. While the rain was about for 10 minutes in the morning the sun decided to join us, which helped to make it a lovely afternoon and evening to make the most of the view and terrace area.

At 7pm the networking started with the champagne kindly sponsored by Buy.at to really begin the evening. Stood in the sunshine with stunning panoramic views of the water was something really special.

We also had a table by the bar for people to help themselves to some local Tribute ale and also some Cornish Orchard cider, which went down a hit as people seem to have enjoyed both.

At 8pm our special guest, Jamie Mackie from PAFC came to help out with the Charity Raffle. With well over 52 prizes in total and over 610 tickets sold the raffle was a huge hit with plenty of people chuffed at their prizes! And a few bemused faces! We managed to raise over £600 for RNLI which was a great success.

Around 9pm and out came the food which was served by the hotel manager no less. The food was brilliant and certainly helped to take the edge of the local cider and local ale! Most people ate outside as it was so warm still and a really beautiful night!

Next up came the DJ! He played exactly what we asked him to play so out came some Wurzels classics!

Lots of networking was done between 9 and 12, after 12 the dj was getting louder and more and more people were moving on the dance floor and not quite so much networking was done from 12 but seeing all the network staff, affiliates and the EAM team all dancing together was quite amusing and something that I think lots of people will remember forever.

At about 1am with the disco in full swing we had some late night sandwich snacks brought out for everyone to enjoy as we enjoyed more of the DJ’s classic tunes. All of them disappeared within seconds, all the dancing must have made people hungry! Eventually Wayne the Dj had to head home, but that didn’t stop the party!

We really hope that everyone had a good night, it was certainly a great night for it! We all really enjoyed ourselves.

Some of you will have seen that on the Forum and Twitter we announced that this will all be done again next year and we have booked the same location for the 20th August, this is a Friday night and we hope to see you all again and maybe a few more people will join us. We have decided to do this again at request of people who attended and also have gone for the Friday as we hope people can then make a weekend of it and bring their families.

Massive Thanks To The Following
Oak Furniture Land For Sponsoring The Bar!
AffiliateFuture For Sponsoring The Bar!
Buy.At For Sponsoring The Champagne!
Linkshare For Sponsoring The Bar!
All Up And On For The Envelope Angels!
Julie H For Selling Tickets!
Everyone Who Donated A Prize!
Everyone Who Bought A Ticket!
Jamie Mackie
The Hotel Staff
And, most importantly everyone who turned up!