Marketing & Creative Services Framework.

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        "description": "It is the intention of Aster Group (also known as 'Aster Sales') to establish a framework agreement with suitably qualified specialist external agencies to help us deliver our shared ownership sales & marketing strategy with support on creative development, digital marketing and marketing automation delivery services to meet needs that cannot be met in-house by its own provision, or where additional knowledge and expertise is required. The appointed agency (s) will lead on strategic creative direction and planning, campaign development, cross-platform asset creation, content optimisation and performance analysis. The requirement IS split into four lots: * Lot 1 - Digital marketing support * Lot 2 - Creative support * Lot 3 - Artworking * Lot 4 - Development marketing automation delivery Suppliers will be able to submit a response for either one or more lots.",
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