How to promote Sheffield?

[donuticus 10]

Big advertising board with the words "It's not Rotherham" should do the trick.

[mahonia 10]

Ah Sheffield , where our wonderfull planning department won 1st prize of 1000no entry and one way signs in a local raffel and have gone around the city centre leaving bedlem in there way.

 

Sheffield was the first city to spead german bound grit on its roads

 

Sheffield is also the city where compaired to other citys of it size its the laughting stock for pubilc transport in both its needs for the public and building new railway stations and tram lines

[emmafraggle 10]

Rock climbing and music, friendliness and green spaces.

 

Try the Go Sheffo website (can't post links yet - try Google) for an excellent take on what's great about Sheffield.

 

Or Toddla T's music guide to Sheffield for a good intro to music from the Guardian website.

 

Good luck!

[Rah Rah Rah 10]

Ooooooh, that would be me,lol!

[Rah Rah Rah 10]

Ooooooh, that would be me,lol!

 

The Arctic Monkey's, and Squidgy Pigey!

[KK68 10]

try looking at the yorkshire south website.they are great at promoting the city

[deanandbecky 10]

Well Sheffield is the national centre for sport in the UK I believe, someone might correct me on this but I thought this was the case.

[Zomoniac 10]

How about blocking all access to this forum to anyone from outside Sheffield? That way all the nay sayers, defeatists and whiners could go about their usual business on this forum without potential visitors getting the impression that Sheffield is populated by Neanderthals who hate their city.

 

What about those of us who do live here but still think it's hell on earth?

[viney40 10]

Hi, I'm an international student in Sheffield, and my recent program is to plan a PR campaign to promote Sheffield.

 

And I really want to find something special in Sheffield (except steel)that can attract people's eyes from all over the world.

 

Can anyone tell me valuable ideas that really can bring a great promotion of Sheffield?

 

Thanks,

 

YAN

 

Hi YAN, Read the above bold. Seems to be a good enough opener to expand on!

 

I wish you well with your studies.

[Ade65 10]

Two oldest football clubs in the world, and the oldest football ground.

[jaydee001 10]

I have a copy of Sheffield - City On The Move. The full promo video from the 70's which was edited and shown in a short clip at the beginning of The Full Monty. It's a reight laugh and like a bad porn movie. Maybe best avoided because it bangs on about steel, cutlery and the now derelict park hill flats......

But.....Sheffield is famous for steel, cutlery, the Park Hill flates were the biggest urban development in europe (love them or hate them, they are apparently important...uff) Don't forget the music and the musicians as mentioned before by Kiwiowl. Further to that, it was in Sheffield, after a gig, that Elton John was persuaded to go solo.

The Co-op first started in Sheffield (oooo exciting). And we even used to make our own cars. There is loads to praise Sheffield for. Do some digging, you'd be surprise!

Of course you cannot fail to mention our world record for having the most dangerous, poorly maintained, badly lit, poorly marked, and quite frankly shi*iest roads in the western hemisphere! Not to mention the biggest population of benefit claiming, work shy, unclean, uneducated, inebriated, dope smoking, scum bag chav youths in the UK?

[Girl Friday 10]

It's home to 2 popular football teams.......Sheffield FC and Rotherham United

 

Sheffield FC's ground isn't in Sheffield!