January Talk with Matt Barnes

It's 2022! Another year has begun and we're still facing challenges in business. What are your tips for success this year? Today we're talking to Matt Barnes, who is a director of well-known Swindon company Barnes Coaches Ltd.

What are your top marketing or PR tips for 2022?

• Keep the conversation going throughout on social media.
• Local free magazines 
• Prizes are still loved!

And your top three financial tips for 2022? 

• Wear a coat.
• Wear a hat.
• Turn the heating down.

What top attributes are you looking for in staff/suppliers this year? 

• Consistency
• Speed of response
• Positivity

What will you be investing in this year?

• New coaches
• Electric charging infrastructure
• Apprentice drivers

What will you be doing differently in 2022 with regards to your tours?

• Keeping the focus on UK and Ireland rather than mainland Europe
• Adding in more extras
• Higher quality hotels

What are you doing for charity or community this year? 
We support https://www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/ every year.

There are multiple ‘awareness’ days & weeks & months in January 2022 – could you pick just one and say why you’ll be engaging with it: 

Dry January – our pubs need us, don’t do this!

Any special offers you’d like to mention? 
Various throughout the year, please follow us on Facebook.

And finally:
We all thought 2021 would be the year we left COVID19 behind, let's make sure 2022 is!

For more information visit www.facebook.com/barnescoaches