DKC Designing Solutions Ltd

It’s World Chocolate Day! 🍫 - Some days are just made for chocolate and this is definitely one of them!

We’ve had the privilege of collaborating on a few projects with the Cosy Tea Room Linlithgow, a brilliant local café, and their baking is honestly second to none!

Their millionaire shortbread is absolutely to die for… that perfect balance of chocolate and caramel really does make it the ultimate treat 🤎

It’s always great working alongside passionate local businesses who take real pride in what they do.

If you’re nearby, it’s well worth popping in for a proper chocolate fix today (or any day, really).

“Never let your loyalty make a fool of you.”

Modern customer loyalty programme:
Step 1: Stay with a company for years
Step 2: Watch your bill quietly creep up
Step 3: Discover new customers are paying much less
Step 4: Call customer services
Step 5: Threaten to leave
Step 6: Magically receive the deal you should have had already

Congratulations! You’ve unlocked the exclusive “long-term customer” experience.
It’s a process many of us have experienced with TV, broadband, mobile phone and insurance providers. The surprising part is that the better deal was available all along it just took the threat of losing a customer to unlock it.

Imagine applying the same thinking to a personal relationship - “I value you, but not enough to make any effort unless you’re about to leave.” - Most of us would recognise that as a pretty unhealthy dynamic! ... Yet many businesses still build customer retention strategies around inconvenience and the assumption that loyal customers will simply put up with it.

The best businesses don’t ask customers to stay in unrewarding relationships. They continually give them reasons to want to stay.

Are you rewarding loyalty, or simply relying on it? Let’s talk strategy 🙂

We're delighted to see the pups approve of the new promo project! 🐶

It was a pleasure designing this pavement board for Sue Tait Pet Portraits. It's great to see it out doing its job, and we're especially pleased with it as our very first pavement board. We think it turned out rather well!

Although... we suspect the biggest draw on the day this photo was taken might have been the gorgeous Labs sitting around it!

Sunday Shout Out ☀️

This week’s shout out goes to the brilliant team at Rejuvenate in Perth, because, quite simply, they fixed my face!

Some sun damage that had been bothering me for a while is gone now. The moral of the story, especially after a few hot sunny days? Wear the Factor 50! .. also, if they can fix my face, imagine what other magic they can do!

Thanks again, Rejuvenate Clinic!

Check out their website to see the full range of treatments and services they offer.
https://www.rejuvenate-clinic.co.uk/

Helping Great Pies Reach More Menus 🥧
We were delighted to work with The Pie Guy to create promotional materials helping him connect with cafes and takeaways across Edinburgh and the Lothians, showcasing his pies as a great addition to their cooked offering.
From business planning and design through to promotion, we help businesses show off what they do best and get in front of the right folk.
So if you're ready to take the next step in your business, we’d love to help with design that stands out, planning that makes sense, and training that brings your team with you.
Get in touch for a blether and to find out how we can support you.

Today we’re finally giving our own website and pricing brochure some overdue attention. Yes, we’re guilty as charged when it comes to putting our own updates last while focusing on supporting others.

The new website image was taken at the weekend at a lovely wee loch here in Scotland during a swim, a real moment of stepping out... before diving straight back into business actions. A reminder that real life and work don’t sit in separate boxes; they often blend together in the best way.

If your own systems, messaging, or foundations need that same attention, we can help bring clarity back into focus. Our consultancy, training, and design work is all about helping businesses build solutions that are sustainable, adaptable, and truly fit for purpose.

Great news!
Clarity Plastering have opened their books and are now taking on new projects.

We’ve had the pleasure of working with the team, helping them showcase the quality of work they deliver. We can confidently say you’d be hard pushed to find smoother finishes or better customer service.

If you’ve got a project coming up, be sure to check out their page and get in touch.

Best of luck to the team with their upcoming bookings! 👏

‼️ Now taking on bookings ‼️

We take on full aspects of plastering regardless the size of the job whether that is patch jobs or full room skimming, no job too big or too small for us here at clarity plastering.

We also take on joinery and painting, we have a regular team of tradesmen we use to get the work that suit your working needs.

Our page is full of examples showing the standard of work, have a look at our previous jobs and don’t hesitate to get in touch for your free no obligation quote now.

Get in touch with us through our page or other social media platforms.

✉️ [email protected]
🌎 https://clarityplastering.co.uk