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Why not try our new web rental service
Why splash out on a website – when you can rent one for a lot, lot less? Customers will judge you by your website… and first impressions count. Research shows that you have just seven seconds to make that impression. Get it right and you’ll win business – often from unexpected sources. Get it wrong [...]
Why splash out on a website – when you can rent one for a lot, lot less?
Customers will judge you by your website… and first impressions count. Research shows that you have just seven seconds to make that impression. Get it right and you’ll win business – often from unexpected sources. Get it wrong and you’ll be dismissed as amateur.
But funding a professionally-designed website can cause problems for the cash flow of the average small or start-up business. Here at Applause, we’re offering the best of all worlds: a ‘rental’ solution that allows you to significantly reduce the cost of generating a professional website, and then spread the cost over monthly payments.
www.999website-rental.co.uk is the fast, flexible and inexpensive way for business start-ups, small businesses, charities and social groups to create a powerful on-line presence. For just a £99 set-up fee and £9.99 a month, you’ll have your own domain name, a site with real impact setting out your organisation’s products and services – complete with images – and hosting on a robust server. You’ll even have your own dedicated email facilities.
You may not have the resources to fund bespoke web development, but you need to make potential customers sit up and take notice. This is the solution that ticks all the boxes.
www.999website-rental.co.uk is based on a design template system: you simply pick your design from a choice of standard ones on offer, or ask us to take the style from an existing website, provide words and pictures then we do the rest.
What’s more, www.999website-rental.co.uk grows with you: if you want to upgrade or add features such as search, a news section or a search engine optimisation we’ll be there to do it for you.
We think it’s the smartest web design service currently available; and for anyone who hasn’t got a big budget to spend, there’s no
Sales Conference Awards
Usually at the Annual Sales Conference there are some special awards to those staff members who have contributed something outstanding to the organisation over the year. These often take the form of ‘Oscar’ ceremonies with dry ice, reveals celebrity presenters and all the razzamatazz. However with the financial sector tightening its belt somewhat at the [...]
Usually at the Annual Sales Conference there are some special awards to those staff members who have contributed something outstanding to the organisation over the year. These often take the form of ‘Oscar’ ceremonies with dry ice, reveals celebrity presenters and all the razzamatazz. However with the financial sector tightening its belt somewhat at the present one of our clients wanted a simple low cost means of generating some expectation from the assembled sales force.
The Applause thinking cap was worn and we came up with a simple interactive ‘wheel of fortune’ that could be played in with the powerpoint presentations for each category of award. The names of all delegates present were entered and displayed at random as the sales director announced the runners up and at the press of a key the names steadily slowed finishing on the winner. Simple, elegant and effective. A roar sprung from the audience as the display slowed – with many prospective winners thinking is it me!, is it me! – like waiting for the sixth ball on the lottery – well almost.
If you think this would be a useful tool for you – we have one on the shelf waiting!!
Pensford Wine Festival
On the back of the Pensford Beer Festival which had its first outing in July 2008 and proved to be a roaring success the organising committee, as well as now planning the second beer festival, have organised the first Pensford Wine Festival to be held on the 14th of March in a few weeks time. [...]
On the back of the Pensford Beer Festival which had its first outing in July 2008 and proved to be a roaring success the organising committee, as well as now planning the second beer festival, have organised the first Pensford Wine Festival to be held on the 14th of March in a few weeks time.
John Durston of the West of England Wine & Spirits Association has been persuaded to put together tutored tasting of new and classic wine styles and this will be followed by an evening of entertainment and tastings of around 30 of his specially selected favourites from around the world.
Applause had produced the Beer Fest website last year and were asked to produce the Wine Festival site together with promotional leaflets and posters plus display graphics for the event itself. It is fair to say we rather like jobs like this can you guess why!?
If you hail from around Pensford, South Bristol or North Somerset checkout the information on www.pensfordwinefest.co.uk
and make a beeline for this not to missed event.
Premier Business Audio – Flash Audio Mixer
Premier Business audio help their clients to stand-out from their competitors, by maximising each point of contact by considering sensory contacts that are often overlooked. One of these being audio. PBA wanted to be able to give visitors to their website the ability to ‘play’ with sound, mixing various music and voice over tracks to see how this service could [...]
Premier Business audio help their clients to stand-out from their competitors, by maximising each point of contact by considering sensory contacts that are often overlooked. One of these being audio.
PBA wanted to be able to give visitors to their website the ability to ‘play’ with sound, mixing various music and voice over tracks to see how this service could help their marketing efforts. Applause provided an interactive audio mixer, programmed in Flash actionscript 3, which enabled viewers to select modules such as ‘Christmas Messages’, Business to Business, ‘On-Hold Messaging’ then pick from a selection of tracks and then mix them to create differing effects. The finished Flash .swf file was emailed to PBA who themselves programmed it into their Content Managed web site.
Want to play?? visit Premier Business Audio’s site
Burges Salmon – Cleantech Podcast
Established Bristol legal firm Burges Salmon called us to help with one of their Corporate Finance Network events early in October – The Cleantech Question Time. In the context of rising fuel costs and an increasing worldwide drive for greener solutions, Cleantech is seen by many as a growth sector where investors have a real [...]
Established Bristol legal firm Burges Salmon called us to help with one of their Corporate Finance Network events early in October – The Cleantech Question Time.
In the context of rising fuel costs and an increasing worldwide drive for greener solutions, Cleantech is seen by many as a growth sector where investors have a real opportunity for returns. During the event presentations were to be given by Chris Matthews, Senior Business Development Manager, Renewable Energy Team at the Co-op Bank and comment from our expert panel: James Thomas of ICON Corporate Finance, Andrew Page of Foresight Group, Mark Crosier, CEO of DeepStream Technologies, Phil Nicholas, CEO of Inetec and Peter Horsburgh of the Environmental Technologies Fund.
A panel discussion followed on a wide range of issues raised during the event including: what is meant by ‘cleantech’, the debate over the energy gap, the impact of the credit crunch for cleantech companies seeking funding and their expectations for 2009 and beyond.
Burges Salmon wanted to extend the value seminar by providing podcasts of the presentation and discussions which could then be listened to online or downloaded on to ipod and mp3 players.
Applause recorded the presentations, audience questions and panel responses. The resulting audio files were cleaned and edited the following day and encoded to windows media player and ipod compatible files and delivered via a web hosted facility. Burges Salmon’s IT people then linked to the files on BS website.
Links: Burges Salmon – Cleantech
Tear Fund ‘No Slumber Challenge’ – informational dvd
We have just put together an interactve DVD for ArthurSteenHorneAdamson’s (ASHA) client Tear Fund, a disc capable of being viewed on any platform, PC, Macintosh or TV. It provides an interactive browsable interface to printable pdf information packs and video and is designed to assist all those taking part in the No Slumber Challenge empowering [...]
We have just put together an interactve DVD for ArthurSteenHorneAdamson’s (ASHA) client Tear Fund, a disc capable of being viewed on any platform, PC, Macintosh or TV. It provides an interactive browsable interface to printable pdf information packs and video and is designed to assist all those taking part in the No Slumber Challenge empowering young people to change the future for vulnerable families affected by HIV.
Jazz in Bristol
Following the music theme this month if you are into a bit of Jazz I guess you’re familiar with the Old Duke and the some of the waterfront bar sessions where you can hear some great jazz. The Warmley Jazz Club has now been running for a couple of years and features New Orleans and [...]
Following the music theme this month if you are into a bit of Jazz I guess you’re familiar with the Old Duke and the some of the waterfront bar sessions where you can hear some great jazz.
The Warmley Jazz Club has now been running for a couple of years and features New Orleans and Trad Jazz with musicians from around the south west. Recent guest appearance by Acker Bilk, Henry’s Bootblacks and Ray Bush clarinettist from California have been hilites of an lively and varied programme.
visit www.warmleyjazz.org to see the latest gig list and contact information.
St. Patrick’s Music Group
If you live in and around Bristol and have an interest in music take a look at St. Pat’s Music Group site. They raise money to help local children further their musical talents by arranging musical events four or five times a year. This has been running for a couple of years now and some [...]
If you live in and around Bristol and have an interest in music take a look at St. Pat’s Music Group site. They raise money to help local children further their musical talents by arranging musical events four or five times a year. This has been running for a couple of years now and some of the highlights that come to mind are the Canadian Orpheus Male Voice Choir, the Exultate Singers, The York Waites, guitarist John Byrne and more recently in October Shebeen an Irish folk band.
You can also get involved by becoming a friend of the Music Group or sponsoring an event. Applause sponsored a performance by clarinettist Luca Luciano in February of this year.
The Group’s next event is the UWE Showstoppers. As its name suggests, this group sings its way through some of the all-time great show-stopping songs from Broadway and the West End , including Chicago, Guys and Dolls, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables as well as exciting new shows such as Rent, Wicked, Tick Tick Boom and Taboo – www.uwe.ac.uk/cpa/singing
for more information email info@saintpatricksmusic.co.uk
