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Discounted websites from Asteroid
RTS client, Jack Shreeve, is doing well with his venture Asteroid Web Design - one recent client, TM-developments, a japanese car parts importer, have turned over £200,000 in the e-commerce store he developed for them.
As a thank you for the help and support provided by the Ready to Start project, Jack is now offering his services at a substantial discount to any other RTS client, including developing a website for start up businesses from £50.
To find out more and see examples of the some of the work that he’s done, contact Jack on 07789 598 374 or visit Asteroid Web Design at http://www.asteroidweb.com/ .
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Asteroid Web Design |
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Inspire to Aspire
A conference hosted by RTS client Jayne Dore for people with Asperger Syndrome
Monday 5th October 09
At the Showroom Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX
9.30 - 4pm
For more details click here: asperger_conference
To book a place click here: asperger-conference-booking-form
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link to andrew hoare’s market research survey
Click here to take our Online Survey
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Help withMarket Research Survey
Hi
I am posting my market research survey here on the ready to start blog, because i still need to determine whether there is a potentional market for my business.
my business idea is to provide a platform on the internet via an e commerce website that links togother people who to buy and sell disability aids at discounted prices.
I would extreamely grateful if other ready to start Entrepreneurs could complete the enclosed short market research survey.
Thanks Andrew Hoare
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Woman Aloud stars at the roundhouse theatre
Tracy is Woman Aloud
You may recall Tracy De Gietelink’s posting back in March?
http://readytostart.rowan.tincan.co.uk/?p=415
Well she’s on the road again, this time in staring in the Roundhouse Theatre, Dover Discovery Centre, Dover on Friday 24th July, at 10am, continuing her one-woman show of information, advice and humour.
In her own words:
This Health & Safety issue is relevant to you, your family, your colleagues and your friends.
With respect, for your information and wellbeing,
1 in 12 people worldwide has hepatitis B or C… I am number 12. Luckily for all those people in my work, social and family circle, , because I know that I carry the Hepatitis C virus … they are safe. (more…)
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Why does your business need an effective Website?
Currently an estimated 17 million UK Households have internet access and countless businesses today have an internet site meaning more and more business is done online.
So should you be worried about the growth and increased usage of the internet? Well, all the information available suggests that if you are not spending time on setting up or improving your website, your competitors certainly will be and the chances are that sooner or later you will lose business as the usage of the internet grows.
The biggest issue I face when searching out new customers to build my small (but perfectly formed) Web Design business is people’s perception of their web presence. Many businesses now attend web design courses for a day or two and then proceed to develop a website. After publishing their wonderful site onto the World Wide Web (don’t hear that in full so often these days I feel) they sit back and the website is left to gather Virtual Cobwebs maybe updated annually! To them it’s the best thing since sliced bread; it’s a tick in the box, job done and cheap to as they did it themselves! So when I tactfully highlight any issues or make development suggestions, my views are not always welcomed.
Creating, developing and maintaining an effective website (effective being the keyword there) is a time consuming task and that’s a fact! So if you are developing your own website is that really the best use of your valuable time? There is obviously a cost involved by getting somebody else to help but surely there is a cost as far as your own very valuable time spent too?
Ask yourself why would people come to your web site?
Does it offer them interesting, up to date and useful information relevant to your business? If not, why would they come to you and not go to your competitors? On the Internet today content is most definitely King so long as it’s well written and relevant.
In short Effective Websites:-
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have relevant content and lots of it
- have a good clear style
- are well structured
- are easy to navigate around
- use relevant quality images
- only have relevant links
- can be easily found by customers
- work as hard as you do in developing your business
So how can a business afford not to have an effective well managed online presence? Especially when your competitors are increasing their business and profits by developing their own effective websites.
Roly Harrison -
RTBH Web Design Services - (extremely competitive rates for RTS members - just ask!)
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Hear and now
Dear Colleagues,
A few nights ago I decided to stay up to watch “Hear and Now”, an award-winning documentary about an American Deaf couple who, after a lifetime of living with deafness decide to get a Cochlea Implant (CI) at the age of 65. I wished I had seen this documentary 30 years ago, and perhaps many issues that affected me growing up with deafness might have been better understood and accepted.
Read all about it at:
http://blog.wideaware.co.uk/archive/20/hear-and-nowAnd, if you feel like commenting please do so on at the bottom of the article. I would be very grateful if would forward this to all those you feel would like to read it.
Thank you, all the best.
Maria
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Food fit for a prince!
Hi all,
I just I want to share some good news with you and to let you know of one of my biggest achievement to date. It is fair to say that I have been given so many opportunities and have had many life changing experiences however, this is the greatest one so far. I know I am going on and you must be wondering what it could be so here it is!
Last week not only did I cater for Prince Phillip but I got to meet him in person and have a laugh with him. Can you imagine me Adrian Carter got to rub shoulders with royalty!!
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Woman Aloud - the C in me
Tracy de Gietelink
Pierced earrings, tweezers, tattoos, body piercings, toothbrush, the metal teeth on a cling film box… my blood is highly infectious, but everyone around me is safe… because I know I carry the virus and I make things safe. Approximately 20% of sufferers in this country know they are infected - that leaves 80% gaily unaware, and therefore not taking appropriate precautions.
My goal, pure and simple, is to raise awareness of Hepatitis C. Once you understand the virus you can take simple, yet life saving steps/precautions to prevent cross-infection - either way.
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Make Your Business Succeed event London Thursday 12 March
Make your Business Succeed Thursday 12 March 2009 This is a one-day conference for people with a disability who are interested in setting up a business or working for themselves, run by the British Library Business & IP Centre and Leonard Cheshire Disability. The event includes a tailored programme of workshops and one-to-one advice sessions to help you get started. It will give you an overview of the different aspects of running a business which you need to be aware of, and the opportunities and support available to you, such as the Ready to Start programme. You will have the chance to network and make contact with like-minded people with similar aspirations and concerns. You might also find potential customers, business partners and suppliers. Bring business cards and leaflets advertising your own business. There will be display space for you. During the event you can attend a workshop and have a one-to-one advice session with business and information experts from the British Library, Business Link for London, HM Revenue & Customs and the Ready to Start programme, which will give you the chance to ask specific questions and gain expert advice. Jobcentre Plus will be giving advice about in-work benefits and how they can help you make the transition from benefits to work. |
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