Over the last 16 months Jenrick has moved its entire website onto a new, far more innovative, content management system (CMS) provided by their website agency, Solutions Four Impact Limited.

The new CMS has returned a steady increased in traffic over this period and the Jenrick Group now receives in the region of 2,000 unique visits per division every month – this traffic is more than double the figure from when the websites first moved onto the new Infrastructure.

From a job seeker perspective the new website platform is proving very popular. The new job pages are much easier to view and the job search facility is much more powerful.

If you are a job seeker and you wish to search the latest job vacancies available throughout the Jenrick Recruitment Group, please click on the links below:

Jenrick CPI for - IT contact and permanent Jobs throughout the UK and Europe

Jenrick Engineering for - Engineering contact and permanent Jobs throughout the UK

Jenrick Commercial for – Temporary and permanent Jobs throughout Surrey, Middlesex, London, Home Counties and the UK

Jenrick Building for – Building and Construction contact and permanent Jobs

Getting someone who knows what they’re doing  to shout about how great your products and services are is part and parcel of staying successful in business: whether you’re a club in need of pretty posters and flyers or a financial institution requiring a fabulous shiny website.

But who exactly do you choose to do your bigging up and how much does it matter to you whether or not they’re a 100-strong agency with glass-fronted premises in a trendy part of town?

Big changes

“I think at one time if you wanted the best marketing brains trained on your marketing and advertising campaigns then you did have to go to the big name marketing agencies. I’m not sure that that’s necessarily true now. For one thing I think that the internet has given people a lot more flexibility in how they work and it’s pretty common to hear about talented people breaking away from big agencies and setting up their own micro agencies.”

Big names vs big savings

“I think a lot of savvy business people are starting to realise that smaller agencies can deliver too, particularly as they’re often run by the people who made certain big agencies what they were in the first place. And in the current climate micro agencies are pretty attractive to customers because they can offer prices that big agencies can’t match because of their increased overheads and wage bills.”

Flexible working

“Having experienced both set ups, one of biggest differences that I’ve found is that micro agencies can be a lot more flexible in the way they work. They often have staff who work remotely – even dotted around the globe – and are flexible enough to provide customer service right around the clock including weekends.

Clients can often deal directly with the guy who’s designing their website or writing their brochure copy too. With big agencies, clients deal exclusively with  account management staff which can sometimes add another layer of complication into the communication process.”

Trust is a must

“I suppose the main thing has got to be earning the trust of your customers though and that’s true of both huge established agencies and micro agencies. Once you’ve had good work from someone you’re likely to go back for more regardless of whether they’ve got fancy premises and 100 staff or not.”

What do you think?

Have your say by submitting a comment below – we’d really appreciate your viewpoint. . . . .

The goal – to create the largest Conga on Ice.

Queens Ice & Bowl, want as many people as possible on the ice rink at one time to create the largest Conga ever.

So, if you have ever wanted to be a part of a Guinness World Record attempt, then this is your chance.

First time skaters are welcome and you can hire skates from Queens.

Check in begins at 7pm with the World Record attempt taking place at just after 8pm.

For more details, please visit the Queens website: Queens Ice & Bowl or go to You are the Link.

Finder Monkey is a fresh and intuitive website that is already proving very easy to use with customers. Our client is already commenting on the number of positive responses they have received regarding the design and navigation.

With regards to the Finder Monkey services, they are also proving extremely popular.

Most people have lost relations, relatives, friends and colleagues. Services such as Friends Reunited and Linked In can only take you so far in your search before you reach a dead-end.

So, when that happens what do you do?

That’s when you can run a Google search for ‘people finder services’ (or similar) and you will find companies such as Finder Monkey.

From there you can contact them, give them as many details as possible about the person you are searching for and then let them conduct their people finding services and solutions.

Finder Monkey also provides a number of other useful services, including; unregistered land ownership searches and also business customer debt tracing services.

We hope you like the site and if you have any questions about the website and its design, please get in contact with us.

Sales & Marketing Director of Econogard, summed up how the relationship with Solutions Four had evolved:

“It’s a great story. When we began working together both of our businesses were in very different places back then and its been a pleasure to see how we have grown with Solutions Four.

We are now a much bigger operator within the DDA Building Compliance & Corporate Fire and Risk Assessment sector, having helped many businesses with understanding the legislation associated within such complex processes.

I am happy to say that Solutions Four have played an important part in this development. They have built, managed, advised and constantly developed our website. This has enabled us to develop a much stronger online presence – something we utilise constantly within our business development.

We have been so pleased with the results so far that we are now investing in moving our website onto ‘Slugger’ – the new and most powerful CMS platform offered by Solutions Four.

Our goal by investing in the new website platform is to really help us target our Search Engine Optimisation far more effectively – actively canvassing search terms as;  DDA Building Compliance, Corporate Fire & Risk Assessment, Building Consultancy, to name just a few.

The CMS will also give us much greater control over the website, enabling us to upload new news stories on the same day – this is particularly useful when there are changes to Corporate Building Legislation, as our clients wish to know about this immediately.

For more details, please visit the Econogard website or contact Solutions Four to see how our services can assist your business.

The first gig is on November the 27, so if you fancy a night of incredible food, brought to you by the chefs at the World Famous Little Italy Restaurant in Soho, as well as a night with The Leo Green Experience, then be sure to call up and book your tickets.

Please go to our website and send us an email if you would like tickets. Just use the following link: http://www.theleogreenexperience.com/contact

Be sure to go over and say hi to Leo and the team and let them know if you found out about their gig via the web!

If you have any problems contacting Leo via his website, don’t hesitate to contact us at: http://www.solutionsfour.co.uk/contact-solutions-four

Leo asked us to mention his show on our blog and website to keep anyone linked with Solutions Four up to date with his latest news.

He also mentioned for you to send in your favourite Jazz requests to the show (mentioning that you saw the article on the Solutions Four site) and he’ll try his best to play them. . . and even get you on air!!!!!

For a bit of a taste of Leo Green’s Jazz, visit the audio and visual pages on the website: http://www.theleogreenexperience.com/hire-soul-band

As always, any questions, give us a call via our website: www.solutionsfour.co.uk

For those of you that have not seen The Leo Green Experience for yourself, please take a moment to visit the website (you’ll love it!): http://www.theleogreenexperience.com/

So, if you are looking for a great night out in London where you can listen to some of the best Jazz available, please consider going to see Leo and the Band at Dover Street.

Dover Street Bar & Restaurant Gigs:

November
8 – Dover Street Bar
12 - Dover Street Bar
15 – Private jazz booking in Brighton
27 - Nolita Supper Club
29 - Dover Street Bar

December
2 - Dover Street Bar
12 - Wedding in London
16 -  Dover Street Bar

Solutions Four Impact designed and currently manage The Leo Green Experience Website and are also involved with several other aspects of the Group’s marketing. For more details, please visit our website at: www.solutionsfour.co.uk.

OK, a CMS is simply a database that sits behind your website, that you (as the user) can access (via the Internet), by going to a website address and entering a password.

Once you have logged into this area, you will then see a list of the pages you have on your website. From here you will be able to go into your pages and edit the content, which, when saved, will immediately change your website.

For business owners this gives you several massive benefits:

• urgent business  / marketing decisions can be implemented immediately (such as menu price changes)
• no more charges from your web designer for making simple content changes
• no waiting for typo’s or errors to be corrected – everything can be changed instantly
• changes can be made when you want them to and can be scheduled when you need them

Good website content management systems also offer several features that can improve your rankings in the search engines (eg. Google). These include:

• the ability to individually title your website pages
• the ability to customise your url extensions (website addresses)
• the option to add specific page intro information you want the search engines to display
• new pages that are automatically added to an XML sitemap

Remember, just because you have access to a CMS it does not mean you have to take on all the burden of updating the website yourself. Share the responsibility with other people in your business or your website team – this is another benefit in that website CMS’s are so easy to use that several people can all chip in and help.

Overall, content management systems should be a must for anyone investing in a new website. With the speed of modern business it is essential that you have complete control over as much of your advertising and marketing as possible.

Next steps and further sources of information:

Would you like to see a demonstration of our Website Content Management System?  We will gladly come to your business and explain the benefits in more detail.

Would you like our team to evaluate your current website?  We offer free website evaluations and will gladly help you understand how effective your current website is.

Would you like us to quote for a new website for your business?  We would welcome the opportunity to meet with you and discuss a range of website options that would be available for you.

A simple reason really - if people are searching for companies that design websites in the UK, that’s what they search for on Google, Yahoo or any other other search engine, which makes this the phrase we want to be found under and associated with.

That’s why we sign off our websites with ‘Web Design UK’ to help anyone searching for suppliers within this arena find our company.

Subsequently, if they click on the link and go through to our website they will be able to click on countless examples of websites we have designed within the UK; flash driven, CMS driven, e-commerce, RSS, movies and multi-media - there are ample for them to view and gain a good indication as to the quality of our work.

Key links & further sources of information:

Solutions for Impact website - web design UK

Portfolio - websites designed by Solutions Four Impact

Contact - contact details for further information