Blogware to Wordpress - Telemarketing

Posted on March 2011 in Articles

We’re just transferred the blog of telemarketing company Broadley Speaking to Wordpress. Previously on Blogware meant the telemarketing company was missing out on the wonderful features of Wordpress including automatic sitemap submission, so each time the Wordpress blog is updated search engines will be notified of the change to the page. Other features include better search engine URL’s and indexing.

Wordpress continues to grow in features and popularity. It can be used to develop a blog or a brilliant CMS.

For more information on Broadley Speaking  telemarketing services

Telemarketing Site Map

• Telemarketing, telesales & lead generation - home of Broadley Speaking
• Telemarketing, Telesales and Lead Generation
  • Telemarketing, telesales and lead generation - B2B Experts in communications
  • Telemarketing - our unique approach to telemarketing
  • Telesales - creating sales opportunities
  • Lead Generation - understanding lead generation
  • Appointment Setting - setting appointments
  • Seminar Exhibition Invite - generating interest for seminar and exhibition
  • Database profiling & Validation - accurate targeted data
  • Customer and Market Research - understanding your client needs
  • Virtual Territory Management - making the most of your market
  • Sales Traininig - the key to successful selling
  • Marketing Consultancy - something else?
• Why choose our telemarketing, telesales and lead generation services
  • Why Choose Us - so why our telemarketing services?
  • Partnership - committed to communication
  • Cost Efficiency - making every call count not counting every call
  • Data Management Reporting - start with the end in mind
  • Bespoke Solutions - Seqmenting to one
  • Individual Experience - experience the difference
  • Continuous Improvement Quality - investing in people matters
  • FAQs - telemarketing and telesales tips
• Telemarketing and telesales experience
  • Our experience - telemarketing and telesales experience
  • Client experience - case studies in telemarketing and telesales
  • Sector experience -
  • Somar - lead generation / appointment setting
  • KallKwik - lead generation / appointment setting
  • BishopFleming - business development and appointment setting
  • DartValley - telemarketing / appointment setting
  • Enterprise - lead generation and appointment setting
  • IS5
  • Mil-tek
  • LDL
  • Datanomic Telemarketing and lead generation
  • AIG
  • selling
  • selling_professional_services
  • selling_training_services
  • selling_IT_services
• People
  • People - the original Broadley team
  • Meet the team - meet the team
  • Office location - office location
• Recruitment
  • jobs_at_broadleyspeaking - investor in people
• Telemarketing_Questions
  • 21 Questions - interviews with sales professionals

Random CSS background for Wordpress theme

Posted on February 2011 in Articles

I’ve just been searching to find the best way to randomly change the header background image for my Wordpress theme and couldn’t believe some of the complex solutions I found, whilst browsing some mind blowing over engineered ideas I realised you just need to do this…

 <div id=”header” style=”background-image: url(<?php bloginfo(’stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/<?php echo (”headerimg”.rand(0,4).”.jpg”)?>)” ;>

The above solutions just checks the images/ folder of your theme for 5 images headerimg1.jpg, headerimg2.jpg, headerimg3.jpg, etc etc.

Downe Arms Hotel, Scarborough new website underway!

Posted on February 2011 in News

Great news, we’ve just been comissioned to develop the new website for the wonderful Downe Arms Hotel in Wykeham Scarborough. The hotel continues to undergo superb refurbishment and was recently awarded four stars.

BT Broadband sales pitch -hhmmm

Posted on February 2011 in Articles

BT Customer service

4DW have relocated their business to Wykeham in Scarborough, since we are a web site design company we need the Internet. The first thing we did is ask around the village to find out just how good (or bad) the Internet speed was, the response was as we expected, fairly slow around 1.5Mbit/s. Our next step was to call BT to sort our telephone line and whilst were already talking to BT we enquired about broadband speed, the response was “10Mbit/s to 15Mbit/s”, which of course is rubbish considering how far we are from the exchange and the fact that we had already talked to people. We asked them if they could guarantee that! The response was as expected “No!”.

Simply by doing online tests and talking to people, it was very annoying knowing that BT are up-selling a service. If you didn’t know just how this type of broadband service worked and you talked to BT with a promise (not a guarantee) of fast Internet you would be tied in to a contract for at least 12 months and have a disappointed service.

If you need broadband then you put up with the speed, you don’t have a choice, if BT could make it faster then they would, that’s not the point. Not telling people the facts when you’re enquiring about a service is just wrong.

The flip side of customer service from Zen Internet

Some weeks ago I contacted Zen Internet, I know they used to do a 1 month rolling contract so I rang them and they still do! I gave them our postcode and phone number and the response was “you’re quite far from the exchange, you’ll be lucky to get a maximum of 2Mbit/s”, I knew that! BT the people who put the service together apparently DIDN’T.

With some much advertising from BT broadband and Talk Talk, I think people are forgetting just how many other companies provide the broadband service, yes BT have to install it, but you don’t need to know that. A company such as Zen Internet provide a fantastic service, ok the broadband speed depends where you live and that can’t be changed, but as Harry Hill would say “FIGHT” the Zen Internet customer service would win every time and without lying.

We’re getting super fast wireless broadband!

The Wykeham estate where the Scarborough web design office is located will soon be getting at least 10Mbit/s connection delivered over wifi. The connection speed is set to increase over time but for now we are very happy.

Website design in Scarborough set to expand!

Posted on January 2011 in News

New office gets planning permission!

Great news for website design Scarborough, 4DW this week as we have been granted planning permission for our new office. They’ll be converting part of the old reading rooms in Wkyeham, Scarborough for our new office.

This is very exciting news for us as the additional space will mean we’ll be able to run workshops for Dreamweaver training, website workshops and how to market your website.

We’ll also be looking to employee a part-time graphic designer.

The new office should be ready in May so watch this space!

Website for Plymouth Health & Safety Company

Posted on October 2010 in Latest websites

Greenlight safety consultancy ltd choose Four Degrees West to develop the companies first website.

Greenlight are qualified health & safety consultants in Plymouth, the company covers:

Health & Safety Management

Whether you are a small, medium or large organisation Greenlight Safety Consultancy has a range of services to suit every organisation.

Contractor Assessments

For organisations who are outsourcing works to specialist contractors we are able to relieve you of the burden of the CDM Core Criteria stage 1 assessments.

Fire Safety

Greenlight are independent specialist fire risk assessors who are competent to assist you in managing your fire safety responsibilities

Health & Safety Training

Providing health & safety training courses for your employees will help you protect them against work related injury and illness…

Your best marketing tool for just a £1 a day!

Posted on September 2010 in Articles

In most cases a website is your best marketing tool, promoting your business 24 hours a day 7 days a week all around the world, that kind of marketing isn’t available anywhere else is it?

Website prices vary, I’ve heard people pay just £250 to anywhere around six figures, but on average a good company will charge on around £1500 - £3000, now bear in mind, a good well developed website can last around 4 years that works out about a £1.00 a day! It’s easy to see that getting a return of your investment shoudn’t take very long.

How do we know that a good website lasts around 4 years? Well, we’ve been running Four Degrees West website design services for 8 years now and we’re still running the same websites we created 4 years ago and they’re still driving business to most of those customers.

If you’re thinking of having a website price is obviously a factor but quality, design and developed (make sure your web design company meets W3C standards) should come first, your website will stand the test of time and should help your business grow for several years.

For free advice about creating a long term website for your company please contact me: andy@fourdegreeswest.co.uk

Time to Toggl.com one brilliant time keeping application

Posted on September 2010 in Articles

The company has been using Toggl for several weeks now and we’re so impressed we had to say something.

Toggl is a timekeeping application, you simply create a project and assign a client, then with just a couple of clicks time spent on the project is recorded. What’s more Toggl comes with a desktop application that actually tracks if you’re working on your computer, for example when you nip to the toliet (restroom) the client clock could still be running but Toggl sees that you’ve stop working and asks whether that last 10mins (while in the toliet) needs to be recorded. With simple well thought out basic configuration means that Toggl really does help keep a accurate account of time spent of a client project. Each client project takes less than 10secs setting up the Toggl.

To find out more about the wonderful Toggl -  https://www.toggl.com

Don’t bother to optimise your website, optimise your company…

Posted on June 2010 in Articles, News

I’ve just had another email exchange regarding missing meta tags such as keywords, and having to explain that it will help putting these things right, but they’re still not going to get a top 20 listing.

Although you could probably say that the majority of websites don’t contain the right page content keywords, descriptions, header etc. etc. that would still leave a minority which would still leave a few million!

So, with the majority out of the way and you’re only (sarcasm) left with a few million competitors you’ll stand very little chance of hitting that top 20 natural listing (anywhere before page 3), so just forget it and try and concentrate on optimising the company.

Time to tell the world how successfully you were this month, how many exports you generated, maybe there is a new member of staff this month, or it could be you’ve just decorated your hotel room. You need to join the network of news or social media, there are people around the world who want to know about your company, so spread the word by creating interesting articles, create a company Facebook account, get Linkedin and get tweeting.

A cheap budget website is false economy, just don’t bother…

Posted on May 2010 in Articles

I’ve just spent half a day (around 4 hours), making sure a fairly large website has the correct keywords, descriptions and relevant page content so that hopefully our customer will beneifit from search engine optimisation. The new website replaces an old website which is already established in Google and other search engines, so I also recreated a function called a RewriteRule which tells Google for example that the old page is no longer there but to send people to the new page. That way current search results still appear to be valid.

Spending half a day just on the background development of a website areas not seen by the public is just a small part of what some companies don’t bother with, that’s why we are sorry to say that we can’t create budget websites, we like to create websites that will hopefully work for our customers thus giving them a return of investment, rather than just throwing money away find a company that will help you get the most from your site, getting a return on your investment is the key to success and when it pays for itself it doesn’t get much cheaper than that.