Ready For the Big Move

Tuesday sees the move to the Wilton Centre, Redcar. New PC arrived, new router, new printer, some other bits and bobs and probably a load of stuff I should have bought or arranged but haven't! Electrical testing arranged for any older bits going in to the office.

So still to finish asap:

1. The new website - too busy creating websites for clients as we get paid for that
2. Arranging induction for our new staff member
3. Checking all the visa stuff for our new staff member
4. VAT registration - get a move on Mr Accountant
5. Changing the company registered address to the Wilton Centre - see number 4
6. ... and probably sorting out a new accountant, see numbers 4 and 5

A Busy Week

A round up of the week shows how much time and effort is needed to get the new business branded and ready for full lauch. The last week has seen us:

• Attend a PR workshop - very informative and useful
• Set up the new business bank accounts at Lloyds TSB
• Arranged for taking card payments via Lloyds TSB but whilst they're happy to take my money for the bank account their cards section "don't do businesses with companies like yours" - cheeky **********s
• Turned down the offer of insurance & various policies from Lloyds TSB insurance section - I told them "I don't do business with companies like theirs"
• Produce new artwork for the ltd company's printed materials
• Get inducted into Wilton Centre for the office move next week
• Create a number of fact sheets for marketing purposes
• Work on our own new re-branded website (not sure this will be completed in time)
• Swapped insurance to the new company
• Attempted to swap mobile phone contract to new company - but that's not going well
• Loads of legal paperwork for corporation tax, VAT, etc (better send a cheque to my accountant)

We've also had some work we get paid for:

• Completed most of a dating site, just waiting for the final bits from our client, http://www.luvpod.co.uk
• Completed a budget website for a therapist, http://www.cctherapy.co.uk
• Management of Google Adwords account for a client
• SEO work on a number of sites
• Updated products on http://www.awrplant.co.uk as part of our site management package
• Transferred the hosting of http://www.redcarrooms.co.uk to us and have agreed to transfer some other sites from the same owner plus create some microsites on their behalf and a little bit of e-marketing
• Met with a young entrepreneur to be via the Experience Bank and offered some free help to start up with a view to a longer term commercial relationship.

Still managed to watch the Rugby World Cup final and Middlesbrough U16s pretending to be Middlesbrough U17s (but better) in the Yorkshire RFU top division. Also sneaked in a winning game of chess for Middlesbrough one evening.

Much better than being bored!

New Company, New Website

On 01 Nov 2011, TeesADS becomes Tad Web Solutions Ltd and moves to The Wilton Centre, Redcar, As a web design company we couldn't make his change without a completely new website to go with the launch of the new company - so here's a sneak preview: