On Thursday 13th we had two important visitors. First in was Simon, the MD of the Agile Group, for a meeting and we are building a good working relationship his company which is significantly larger than ours. We were then interrupted mid-meeting by Baroness Hanham, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government. We have a few great photos on Facebook with many thanks to Hickson Photography for taking them and sending them to us. Myself and Simon didn't even know the first one was being taken but looks more like a typical, posed, website stock photo under the "business" tag than any I've ever seen.
In the last week Matt has been in the office as it's Volunteering Week at College and as we run the Palace FM web presence for free and are having a charity month where we donate 20% of the value of new contracts to Teesside Hospice Matt helped us with that. On Monday he did an interview on the Raw pm show on Palace FM giving his views on the brilliant Palace Hub Gallery. I challenged him to use the word juxtaposition in his interview which he managed with great professionalism. The following day I filled in on the Business Brunch show on Palace FM as a late fill in for a no-show guest. Carl who hosts the show is a top bloke with a strong (or so it sounds to us Teessiders) West Country accent so Matt challenged me to get a pirate reference in - we are both fan of Chris Pakham's use of song titles on Springwatch. Luckily I managed to get in "crow's nest" in my interview on my web design business.
As I have mentioned one gallery I really need to mention another. The Python Gallery in Middlesbrough (at the back of the Bongo) has just opened an exhibition by Ian "Lucky" Luck of Rock and Rollabilia called Groundbreakers and Earthshakers. Anyone who is into real music rather than the drivel of X-factor, The Voice, etc. and wants to see the great history of music on Teesside should get along to the exhibition and visit the shop in the Redcar Beacon. I went to the private viewing of the exhibition on Friday and loved it.
And what of the business plans? Redcar and Cleveland Council are great at helping small businesses looking to grow and we have had Stephen Gibson of the BE Group working with us over a couple of months to help us work out what we are doing, where we want to be, what we need to do and change to get there, etc. Whilst I like Stephen I have to say I would have preferred THE Steve Gibson but he probably doesn't have the time. We aim to concentrate a lot of effort on growing our more complex, data driven web work including web based applications and use my expertise in database design and systems design and programming to develop a base of larger and more prestigious clients. We recently have moved into this market and should shortly have an opportunity to get some publicity to back this up. Stephen has been a great help in developing the plan and the underlying systems to make this happen. Thanks Stephen.
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