First Week In Wilton Centre Over

We moved into The Wilton Centre on Tuesday 1st November and have been impressed with the staff, facilities and services in there - it looks like a good move. We've arranged induction there for Manoj, our new Web Developer, on Thursday and if all goes well he should start with us the following week - looking forward to having him with us.

Manoj will initially be working with me on a new business idea from a young entrepreneur based in Tyneside. We can't reveal details yet but this young man has a very promising idea and we're offering a bit of free, yes that is free, support to help him create a prototype and use it to get investment. We're great believers in helping out people with new ideas - so if you fit that bill, get in touch!

Saturday saw us with our first ever exhibition stand to coincide with the first week as a "new" business - Tad Web Solutions Ltd which only fully launched with the office move. The Start Your Business event at the Thistle Hotel Middlesbrough seemed to be  big success and we've got a number of follow up calls to make with a number of people looking to set up sound businesses locally plus follow ups with a couple of potentially large businesses that are still at a very early stage. Really exciting projects in the pipeline form the event plus looking at ways to help out someone who has a bad experience with another web design company - hopefully we can do something to help them out.

We also met up with some people from other companies we may be able to partner with in some work plus some direct competitors - and all were top, friendly people it was a pleasure to meet.

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:

Web Design for Power-Flushed.co.uk Teesside

We have just completed a new website for power-flushed.co.uk, the central heating power flushing arm of a local plumbing firm based in Teesside, North-East England. This company offers power flushing of central heating systems to clear out sludge and scale thus improving the efficiency of your central heating (and hopefully saving you a few quid into the bargain).

This site is a simple bespoke design created on a budget for a local company. We offer special rates for Teesside companies so why not give us a call on 07739 408645 or visit our website at www.teesads.co.uk.

SEO for Pest Control Surrey

We have just carried out an initial analysis for a Surrey Pest Control company who provide pest control services in Guildford, Godalming, Cranleigh, Haslemere, Horsham and throughout Surrey. We have a one year contract for hosting and SEO services with them and hope to build up a mutually beneficial relationship with the company and design a new website for them in the near future. 


On the CD Player: Orff

Website SEO

We have been analysing the search engine performance of 3 of our newer SEO clients today.

It is the second month of stats for AWR Plant (who sell used industrial plant such as spray booths, powder coating, etc). The site has doubled traffic over the last month but there's always room for improvement and we're not one of those companies who just throws in a couple of meta tags and a few keywords (you know who mean).

It is the first month of stats for AC Shooting School (clay pigeon shooting in Hampshire, Devon, Dorset) and DAC Loftspace (Loft and Garage Conversions Oxfordshire) so we are just getting a feel of what has worked well and what needs some concentrated effort.

All our SEO clients get monthly statistics reports and detailed quarterly analysis and updates of theior SEO content. New SEO clients get monthly analysis in the first quarter as we gather data on how their  site is performing for the first months.