www.hullweddingfair.co.uk has provided each of it’s exhibitors with around 300 qualified leads over the last year.

Each exhibitor is unique in their category on the site and is a sent copy of leads on the same day they are sourced.

This system has two main benefits

The suppliers are not in competition with each other

Potential clients are not swamped with responses

• These highly targeted LOCAL leads are generated almost entirely by organic search engine traffic [80%]
• Visitors view an average of 3 to 4 pages on the site
• Visitors spend around 3 minutes browsing on the site, with some spending considerably more.
• Our Google search history shows that during an average month surfers find us with an average of more than 170 different, yet related key phrases

In 2012 we are expanding our reach and will be setting up sites across the Yorkshire region – a total of 14 weddingfair sites are planned for the coming months

BEVERLEY is up and running  already, with the York site coming online  within the next 10 days – others to follow in quick succession .

We are always keen to have new suppliers on board and whilst quite a few categories are already taken on the Hull website, the launch of the new sites provides more opportunities for Wedding Industry professionals to join us

Guide to Costs:
Current rates on the Hull site are
Set up fee £55
Monthly rate: £10

Based on last years ACTUAL figures for the HULL site we feel this represents excellent ROI with a typical qualified lead costing each supplier under 60p.
Although there are no guarantees in any kind of online marketing, I am confident that our new ventures will soon start to provide similar value for our online partners

Please call or email me for more details

Just finished updating the stats for this weeks meeting – the BCC group goes from strength to strength! The Group has passed 1101 Referrals in the last year!

see www.dropinforbusiness.org.uk for details

December 15th Meeting

The BCC Website at www.dropinforbusiness.org.uk has just been updated with today’s meeting info

Meeting Report

December 8th Meeting
32 attended
31 members
01 Visitors
17 Apologies
0 Absent
23 Business Opps Passed
49 Active Group Members

Todays Meeting: Just completed the updates for www.dropinforbusiness.org.uk

Meeting Report

November 24th Meeting
32 attending
29 Members
03 Visitors
16 Apologies
0 Absent
37 Business Opps Passed
45 Active Group Members

Just updated the meeting report for The BCC networking group at http://www.dropinforbusiness.org.uk

November 17th Meeting
27 attending
26 Members
1 Visitors
19 Apologies
0 Absent
27 Business Opps Passed
45 Active Group Members

“Veni, Vidi, Vici”   ( “I came, I saw, I conquered” ) is a famous Latin sentence reportedly written by Julius Caesar in 47 BC as a comment on his short war with Pharnaces II of Pontus in the city of Zela (currently known as Zile, in Central Turkey)

As a phrase it has stood the test of time and no doubt would have made a great SMS text message – concise, pithy and under 140 characters  – but unfortunately the only blackberry available to him at the time would have been growing on bushes!

Using the best methods available to him – Caesar would probably have been be able to get his three famous words back to Rome in weeks, rather than days. And a reply of course would have taken around the same time.

Today of course we have much faster methods at our disposal – but guess what?

That doesn’t always work to our advantage!

For example did you realise that when a surfer lands on your home page you have just 7 seconds to get your message across to them?

According to a well respected survey done in 2009, that’s the average time it takes for her to decide whether or not your site is the one she wants. 7 Seconds!

If you haven’t got the message across by then, your potential clients could well be saying
I came, I saw, I left.

So not only do you need to be on page one of Google – which 90% of my clients are by the way – you also need to be getting the right message across too!

I’m always looking for new clients who understand the value of getting the right message to the right person at the right time!

On this day in 1871 one of the longest world wide searches came to an end.

It culminated in a handshake between two men in the vilage of Ujiji on the banks of Lake Tanganyka and has gone down in history because of the greeting used upon their meeting.

‘Dr Livingstone I presume?’ are the now famous words that the Welsh reporter Henry Morton Stanley used upon that occasion.

It had taken Stanley almost two years to find Livingstone, having been commissioned in 1869 by The New York Herald to find Livingstone.

His team had struggled through some of the most arduous territory in Africa and many of them had died on the journey.

He eventually completed his mission on November 10th 1871

Don’t be hard to find for your customers, prospects and leads!

Don’t let them struggle to find you!

90% of our clients are found within two minutes – because they’re on Page One of Google.

Call me for free advice on how we can help you get found too.

Just completed the meeting report for the BCC website at www.dropinforbusiness.org.uk The group goes from strength to strength – pretty much standing room only at the meeting this morning!

November 3rd Meeting
37 attending
32 Members
05 Visitors
15 Apologies
0 Absent
28 Business Opps Passed
47 Active Group Members

Google are rolling out their new look this morning to selected Gmail users – I’m one of them! it’s nothing to be frightened of:) The new interface is clean and modern and offers more functionality too. Take a look at the new features here

https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/newlook.html

If you don’t already use Gmail but would like to get started -[Believe me it's miles ahead of any other email system] – Why not give me a call? 07950 232926