Happy New Year to all our readers and customers!
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 We
have an exciting announcement to make - starting in mid February,
our new project manager will be joining the team.
After Lucy's departure last year, we have found it difficult to
replace her with someone who had the same level of skills - we
needed someone that was equally great with customers and management
aswell as a comprehensive knowledge of web.
Our new recruit is top secret, and we can't reveal who it is,
under any circumstances....well....OK, its none other,
than Lucy herself!
That's right, Lucy has decided to come back to Studio
2 Online, to further improve our customer service, and ensure
your projects run smoothly and efficiently.
Lucy will be onboard starting mid February, but please
continue to use Giles as your main point of contact whilst Lucy
settles in. Lucy will gradually be in contact with clients to
resume as the primary contact.
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| Launched
just before Christmas, Studio 2 redeveloped the Tony Holmes
Cars website, incorporating a new system, working in a
similar way to the AutoTrader website.
Users can now quickly search through current stock, and
view a selection of images for each car.
Importantly, the backend administration system allows
the staff at Tony Holmes to update their site with the
latest cars, including the upload of the images. This
way the stock remains completely current. The intuitive
system was built for rapid administration, through simple
interfaces.
"Our new Tony Holmes
Cars website give us an interactive and competitive edge
ahead of our competitors.Thanks to the whole team at studio
2 online for all the help and support you carry on giving
us."
Charles Cain, Tony Holmes Cars
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Our man Giles (middle)
receiving the award. |
A little bit
of trumpet blowing, Studio 2 have been awarded "Most Developed
Business of 2005" by ABC
Training at their annual awards ceremony held late in December.
Studio 2 took part in their "Business
Booster" programme last year, and found ABC's advice
and guidance absolutely invaluable in expanding and developing
our own business.
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 Always
looking at ways to improve our efficiency and service, we have
leapfrogged over our current Customer Management systems, Goldmine
and Issueview, and updated with Sage’s impressive CRM system.
We will be using this as an improved information centre to each
of our clients, where we log all details, logins, emails and calls
etc. How this will benefit you, as in the future you will be able
to check the status of your project, your own website addresses
and logins, and also automatically renew any services such as
web hosting, online.
We will of course keep you up to speed as we improve and
expand on the system.
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| Eagerly awaited from some of our clients,
who were still recovering from last year’s Slalom
Racer, our new Christmas flash game was launched
during the last week before Christmas to some frantic
rivalry across our clients and friends. We adhered to
the simple philosophy of "simple but addictive"
which has now seen a scoreboard rack up to over 5,000
entries. Thanks for playing!
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Extracts
taken from www.imrg.org
Consumers embraced internet shopping
en masse at Christmas, as half the adult population clicked online
for some - and in many cases for all of their shopping.
Internet shopping soared almost 50% during the 10-week
run up to Christmas 2005. Shoppers spent £5 (£4.98)
billion online, compared with £3.33 billion during the same
period in 2004
IMRG's MD Jo Tucker commented:
"A step change happened
in retailing at Christmas. Consumers have spoken. They want the
convenience and choice that online shopping provides. Many just
don't have time to trudge the streets hoping goods are in stock.
There can no longer be any doubt that the internet is a major
part of the retail landscape, and that it will dominate the retail
agenda for the next several years."
IMRG forecasts that UK e-retail will grow 36% in 2006,
and sales will be worth £26 billion for
the calendar year. Shoppers will each spend on average more than
£1,000 for the first time in 2006.
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TIME OUT ------
How many band names can you see? (there are
74!)
http://ad-rag.com/ |
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Studio 2 Online
Ltd
Cathedral Chambers
2 Peacock Lane
Leicester
LE1 5PX
Tel:
0870 837 0086
Fax:
0870 837 0087
Web:
www.s2o.co.uk |
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