Sparticle Limited - News http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:47:14 UTC en hourly 1 Another Great Website Plugin Created: Sparttestimonials http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2010/03/another-great-website-plugin-created-sparttestimonials.htm Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:47:57 UTC Mark Zaretti http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2010/03/another-great-website-plugin-created-sparttestimonials.htm We're pleased to announce the creation of another Spartplugin which can be added to our clients sites. This one is called "Sparttestimonials" and as it's name suggests it allows you to add testimonials to your site dynamically.

1. Login to your website
2. Add the testimonial using our easy to fill in form.
3. You can even add a video or an image
4. Hit the publish button.

Testimonials are a great convincer for prospective clients, the more you have the more it demonstrates the benefits of your service/products. Because the Sparttestimonials plugin allows you to upload videos and images then your testimonials will have more gravitas. When people watch a video testimonial or see a scanned hand written testimonial they think to themselves "this is a genuine testimonial!".

]]> Sparticle Limited present Business Marketing Training http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2010/02/sparticle-limited-present-business-marketing-training.htm Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:05:16 UTC Mark Zaretti http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2010/02/sparticle-limited-present-business-marketing-training.htm We've had great feedback and response from our "Art of Good Fortune In Business" event which we co-hosted with Nick Kemp Training. The course was attended by a range of business people from varying sectors, from sole traders to company directors.

During the course, Mr Zaretti, the founder of Sparticle Limited shared some trade secrets on how to carry out effective "social media marketing campaigns" as well as a proven IT strategies for building client bases and improving Return On Investment (ROI) for businesses by using IT effectively. Nick Kemp brought years of sales and business training to the table and showed powerful techniques and attitutedes to help companies effectively generate new leads and market themselves better.

Delegates were given an insight into how Sparticle Limiteds existing clients are already using tools like our spartpress blog publishing tool or our online Spartmail email campaign management tool to increase website traffic by over 500%!

If you would like to know more then simply contact us here and to find out about our next training seminar then simply subscribe to our no-nonesense mailing list (see the button at the bottom left of any page on this site)

]]> Sparticle Limited's Founder to present on Internet Marketing Strategies in Leeds Feb 2010 http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2010/01/sparticle-limiteds-founder-to-present-on-internet-marketing-strategies-in-leeds-feb-2010.htm Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:00:13 UTC Mark Zaretti http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2010/01/sparticle-limiteds-founder-to-present-on-internet-marketing-strategies-in-leeds-feb-2010.htm I will be co-hosting a 1 day business seminar in Leeds, UK on Saturday 6th Feb at the Queens Hotel. This is for business people who want to learn more about how to use their websites, social media marketing and multimedia to promote and grow their business. I'll be sharing my experiences of helping businesses grow and talking about those factors that promote success and also my observations of what holds people back.

There are now only a few tickets left so for those of you that could do with improving your strategies and finding new ways of generating business then come along. It promises to be a very valuable seminar!

Here's the details for the event:

The Art of Good Fortune for Business, 6th Feb 2010

]]> Another website makes use of the SpartModules http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/12/another-website-makes-use-of-the-spartmodules.htm Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:08:29 UTC Mark Zaretti http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/12/another-website-makes-use-of-the-spartmodules.htm Nick Kemp's "Stories from the Outside Inn" website is built and hosted by Sparticle Limited and makes extensive use of our spartav audio visual galleries and spartusers members only modules to provide images, audio and mpeg video streams to clients who are registered on the site. It's a great example of the spartmodules in use. To find out more about the Stories From the Outside Inn project visit the website.

Nick Kemp's quote when he saw the latest addition to the site was "Brilliant" - another happy customer.

]]> We're Making it Even Easier For You to Get a Great Website http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/10/were-making-it-even-easier-for-you-to-get-a-great-website.htm Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:39:05 UTC Mark Zaretti http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/10/were-making-it-even-easier-for-you-to-get-a-great-website.htm We've been adding lots of useful things to this site to make it easier for you to get all the information needed to have a great website designed and built for you. You'll find a FAQs section, and under the Profile link there's now a list of some of our business, sole trader and organisation clients so you can see examples of the work we do. And then there's our Spartmodules - which are a great way to add, blogs, shopping carts, news, galleries and more to your site. If that's not enough we've added a page on web hosting, which you'll find under the services link.

]]> Sleight of Mouth Download Product Now Selling Online. http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/10/sleight-of-mouth-download-product-now-selling-online.htm Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:25:02 UTC Mark Zaretti http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/10/sleight-of-mouth-download-product-now-selling-online.htm While we offer a number of plugin modules for our hosted clients we occassionally get requests that are much more bespoke. We were recently contacted by Doug O'Brien in the USA  to see if we could build a new site for selling a single downloadable product. We used our expertise gained from developing our spartcart and our google checkout know-how to build his successful "Sleight of Mouth" website where people can download his Sleight of Mouth training product.

Doug's simple but elegant site is now selling his product online, and since it's a download only product... he's making money in his sleep!

]]> Spartcart Online Shopping Solution Launched! http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/10/spartcart-online-shopping-solution-launched.htm Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:33:44 UTC Mark Zaretti http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/10/spartcart-online-shopping-solution-launched.htm We are proud to announce that the Spartcart online e-commerce module is now available. In fact it is already being commercially used by a number of our clients and you can see an example of the spartcart online store in action.

We asked Nick Kemp for his feedback after he retired several different eShops and moved everything over to the Spartcart solution.

"The spartcart is a great solution, I love the way it is fully integrated into my site and the layout and usability is very simple and friendly, making it a lot easier for people to find and buy my CD and DVD products. I'm also using it to sell tickets for events and it can even handle free downloads too!"

And importantly from a sales perspective the proof is in the fact that sales through the shop are increasing! There's lots of cool features from

  • SEO improvements
  • multiple product category support
  • Google Checkout integration
  • Supports images and videos for each product
  • Supports internationalized delivery and tax choices
  • Lots lots more

We'll be putting up more information very soon about this exciting product. In the meantime simply contact us and we'll happily discuss Spartcart and other IT innovations with you.

]]> Protecting Your Site http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/07/protecting-your-site.htm Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:03:14 UTC Ash Bostock http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/07/protecting-your-site.htm Our business is making your business more successful, and one of the things that can really affect a business is loosing emails, data, files or a website. This can happen due to hardware failing or being hacked, but whatever the cause it's never a good day in the office. Luckily our clients have peace of mind - We've recently increased our internal security and proceedures so all our existing and new clients can rest assured:

  • Automatic nightly backups of their websites, databases and uploaded content
  • Automatic nightly backups of their emails
  • Weekly backups of the above to a remote site
  • All software development code is under version control and archived
  • Mirrored (RAID) disks protecting against a hard disk failing on all our production servers
  • Secure email
  • Restricted access to all our servers for security

All of this and more is just part of the service we offer!

]]> Beyond the Image - Boosting Sales! http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/07/beyond-the-image-boosting-sales.htm Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:56:37 UTC Ash Bostock http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/07/beyond-the-image-boosting-sales.htm Many of our clients have image galleries on their sites, for example www.zaretti.com. These galleries are a great way of showing off your products and images, and we've just taken things to a whole new level.

We now provide many of our clients with an Audio Visual Management tool which allows them to create galleries that contain images, movies and audio files.

We have found that when visitors to your site can hear audio and see video footage of you or your products that they are much more likely to get in contact or purchase - which naturally boosts sales!

So at a time when everyone is fighting for business this is a great way of making your site stand out from the crowd!

What is more is Spartmedia - our movie production department are experts at producing promotional web movies designed specifically for web sites and viral marketing. A good example is Pink-Ink-Tattoos.com who commissioned a video, which has been viewed over 1000 times and is averaging about 15 viewings a day from different people - each of which is a potential new client!

]]> New Website - Stories From The Outside Inn http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/07/new-website-stories-from-the-outside-inn.htm Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:32:38 UTC Ash Bostock http://www.sparticlelimited.co.uk/news/2009/07/new-website-stories-from-the-outside-inn.htm Stories From The Outside Inn is an innovative project from Doug O'Brien and Nick Kemp. This site has some nice features that you may not have seen on our sites before:

  • Creative graphical overlays creating a rich user experience... scroll around and find out for yourself!
  • Media libraries where users can see videos and listen to audio files online
  • The ability to limit access to parts of the site only to members who have an approved account
  • The administrators can manage the user accounts and upload thier own content - images, videos, audio etc

www.storiesfromtheoutsideinn.com

 

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