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Harvest Consulting

You reap what you sow - in computing and the Internet as much as in life

What do I do

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I provide my customers with a really diverse range of products and services which makes it quite hard to describe the business. Read my Twitter feed below to see what I do and whether you might want any of the same services. If you see that I have worked on a problem similar to one that you are having please feel free to email me for some free advice.

  • haywardshott Residential: epson printer not printing black. Needed head cleaning. Also issue with laptop battery. Remove battery and use on mains. 20th February @ 19:41
  • haywardshott Woodford : check task manager to work put which process causes memory spoke each day at the same time in sbs 2003 20th February @ 19:39
  • haywardshott @thereal_moss :-) 18th February @ 08:54
  • haywardshott @DeanBelfield Many thanks for both 29th January @ 17:24
  • haywardshott @Ellisonguitar more than 16,000 tracks! 24th January @ 19:39
  • haywardshott Residential: epson printer not printing black. Needed head cleaning. Also issue with laptop battery. Remove battery and use on mains. 20th February @ 19:41
  • haywardshott Woodford : check task manager to work put which process causes memory spoke each day at the same time in sbs 2003 20th February @ 19:39
  • haywardshott @thereal_moss :-) 18th February @ 08:54
  • haywardshott @DeanBelfield Many thanks for both 29th January @ 17:24
  • haywardshott @Ellisonguitar more than 16,000 tracks! 24th January @ 19:39

Everybody in business has been told how important it is to have a good website and many companies will take your money and guarantee front page listings on google or yahoo.

 

Like so many things in life website development, internet promotion, website optimisation and email marketing can achieve a great deal for some businesses and little for others.

Internet and email marketing

Success in internet advertising depends on your product and your market understanding but there are some great tools, many of which are cheap or free, that can help generate leads or sales.

 

If you don't yet have a website I can either build a simple site for you or alternatively I will establish a specification, find potential developers, manage a tender process and then see the development stage to completion. No site too small or too large and I have examples from a couple of pages to full e-commerce sites that are integrated with secure payment gateways.

 

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One customer for whom the Internet is working is Kingfisher Graphics, a very creative printer of large format products based in Stockport. Before involving me in their Internet marketing they already had a well designed website providing information on many of their products and services. I reviewed the existing pages and quickly tweaked them to make them more friendly to Google. Together we then started to extend the site with new pages that would capture the attention of a wider audience. A point came where extending the site was no longer viable so I developed a new site that was flexible, easy to expand and easy for search engines to read and process.

 

In line with expanding the site we built up a business decision maker email database and started a targetted email campaign. The following few months saw a 100% increase in website traffic, a significant increase in leads from the website contact page and from phone calls as a result of the emails and the website. The sales team has converted a good percentage of these leads into orders and obtained important new customer accounts. Over the couse of a year the number of visitors increased 300% and leads from one per week to ten per week. Click on the link to read about Kingfisher's print services .

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Avanti Express is a successful courier company based in Bramhall, South Manchester, that has experienced 300% growth in two years based on a successful Internet marketing campaign. Their first website was developed in order to get a presence and prove the value. After six months I developed a new site, involving a graphic designer, and added many new service pages. Each month new pages were added until every available service was represented.

 

The beauty of a website as opposed to a printed brochure is that it is possible to measure the use of the site and important marketing information is available online. From website visitor behaviour a market niche looked available that Avanti could benefit from so further activty was specifically directed . Many new customers have been signed up and Avanti now specialises in delivering furniture and other bulky items to residential addresses.

 

Each month a newsletter is sent out making existing customers aware of additonal services and informing prospects about the services provided to exsting customers.