Nesta have been busy awarding businesses up to £4k in business grants throughout the North West. After securing several successful Nesta funded projects, Sizzle Media web design manchester have also been picking up clients who decided to change mid project; due to issues with their chosen suppliers.
Sizzle Media have an exceptional track record of customer service, and delivering Nesta funded projects in a professional and swift manner. If your business has been awarded a Nesta grant, you will have been notified by now, or will be notified shortly. Once you have accepted their terms and sent back the paper work, you can leave the rest to Sizzle Media, we are well versed in helping businesses create innovative propositions to help progress their companies, which is a key requirement for the Nesta grant.
Our team are waiting to hear from you and process your Nesta funded project. Call us today on 01706 759 344 and ask for our dedicated Nesta specialist Tim Edwards. Or you can email your requests to info@sizzlemedia.co.uk

Rochdale's latest paper the Independent did a full feature on Sizzle Media web design Rochdale this week. The new publications has been a fantastic addition to the stands of Rochdale and can be picked up free at ASDA, TESCO and your local fuel stops. With a philosophy to promote positive news in the region, the Indepedent features stories of successful businesses, community news and general feel good articles. Sizzle Media web design Rochdale were very pleased to be featured in the March issue and the feedback has been excellent.

Red-hot name in web design.

Born out of the recession and credit crunch, Sizzle Media has grown rapidly since its formation 18 months ago and now employs a team of eight advisers, designers and developers at its offices in the Evans Business Centre off Dane Street, near the ASDA in Rochdale.

This innovative Rochdale web design company offers a complete support package to businesses at unbelievable value for money.

Sizzle Media's mission is to harness the power of the Internet to help clients gain maximum results through stunning web design and targeted online marketing. Sizzle Media MD Zulf Ali is a member of the Rochdale Development Agency Board and chairman of the Kashmir Youth Project, a governor of two schools, as well as being the recipient of the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2009.

Creative Director Aftab Ali, who had previously designed the Rochdale Council, Hopwood Hall and J21 websites said: “Basically, these days, if you don’t have a quality website you don’t have a business. At Sizzle Media we demystify the internet and take away the mumbo jumbo often associated with internet technology".

Aftab, who has worked on creating corporate identities for huge brands such as Kelloggs and Moulinex, said: “We give service with a personal touch and believe that the customer always comes first!

Brothers Aftab and Zulf Ali were brought up and educated in Rochdale and are now keen to put something back into the local business community.

Sales manager Ian Henry said “In today’s competitive business environment, a strong online presence is critical for any business to succeed, especially a new one. We can help businesses gain a foothold on the web by creating a vibrant corporate identity, online advertising campaigns and designing stunning websites.

Project Manager Tim Edwards added, “We take your business requirements and wrap it all up to give our clients a complete ‘Brand’ helping them to stand out in the marketplace. And we don’t stop there. Rather than hold back our marketing secrets, we teach our clients how to maintain and promote their websites themselves once up and running, offering exceptional value for money and return on investment.

The company was named Business of the Year in 2008 and their clients regularly win industry awards, such as the Indian Ocean Restaurant in Ashton Under Lyne, who have won over 15 business awards since partnering with Sizzle Media.

But perhaps the best recommendation comes in testimonials from customers.

Jo Gore of Limon Ivy wrote: “From my first meeting with Sizzle Media they took the time to listen to my concept and translated it into an outstanding website. With amazing artwork, design and expertise in the business, the whole team showed tremendous dedication to my project. The amount of support on branding and search engine optimisation far exceeded my expectations. They genuinely care about and want their customers to succeed in business and they don't close their door once your site is up and running.”

And Emma Jex of Whitestone Solicitors said: “Sizzle Media has worked with us since we opened our doors in 2005, developing everything from our logo through to our website, managing our marketing budget and advising us on all areas of our brand.

“We are now a national brand and offer a wide portfolio of legal services, and this has all happened with Sizzle Media by our side.”.

So if you are setting up a new business or wanting to expand an existing one, Sizzle Media can give you that effective online presence that is now so vital in business.

And that name Sizzle Media? “We’ve had our fingers burned a few times”, smiled Aftab,” We’ve learned from our mistakes and now focus on helping our customers to avoid the same pitfalls of being in business.”

Businesses are always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to promote their business in today’s tough climate. Those businesses that have been around the block a few times will be investing heavily during the recession to promote their brands - whilst smaller competitors fizzle out. There are many promotional devices that companies use for brand promotion such as leaflets, websites, email marketing, text message marketing and so on, but one product that seems to deliver the message on a number of levels are Media Mats, which are simply floor mats that carry your organisations promotional messages.

These durable Media mats can be used to advertise special offers, display your company’s logo or to simply welcome people to your premises with a friendly greeting, reinforcing your brand as they enter and leave. Restaurants and bars have been using these products effectively to promote offers in their establishments with the use of bar runners and media mats.

The surface of these Media mats can be printed to very high standard in a variety of colours and can be used as large floor based promotional devices. Some products such as coir mats are hand-made and the colours available are limited to a few dozen. However promotional mats and media mats can be directly printed on and can carry highly striking images that are only limited by your imagination.

Create Mats have recently commissioned a simple CMS website developed by Sizzle Media; to offer highly competitive pricing on Media mats. Working exclusively with some of the largest mat manufacturers in the world, Create Mats are able to offer any kind of media mat at probably the most competitive prices in the UK.

Sizzle Media were commissioned to develop a web projects that was simple to maintain and cut out all the jargon, to offer people searching for Media mats a one stop service for their media mat requirements.

You can check out their amazing pricing yourself by calling 01706 436 102, you may even get a discount if you mention Sizzle Media!

Born out of the recession and credit crunch, whilst people were shutting their doors and going out of business, Sizzle Media web design Manchester invested in growth and stability, and now employ an industry leading team business advisers, website designers and web developers at our North Manchester offices.

Sizzle Media web design Manchester deliver strong online websites, critical for any business to succeed in today’s competitive marketplace. Sizzle Media Web design Manchester helps any business make strong gains on the web by creating a complete corporate identity, online advertising campaigns and designing stunning websites that deliver results.

If your one of the brave business people who are setting up a new business in the Manchester area and need a website, or are looking to revise, expand or re-develop your existing website, Sizzle Media web design Manchester can give you a 'Stand out' online presence that is now so vital to online success. If your business hasn't yet seen the excellent results achievable from the internet, then contact Sizzle Media web design Manchester today on 01706 759 344 for a free 1 hour consultation with our experienced advisors.

We could all do with some help In these cash-strapped times, it's understandable that businesses are often reluctant to invest in new ideas. But, we believe that innovating is the best way to get an edge over competitors.

As of today the Creative Credits programme - a world-first programme that helps businesses to develop their ideas by teaming up with creative firms, opens for a second wave of funding for businesses.

To find out if you are eligible for funding, you need to visit the creative credits website and complete the applications form. Your business is then entered in to a draw with all the other applications. On a successful application for Creative credits you will be required to contact a creative partner to work with, who will help you to complete the funding application.

Sizzle Media have already delivered several Creative Credit projects and are experienced in dealing with NESTA, making sure your application fulfils the funding criteria.

For more information call Tim Edwards on 0808 1433 300.

We're very proud to announce the completion of one of our most recent projects, the total revamp of fair trade clothing website Arkadash. Owned by dazzling duo Chantelle and Vik, Arkadash sells fair trade, sweatshop-free, organic clothes from their dinky shop in Chorlton. Their site is based on our awesome Lava eCommerce platform, styled by Sizzle's awesome in-house designers, and hosted on our awesome professional-grade servers for maximum reliability and uptime. And, of course, they're on our awesome support package so they get friendly help whenever they need a hand getting to grips with their new system.

We hope it does the job all Sizzle sites are designed for - encouraging enquiries and orders. With that in mind, stop reading this and go and check out their site and buy some lovely organic socks!

NESTA will be announcing the second round of businesses that have been awarded NESTA Creative Credits to help businesses develop and innovate by teaming up with Creative firms such as Sizzle Media | web design Manchester.

Manchester SME’s from all sectors were given the opportunity to apply for and be awarded a £4,000 grant in the form of Creative Credits. These credits are available to be used with local creative agencies and all the lucky business has to do is put in at least £1,000 towards the project of their own money, and NESTA would top it up to the value of an additional £4,000.

The next wave of application starts very soon on February 1^st. Please email creativecredits@nesta.org.uk to find out more about the application process. But be quick, the last round of funding was snapped up very quickly.

Businesses applying for a Creative Credit must be a small or medium business. This includes having:

• 250 or less employees
• An annual turnover not exceeding £46M (equivalent to 50M Euros)

Must have their main office in one of the following regions:

• City of Manchester
• City of Salford
• Stockport
• Tameside and
• Trafford (Greater Manchester South)
• Bolton
• Bury
• Oldham
• Rochdale
• Wigan (Greater Manchester North)
• Congleton
• Macclesfield
• Vale Royal
• Warrington

You can find out more at http://www.creative-credits.org.uk/eligibility-for-creative-credit-applicants/

If you have already been awarded creative credits and are yet to find a studio to fulfil your project, then get in touch with Sizzle Media web design Manchester immediately on 0808 1433300, there is still time to conclude your projects.

We have successfully applied for and delivered several NESTA projects already. Choosing Sizzle Media will ensure a smooth process and have a complete understanding of the NESTA Creative Credits process.

Sizzle Media Web design Manchester are proud to announce their latest marketing project.

Due to the success of several telemarketing campaigns conducted by Sizzle Media across medical, technical, educational and vehicle hire businesses, Sizzle Media were approached by Kleen-Tex to help devise a marketing campaign that will allow them to leverage maximum results for their matting business in the UK.

Kleen-Tex are an International textile, rubber manufacturing and matting design company founded in 1967 in LaGrange, Georgia, USA.  As one of the largest premier floor matting suppliers in the world, Kleen-Tex operate over five continents providing personalised logo mats, health and safety matting, dust control and all manner of advertising mats, media mats and promotional mats, As well as a wide range of commercial, industrial and domestic mats. Already supplying mats to international brands and household names, Sizzle Media are very excited about working with Kleen-Tex to deliver a targeted marketing service.

Watch this space as we ‘roll out’ this campaign over the next 6 months.

Sizzle Media Web design Manchester would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

It's been a tough year for most of us and Sizzle Media have been no exception. Although we are an established agency, many web design agencies became victims of the credit crunch as advertising budgets were held back and projects paused.

That said, we have much to be grateful for. With a loyal team and an excellent customer base we managed to not only remain strong as business, we also continued to expand our web design team and continue to offer our trademark customer service.

January 2010 will see 2 new members of staff join our web design team in Manchester, and a further 2 starting in March. We have also been very successful in providing NESTA selected businesses our services, and continue to be one the leaders in providing web design services to businesses awarded Creative Credits in the Greater Manchester area.

All in all 2010 looks to be a very positive year for Sizzle Media web design Manchester and we would like to again wish you all the very best for 2010.. See you on the side!

Quite possibly the most competitive keyword for any Manchester based web design studio, or any business in the city of Manchester for that matter is....drum roll...  'web design Manchester'.

There are currently over 1000,000 pages indexed for the keyword web design Manchester, which is actually very high as there are certainly nowhere near that many studios in the region. The truth of the matter is that probably 900,000 of those pages are related to businesses not even in the Manchester area. They are simply creating town name based page farms trying to secure a high traffic position. Although this 'grey hat' tactic may have worked 24 months ago, Google has cottoned on to this approach and has been steadily penalising these 'auto generated' pages.

Effective search engine optimisation is not about spammy pages of content or volume traffic anymore, it's about targeted traffic and converting those quality visits in to quality sales enquiries.

That is why Sizzle Media web design Manchester are so successful as a commercially minded web design agency. We offer web design services in and around the Manchester area, and are based in the Manchester area, and Google likes this level of  'content honesty' which is easy to decipher and highly relevant to the visitor.

2010 should see Sizzle Media web design Manchester also lead the way for the keywords  'web design Bury' and 'web design Oldham' as we continue to expand and win business nearby towns.