The Recommended Agency Register was set up to help brand owners make an informed decision when searching for marketing and creative services suppliers in the UK. A process many businesses will appreciate as being notoriously difficult. The lack of a reliable and independent information on agencies and suppliers means that potential clients could spend inordinate amounts of time to gather market knowledge but often end up relying on pot luck to make the right choice.

RAR addresses this issue by providing market insights and expert services that enables companies to make an informed and efficient choice of suppliers. Via their online research process, they Agency Register gather up-to-date market insight right across the spectrum of marketing services. As well as top-line supplier information, this process also captures ratings from clients that gives a unique picture the level of customer satisfaction that each supplier achieves, and give an accurate indication of the quality of the supplier.

Sizzle Media Web Design Manchester applied join the Register in April. After submitting our extensive client list to the system, we were approved within a short time as our customers sang our praises enough for the register to accept out application. We have always offered a completely transparent and professional service placing our customer at the heart of our business process.

For more information on how we can help your business, call our Freephone number on 0808 143 3300.

Sam Aston has captured the hearts of millions as Coronation Street's cheeky schoolboy Chesney Battersby-Brown. And the Haslingden High School pupil has scooped several major awards since his debut and is now turning his hand to business. Sam with the help of his brother and father Richard Aston have their sights set on developing a branded merchandise business.

Having been in discussions with Sizzle Media for over 12 months as to what direction the Aston’s would like try their hand in business, due to Sam’s  busy schedule the family decided that promotional merchandise would be a good starting point that everyone good get involved in without overtaking their current careers.

Sizzle Media's eCommerce web design services have become increasingly popular during the recession as more and more people try their hand at business online.

For a very low investment, anyone can start their own online business whether promoting your own business services. Sizzle Media’s ecommerce websites are built on our award winning LAVA platform, allowing clients to manage their products, promote their site online and offer clients exclusive deals.

Sizzle Media web design Manchester continue their march in to Manchester and have recently expanded their Business Development team. Ian Manson joins Sizzle Media bringing with him over 30 years business development experience. Specialising in an array business skills such as Business Transfer, Merger & Acquisitions, Media & Publishing and Oil and gas exploration, Ian Manson has been brought in to focus on new Business Development and to ensure optimum performance across Sizzle Media’s sales, design and development departments.

Zulf Ali, Sizzle Media’s MD said “It’s a very exciting time for Sizzle Media as we continue to expand and secure new business. As a relatively new company we are very proud of the quality of our team and we genuinely aspire to be a leading agency in the region. With the help of Ian Manson to fortify our Manchester based business development team, we’re hoping to really accelerate and add a new level of professionalism to Sizzle Media.”

Sizzle Media web design Manchester have also recruited a new Project Manager who will be joining us at the start of July. Watch this space!

It’s been a very exciting year for us at Sizzle Media web design Manchester, we’ve surfed the high and lows of the economy, battled against the sever bite of the credit crunch and attempts from competitors to poach clients and staff. Through all this Sizzle Media has continued to grow and refine a market leading web design service.

Our main base of operations has been in the home of the co-op, Rochdale and after 18 months of steady progress Sizzle Media have created a large client base that is mainly based in the Manchester area. Our hard working sales team have clocked up thousands of miles travelling between Manchester and Rochdale, and we have finally decided that it’s time move our team to Manchester to best serve our clients and be more accessible to new clients and opportunities.

After a lengthy search for suitable offices, from various REGUS offices, city centre locations, we struggled to justify the costs that some of these locations sought. They lacked parking and charged for every single add-on conceivable. We then came across and office environment that we all instantly took a shine too, plenty of parking, lively atmosphere, accessible and looked really cool.

We will be disclosing our new Manchester office location very soon, once we have completed our paperwork and got ourselves plugged in. Needless to say, we are all very excited about this new move and are really looking forward to continuing our success and bringing some Sizzle in to Manchester.

This month saw the arrival of a new package at Sizzle Media web design Manchester. After much deliberation as to who had the privilege of opening the surprise package; we resorted to give it a good booting around the office. That was before we saw the FRAGILE stamp across the side.

Imagine our shock when after a few more targeted wellies the strange brown box marked FRAGILE began to twitch and a muffled voice could be heard. Stefan who’s easily shaken was ready to take an old web designers keyboard to the now squealing box; when all of sudden the whole box structure failed and out fell our new designer coughing out a mouthful of Styrofoam.

Fresh from Manchester heavyweights PH Media; Tom Harding joins our design team  bringing with him 3 years of creative experience to help support the Sizzle Media Manchester web design team in delivering awesome websites to businesses across the North West of the creative universe.

Sizzle Media web design Manchester have seen steady growth through the recession and continue to expand their team to cope with increasing demands for their web design and corporate web design services. With three members of staff joining the Sizzle Media ranks this year, there are plans to expand the Manchester web design sales team to solidify their position as one of Manchester top web design teams.

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 of 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.

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.