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.

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.

Creative Director Aftab Ali (Middle) pictured with Fayaz Aslam (right) from the Indian Ocean and Ben from Taylor and Shroff wines (left)

Our super yummy curry client the Indian Ocean Restaurant have done it again. For the third year in a row they have won the very prestigious ‘Best Indian Restaurant in the North West’ at the 2009 British Curry Awards. The Indian Ocean were praised at the event for their high standards of cuisine, service and ever popular brand - thanks to Sizzle Media web design Manchester!

The British Curry Awards created by Enam Ali MBE, is the highest honor available in the spice industry, often referred to as the Oscars of Asian cuisine. The night itself is a collection of the who’s who of the Indian restaurant scene and this year was no exception. The glittering ceremony was held at the Battersea Evolution Centre in London on Tuesday 3rd November and was attended by top industry figures and celebrities including host and main man Sir Trevor McDonald, Conservative party leader David Cameron and TV celebrity Chris Tarrant. David Cameron highlighted the importance of the curry industry in Britain, which is worth £3.5 billion per year.

Sizzle Media web design Manchester have been working alongside the Indian Ocean for several years, developing their brand, sampling their fantastic food and creating highly targeted products and campaigns, such as the award winning Curry and Cobra website which won the eTamside ICT award in 2007. Sizzle Media also developed their current web 2.0 site www.indianoceanonline.co.uk which again won the eTamside award in 2009 after only 3 days of going live.

Fayaz Aslam Indian Ocean's Sales and Marketing Director said this about us. “Working with Sizzle Media has been an excellent experience. Finding someone who understands your vision is difficult enough, but to find an organisation who can translate that vision in a reality over a sustained period of time demonstrates the high caliber of our friends at Sizzle Media. Our many successes simply reflect the joint efforts of our partners and the dedication they have shown in helping us to achieve our objectives.”

As one of Greater Manchester’s leading web design agencies, we would love to help your business achieve success. Call freephone 0808 14 333 00 today.

Sizzle Media web design Manchester are currently listed on the Creative Credits website as a creative partner. NESTA have offered financial support to Manchester-based business via a random draw, aimed at increasing spend with the region's creative businesses The lucky winners receive up to £4k to help develop their brand and business.

We are currently speaking to several companies in the Manchester area, offering them our effective website design and branding services. However, there has been some confusion as to how businesses claim this business grant. After doing some research and speaking directly with NESTA, we can report that the process is relatively straightforward. Once the initial proposal has been accepted by NESTA (the deadline for which is the 27^th of November) the process is then based on the selected creative partner's payments process, which can vary from 50/50, three payments, or however the agreement might be, and must be claimed before March 2010. The business that has been awarded the grant then claims these funds back from NESTA.

As one of Manchester’s leading website design studios, we are able to offer high quality, tailored services to your business, including website design, branding, business strategy, online marketing. If you have been awarded a NESTA Creative Credits grant and are still searching for a creative partner, the call today on 0808 14 333 00.

As a Corporate Web design studio and avid web users, we spend a large portion of our time researching websites for ourselves, and for our customers. Very often we come across excellent examples of good, clean and vibrant business websites. Corporate Web design is about conveying concise information to the web site users in a clear and visually appealing manner.

Good corporate websites also capture the essence of a business, while leaving a lasting impression to its visitors. Web users are becoming less patient with websites so it vital that business websites load quickly and are visually memorable, and convey the business brand accuratly. Sometimes Corporate websites might not be the most visually impressive, but they do hit the message home instantly.

Here are our top 5 examples of good quality corporate website designs that convey clearly the essential elements mentioned above.

Web design is an interesting industry, not only must we demonstrate our web design skills and demonstrate an uncanny ability to predict market trends, but we must also demonstrate tangible ability in the form of visible results. Just like any other business fighting for Google's attentions to generate new business – we must also do some pretty intense flag waving. However our challenge is constant as we are competing with the Manchester, Oldham and Bury’s finest web designers and search engine optimisation companies, whilst trying to maintain a vibrant web presence.

It's no surprise then that Sizzle Media's strategy has begun to show the fruits of our labour. We now regularly feature amongst the top 5 in Google for the search term ‘web design Manchester’, which may not sound like much but when you look at some of the stats, you will see that this is a very credible position to be in. Only other Manchester, Oldham or Bury based web design studios can express the importance such keywords.

However web design Manchester is just one of many search terms we focus our attention on, other search terms are web design Bury, web design Oldham, web design Bolton and a clutch of non location terms. These are the locations we cover on a daily basis and in particular, we are now seeing an increasing number of clients finding us for the search terms web design bury which is fantastic news.

If you require help formulating and executing an effective online marketing and web design strategy then call today on 0808 1433300 or email info@sizzlemedia.co.uk

As a Manchester based ecommerce web design specialist, Sizzle Media, like any corporate web design studio, conducts background research on our clients and their target markets.

One such tool that web design studios use daily to conduct market analysis is Google's keyword tool. This web based free market research tool presents you with valuable information such as how many people are looking for your product, how many people are searching for your target keyword and what the average 'Cost Per Click' is for your chosen keywords, all highly useful information when developing your marketing strategy.

Corporate web design studios utilize these powerful tools to assess the market and suggest solutions for your business, based on your budget and timescale. Most companies have the ambition to target very high level keywords such as web design. To try and appear number one on Google for this term would take significant ability, resource and time. However more targeted search terms such as web design Manchester, web design bury or web design Oldham account for much less traffic but are very targeted to our area of business, and will result in more relevant web design enquiries.

For advice on corporate web design and marketing strategy contact Sizzle Media on 0808 14 333 00 or email info@sizzlemedia.co.uk today.