Happy Birthday to Us, Happy Birthday to Us etc...

Yes its our birthday, www.fair-finance.net is now one year old and in this time our visitors have came from all over the world, and the good news is that we have received over 20,000 to our site with 2,000 browsing our members pages and over 500 enquiries for help. over the next 12 months we anticipate that this will increase again, possibly by another 50%, we shall see.

The Devheadz team has also been tweaking the online advertising so we can make as many people aware about us for the least amount of cost. We must have attended 20 to 30 events to raise our profile in the West Midlands. Of course we understand that not everyone has or chooses to use the internet to find information so we are sending out our message direct to existing businesses and many of our members are seeing some real results from their own Direct Marketing campaigns. We are also plugging our service on as many free information sites as we can. If you have any suggestion that could help then drop us a post.

The Agency (AWM) who assist in funding the work of the Devheadz and have agreed to continue to support our activity for the next 18 months, this is great news as building a name that people recognize takes time and effort and of course money.

One other element of our project helping people get the finance that they need to launch or expand their business is by working with the Private sector, you know we exist because of what is often referred to as market failure. Bank refusals are part of our lending criteria so we understand that working closely to gain support and a good healthy flow of referrals is going to help expand our operations, this is a lot harder and more complex than writing ads or plugging we sites, however real plans are shaping up to make this a reality so we shall keep you posted on these developments.

In fact the next 12 months a large majority of our work will be about Business Development and networking with the banking and other companies who have strong links with regional business as well as a major PR drive, A very helpful associate has also recommended that we also take a look at the Social Networking Phenomenon that is sweeping the business world on the US and probably set to do the same over here, we'll also let you have an insight into how this works once we've figured out what to do to get the best from the recommended sites.

Bye for now, we're off to enjoy some well earned B'day cake.