NewCo to ?? : How to launch a new business in three months

It has been quite a week for aardmaan.

We celebrated our tenth year in business, supported the World Record attempt to get a record number of comments on a blog post in 24 hours (see #comment24 on twitter) in support of RNLI.

Completed finishing touches to website in time for launch of a new company and worked on a major web project.

(However, the 5:30 to 22:30 (Monday to Saturday) these last few weeks, aren't our usual hours!)

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#Comment24

We're supporting this today to mark aardmaan's 10 years in business > if you stumble across this today, the 5th January 2012, please go and leave a comment - any comment on trefor.net. It's for a very good cause. And is a great local tech story too! Let's light up that fiber and put the tech through its paces today ...

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Digital trends for 2012

Too busy to celebrate our birthday?

It is our tenth birthday this week! We opened the doors for business the first week of January 2002. Those ten years have flown - and the tenth anniversary sort of snuck up on us! We've been so busy with projects for clients that we put our own celebrations on the back-burner!

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Just a thought

Who do you really think drives your business success? Is it your direct paying customers? Or their customers? The people who actually use your product or service.

So, who do you focus on? Where do you put all your effort? Pleasing the customer or creating something that users will rave about? It's simple really, if you don't excite users, your customers (the guys who sign the cheques) won't get excited either.  Users drive sales. Customers only buy because they see there is a ready market - and they're onto a sure thing. They're only really interested in the bottom line and making a good profit. If users aren't going mad about your product or service - where's the incentive? 

So, how do you treat the users of your products and services? Do you engage them? Talk to them? Or, ignore them?