business development

Thanks guys, you always kept me informed of the progress or the lack of it if things weren't going to plan – and you were always on the ball, very helpful and never shied away from your roles and responsibilities.

I always felt that the team cared about my project and were intent on getting me a result I wanted - which they did. The site was delivered faster than any other company estimated it would be.
 

I found IRUN to be very proactive in making sure my website was working for me and my business. Despite the fact I am a small operation, my opinions, preferences and needs for what I wanted to acheive all mattered greatly.

The advice and service I received was  prompt and IRUN worked very successfully on their own initiatve as they quickly grasped just what I was after. They reacted quickly to my requests, following everything up with constructive and relevant solutions.

I cannot recommend IRUN highly enough.

Katie Roebuck, Journalist & Public Relations

Having started Heavenly Temptations with little more than an idea, I contacted Brendan initially for my Print & Design needs. Once all the groundwork of logo and colour theme was settled, I realised I needed an online presence to augment all the offline activity I was doing to promote my business.
I realised I needed ‘product’ pages to explain and set out all the different services the business delivers. These were supplemented with several photo galleries, one for each product type. This ensures site visitors are able to review some of the many variations available in the product offering. The ability to update, add and amend these myself is a great benefit as every new event brings new and unique variations.
As the product offering is quite visual, I opted for a slideshow for the front page and each of the product pages. This allows me to add new images to the gallery to give visitors an immediate overview of all the product offering.
The contact form is great, and I have just added a questionnaire, asking visitors how they heard about the business, invaluable for building up a profile of user behaviour and great for planning future marketing. We’re already getting 5-10 enquiries per week via the website and I trust that over time we can greatly improve on this.
All in all, IRUN has worked to develop the site to my requirements and I would recommend them to anyone for web development that’s business driven.
Victoria Davidson
www.heavenly-temptations.co.uk
 

We felt it important that even as a church we would put our best foot forward in the digital age.
We wanted a site that our church community could manage without massive technical expertise, and with no obvious technical experience within the church we turned to Brendan of IRUN Ballymena for help.
Once he had helped us define what we wanted and what we needed we left him to get on with things.
Whilst left largely to his own devices, Brendan had correctly understood our needs and built the basic site, and filled it with the content from our previous site. Today it serves as a useful medium to reach our own congregation with weekly updates and also for new families to the area to find out more about us before coming in through the door. In this age, even though we’re a doctrinally reformed church, we’ve realised we needed a digital presence to reach a new generation.
We have found good use of the News section, Weekly Announcements and for weekly sermons ‘podcasts’.
The site tracks very well in the search engines for keywords relevant to our general outlook plus also has been crucial in bringing in families who found us because of simple things like the fact that every organisation has its own page of information.
With monthly assistance from IRUN we are improving the online visibility of our site for new visitors and its usefulness for existing members.
Without IRUN we’d still be stuck with a static website with no ability to alter or update the content and no feedback as to how we’re presenting ourselves in this digital age.
 

Young Safety Advisor

Young Safety Advisor is a Health and Safety Consultancy based just outside Belfast providing one-off and on-going Health & Safety Consulting to local businesses.

Just starting out we realised that having a website and being found on the Internet is paramount in this day and age.

We commissioned Brendan from IRUN Ballymena to build a website which we could manage ourselves without programming knowledge or technical expertise.

Brendan delivered our site in a short space of time and exactly to the budget and specification required.

I’m satisfied to say I have found it no challenge to update the site and can happily recommend Brendan to anyone looking for straightforward, no nonsense business advice… and websites of course.

Ian Young

Youngsafetyadvisor.co.uk

Having been in the Embroidery Business for many years, specialising in sports teams and Ice Hockey, I realised it was time to develop my web presence, so I contacted IRUN Ballymena for some advice. From the moment I supplied my logo Brendan was able to very quickly install a simple website for me taking my colour scheme and applying it to the site.
As the only official NHL supplier in the UK I realised I needed a web presence for teams the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland to be able to get in touch, so the customisable contact form is great. I have also received much help in the area of managing the content myself, uploading new photos and images as I get them. Brendan sent me full instructions on building the site and a 10 Step Web Optimisation series.
Having an easily editable News page is great as I can keep the site fresh with news content without affecting the static pages.
All in all I am very impressed with the ease of use of the website. To have such a feature rich content self-managed site is incredible, especially within my budget!.
For the quick action, and the super website I would heartily recommend IRUN Ballymena to anyone looking to improve their internet presence.

Anton Greaves
AG-Printing.co.uk