Year 6 School Leavers' Memento Books

From The PTA Chair of Oakfield Community Primary School, July 2011:

"Thank you very much for the school memo books - the teachers and children are VERY pleased with them. I have to say the turnaround for producing them was fantastic so thank you too!"

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Great Domain Names Newly Available

On behalf of clients no longer wishing to use these great domain names, we have released them this weekend:

www.bidstendersproposals.co.uk

www.fireriskassessment.org.uk

Our followers have the first opportunity to snap them up!

Fire Risk Assessment UK domain name available

We registered the domain name fireriskassessment.org.uk on behalf of a client 10 years ago. He has recently retired and wishes to sell the domain name.

The price is only £75+vat and there will be a registrant transfer fee to pay to Nominet (£10+vat).

If you are interested, please contact The BPc to arrange arrange payment and transfer.

CMS for SMEs

CMS is short for Customer Management System. It refers to a data-base driven website that facilitates updates to the website without html or css knowledge. This post has been moved to:
http://thebpcuk.blogspot.com/2011/04/introduction-to-cms-for-smes-who-want.html

Estate Agents - Beware!

An old scam has come to our notice. Received today:

"Hi
I am looking to rent a 2 or 3 bedroom property and was wondering if you had a list of properties that you could fax over to me 07031XXXXXX.
I would also consider a 3 bedroom apartments if the location was suitable.
Many thanks
Sxxxx Xxxxxxx"

(The telephone number and name have been deliberately obscured)

Telephone numbers beginning 070 can be used to hide a persons real number and can be charged at up to £1.50 a minute ... see this BBC News article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/6527127.stm

Unless you know the number is from a known contact, think carefully before faxing or returning calls. It could be money wasted. The scam in not only aimed at Estate Agents.

On a brighter note, Estate Agents looking for property signage, particularly for unusual projects, may wish to check out this blog: http://signcraftuk.blogspot.com

Design Portfolio of Recently Published Web Sites

This post has been moved to The BPC's Internet Presence & Website Promotion Blog

Handbook for Bridge Club

We have, once again, worked with the Welwyn Garden City Bridge Club to produce their 2010-2011 handbook and diary of events, which has now gone to print.

A handy size for a bag or packet, spiro-bound and with a rip-resistant laminated cover, the annual handbook can be inexpensively printed for small clubs and organisations, as well as for commercial purposes.

Similarly, we also produce School Leavers Year Books - to jot down their 'memories', goodwill messages from fellow pupils, teachers and school staff plus any contact details to be noted before moving on to pastures new.

Contact us with your enquiry: yearbook@thebpc.org.uk

Year 6 Leavers' Memories Books

Examples of Year 6 books

Since 2006, The BPc's memories books
for Year 6 primary school leavers have been cherished by children moving up to secondary school. 

Using our tried and tested template, we customise the school yearbooks to your requirements, including an image of your choice on the cover and class photographs inside the year-book.

There is a nominal initial set-up fee then, each year, we update artwork and arrange printing and wiro-binding for schools or PTAs with their special, personalised requirements, all at moderate cost.

More information: Y6 leavers' books.
To discuss your school's requirements, click here to contact The BPc.

Beware Domain Renewal Scams

They're back ... maybe they never went away but this is the first we've come across in a few months.

Domain Renewal Group (domainrenewalgroup.com) is sending out official looking Domain Name Expiration Notices in the hope of encouraging the more niaive amongst us to renew domain name registrations via their service.

The notices are sent 4 - 8 weeks before the ones from current registrars are issued (usually 60 days). In the past, our clients have contacted us with queries before sending payment ... thankfully!

Carefully reading through the notice, they are not making any false claims and therefore this particular approach is arguably not a scam? Renew with them if you wish. However, the fact that they are trying to poach custom in such a manner does not sit well with an open and honest relationship.

Wiro-bound Handbooks and Year 6 Leavers' Books

A deviation from our more usual Internet and marketing activities; each year since 2006, we update artwork and arrange printing and wiro-binding for clients with special, personalised requirements.

This year, we decided to publicise the Year 6 Leavers Memories Booklets and have been particularly pleased with the interest shown from a number of schools and PTAs. One enquirer told us "We have researched prices quite thoroughly and yours is the best value for money; some are asking double!"

The photo shown is A6P handbook, the Y6 books are usually A6Landscape (click here for new image/more info).

Click here for more details of the Year 6 Leavers Memories Books.

plagiarism in marketing

Marketing our Clients' businesses on the Internet can include writing copy for their web sites, writing blogs, promotional material, news and articles for submission to various media sites. To ensure that our actions are effective, we monitor results and keep an eye on the industry sector.

Today, we received a google alert containing the following phrase: "Designing an open plan living space can have pitfalls - dishwasher background noise, heating a large area when you are snuggling up in a small space - how do you resolve these issues and stay true to an open plan concept without compromise? How can you prolong your enjoyment of year-round sunshine during the sunny but cold weather? Glass Curtains can be fitted internally or externally and the views are as clear whether they are open or closed but - what are Glass Curtains?"

Following the link, we arrived at the blog in search of the answer "what are Glass Curtains?" There was no answer given - the next sentence was completely irrelevant about a different topic.

The paragraph seemed familiar so we popped the whole lot into google search. Well, this was interesting ... an American interior design site showed the exact phrase as an RSS feed from an article site that, when clicked, displayed the whole article attributed to The BPc's Bee Primrose. Fair enough! That's the reason we submit such articles, as the link at the foot of the feature goes to our client's web site: SunSeeker Doors.

The first blog, however, had copied the text word for word, without links or acknowledgement, which is plagiarism and possibly illegal. For this reason, we are not going to reveal the blog's url as we don't want to increase the traffic to their site.

We've noticed that our articles are often found on other sites but usually this has been wholly copied with the web site links, which is great for our clients. This particular article has, so far, received 18 views resulting in 4 clicks through to SunSeeker Doors' web site in the 3 days it has been 'live'.

The answer? Read the full article "What are Glass Curtains?"

My Portfolio Ltd - client news from The BPc

Welcome to our blog, geared to highlighting our clients' business services and news; this blog also provides the opportunity for us to express a few interesting extras.

More information and links to our clients' web sites can be found at http://www.myportfolioltd.co.uk

More information about The BPc and our services can be found at http://www.thebpc.org.uk

Thank you for your time.

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