Archive for May, 2010

Online brochures

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Did you know… we can also produce page-turning, online brochures now.  If you want an online version of a brochure or document, you can make it much more exciting and user friendly than a plain old boring pdf download.  Why not take a look at the latest one we have produced at SRPM.  This is the second year we have produced “Editables” for Swissotel The Howard in London.  They have both a printed version and this online version.

The online version allows you (the customer) to track who has opened the document, where they are, which pages they looked at - and for how long.  As well as text, you can also add sound, video and flash to make it really special (ask us for examples).  The text in the documents is also search engine friendly.

Click the booklet above to launch the full edition in a new window.

For more details, and a FREE preview edition of your brochure - please contact us on 0844 884 2260.

Steve Rushton
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Young Enterprise Regional Final

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

I was honoured to be invited to attend the Staffordshire regional finals of the Young Enterprise company awards last night.  I have had the pleasure of being a Business Advisor to year 11’s at The Friary School in Lichfield over the last couple of years (although I was a less frequent visitor this year).  This year, the Friary students team “Simply Cooking” won the Lichfield and Tamworth event, and last night was their opporunity to compete at the Regional Finals.

Young Enterprise involves the children (young adults) setting up and running their own company for a year.  It is a real company too - with bank accounts, properly registered with directors etc. The team have to decide on a product or service which they can promote and sell during the year.  This year “Simply Cooking” my team from The Friary decided to write and publish a Recipe Book.  They contacted celebrity chefs who agreed to supply some of the recipes.  We helped them with sourcing the print at the best price to keep their overheads down (we didn’t make on the deal by the way!)

Last nights event was held at the presigous head quarters of JCB in Staffordshire.  They provided a wonderful setting (they have their own conference theatre) for the 6 teams to do their presentations.  All the teams did remarkably well in from of approximately 200 guests.  Simply Cooking came second overall and won the “Most Entrepreneurial Team” award sponsored by the Federation of Small Business.

I look forward to working with next years students and trying to emulate their success.

 

Steve Rushton