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When we started our Winchester based business, we really had no idea where to look for potential clients and partners, so I felt that it might be helpful to

Most of our business is gained through word of mouth or networking primarily in Winchester, but also other areas in Hampshire. We belong to three primary networking groups.

1) BNI

BNI is a weekly breakfast meeting held in Winchester at the Winchester Royal hotel. We pay an annual fee and £10 per meeting which includes a very generous buffet breakfast. BNI is totally focussed on giving and recieving business and is quite rigid in terms of attendance and contribution. Not everyones cup of tea, but it’s been going for over 20 years and really does work for us. It tends to attract smaller businesses, but it’s more about who those people know so it can pan out quite nicely.

2) The Chamber of Commerce

We’ve only attended one lunch so far, but we will be attending a speed networking event in the Winchester hotel very soon. The Chamber is well known locally and tends to attract a more professional, larger business than groups like BNI. Despite our ‘toe in the water’ experience, we’ve already picked up one very good partner who has already started to feed work to us.

3) The Wow Network

This isn’t Winchester based, but seems to float around locally. It’s different from the other events in that its focus is on business owners and running a business as opposed to simply getting business. Definitely worth a look.

If anyone is reading this and would like an introduction to any of these networks, don’t hesitate to get in touch, I’d be more than happy to arrange an invite.

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Amid the hustle and bustle of January sales, Adira felt we should do our bit. So for 1 month only, we’re offering a fantastic £500 off of web design to any Hampshire based company. Check out our January Sales page for more information.

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When we first started Adira, we thought we’d discovered a niche in the UK market. The US, and parts of Europe were going bonkers over ensuring that websites were coded to allow blind and disabled access, they had even legislated to this effect. We found that the UK had also produced legislation under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) but very few UK web designers were adhering to this.

What we didn’t realise at the time was that businesses weren’t interested and now, 3 years on the legislation is still ignored by the authorities.

However, our efforts to produce clean accessible code did not go unrewarded. Blind people use ‘assistive software’ to view a website - this is like a little robot that reads the page to them. Interestingly search engines also use a little robot to read the page.

The end result of this was that all of the websites we developed were not only accessible to blind people, but were also prime fodder for search engines - and this was bourne out in the results we were achieving for our clients time and again - without even having to try! Once we figured this out, it wasn’t much of a leap to turn good search engine results into great search engine results - and a new direction for the company was born!

I guess the moral of the story is if we try to do the right thing, the rewards can sometimes be abundant.

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I went to a seminar today all about ways to market your website for free and this is the result. As yet, I’ve no idea where it’s going to go, or even who’s going to look at it but I’m pretty excited about the whole thing!

My name is Phill by the way, and I run a web design firm in Winchester, Hampshire, UK.

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