The Web Surgery team come from an assortment of professional backgrounds including IT, Media, Publishing and the Entertainment arena’s where over the past few years many a successful website has been built in the business to business market and consumer focused world.

Our SW London web design team aim to tailor your specifications through the use of pleasing aesthetics and easy navigation, this approach has helped to build brand loyalty and increase sales not only locally, but worldwide for many of our clients.

With an ever expanding dependence upon the internet, it is unsurprising that a large proportion of business revenues are derived from online transactions or indeed from offline transactions that were the product of online marketing efforts.

It is our focus to deliver professional and affordable websites to parallel the excellence of your business. We create and design websites for new start ups and established businesses alike and will provide you with everything you need to get up and running with ease.

Our philosophy is that an organised marketing effort and strategic campaigns are the secret to driving sales and winning the business of new clients. We offer fully integrated marketing services to get your website noticed using Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and other targeted online marketing methods.

Please contact us for more information about our web design services or to speak to a member of our team.

The new website offers everything you need from Personal Counselling, Reiki, Tachyon Products, Workshops, Healing, Guidance, Comfort and Support.  The founder and Francesca Josephine is a Counsellor and Complementary Therapist who helps people with a wide range of service which can be seen at www.createsoulandlifesynergy.com

Francesca added:  ”This follows the new look of my website which I am very proud of. It has been a long journey and hard work to get it the way it looks now but I couldn’t be more pleased. A big thank to Grant and his team from The Web Surgery. They made it happen and I feel supported and guided all the way to improve and use this beautiful tool to reach as much people as possible and interact with them in this beautiful new energy on planet earth”.

We are not only website designers but approved by Google by their Google Engage for Agencies.  This allows us to help businesses improve their website traffic through using Google AdWords and other Google products.  We offer our existing customers free AdWords vouchers to help them to start using Google AdWords and promote their business to a global audience.  If you are interested to know more about Google AdWords then please contact us at: info@thewebsurgery.com for more information.

The Web Surgery creates professional bespoke solutions for client’s products or services.  All our websites are tailor made to the client’s specifications and designed to generate real leads rather that just to look good. The solutions we offer include:

• Website Design & Development
• Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Ecommerce Websites with credit card functionality
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
• Google Adwords
• Apps For Mobiles
• Social Media Integration
• Blogging
• Video
• Radioplayer

We have a wide range of clients in many different industries from: TV, radio, corporate business, film, executive education, fashion, construction, photography and art.

The Web Surgery Website Designers at The Web Surgery can help customers with a wide range of services from:

• Webite Design
• Website Designers Help Centre
• Hosting
• Domain Name Registration
• Digital Experiences
• Marketing
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• eNewsletters
• eMagazines
• Logo Design
• Photography

Whatever your websites needs, contact The Web Surgery to see how we can help at:

info@thewebsurgery.com

www.thewebsurgery.com

The Web Surgery won the project to create an ecommerce website for Melanie Drake Fashion and to design a new brand offering which consisted of a new brand identity.

The Melanie Drake Fashion ecommerce website is a fully functional website that allows customers to purchase items using all major credit cards and also Paypal through a Sage Pay payment system. In addition to this, the Melanie Drake Fashion website connects to the EPOS system in store giving instant stock control on items being delivered and sold.

The Web Surgery brought the Melanie Drake Fashion brand to life using a combination of strategic vision and creativity. How a brand is perceived effects how people respond to it, if you take a look at the brands who are getting it right you can see this for yourself; Apple, BBC iPlayer and PlayStation for an example. They inspire people; command attention and generate a loyal following.

The Web Surgery created a new brand identity for Melanie Drake Fashion which has strong appeal to their targeted female customer base and will be used on and offline consisting of new ecommerce website, new logo, new branding throughout physical store and new print advertising.

The Melanie Drake Fashion brand was founded by Melanie Drake, who previously worked in the fashion industry and interior design world. Melanie then decided to create her own online fashion boutique with Melanie Drake Fashion.

Melanie Drake Fashion offers women a range of designer labels such as: Maison Scotch, Becksondergaard, Borne, Ilse Jacobsen, Australia Luxe, Saint Tropez, Anonymous and Brin D’Amour.

Past seasons have seen brands appear from: Des Petits Hauts, Whiite, Ganni, Eleven Paris, Style Butler, Miller Harris, J-Shoes, I Love My T’s, Evil Twin, Lola Cruz, Becksondergaard, Alex Monroe, Willow Cashmere, Hanro Women and Hanro Men.

The Web Surgery is a web design agency delivering business solutions, creating strategic digital models for clients in order to help them reach new customers, increase traffic online, build brand loyalty and to grow business.

If you are interested in setting up an ecommerce website then please contact the award winning web design agency The Web Surgery at:

info@thewebsurgery.com
0208 487 1954
www.thewebsurgery.com

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The Awards were held in London and given by the Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Richmond Park MP Zac Goldsmith. The CEO of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, Anne Newton, hosted the evening.

CEO Grant Brookes added: “The Web Surgery are delighted to have been commended for Best New Start Up in our first year of trading in web design. We’ve all worked so hard at getting the business to where it is today and it’s encouraging to work with so many clients who realise the importance of investing in professional websites and digital solutions for their businesses.”

The category for best New Start Up was heavily subscribed and there were eight businesses shortlisted for the Best New Start Up Award comprising of:

Conrad Merrin
Duncan Accounting
Graphictank
Guide 2 Richmond
HomeXperts
Sweet Memories of Twickenham
Sweetie Pies Boutique Bakery
The Web Surgery

The Web Surgery creates affordable and professional websites for businesses and offers bespoke solutions for client’s products or services. All our websites are tailor made to the client’s specifications and designed to generate real leads rather that just look good. The solutions we offer include:

Website Design & Development
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Ecommerce Websites with credit card functionality
Apps For Mobiles
Social Media Integration
Blogging
Video
Radioplayer
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Google Adwords

The Web Surgery have a wide range of clients in many different industries from: radio, TV, corporate, business clubs, film, construction, executive education, fashion, photography and art.

We are very excited about being Shortlisted for Best New Start Up. Business Secretary Vince Cable and Richmond Park MP Zac Goldsmith will be presenting the awards at a ceremony on the 20th October 2011.

The Richmond Business Awards are a partnership between Richmond Borough Chamber of Commerce and Newsquest.   On the Richmond Business Awards website, Anne Newton, CEO of the Richmond Borough Chamber of Commerce, said: “The chamber wishes to promote business success in borough, as not only is this good for business and their stakeholders, but also supports our wider community in so many ways – from social and charitable initiatives though to a prosperous economy where our local people can work and enhance their lives.

The list of Shortlisted businesses can be found here.

The Web Surgery are experts in Web Design and based in the Uk. Our web designers create professional bespoke websites for many businesses, from established businesses to start ups.

We are a leading UK web design company which creates affordable, professional websites and no web design project is too big or too small.

Want to know more about our web design services?

If you are looking to either update your existing website or want to launch a website then please do get in touch with us.

Richmond Borough Chamber of Commerce and Newsquest have got together to bring the Richmond Business Awards 2011 and Business Secretary Vince Cable and Richmond Park MP Zac Goldsmith will be presenting the awards.

The Richmond Business Awards Categories are:

Best Community Retail Business
Best Charity or ‘Not for Profit’ Award
Best Business for Innovation and Technology
Achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility
Best Professional Practice
Best Digital Marketing
Best Training and Development
Best Medium Sized Business
Best Customer Service
Best Business
Best Small Business
Best New Start Up

To enter is easy and all you have to do is go on the Richmond Business Awards 2011 website

1. What is your business?
I am a personal trainer, with a Msc in Sport Science and over six years experience in making people fitter and helping them hit their sporting, exercise or weight loss goals.

2. How do you make your business work?
In my line of work, it’s important that my clients and I have rapport, otherwise they won’t want to spend an hour or two a week with me! So I combine being friendly and approachable with specialist training knowledge to get the best results for my clients while they (hopefully) enjoy themselves.

3. What’s the secret to your success?
Being expert. Having a Msc sets me apart from the majority of other trainers. So that…and a good alarm clock.

4. How does someone get into this field of work?
You’ll need to do a personal trainer qualification through a body like Premier or YMCA. It’s typically a 3 month course, and then a good personal trainer looks to continually update their knowledge with further development courses.

5. What inspired you to set up your own business?
I was ready for a new challenge.

6. Under the current economic climate, what do you think are the biggest challenges facing business at the moment? Uncertainty over interest rates on bank loans makes it quite hard to plan ahead financially. Specifically to my business, personal training is one of the first ‘luxury’ items people let go when they are feeling the pinch – which is crazy as being fit and healthy is better than a couple more pints in the pub!

7. Do you have any tips for people setting up their own business?
Be prepared for it to take longer than you expect to get yourself going, and make sure you have a great accountant if finance isn’t your strong point. This can make or break your business.

8. How do you hope The Barnes Business Club will help your business?
I’d hoping it will help get my name out in the community; it always helps to be talked about!

9. If anyone reading this needs to find out more about your business, how do they get in touch?
Please visit my website at www.geneferarcher.co.uk

1. What is your business?
Put simply, i am a teacher and mentor to people who want to act. I work with students who wish to go to drama school, professional actors who wish to develop their skills or identify problems and those in the corporate world who need to work on their presentational skills.

2. How do you make your business work?
I have been in business for a relatively short period of time- one year, and i am learning all the time; quite literally in some cases, as i had to put myself through a computer course. What i would say as a result of this very steep learning curve, is that unless you have a concrete belief in what you’re selling, then you’re scuppered. After a year’s experience as Audition Doctor, my confidence has only grown; 80% of my drama school applicants, who in some cases were applying for the third time, will be beginning their training in September at accredited drama schools, i have repeat appointments with professional actors and i teach regularly at the highly respected Actors Centre. These endorsements serve only to make me more driven and i hope that this determination and confidence in my teaching abilities will make Audition Doctor a success.

3. What’s the secret to your success?
I think it’s a little early in the day to infer that I’ve achieved anything like the success that i think Audition Doctor deserves; it is still very much a work in progress. However, i hope that my dogged determination will ensure that real success is absolutely achievable and soon.

4. How does someone get into this field of work?
I can’t speak for anyone else, but personally i came to teaching initially by necessity. I have been a successful working actress for over twenty years, but have recently found it deeply frustrating that during the inevitable gaps between jobs, i wasn’t achieving. I have a passion for this industry and a wealth of experience to share and so i decided to approach The Actors Centre to see if they would be interested in employing me on any basis. They welcomed me with open arms and have been a continued support to me in my mentoring endeavours ever since. Subsequently i have also set up Audition Doctor and have my own website, www.auditiondoctor.co.uk.

5. What inspired you to set up your own business?
My work at The Actors Centre was my chief inspiration to set up Audition Doctor. I enjoyed the work so much and found that the students wanted to see me on a more regular basis, chiefly in order to diagnose problems that were holding them back. I think it was this diagnostic approach to my students that inspired the name Audition Doctor. I knew through my experience at The Actors Centre that there was a demand for this kind of one to one tutoring for actors of all levels of ability and experience and i began to seek out a way of supplying it.

6. Under the current economic climate, what do you think are the biggest challenges facing business at the moment?
Again, i think it would be foolish of me to attempt any kind of analysis of a world that i am still relatively new to. However, i know only too well how intimidating it is, especially for small businesses, in this current climate with regards to just keeping going sometimes. Banks are still not overly keen to lend money to a business that is still in it’s infancy and i have basically put all of my overdraft into setting up Audition Doctor. The real challenge is just to keep focused and keep the faith that all the hard work will pay off one day.

7. Do you have any tips for people setting up their own business?
There is no point in trying to sell something that no one wants: be sure that there is a need for your product. I have also sought out help from mentors during the ongoing process of setting up Audition Doctor, in particular Grant Brookes, who designed the Audition Doctor website and who has provided invaluable help in deciding upon a marketing strategy. His support is priceless and ongoing.

8. How do you hope The Barnes Business Club will help your business?
I am always open to any advice or input that I’m given and i hope that it will inspire me further and perhaps give me ideas about developing Audition Doctor that i had not yet thought of.

9. If anyone reading this needs to find out more about your business, how do they get in touch?
I would invite anyone who’s interested to go to my website. www.auditiondoctor.co.uk.