Rapidsite evolution comes a step closer

The long awaited launch of the new rapidsite software has come a step closer.

This truly is a big deal to not only us here at UFindUs and Customer Street but more importantly to our customers.

Over the last few years we have continued to develop our range of products and services, keeping pace with the ever changing demands placed on us by our customers as well as staying one step ahead of our competition. I think that in general we have been able to achieve both things.

An area that we have however tended to overlook, and which has brought us more brickbats than bouquets, has been our templated websites which we provide free of charge for the majority of our customers. Stuart Laverick, our developer assigned to this  mammoth task has now been left alone long enough to be able to finish an alpha version of the new software.

This prototype has been passed to Stuart Forrest, our technical director with the brief to “do his best to break it”. Stuart will now undertake to pick as many holes in it as possible, checking it thoroughly to see if it has any coding errors before it goes onto the next stage which will involve the creation of the new template skins.

If you haven’t come across the development blog why not check it out, as even from a layman’s point of view it makes interesting reading to learn about the many processes which deliver something we feel will only improve further our ability to continue to deliver a first class service.

UFindUs and Customer Street just keep growing

Having just had a passing chat with Adrian Berry, the Customer Street search engineer, who was telling me that at the last count our directories which include, Smile Local, More UK and of course UFindUs as well as over 140 trades portals, have a staggering 700,000 plus page impressions on the internet.

Is it any wonder that when you look for a tradesman or business on the internet there’s a pretty good chance that sooner rather than later you will be coming across a link to any of our hugely successful business directories or to any of the tens of thousands of websites that we have built for our customers ranging from the humble, but exceptionally search engine friendly rapidsite to our bespoke Premium Design websites.

Check out what I mean, just type in “general builder stevenage” or “electrician london”. The results speak for themselves.

Develop your knowledge of the web with Customer Street and UFindUs

Our search manager here at Customer Street, Adrian Berry, has been writing some really good informative pieces on his web marketing blog.

Adrian has been working hard over the last few months with the launch of the new Smile Local and More UK directories coming online but he still manages to make the time to offer useful tips and advice which anyone with a website would find useful.It’s easy to read and not too techie (if you want in depth information on search engine optimisation (SEO) then check out his SEO blog) so don’t be afraid to take a look.

As well as contacting our support team you can also leave comments on Adrian’s blogs and he will be happy to respond.It doesn’t matter if you think it may even sound like a bit of a daft thing to ask, chances are if you are thinking it so will lots of other people. After all the internet is still a relatively new place and its easy to assume that you should know the basics.

Chances are that if you are new to computers and the net then theirs no reason why you should know everything already. If you leave a comment then others will be able to learn from it too so bookmark or keep checking back to help keep you internet knowledge up to date.

Toni Schneider – wordpress is making the world a smaller place

I have just seen an interview with Toni Schneider on WallStrip. He is the CEO of Automattic. He doesn’t really do labels so his colleagues affectionately call him the “band leader”.

If you get time then check out the interview, you may need to bear with it whilst it buffers. Listening to him put me very much in mind of our own Customer Street Technical Director, Stuart Forrest. The longer I work within this industry the more people I am coming across like both Toni and Stuart.

These guys, and many more besides, never seem phased by anything, they are approachable, passionate about what they do and most of all are natural. Nothing is for show, they are who they are and a big part of why they do what they do is because they feel they can make a difference that will shape peoples lives for the better.When you listen to Toni he is very frank and open about the things he’s asked in the interview and not full of his own self importance like many CEOs in other industries.

At the end of the day the public are the ones who ultimately decide how good they are and they know that the public can on occasions be very fickle so they take nothing for granted. I would like to think that if you read Stuarts own blog you can get an insight into the man and the passion behind Customer Street.

UFindUs Customers Upgrade to Customer Street

Anyone with a UFindUs package will be aware of the immense power that the directory has developed over the past few years since it was created. As with all things to do with the web however times change and products have to evolve.

UFindUs still continues to offer a internet presence that is difficult to beat, the ability to get your website found on the major search engines, usually in very prominent positions and the prospect of increasing business.

Customer Street has been developed to act as a new media advertising brand of which UFindUs is now a part of. It is marketed alongside other directories, these being Smile Local, More UK and over 130 of our Customer Street Trades portals covering just about every type of retail and service sector product imaginable.

If you are interested in learning more about upgrading your existing UFindUs package to take advantage of all Customer Street can offer then please email ad@customertreet.com and we will be more than happy to get some of our advisors to give you a call.