In time I understood what was missing, it’s the tangible asset factor.  What was missing from cyber tech was the need we have to hold something that is tactile, being connected through the medium.  Newspapers, Magazines, and media of the printed form may have been impacted but they are still there, and in some cases more and stronger than ever.  Take a walk through any supermarket and look at the shear range of magazines and publications that adorn the shelves – there’s countless magazines on countless topics.  Simple truth is there’s nothing quite beats a good book, magazine or news paper, portable, no need for electricity, batteries, no real worries about loosing them and they are tactile and interactive in the simplest of ways.  I reckon Johannes Gutenberg would still be very proud of his legacy.

What technology really has brought us, is the ability to produce magazines a lot quicker and easier than before for instance WN6 do the pre-press production for Local Life, and turn the whole magazine round in a very short space of time in terms of work hours.  This means the economies of scale and the point of access to produce a professional looking magazines are far far lower than they ever where.

So what are you interested in, do you have a club, a hobby, a community that would like to read and enjoy the news and views in a tangible form, can you become a micro publisher?  If you would like to try your hand at magazine publishing, you could always give it a go on your own.  Start with a something small and ‘lo-fi’, use packages such as Word and Publisher, or even the open source applications out there.  Sell a little advertising and have a go – it could be the start of something big, who knows at very least you may become self employed.

Did you know – the first business venture Richard Branson started was a magazine called Student!  Described as being a poor academic and having dyslexia to boot, this didnt stop the now world known entrepreneur.

So if your little magazine becomes a success and you would like to make it more professional, there are many many companies out there that can help.  WN6 being just one.  WN6 have a unique formula backed by 20+ years in the industry, project management experience of over 75 published UK education titles, hundreds of local magazines created, a background in local content development, advertising sales experience and business management to boot (all wrapped up in one person).  There may be many others with similar and greater experience – but the background I have is a decent enough recipe to at very least help in your publishing success.

Rest assured – no matter what you decide what your magazine should be about, the golden rule today is the same as it ever was – CONTENT IS KING!

Good luck.

The website running on the world famous WordPress platform allows every registered member the ability to add and edit there own content from desktop, laptop or phone.

Easy to use editing screen

With a content admin interface much the same as Microsoft Word it means EVERYONE can easily add website content.  They then submit the content for publishing where the page can go live to the site or be amended.

The club site and logo was developed with budget in mind and provides them with the perfectly clean and yet professional site with many many features to boot.

If you are part of a club or organisation why not as us about our clubs website service … it could be just the thing your club needs.

Rainhill Garrick Society a local amateur dramatic society based in the town of Rainhill, Merseyside.  Where looking for an advertisement to promote their latest play – 84 Charing Cross Road.

I little research and a description by good old Wikipedia – “a 1970′s book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between her and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co, antiquarian booksellers located at the eponymous address in London, England.”

With this in mind and with a little look at the film poster I set to work.  1 hour later I came up with this.  There are few advertisements that tell such a story but if you look closely if feel it embodies much of the plot, whilst advertising the local production too.  If you would like to find out about the am dram group visit their website – http://www.rainhillgarrick.co.uk/

If you have an Android, Blackberry or Apple smart phone you can simply install the application on on your phone, use the login details we provide and away you go.  Your website managed from your phone 24/7 on the move.

If you would like to find out more please contact us.

The secret to good business is having the perfect way to manage that data so it works for you.  Once you can manage that data you can perform better as a business, target products and services and keep up to date with your customers needs.  In short good data management equals – more time and as we all know time is – money.

WN6 recognise the need within small businesses to manage this data effectively, having a good customer database that works for you we believe is essential.  Once you have that you can plug it into invoicing and accounts.  But a good customer database first is essential.

We have recently trialled many of the larger commercial offerings and realised for a small business they are simply too overblown, the learning curve is too steep and to be honest they are too weighty.  We simply want a cloud based database that works for us.  Why in the cloud, simple because we don’t want loose our data and want to access it from anywhere in the world, on laptops and phones a like.

So we built our own!  Hosted it on our website and it works like a dream.

If you find it tough to manage data and feel a bespoke simple database will work much better for you then get in touch – its much more cost effective than you think.

Mark at Urban Wonder is one of those people.

Mark creates urban sculptures and mosaic based installations throughout the North West of England.  One of his most recent projects that shows his ability to harness and embrace the passion and creativity of youth is a Memorial for a former pupil of St Catherine’s CE Primary School in Wigan.

Mark was commissioned to work alongside children from years 3,4,5 and 6 in the production of a mosaic memorial. Without a doubt the overarching theme of seasons, plants and animals creates the perfect memorial indeed.

Having recently visited Marks website www.urbanwonder.co.uk I stumbled upon a marvel of ‘upcycling’ – that I personally find stunning – a  Mosaic Blue Tit sculpture.  A superb piece that would grace any garden.

So why do I describe it as upcycled?  Well, Mark has used waste polystyrene off cut’s found in a builder’s skip, sculpted the form of a bird, covered the polystyrene foam in an external cement based screed, then applied an array of tiles to create a truely wonderful stylised light weight garden sculpture.

I’d certainly buy one Mark!

Interested in Mark’s work?  Why not take a trip over to his website – Urban Wonder

If you would like to read more about my artisans project – click here

Some customers will say I want to be the top for my business name, or for ‘x y z’ search string.  The truth is getting to the top of Google isn’t difficult, if you have the right content for what your customers are looking for and you are not sitting in a market place that is saturated by the competition.

The plain and simple truth is keep your website up to date, use the blog and news facility built in to every WN6 website and your content will find its natural ranking on Google and your customers will find you.  Live your business online!  Talk about what you are doing week to week or day to day, the natural vocabulary of your blog posts will build up a certain keyword density that will naturally rank you accordingly.  Plus by updating your site regularly Google search spiders will understand that you are passionate about your business and almost certainly are providing the most relevant and up to date information.  Remember Google is firstly in the business of providing people with the most relevant and up to date search results on the web – thats its job.

An example of who this concept works is the case of a local business who was holding a Bonfire Event.  The customer hadnt ever posted events on the website believing that it was a waste of time as his old site was of poor ‘spiderable’ quality and therefore search spiders passed it by.  With a little encouragement regular content was placed on the new site and with the support of Google analysis WN6 proved that investing in content is a good thing.  So events where added, Halloween, Bonfire, Christmas etc.

This Bonfire Night this local business had the most successful night on record bar none.  More custom than Christmas, and any other night in their history – why because people found them on Google.  The need to attend a Bonfire in the Local Area, and having the event indexed by Google provide a result that amazed the business owners.  Whats more the analysis supports the fact that good content on a website that Google likes will reap the rewards – just as WN6 have always suggested. 

The proof is in the graph below, -and average of 22 Page Views per day across 30 days, rising to 300+ on the November 5th

If you can answer yes to any of these questions then WN6 Creative have a perfect low cost upgrade solution to suit almost any old machines and laptops.  Its low cost doesn’t require any new hardware and will allow you machine to start quicker, run quicker, browse the web quicker and even has the ability to open, edit and create Office documents with no more added software to purchase.

What’s more all your Windows data is kept safe and you can even return to your old windows installation at any time.  This super low cost laptop and pc upgrade has been tested on old machinery that many would describe as ready for the bin – and is proven to work beautifully.

If you would like to find out more, contact us today for a free no obligation quote.  We can either perform the upgrade for you or post you a disc thats already to go.

If you like the work you see on the website and would like to buy a print or canvas please contact us.  Would you like to commissions to some photography for your business, modelling portfolio, products, catalogue, brochure, publication or creative project?  If so please contact us to discuss your requirements further.

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Prices start at only 33p per print.