As a long standing and successful website design agency in Stoke on Trent Jellifish was invited to 'mark the card' of Peter Mandleson and provide insight as to how the Labour Government could continue to help SME's in the digital sector, should they be re-elected this week.

The intimate gathering organised by Stoke on Trent North MP Joan Walley included other Stoke on Trent business leaders included CEO's of manufacturing and Chairman of Port Vale Football Club, Bill Brat

Jellifish were positive about their confidence in the economic recovery and questioned Lord Mandleson about how HMRC systems and processes should be more streamlined and simplified to help SME's particularly in this digital age.

Jellifish is a Business Link Select Supplier which means Jellifish are approved suppliers for grant funded and subsidised marketing consultancy, website development and other ICT solutions.

Online marketing can help transform businesses and support diversification strategies, two key areas that the current Business Link WM grants aim to support.

Any business (including trading Social Enterprises) interested in knowing more about the current grants available are encouraged to call Jellifish who will connect them with a Business Link Advisor for a free consultation and discuss availability and eligibility for funding. More Grant Funding News

Stoke on Trent City council commissioned Junction 15 to produce a short film called MiniStoke for its 100 year anniversary celebrations of the federation of the 6 towns which make up Stoke on Trent. Jellifish produced the website to sit alongside the film which looks at Stoke on Trent as if it were a village made up of 100 people. Visit www.miniaturestoke.co.uk

Jellifish have worked with Junction 15 on a number of projects to supply online video streaming for other prestigious Staffordshire based organisations including JCB and the NHS.

The fast-growing and successful company won the award for its wealth of experience in web design and online communications. Jellifish is able to provide services ranging from online communication campaigns to award winning retail websites whilst ensuring a professional service that's centred to each individual client.

The judges selected Jellifish as the company has used the knowledge gained during the Accredit UK accreditation and Business Link WM seminars to evaluate and research into fundamental factors that impact on their business. With this, Jellifish have made changes necessary to strengthen their business through the recession and beyond. Jellifish has gone on to share this knowledge within its network so that suppliers, clients and employees benefit.

Paula Millward, Marketing Manager at Jellifish, said of the win “We have fought hard, made plans and revisited plans, made changes, retrained, worked smarter as well as harder. We would like to positively promote this culture amongst our sector, improving the confidence levels and the reputation of web-based companies. We feel that gaining this recognition will take us a long way toward doing this and will give us the sense of achievement we very much deserve.”

“By gaining this recognition, we have achieved recognition within the industry and shown that a company with only 2 in-house full time employees can make big changes, can make a big impact and enjoy big results! We promote positivity and we’re investing more and have a greater appreciation of the importance of PR and see this award as a fantastic opportunity” she concluded.

Mike Musson, ICT Cluster Manager, added: “This year we've seen the highest standard of award entries yet and competition has been incredibly tough. The ongoing judging process has been rigorous and the panel faced a major challenge deciding the final winners. It's fantastic to see the quality and diversity of technology companies the West Midlands region has to offer.

The ICT Cluster Excellence Awards were presented at the evening Awards event following the Annual ICT Cluster Conference held at the national Motorcycle Museum on 10 November 2009.

The successful ecommerce specialist firm has been selected to join the final few under consideration for the Most Improved Business Award 2009 for the changes the business has undergone during the past twelve months. Improving customer services, communication, personnel development and other business efficiencies the team has seen the company through the recession and into its tenth year of trading.

In order to head off any adverse impact of the recession Jellifish has made substantial improvements into the way it operates document collaboration, real time credit control and cash flow forecasting, benefiting the staff morale, effective time management, client relationships, supplier relationships and cash flow.

Jellifish were one of the first businesses to achieve the Accredit IT UK quality standards awards for ICT Consultancy last year. Following which they have continued to review their business and have made internal changes that have helped them to continue as experts in their field of ecommerce development and consultancy, helping business grow their online sales.

Managing Director Amanda Bromley said, “We are really looking forward to the awards ceremony and have our fingers crossed for the big night. It has been a tough year for Jellifish but through evaluating our business, making service enhancements, and excellent relationships with our clients and suppliers we have stood out from the crowd and above all, the business is all the better for it. There is no time for complacency, least of all during a recession”.

Mike Musson, ICT Cluster Manager, added: “This year we've seen the highest standard of award entries yet and competition has been incredibly tough. The ongoing judging process has been rigorous and the panel faces a major challenge deciding the final winners. It's fantastic to see the quality and diversity of technology companies the West Midlands region has to offer.

The ICT Cluster Excellence Awards will be presented at the Annual ICT Cluster Conference held at Birmingham Motorcycle Museum on 10 November 2009.

Where 0845 numbers are included in the talk plan, free calls to many international destinations are now available during week days.

The 0845 3817105 service is the latest cheap calls product to be launched on the Jellifish owned Skinttariffs.com website, a leading money saving website aimed at the international calls market.

Terms and conditions apply. Please see www.skinttariffs.com for details.

The exhibition space was launched on Friday with a display of original artwork for sale by Paine Proffitt and includes tributes to Port Vale Football Club. Many Vale fans stopped to admire the exhibition from the street on their walk up to the Vale Park ground on Saturday.

The gallery is the latest brainchild of Jellifish Managing Director Amanda Bromley, who has developed an online gallery www.barewall.co.uk where artists can create an online portfolio and sell their work. Amanda, who also owns the dirty workspace for artists at Nile Street Studio in Burslem said “It is a way of bringing art into peoples lives and day to day environment. People who wouldn’t normally go into an art gallery have been stopping to have a look, asking questions and even asking to see more of Paine’s work”. The exhibition space is available to artists over the coming months until the shop is fully operational as the retail base of Amanda’s latest online venture.

JCB Finance wanted a campaign that would demonstrate the speed and nationwide coverage of their asset finance specialists. JCB have always supported their customers through crisis and wanted to reassure their clients that the current economic downturn was no exception.

Jellifish and their video production partners Junction 15 planned the video that was to represent the strong brand values of JCB Finance. A web version of the video was edited and hosted by Jellifish and an email newsletter was distributed to the JCB Finance customer database so that the audience of the message was maximized.

David Burgess, Managing Director of JCB Finance said “JCB Finance recently commissioned Jellifish to produce our corporate video recently. I am pleased to confirm that the video has been very well received by staff, customers and other companies within the group. It represents the brand and vision of JCB Finance and delivers the message with impact.

Jellifish worked with us to help identify our business objectives for the video and really listened to our objectives - they even hosted the video online and distributed the emailer so we didn’t need to source additional IT resource. Importantly, the production team blended in and didn’t put anybody off their day job.

We will be able to use this campaign and material time and time again and so was excellent value for money. Jellifish were professional, flexible and creative, we would be pleased to work with them again.”

Jellifish are hoping to work on more corporate branding communications like this, using creative video production and the internet as the delivery platform.

Managing Director Amanda Bromley says "it is such a beautiful building and it is a privilege that Jellifish can operate from it. You get such a great vibe from the place and the natural daylight gives us that added boost in the mornings!"

Jellifish will continue to help clients achieve their goals through their ecommerce sites in a bid to combat the economic crisis.

Jellifish worked with Skintariffs to obtain a unique 0870 number so that to BT call plan customers they could offer access to free international calls. To the cheap calls provider who's brand is all about saving money on tariffs, tapping into this new opportunity has made.

One of the top cheap calls providers. Jellifish distributed an emarketing and sms campaign to promote this service at valentines day for long distance lovers.

For details and terms on this free international calls using 0870 numbers visit http://www.skinttariffs.com/pages/Free-calls-using-0870/.

To compliment the seo work carried out on www.skinttariffs.com Jellfiish have now launched a suite of micro sites with a strategic structure and content for SEO purposes.

These sites are focusing in on particular products normally promoted by the skinttariffs site and are specifically aimed at their target market. These focused micro sites are therefore maximising on keyword search terms specific to the product and their defined market."

For example, for somebody wishing only to make international calls to Pakistan there is www.cheapcalls-pakistan.com.

For somebody wishing only to make international calls to the USA there is www.cheapcalls-usa.co.uk or in the event of keyword 'America' being searched rather than 'USA' there is http://www.cheapcalls-america.co.uk".

These smaller yet focused sites have been created for their top destinations where there is great competition and having this focus means the content is not diluted (in SEO terms) by other product content. India (http://www.cheapcalls-india.com), Dubai(http://www.cheapcalls-dubai.co.uk), France (www.cheapcalls-france.co.uk), Ireland (http://www.cheapcalls-ireland.co.uk), Bulgaria (http://www.cheapcalls-bulgaria.co.uk), Germany (http://www.cheapcalls-germany.co.uk), Canada (http://www.cheapcalls-canada.co.uk), Australia (http://www.cheapcalls-australia.co.uk), Poland (http://www.cheapcalls-poland.co.uk), Iran (http://www.cheapcalls-iran.co.uk), New Zealand (http://www.cheapcalls-new-zealand.co.uk), South Africa (http://www.cheapcalls-south-africa.co.uk), Spain (http://www.cheapcalls-spain.co.uk) and Pakistan (http://www.cheapcalls-pakistan.co.uk) each have their own site.

The Accredit UK standard is an independent quality mark that promotes trust in IT and helps suppliers prove their excellence. It proves to potential IT purchasers that companies holding the mark operate with appropriately skilled people, clearly defined processes, and that the company has a track record of meeting customers’ expectations.

Paula Millward, Marketing Manager for Jellifish: "We are in the business of helping our clients get the most from technology – in particular their online presence. As a result, we needed some way to prove upfront that we know what we are talking about – Accredit UK does exactly that. It helps us show to potential clients that we have been rigorously vetted and found to be at the top of our game."

Paula also sees considerable internal benefits in going through the certification process: "Accredit UK has given us a formal structure to help our training and quality assurance within Jellifish. It has helped us become an even better company and has paved the way for continued growth."

The Accredit UK Assessor said: "With a keen eye for providing excellent customer service and a desire to grow the business utilising best practice tools, Jellifish have fully embraced the potential within the Accredit UK standard to help in the achievement of these goals."

For more information on what this accreditation means please visit http://www.accredituk.com/news/accredit-uk-launches-standard-for-ict-consultants.html

Jellifish Internet Services teamed up with Covent Garden-based Max TM to provide web design and development, web hosting, search engine optimisation and content management services to their clients.

These include the world’s biggest cereal manufacturer, and other blue chip companies like Gourmet Garden.

Jellifish MD Amanda Bromley hopes this approach will lead to similar collaborations with other marketing and advertising agencies around the country, and add more well-known firms to their client base.

She said: “We are already working with around 100 companies, including Astley Clarke, Royal Stafford and now Kellogg’s, and hopefully we’ll be able to add more by joining forces with other marketing companies

“We teamed up with Max TM because our services were more technical and outside their existing skill set, so they complemented each other nicely.”

Max TM Managing Director Jeff Neilson said: “The partnership with Jellifish works really well because we are able to add their excellent technical skills to our creative solutions providing a great end result for our clients.

“We are excited about the prospects of working together in future.”

Stoke-on-Trent based website design and development firm has also scooped a prestigious contract with pottery company Royal Stafford, and is just starting work on a strategy to develop and support their online ecommerce site.

Amanda Bromley said: “We have a variety of clients large and small on our books, and the work we are now doing for Royal Stafford shows we can be equally effective for any type of company.”

Managing Director Amanda Bromley said: “We have always concentrated on customer service and we’re very passionate about our work, which is why we’ve picked up clients like Astley Clarke.

“Many web designers will complete the site and leave the client to it, but we continue to work with our clients to grow their online business.

“For a company like Astley Clarke, which deals exclusively online, this is hugely important.”

Following the launch of the site Moorland's sales increased 100%, and the popularity of their promoted products encouraged them to relaunch exclusive, traditional lines like their art deco tableware and hand decorated artware pieces created by Jon Plant. Moorland Pottery Partner Adrian Tilsley said: "We were delighted to team up with a local company, especially after seeing the quality of Jellifish's work. It was a big project which had to be turned around quickly, and I was impressed by their professionalism and expertise. Most importantly, the site has been very effective and enabled us to increase sales, which was the main objective."

There is also a picture gallery featuring images from the inaugural Burslem festival, which took place in December 2005.

Jellifish MD Amanda Bromley said: "It's not what we normally do, but we like to work with the local community and promoting Burslem as a place to visit.

"We created the site as a one-stop shop for people interested in coming along and hope it will encourage lots of visitors."

The project is a radical departure for Jellifish, who normally work on corporate sites for the likes of Kellogg's and prestigious London jewellers Astley Clarke.

Jellifish won the Best Agent Website award from Just Dial, part of Carphone Warehouse, for their discounted international phone call site Skinttariffs www.skinttariffs.com) in November 2006.