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User experience consultancy makes two appointments to support growth of new service

By Ellie MacDonald | Client news, Positive news | Comments are Closed | 20 April, 2020 | 0

A leading user experience and behavioural research consultancy has made two new appointments to support a new service offering. Leeds-based SimpleUsability has appointed Jenny Roberts as Research Helper Manager and Chloe Kershaw as Participant Recruitment Administrator to its sister company Research Helper. The firm has made the appointments to support the growth of Research HelperRead more

Going Virtual: Leeds-Based Pub Quiz Company Adapts to Coronavirus Crisis

By Ellie MacDonald | Positive news | Comments are Closed | 15 April, 2020 | 0

KwizzBit utilises its online quiz platform to host virtual quizzes for pubs, businesses and families at home during lockdown. Adapting to the nationwide lockdown, the smartphone pub quiz company, KwizzBit, is facilitating virtual quizzes for pubs to stay in contact with their customers, remote working businesses and families at home. KwizzBit is a cloud-based serviceRead more

VA ensures businesses continue to thrive

By Ellie MacDonald | Positive news | Comments are Closed | 15 April, 2020 | 0

A Yorkshire-based business support agency is offering free one-hour sessions with business owners to ensure they have a business contingency plan. Amy Russell, founder and managing director of Leeds-based Crescent VA is offering the support to ensure businesses can continue even if the key contact is taken out it. After seeing a long-standing client hospitalisedRead more

Yorkshire firms launch prompt payer initiative to support small businesses

By Ellie MacDonald | Company news, Positive news | Comments are Closed | 8 April, 2020 | 0

We’re delighted to announce a commitment to an initiative to ensure suppliers of small businesses, and freelancers are paid promptly. Leeds-based PR agency MacComms has joined Halifax-based Mellor Financial Management which has launched the prompt payer initiative, committing to making payments to suppliers within seven days. In 2008, the Government launched the official Prompt PaymentRead more

UK start-ups could win £5000 worth of customer research in new competition

By Ellie MacDonald | Client news, Positive news | Comments are Closed | 6 April, 2020 | 0

To celebrate their new Research Helper service designed to deliver insight in just a three-day turnaround, UX and behavioural research consultancy, SimpleUsability, is offering one UK start-up business the chance to win a research package worth over £5000. A panel of judges will decide on one start-up they agree that will benefit from the researchRead more

Sensitive skincare brand listed on Amazon

By Ellie MacDonald | Positive news | Comments are Closed | 31 March, 2020 | 0

Whilst the world is a worrying place for everyone right now, one small Yorkshire indie brand is doing its best to stay positive and keep our constantly cleaned hands healthy and a listing on the largest e-commerce site certainly helps! Myroo, launched in 2016, has successfully launched on Amazon Prime after identifying the platform asRead more

Local mum and author creates book to help children through coronavirus

By Ellie MacDonald | Positive news | Comments are Closed | 26 March, 2020 | 0

A Yorkshire-based mum and businesswoman has created a storybook to reassure children throughout these uncertain times. After seeing the confusion and fear in her own son and daughter, Stacey Kelly, the founder of Early Years Story Box, was inspired to create a storybook and activities to help explain the coronavirus to children and to reassureRead more

More than 400,000 people sign up as NHS volunteers in a day

By Ellie MacDonald | Positive news | Comments are Closed | 25 March, 2020 | 0

More than 400,000 volunteers have signed up in just 24 hours to support the NHS in helping vulnerable people who have been told not to leave their homes during the coronavirus crisis. Nearly five people per second enlisted in the government’s new volunteering scheme in the hours after the health secretary, Matt Hancock, launched aRead more

Digital agency launches e-commerce initiative

By Ellie MacDonald | Positive news | Comments are Closed | 25 March, 2020 | 1

GRM Digital offers support to three businesses struggling to trade because of coronavirus   A Leeds-based multi-national web development and digital marketing agency has launched a campaign to provide three local businesses the chance to benefit from a completely free e-commerce website. GRM Digital launched the campaign after seeing local businesses struggling to trade offlineRead more

Online vet launches 24/7 service

By Ellie MacDonald | Client news, Positive news | Comments are Closed | 25 March, 2020 | 0

MacComms client, veterinary technology company, Vet-AI, has launched a continuous online service to provide remote consultations to UK pet owners 24 hours a day, seven days a week via its remote veterinary care app, Joii. The start-up business has built a team of 35 experienced UK-based veterinary professionals, to ensure pet owners are able toRead more

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