Media Buzz: Ascendancy; Plant Hippo; Rees Bradley Hepburn

Ascendancy puts photo business in the frame

A SHROPSHIRE photographic business has seen a major growth in its business after using Shifnal-based digital marketing agency Ascendancy.

Ascendancy managing director Helen Culshaw and her team designed a website for Vicki Owen, owner of Martha the Photobooth and since going live the business has seen a massive rise in the number of bookings.

Ms Owen, from Newtown, established the business after buying a neglected caravan and transforming it into a vintage style travelling photobooth.

Affectionately named Martha, painted in pastel coloured paints, she hires out the photobooth for weddings, parties and other special occasions.

She said: “The business has been operational since summer last year but it was not until 2015 when we launched the website that bookings really started to take off.

“Martha now spends most of her weekends at parties and weddings which is great.

“For our customers it is a simple, easy to use site and as a result we have seen bookings quadruple, which is just fantastic.”

Ms Culshaw said: “Working with Vicki to design a website for Martha the photobooth was a really fun project and we are delighted it’s proving so successful.”

Plant Hippo hopes to wallow in success with new solution

SHROPSHIRE-based website host and domain services provider, Plant Hippo, is targeting new business after launching a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution.  

The service is aimed at corporate users and is intended as a scalable, secure and cost effective way to deploy cloud hosting.

The IaaS solution is powered by OnApp, the cloud resource technology which is now used by one in three public cloud platforms.  It enables users to set up private or public clouds in minutes using libraries of pre-configured, customisable virtual machine templates.

Darren Lavender, managing director of Planet Hippo, said:  “This new IaaS solution offers greater flexibility and scalability than traditional web hosting.  It enables corporate users to accelerate their delivery of cloud services and achieve significant cost reductions by reducing their reliance on premise based IT infrastructure and eliminate the need for costly and obsolete centralised storage.”

Rees Bradley Hepburn helps Higgs & Sons with new website

Paul Hunt, managing partner at Higgs & SonsMERIDEN-based creative communications agency, Rees Bradley Hepburn has been appointed as the Digital Partner for Black Country law firm, Higgs & Sons.

RBH beat a number of agencies to secure the new business, and its focus will be on designing, building and launching a new website for the legal practice.

RBH aims to capture the law firm’s ‘website wish-list’ and pair this with its digital expertise to develop a fully responsive site that will improve the user experience and in turn generate more commercial opportunities for Higgs & Sons.
 
Paul Hunt, managing partner at Higgs and Sons (pictured), said: “RBH is an experienced agency with an impressive client list.  They grasped what we wanted from very early on in the process and their creativity coupled with their understanding of the digital landscape makes them the ideal partner.

“This year marks the 140th anniversary of the firm’s founding and this development will be another important landmark for us. We are extremely pleased to be working with RBH and can’t wait for the new website to be in place.”

Debra Hepburn, managing director for RBH, said: “We are really pleased to add such a well-respected, long standing business to our client portfolio.”

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