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SprintEcommerce Client Wins 'Independent Etailer of the Year' Award - 20th February 2009
Bespoke website design for Sarah Coggles impresses at Drapers Etail Awards 2009
York based Sarah Coggles have been chosen as a model example of independent on-line fashion retail sector at this years' Drapers Etail Awards, having walked away with 'Independent Etailer of the Year'.
The winners were announced at a ceremony held on the 29th January 2009 at fashionable Mayfair venue, Sketch. The awards were recognition for best practice in one of the fastest growing fashion retail sectors and included categories in customer service, innovation and initiative.
Sarah Coggle's site is provided by Manchester based full-service e-commerce company Doctor Net, using their bespoke SprintEcommerce platform. Over the past two years, the companies have worked together to increase sales revenue and create a 'one of a kind' on-line experience for shoppers that reflects Sarah Coggles' image, making it one of the largest and most popular independent fashion etailers in the UK.
Mark Bage, Managing Director of Sarah Coggles said about the website, “Doctor Net has provided us with a fully-featured, flexible e-commerce solution that has empowered our on-line growth over the last two years. We would like to thank all the guys at Doctor Net for their hard work and helping us win 'Best Independent Etailer' at the Drapers Etail Awards this year.”
Chris Maule, Managing Director of Doctor Net, added, “I would like to congratulate Sarah Coggles on their success. It has been a pleasure to work with them and I look forward to ensuring their sales grow even more in the coming years.”
NOTES TO EDITORS:
Sarah Coggles was founded by Victoria Bage in York in 1974 on a single market stall and has since grown into one of the largest independent etailers in the UK, selling a diverse range of designer labels and one-off clothing items. In addition to its e-commerce website, Sarah Coggles has a store in York that receives more than 260,000 visitors a year. For more information, please visit the Sarah Coggles website.
Drapers Etail Awards is a new, dedicated award ceremony for the fastest growing sector in fashion retail. It is hosted by Drapers magazine in association with PayPal and Venda.
Manchester Firm Doctor Net to Represent the North West at Nationwide Technology Conference - 16th February 2009
Full-service e-commerce company champions North West's expertise, launches new e-commerce platform
Manchester based firm, Doctor Net is flying the flag for the North West at this year's Technology For Marketing & Advertising show, held at Earls Court 2, London on the 24th & 25th February.
Doctor Net will be using this opportunity to showcase its cutting-edge digital marketing expertise and launch its fully integrated e-commerce platform. The platform includes full-service e-commerce, email marketing, customer relationship management, pay-per-click (PPC) and search engine optimisation (SEO), eliminating the need for multiple vendors and streamlining the e-commerce process.
Several years in development, this technology is being launched at a time of exceptional growth for Doctor Net. The firm has seen four new staff members join in the past 6 months and annual turnover overtake the £1m mark. Managing Director, Chris Maule expects the company to reach £4m in annual turnover by 2012.
Chris Maule had the following to say about Doctor Net's attendance at the show: “We are very excited about this years' Technology For Marketing & Advertising show, which is a highlight in every marketers' calendar. Last year we met several companies and subsequently have helped them to transform their online sales and marketing. We hope to repeat that experience again and invite anyone who is curious about how fully-integrated e-commerce can dramatically increase their online sales to come and speak to us at the show.”
NOTES FOR EDITORS:
The Technology For Marketing & Advertising show is one of the largest trade shows of its kind in the UK. In 2008 it attracted 8,132 attendees and visitors with a combined annual marketing budget of over £1.8 billion.
Doctor Net is a Manchester, UK based full-service e-commerce firm providing e-commerce, email marketing, customer relationship management (CRM), pay-per-click (PPC), search engine optimisation (SEO) and data backup solutions.
Doctor Net will be located at stand F-22 at TFM&A 2009, where visitors will get the chance to speak to Chris Maule and his team of experienced marketing and technical consultants
A Healthy Glow for SprintEcommerce Following Xen-Tan Client Win - 3rd February 2009
Manchester-based company celebrates 24 month UK contract with international tanning brand
Full-service e-commerce firm Doctor Net has landed a 24 month contract with the UK & Europe-wide distributors of Xen-Tan's international self-tanning brand. The 2 year long partnership will see Doctor Net providing Skin Solutions Limited with a full-service e-commerce solution, SprintEcommerce to ensure sales growth over the coming years.
Xen-Tan comes with a range of celebrity endorsements from the likes of Ali Bastian, Danielle Lloydd and Gok Wan, and has won the Women's Own 'Beauty Hero' award. It is already one of the USA's most popular self-tanning products and is now taking the UK by storm. It differs from other self-tanning products by being streak-free, naturally coloured and attractively scented.
To enhance their capacity following the new client win, Doctor Net has recruited two new software developers, James Tunstall (31) and James Jaber (38). The new arrivals will further support Doctor Net's ongoing expansion plans to increase turnover to £4m per annum by 2012.
Chris Maule, Managing Director of Doctor Net, is optimistic about the firm’s progress. He said: “Our new 24 month contract with Xen-Tan & Skin Solutions Limited is just one of several large client wins we've had over the past few months - which just goes to show how hungry businesses are for cost-effective, accountable forms of marketing in the current economic climate.”
He continued: “We're on target with our expansion plans and have taken on two new developers to keep pace with the growing demand for web based marketing. We think encouraging growth is important and with a forward-thinking attitude, businesses can help counter the effects of the recession. We aren't going to let anything dissuade us from achieving the best for our clients.”
NOTES TO EDITORS
Xen-Tan is the first self-tanning spray to be streak-free and naturally coloured, making it the most popular, natural-looking and celebrity endorsed self-tan product on the market. For more information, please visit the Xen-Tan website.
Skin Solutions Limited is the exclusive UK & Europe-wide distributor for Xen-Tan. Set up by Salford Unversity graduate, Natalie Roche, Skin Solutions Limited employs three full-time members of staff and is expected to break the £1m turnover barrier in its third year of trading.
Record Year Predicted for On-line Spend - 9th October 2008
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Despite daily reports of a global financial crisis, recent figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau show on-line expenditure jumped 21% last year to £1.6bn despite tough trading conditions. This figure is likely to rise much further in 2008 as organizations decrease their spending on traditional channels and turn their attention towards on-line instead.
Chris Maule, the Managing Director at Doctor Net, which provides full-service e-commerce in the form of SprintEcommerce believes the reasons for this growth can be attributed to a number of factors:
"The main difference between on-line and traditional channels is accountability. You can track where every penny of your on-line investment goes. That kind of transparency you just don't get with TV or print advertising."
Maule continued, "Despite the slowdown in other channels, we continue to receive fresh enquiries from organizations keen to maximize their marketing spend. It's important for business owners to be able to invest their budget correctly and to know exactly what they are getting for their money. From our point of view, there's nowhere to hide and the challenge is to ensure we are providing real value on returns for our clients."
Healthy On-line Figures Despite Global Economy Fears - 14th March 2008
UK on-line marketing spend buoyant
Full-service e-commerce company Doctor Net are celebrating a great start to 2008 after winning some high profile e-commerce accounts within January and February. The Manchester based firm have noticed no decline in customer spend despite fears over the economy.
This news comes hot on the heels of findings that UK Internet advertising budgets grew further in the fourth quarter of 2007 despite cutbacks in other channels - that's according to the latest Bellwether report from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA), demonstrating the overall health of the on-line sector.
Doctor Net, who provide e-commerce, email marketing and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions said the market was buoyant and that it showed no signs of slowing. Exhibiting at this year's Technology for Marketing & Advertising show (TFM&A) at Earls Court further highlighted the growing numbers of companies who are turning their spend to on-line channels.
Doctor Net's business development manager John Coyne, exhibited at the show; "We had been quoted figures on the number of attendees in 2007 and initial results show a good increase on those figures. Our stand was extremely busy and all attendees and exhibitors seemed in great spirits. We expect spend on e-commerce and other on-line marketing channels to grow steadily over the coming months and are looking forward to maximising the gains for our most recently acquired clients."
NOTES TO EDITORS
Doctor Net is a Manchester, UK based full-service e-commerce firm providing e-commerce, email marketing, customer relationship management (CRM), pay-per-click (PPC), search engine optimisation (SEO) and data backup solutions.
Local Firms Team up to Fly the Flag for Manchester - 16th July 2007
Some of the biggest names in the Airline Industry were present to meet the team at EDM Ltd recently. The Oldham based company were exhibiting at the World Aviation Training conference and trade show in Orlando, Florida, and they were able to invite industry executives thanks to digital marketing experts Doctor Net - also based in Manchester.
Last month, Doctor Net won a pitch to support EDM's on-line communications strategy. Using Doctor Net's eMailCampaigner tool, EDM are able to keep in touch with existing, past and prospective customers by way of news updates and information sent via email.
Mick Bonney, Head of Business Development for EDM said, "In the past year we have been providing valuable evacuation training and service simulators for the likes of Virgin, KLM, Easy Jet, Air India, Austrian Airlines and Alitalia and we felt it was the right time to start telling people about our success and also inform them when and how they can come and meet us. Even better was being able to see which important contacts had opened the email - thanks to Doctor Net's reporting tools."
One of the first email campaigns put together was an invitation to the World Aviation event that allowed recipients to RSVP. Mr Bonney commented, "We were recently exhibiting at an event in Florida and some of our airline contacts mentioned that they had received our email so we know the message is getting out there which is great".
Doctor Net themselves are no stranger to promoting the wealth of talent available from Manchester's digital agencies. The city centre based company have worked with some great brands such as Waterstone's, BAA, Chelsea FC Travel, Jaguar, Brewers Fayre and Holmes Place (now Virgin Active).
"Our email marketing, e-commerce and CRM solutions have allowed us to work with some great names over the past 10 years, though it is always nice to be working with a company much closer to home", commented Doctor Net's John Coyne. "When we first met EDM we knew there was so much potential to achieve great results with email marketing as they had some great news articles along with a targeted list of contacts they wanted to communicate with. It is excellent for both of us to be promoting Manchester on a national and international stage".
I'm No 'Green' Criminal - 10th July 2007
"A BUSINESSMAN was branded an environmental criminal by Manchester council - although he pays to recycle his firm's rubbish.
Chris Maule, managing director of email marketing and software company Doctor Net, has been paying private recycling company Emerge Recycling to collect his waste - usually bags of shredded paper - for six months.
Specially-marked bags are left on the pavement outside the Fennel Street firm...." - Snippet from the Manchester Evening News on 10th July 2007.
Read the full article here
Doctors On The Run - 20th May 2007
The team at Doctor Net are always up for a challenge whether it be creating successful solutions for their clients or running as fast as they can for as long as they can!
Always ones to protect the downside of any situation, Doctor Net invited Chris' General Practitioner brother along! "I think everyone's done some training this year, but it's nice to have a medical doctor running along with the rest of us from Doctor Net!"
"This will be the fifth year Doctor Net has taken part in the Great Manchester 10K", commented Managing Director Chris Maule. "It's always great day and good to get as many people involved as possible."
The team all finished with good times this year and expect to return to the race in 2008.
Ethical Agency Throws Out The Rubbish - 30th March 2007
UK Marketing agency doing all they can to preserve the World-wide-planet.
Digital specialists Doctor Net have jumped well and truly onto the carbon balanced bandwagon and are currently working on 3 different projects that hold the environment's best interests at heart.
This year has seen the company team up with recycling experts Emerge and event management agency Ethical Events. Ethical Events ongoing work with Save The Rhino has been well publicised and Doctor Net are continuing to support the marketing efforts for this campaign.
No stranger to helping out where they can Doctor Net became involved in the 'green initiative' a number of years ago when they developed GoinGreen's new car showroom - their on-line e-commerce site. GoinGreen, now make the world's best selling electric car.
The partnership with Emerge has had an immediate effect on staff at Doctor Net who were shocked to find out that 1 billion Christmas cards ended up as waste in 2006. The team now recycle all paper and card which is collected as part of the Emerge's 'Daily Takeaway' service.
In addition to their ongoing campaign to get companies to send their marketing material by environmentally friendly emails they have come up with the following tips of how you can make a difference with just a small effort in the workplace:
- Purchase and use recycled paper
- Only print emails and documents if it is essential
- Encourage staff to re-use and recycle paper rather than wasting
- Re-use scrap paper
- Issue company literature and documents internally and externally via email
- Set targets and offer staff incentives to implement and promote waste minimisation
- Set targets that can be measured - has your expense of purchasing paper decreased?
- Set your printer to print on both sides of the paper by default as you will use less paper
NOTES TO EDITORS
Doctor Net is a UK based digital marketing agency providing e-commerce, email marketing and CRM solutions. http://www.doc-net.com/
Ethical Events are an event and corporate hospitality agency who contributes a proportion of their profit from each and every event to the client's chosen charity or to one of the Ethical Events supported charities. http://www.ethical-events.co.uk/
Emerge Recycling offer multi material collections from businesses and homes as well as Waste Consultancy and a Schools Recycling Programme. http://www.emergemanchester.co.uk/
None Like It Hot - 2nd February 2007
Undeniably it's unseasonably warm, and according to a panel of UN scientists, it's not just somebody's fault; it's your fault. It's not very good for one's self esteem being responsible for the demise of your species so what can you do to help stop the Earth sliding into global melt down?
One area that you can make a big difference without causing yourself too much personal pain is in the office. You may be surprised to find out that an average office worker prints out 1,200 pages per month (21% of which ends up in the bin the day it was printed). If you're cringing reading this then the figure is probably a little too high.
UK based Email Marketing specialists Doctor Net believe the solution is simple. In addition to their ongoing campaign to get companies to send their marketing material by environmentally friendly emails they have come up with the following tips of how you can make a difference with just a small effort in the workplace:
- Purchase and use recycled paper
- Only print emails and documents if it is essential
- Encourage staff to re-use and recycle paper rather than wasting
- Re-use scrap paper
- Issue company literature and documents internally and externally via email
- Set targets and offer staff incentives to implement and promote waste minimisation
- Set targets that can be measured - has your expense of purchasing paper decreased?
- Set your printer to print on both sides of the paper by default as you will use less paper
NOTES TO EDITORS
Doctor Net is a UK based digital marketing agency providing e-commerce, email marketing and CRM solutions. http://www.doc-net.com/
FloorHeatingOnline.com Makes Competition Break into Sweat - 2nd August 2006
Grimsby based FloorHeatingOnline.com have today launched their 2nd generation e-commerce site using Doctor Net's SprintEcommerce platform. FloorHeatingOnline.com had been successfully trading on-line for some time but wanted to partner a company that could help drive their aggressive sales and marketing targets and could show a track record of developing robust, secure and scalable e-commerce solutions.
"We're all very excited about the launch of the new site," commented Doctor Net's Managing Director Chris Maule. "We are looking forward to driving sales up for the team at FloorHeatingOnline.com and helping them develop a strong multi-channel sales and marketing strategy."
Visit http://www.FloorHeatingOnline.com/ and www.doc-net.com today and find out more.
GoinGreen.co.uk Launches New Website - 18th July 2006
GoinGreen are not your average car company. Straight off the block you can see this when their G-Wiz electric car offers 600 'mpg' (equiv) and is exempt from road tax and congestion charge!
Their aim is to inspire as many people as possible to 'go green', so the company developed a business model which has eliminated many of the traditional costs associated with selling vehicles. GoinGreen sell direct to customers with no dealers, no showrooms, no advertising - it is all viral and web based - so their e-commerce platform is of paramount importance in this strategy.
Their new website, which launched today, is the second generation website that Doctor Net has developed for the company. The new site based on Doctor Net's SprintEcommerce platform adds full transactional capacity as well as many other features and gives the company the firm base it needs for the rapid growth in its market place.
Visit http://www.GoinGreen.co.uk/ and http://www.doc-net.com/ today and find out more.
ArkClothing.com Creates Valuable New Channel for RETT Retail - 9th September 2005
Today sees the launch of http://www.arkclothing.com/ a valuable new sales channel for RETT Retail who run the ARK brand street wear stores in eight prominent locations across the North of England.
RETT Retail, who employ over 100 people, sees the internet as a vital part in their growth strategy and have targeted the new website to contribute a million pounds to sales in it's first 12 months.
ARK chose Doctor Net as a partner in the project due to their proven ability to deliver solutions able to handle multi-million pounds worth of transactions on an annual basis and quickly and cost effectively understand and deploy complex business software.
Visit http://www.arkclothing.com/ and http://www.doc-net.com/ to today and find out more.
Doctor Net Launches 4th Generation Website - 9th November 2004
Doctor Net has today launched its 4th generation website and celebrates it's 8th year as one of the UKs leading technology houses. This latest generation website brings the company's service portfolio up to date. "The driving factor behind all our products and solutions is that we deliver ROI to our customers", comments Chris Maule, Managing Director.
Visit http://www.doc-net.com/ today and find out more.
Doctor Net Limited Powers Gear4Music.com into the National Finals of the 2004 DTI E-commerce Awards - 10th September 2004
Local internet company Doctor Net Limited has helped it's client Gear4Music.com pick up two awards at Yorkshire and Humber Regional Final of the 2004 DTI E-commerce awards. The awards were held in Barnsley on the 10th September 2004.
Gear4music.com won the e-trading category and received a 'highly commended' award in the e-business category. The awards were won for the solution that Doctor Net has produced for them over the last 2 years. The awards judge the use of the internet and internet technologies from over 400 entrants, each of the companies being individually interviewed.
Doctor Net created a system for Gear4music.com that has helped reduce their running costs. This has been achieved by the integration of the website in to a bespoke Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system which allows easy access to important customer, ordering and manufacturing information. This new system has transformed the business over the past 24 months and allowed the Gear4music.com to achieve it's tough growth targets.
Chris Maule, Managing director at Doctor Net said, "The DTI E-commerce awards are our industry's most acknowledged and prestigious awards. To have our work recognised is fantastic and the whole team are very excited. We're now looking forward to going to the National Finals in London at the beginning of next month and we're hopeful that we won't be coming back empty handed!"
The London Finals are held at the Grosvenor House hotel in London on the 6th October 2004.
Last Updated ( Monday, 23 February 2009 )
