News - Support Guide is a Success - again
Four Years of Success for Business Support Guide
Each year, the Staffordshire-based Business Innovation Centre (BIC) produces a directory of business support resources, match-funding initiatives, and grants available within the region. Rising costs and resource constraints meant the BIC needed to explore new ways to deliver the directory, and asked our team for help.
Using our Live Breeze solution including the Breeze Directory Manager module, we were able to deliver the perfect solution to meet the current and future needs of the BIC.
The existing printed Support guide was migrated into the Live Breeze system, and staff at the BIC received a comprehensive training and support package to allow them to update the directory. When all changes were complete, the directory was converted automatically to static web pages and exported for mass-production as a browseable CD-rom.
The CD-rom version of the guide is supported by an online copy, which can be updated throughout the year by the BIC as initiatives and funding structures change.
The guide has proved so successful that the BIC have just delivered a 4th edition of the directory, featuring business-card sized CD-roms. In addition to brand updates, hosting and management of the online directory, and some content changes, our team were able to assist with direct mail preparation, to help the BIC get the guide out to over 1800 businesses throughout the region.
"The BIC has worked in conjunction with Live Information Systems to product a Business Support Guide for North Staffordshire for over four years. The format has gone from an A5 hard copy to a traditional sized CD Rom to a Credit Card sized CD Rom to being available on the Internet....
...the team are very approachable and always willing to help out in any way they can to ensure complete client satisfaction. "
Sandra Butterworth, Business Manager, Business Innovation Centre
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