Aycliffe Today Business Aycliffe Today Business Issue 39 | Page 8

8 | Aycliffe Today Business Mobile app developer Mobile Rocket shortlisted for two awards at the North East Business Awards 2019… Mobile Rocket managing director Adam Lee (left) with sales director Kevin Ireson outside their Aycliffe Business Park premises. A ycliffe Business Park residents Mobile Rocket are delighted to have been shortlisted for not one but two North East Business Awards. The business has been shortlisted in the categories of innovation and digital technology, recognising their innovative approach to developing new products and services within the mobile apps market, at the Durham, Sunderland and South Tyneside heat at the prestigious Ramside Hall Hotel in March. Managing director Adam Lee said: “We are delighted to be recognised for our innovation and digital technologies. “We offer our customers the most up to date technology for their mobile app platform. We work with our customers to understand their requirements and can offer them a standard or bespoke app solution to ensure the app acts as an extension of their brand, adding real value through engaging and timesaving features. “Due to our continued development, our mobile apps feature reusable elements enabling customers to make significant cost-savings and quickly realise a return in BLAST OFF investment. “They are also user-friendly allowing customers to manage their app and access a host of statistics and reporting tools.” Adam added: “Our continued investment into our app platform adds further value to our customers as they benefit from future features at very little or no further cost.” The company has built a strong customer base since it was established in 2014 specialising in the recruitment, health and fitness, education, hospitality and business sectors. They have a team of highly skilled project managers and developers who can exploit the most up to date technologies to deliver the best results for customers. With over 268 billion mobile apps being downloaded a year and businesses continually looking for new ways of engaging and retaining customers via mobile technology, the future is exciting for Mobile Rocket. For more information about Mobile Rocket, please visit www.mobilerocket. co.uk, follow them on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, telephone [phone] or email [email protected]. Aycliffe Today celebrates 7 years with refresh A ycliffe Today have marked their seventh anniversary by refreshing their website. The community website was created and launched by Martin Walker in January 2012, with their award-winning business magazine – Aycliffe Today Business – following later the same year. To mark the milestone, publishers Mantis Media engaged Aycliffe-based Thrive to refresh the website aycliffetoday.co.uk. Aycliffe Today now reaches more than 50,000 unique people every month, through its website and social media channels, and has plans to roll out exciting new marketing products this year. Mantis Media director and Aycliffe Today editor Martin said: “The work is basically a refresh, so design-wise it hasn’t changed a lot, but the functionality of the site has been improved after a lot of excellent behind-the- scenes work by Thrive. “It looks cleaner, it’s a little easier to navigate and, more importantly, it’s faster to get around.” Thrive’s senior web developer Reza Snowdon has worked closely on Aycliffe Today’s new site, mainly on background work and transferring the site’s content, including more than 6,000 articles, to a new server. Reza said: “During the refresh we also upgraded the server which has further improved the speed of the site and allows for the support of more simultaneous visitors.” Aycliffe Today Business – the business magazine for Aycliffe Business Park – is published six times a year and is mailed direct to an exclusive mailing list across the business park. The printed publication has a readership of around 8,000, while aycliffetoday.co.uk averages 15,000 unique visitors every month. Aycliffe Today’s social media pages also enjoy impressive stats, with their Facebook posts reaching 40,000 people a month through engaging content, and their Twitter Aycliffe Today editor Martin Walker (left) with Thrive senior web developer Reza Snowdon. page generating on average 100,000 impressions a month*. Aycliffe Today also publish all their business material on their developing LinkedIn and Instagram pages. Online advertising is available from as little as £30, with sponsored online articles from £295, which includes a Facebook boost to guaranteed further reach of thousands, as well as professional writing and photography. To engage with Aycliffe Today, either in print or online, call 01325 728024 or email [email protected] *web and social media statistics are real (up-to-date figures and evidence can be provided).