7th Hantsweb Awards
Added on Wednesday 11 Nov 2009
Laura and I are are so pleased that our little website has been nominated for the Hantsweb Awards. This is no mean feat for two local women who decided to put their town back on the map. We have achieved so much since the site went live in early June 2009, not only with improving awareness of Ryde locally , but also internationally.
Our I Love Ryde postcards were a stroke of genius, with those businesses who joined the website handing the postcards out to customers and sending them to friends and family around the world. All the local businesses who joined this venture have benefitted from additional footfall.
Our advertising campaign, which included Country Living, Coast and BBC Gardeners World nationally, Solentlife in both the Portsmouth and Southampton areas, Google adwords, Onboard TV advertising in conjunction with the Ryde Town Council and our Banner in a number of very prominent positions at various venues around the island have helped to increase Rydes' popularity.
We hope that with the coming months we can both increase the amount of information on the site and encourage other businesses to discover what the "Bigger Picture" is that we have in store for the future of putting Ryde back on the map!
