Question - are your staff achieving their potential when using CAD Software?

If yes then Great! You are committed to investing in appropriate training for your CAD staff, but you want to make sure you choose the right AutoCAD Trainer. Sometimes it is difficult to identify the key issues, or to make sure you are comparing like with like. So, you’ve hired a great team of design professionals and technical staff, and you’ve given them the best CAD software tools on the market. Now with our help, give them quality, on-going, AutoCAD Training programmes that enable your organisation to achieve the competitive edge it deserves!

We understand that your training budget has to be wisely invested, giving you the best possible value. You want to be certain that your staff acquire the specific skills they need to work more efficiently and more creatively, as quickly as possible. This is what we do, and it is our passion. CAD Academy will meet, and try to exceed, your expectations because, with us, CAD Training really is Personal!

One of the keys to gaining maximum value for money and operational benefits from your training investment is to select the right type of training programme. So how do you decide what is most appropriate for your business, your staff, and your budget? CAD Academy provides a highly personalised service, recognising that your organisation has specific objectives, and that your staff have individual needs. Therefore we offer a range of training options to accommodate a variety of circumstances and requirements.

We also offer a full range of Autodesk Training courses on earlier software versions such as 2007, 2006 and 2005, with full details available upon request.

So, check out our Course Titles and to find the programme that suits you best.

This post is about farm fresh meat from one of the leading farm shops in Nottingham. The great thing about the buying fresh meat in the UK is the quality and variety of butcher meat and farm fresh meat from your local farm shop. Gonalston Farm Shop is one of the freshest local farm shops in Nottinghamshire. Besides mouth watering beef, lamb, pork and sausage meat, Gonalston have a large range of farmhouse cheese, tarts, quiches, pies and ham at their delicatessen in Nottingham, as well as seasonal fresh fruit and veg.

My recent favourite farm fresh meat recipe, adapted from the Hairy Bikers, is both healthy and easy to make. The Hairy Bikers cooked this dish on the side of a road, so it is definitely one to try in the comfort of your kitchen. Chicken Breast stuffed with Sausage is simple to prepare and contains three different types of fresh meat.

Gonalston Farm Shop offers free delivery on any fresh meat in the UK. They have also won numerous “Great Taste Awards” for their range of fresh farm meat in the past few years. Buy with confidence at Gonalston Farm Shop’s Nottingham online store.

“Explore the world through Sport” - that’s what Nottingham based company Sport Lived are all about. Metafocus has recently re-developed the Sport Lived site not only to have a more SEO friendly design and feel but also to make the site’s fantastic content and images really come to the front.

Sport Lived have a mission, “To help young people to explore the world through sport.” Metafocus really wanted to drive this mission statement by focusing on the wide variety of gap year sports available and also the fantastic locations around the world. Sport is a wonderful way to discover a new culture.  By combining playing or sport coaching with a gap year, the programmes enable participants to become integrated into a local community through their sports club or academy becoming a second family.  Playing sport or sports coaching courses provide a framework for the time away; supplemented with travel, work experience and a whole new group of friends and that’s the Sport Lived experience in a nutshell.

The Sport Lived network ensures that the participants and their families always feel secure and offer a unique level of support.  The pre-departure briefings, local overseas programme co-ordinators and an office in Brisbane all ensure that programmes run smoothly. All of the programmes are focused around sport - playing, coaching or honing your skills in an academy. Combining sport with travel is the ultimate way to achieve an enjoyable, productive and fulfilling gap year for all sport lovers. For all of the programmes fully furnished city centre accommodation is offered and a local programme co-ordinator who will help you settle in and be on hand during your stay to offer any assistance you might need.

So if you want to play cricket, New Zealand netball or hockey coaching, why not take a look at Sport Lived for the ultimate gap year adventure!

Take a break from the norm and do something truly individual with your time out; apply today for a fresh new challenge and see where Sport Lived can take you on your ultimate year away…!

Metafocus have recently taken on a new project from China - the online marketing and promotion of Jialing Chemical Company’s English website. Jialing Chemical Company are the largest potassium permanganate producer in the world. These chemical suppliers export chemicals, in particular KMnO4, ClCH2CO2H and KOH. They can deliver all over the world and supply chemicals like potassium permanganate, chloroacetic acid and potassium hydroxide whilst looking to import potassium chloride and manganese ore.

Whilst the principles of search engine optimisation remains the same whether you are optimising a website in Nottingham or in Chongqing, it is important to make an international website as user friendly and trustworthy as possible. A working contact form is important, especially if it is not convenient to pick up the phone and speak to someone when you are not in the same time zone. In the same vein, it is imperative to have clear contact details and enough business and technical information so you can convert visitors to your website to place an order.

Jialing Chemical Products are dilligent and professional chemical suppliers from China and will respond to English language enquiries for their chemical products within 24 hours. If you are looking for top quality potassium permanganate, look no further than Chongqing Jialing Chemical Products Ltd!

Metafocus is happy to announce its latest website development www.monyy.co.uk.

If you need a commercial mortgage or bridging loan, mezzanine finance, 100% property development finance or general property finance for any purpose then Monyy Property Finance are the brokers of choice for property professionals and business owners. The people behind Monyy are expeirenced property developers so they know and understand the challenges people face when trying to arrange finance for developing properties or perhaps even a commercial mortgage.

Obtaining property finance is a specialist business and is sometimes best left to experts. That’s where Monyy can help its clients, by using experience and specialist knowledge to find the best combination that suits an individuals needs. As Finance Brokers, they are well placed to help you through every part of arranging finance for your development.

Along with the website design, Metafocus is also managing the ongoing Search Engine Optimisation for Monyy. We have also set up a blog for Monyy where they will share all the insider knowledge and information about property development. As there is so much information and advice to share on property development, we’ve incorporated an RSS feed for each of the Wordpress Blog categories into the site so there Monyy is really making the most of Web 2.0.

Yesterday, the Metafocus crew dressed to impress as we held the first ever “Grow your Business in China” seminar at the Broadway Cinema, jointly supported by Nottingham City Council (NCC) and the East Midlands China Business Bureau (EMCBB).The morning began with a light networking breakfast - a round of bacon cobs and pastries, followed bypresentations by Jason Feehily, Head of EMCBB, John Connelly, International Manager of NCC and our very own Alan Clements, MD of Metafocus.
We attracted a range of visitors, from university students to large exporting companies in the region. The seminar was packed full of information and advice for growing your business in China, from support services available from the EMCBB, the close sister city link between Ningbo and Nottingham (including the very first University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus set up in the thriving Zhejiang Province of Southeast China) and an overview of effective Chinese online marketing techniques for creating a strong Internet presence in a foreign market.

Metafocus intend to continue developing effective and highly localised multilingual websites, with an emphasis on the Chinese market. Contact us for a discusson on the development of your Chinese website or if you have a website in Chinese we would be happy to help you develop a strong online marketing strategy.

CAD Academy is the Autodesk Authorised Reseller and Authorised Training Centre for the Midlands specialising in building design and 3D visualisation applications.

Based in Nottingham, CAD Academy offer a range of Autocad and cad training to suit your requirements,

CAD Academy are please to offer a personal approach to their Autocad training and have devised a “5P� approach to the structure of their courses:

1. Products, or the design software being used
2. Processes being adopted for generating project work
3. People their skills, roles and development goals
4. Projects or type of design and /or production drawings required
5. Priorities or the key objectives required from the investment

The academy offer an extensive range of courses including the very latest Autocad 2008 training. Other courses available include:

Autocad 2005 training
Autocad 2006 training
Autocad 2007 training

If you would like more information about Autocad training in the UK then please see their website, or give them a call on 0115-969-1114

http://www.cadacademy.co.uk

Metafocus have recently built and launched a new website for a haulage company in Sutton-in-Ashfield called Kim’s Chilled Couriers. The design of the new site is a big improvement on their previous 1 page design. The new site has been designed to be search engine friendly. The old design featured a flash intro, which is notoriously bad for SEO. 

The haulage firm was established by John and Kim in 1999. Originally they began making deliveries with just one van, but over the last 9 years the business has grown significantly. Based in Sutton-in-Ashfield, the Nottinghamshire courier offer a range of refrigerated transport options, operating a fleet of various sized vans and articulated vehicles.

Kim’s Chilled Couriers provide refrigerated haulage services, which includes transport of ambient, chilled or frozen goods. Kim’s deliver refrigerated freight to any destination in the U.K. and Ireland.

The haulage firm are one of our latest SEO clients. We will be working hard over the next few weeks to get their site ranking highly in Google for their chosen keywords, examples of their keywords include frozen couriers, refrigerated freight, refrigerated haulage and chilled transport.

If you are looking for a reliable and flexible refrigerated courier or haulage firm then contact Kim’s Couriers through their website: http://www.kimschilledcouriers.com

For more information about search engine optimisation or online marketing then please give us a call on 0115 9470011.

 

Thanks everyone for my card and my lovely cake!

I’ve had an enjoyable day working on some of our client’s websites!! I have been doing SEO work on Bournes Debt Solutions, CAD Academy, Millar Management, and The Adrenalin Jungle.

I have also written a blog article for my own SEO Nottingham blog! Check it out by clicking on the link!

The highlight of the day was the cake though! Thanks Andy for finding the candles!

I have now officially joined Stuart and Andy in the “late-twenties� club!

 

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We have a real mix of clients who we work with on a monthly basis, managing their SEO and PPC campaigns, with a wide variety of markets and products, some more competitive than others. Occasionally you find yourself with a client who is ranking well for a whole list of words but has 1 or 2 which just don’t seem to rank at all. Case in point, Mobility Buddy.

Mobility Buddy’s main business is disabled scooters, which it is currently ranking well for, but it also sells a wide variety of living aids such as walking frames, rollators and different types of zimmer frame. One of these items which is just not ranking is commodes…

Now you wouldn’t imagine that commodes would be a particularly competitive keyword but at this point in time it’s just not ranking well. Personally, I find situations like this to be a real personal challenge and find it quite compelling to track the progress of this particular word as I build more links to the site and promote the pages.

Using our sound SEO techniques and long-term linking strategies, I am very confident that we will get commodes to rank well for Mobility Buddy, in fact I’m going to go away and build some links now!! Keep an eye on Google…!