Marketing & Strategy
Successful marketing comes from understanding the market, your business strengths and weaknesses, and being able to develop effective communication tools that create interest in your company, its products and services. One of our experienced team will spend time with you to help us fully understand your business and with this understanding will draw on a mixture of disciplines to help produce a detailed marketing strategy and implementation plan to match your project. Understanding that not everyone wants or needs full time marketing support, our services are available individually, or as part of a co-ordinated programme of activity.
Design and Branding
Many of our clients come to us because they only know about one aspect of our work, a website, a product brochure or possibly an identity or branding exercise that we have undertaken. Often they don't know or appreciate the full range of design services we provide.
We are there to help so if you already have an idea or need some fresh inspiration, we will work with you, consulting with you every step of the way, to bring your vision to life.
Visit our portfolio to see a selection of our work, we hope you will be impressed.
Web Design and Build
Austins focused approach towards website production starts with an understanding of how your competitors present on the internet. From this research we work hard to produce stylish designs for you to approve that inspire your target audience and create an enjoyable user experience.
Our developers are passionate about delivering well engineered, functional and easy to navigate websites that support all of the needs for accessibility. We design and work to W3C web standards including HTML, XHTML, XML and CSS and produce SEO friendly Flash applications.
Visit our portfolio to see a selection of our work, we hope you will be impressed.
Content Management
Many website owners in the past have paid programmers for minor website updates and additions or just simply left the updating to a later time which frequently never happens!
Austins can help by providing a content management system (
* Easily extensible * Modular in build * Capable of handling large volumes of traffic * Easy to maintain and use.
e-Commerce
It's not only B2C businesses who benefit from e-commerce websites. Many B2B organisations have very profitable sites that sell services, parts and products to a wide range of business customers.
Having carefully researched the market for proprietary e-commerce software Austins have selected Actinic one of the UKs market leading e-commerce software providers for small and medium sized businesses. The Actinic software platform provides scalable services that integrate with Sage and offer an EPOS facility as an option. Our e-commerce solutions are provided with easy to use
Search Engine Optimisation
Wouldn't we all like to have a number one ranking on Google for our key search terms or a least be on the first page? To achieve this, and there are no guarantees, it will be potentially expensive and time consuming if you're targeting common keywords.
However, a well constructed website with well written copy and knowledgeable phrases and key words will ensure your site will be as "search engine friendly" as possible.
If you want to improve your site ranking by doing some in depth research and creating effective, focused search engine campaigns, we are happy to help.
Commercial Photography
You want your photographs to be worth a thousand words, but not to cost a thousand pounds.
We understand this and have a reputation for producing high quality images for promotional, informative and instructive marketing and sales projects. We are familiar with budgetary constraints and so help with both location and studio-based photography solutions that can accommodate your budget large or small.
Whether for print, multimedia programmes, presentations, or websites, we capture dynamic images to reflect your business in the best possible way.
Video Production
Not only do we shoot stunning stills, but also capture and create dynamic video. Our broadcast quality video facilities will bring your video production to life for distribution through the internet, DVD or
As part of an integrated package we can provide scriptwriting, professional presenters or voice artists and a choice of royalty-free or bespoke music beds, the choice is yours. We also have experience in providing multi-lingual narration when required.
We can help with projects covering: products, services, interviews, events coverage, health and safety, training videos, induction videos & tool box talks.
The world of print has dramatically changed over the past years and no longer do you have to have large print runs to obtain high quality litho print. For those customers commissioning Austins for design we print manage and only supply premium quality product.
The equipment we choose for our customers delivers superb results with low volume digital printing using HP Indigo 3050 and 5500 machines and larger volume sheet fed Heidelberg Speedmaster 74 presses.