How to Apply
What are the criteria?
- You must be a business that falls under one of the following categories: fair-trade, eco-friendly, green, organic, sustainable, recycled, re-used, ethical, energy efficient, environmentally responsible.
- Your annual turnover must be below £0.5 million and you must trade in the UK only (although you may source goods from partners abroad).
- You must have an existing website and be in control of this website yourselves (i.e. capable of making changes directly).
- You must have access to MSN chat or Skype and be able to hold web conferences.
- You must be prepared to work with us out of office hours if necessary.
- You must be prepared to sign a simple Non Disclosure Agreement.
- You must be passionate about your business and excited at the prospect of improving your online potential!
What is the process involved
We will first ask you to provide us with some background information on your company and an explanation of your product or service. Following this, we will invite you to discuss with us your needs and concerns in relation to your website, from which we can begin to draw up a plan of how we can help.
We would like communications to be primarily web based, by means of email, msn chat or Skype conferences. That way everyone can keep their costs to a minimum and timing is more flexible. We propose to do a lot of the work out of office hours, as our commercial business will usually take precedence during the day.
Throughout the three months we will offer help and advice in any way we can in relation to your website and online side of your business. We will primarily do this through a private project area that contains all the necessary tools for running a project online. Although we do not charge a fee for this, all we ask is that you keep us updated on the progress of your company throughout the three month period by writing a short blog entry on our website every week, an opportunity for both parties to share and demonstrate their success stories with others. We also hope that you will go away and talk to friends and family about us.
Let's do it!
Send an email to su-org@simpleusability.com introducing yourself and setting out your stall. If you don't fit into our criteria but think we should help you anyway - just shout.