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wantspacegotspace.co.uk News and Diary of Events
Here you will find details of news and events posted in real time as they happen to the wantspacegotspace.co.uk team and the business.
24/02/2010 wantspacegotspace.co.uk registers over 1,000 hits on the website
According to Google, the wantspacegotspace.co.uk website has registered in excess of 1,000 hits (averaging over 30 per day) during the past few days. It's just another sign that the business is growing and growing fast.
08/02/2010 A "Dummies Guide" to wantspacegotspace.co.uk
A "Dummies Guide" to:
- Setting up a new customer account on wantspacegotspace.co.uk
- Uploading your property details onto wantspacegotspace.co.uk
- Adding your photos on wantspacegotspace.co.uk
- Adding your Company's logo on wantspacegotspace.co.uk
- Changing your contact details on wantspacegotspace.co.uk
has been posted on the "Blog" page of the website.
01/12/2009 Mucklows now using wantspacegotspace.co.uk
A & J Mucklow Group Plc, the well known Midlands-based property company, is now advertising a number of its properties on wantspacegotspace.co.uk, these including units on Coleshill Trade Park, Coleshill Industrial Estate, Stirchley Trading Estate and St. Andrews Trading Estate on the outskirts of Birmingham City Centre. Founded in 1933, the Group floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1962 and converted to a REIT in July 2007. As at 30 June 2009, its investment portfolio was valued at just over £200 million.
30/11/2009 wantspacegotspace.co.uk appoints Lara Day as Sales Director
wantspacegotspace.co.uk is pleased to announce the appointment of Lara Day as the Company's new Sales Director.
Lara, who was previously Sales Manager with Commercial Property Register and has also worked for the Estates Gazette and Property News Midlands, joins Michael Gillespie, Director and founder of wantspacegotspace Limited. With wantspacegotspace.co.uk now comprising a team of six, the Company has initially focused on generating business within the Greater West Midlands region, prior to pushing out across the UK, which it will be doing over the next few months.
The Company promotes itself directly to potential occupiers (known as "Want Spacers") via the use of press adverts, flyers, Chamber of Commerce events, breakfast clubs, etc., with 30% of its total income ploughed back into the marketing budget. The Company sees itself as an ideal marketing tool for all types of commercial property across the UK, including office, industrial, warehouse and retail space.
Lara said, "This is a very exciting time to be joining Mike Gillespie and the team. We are here to assist agents, developers, local authorities, regeneration companies and all other types of landlords ("Got Spacers") in getting their surplus space occupied as soon as possible. With marketing budgets being tightly controlled, wantspacegotspace.co.uk provides an economical and effective way of ensuring that a building achieves maximum exposure in the market place."
"With the amount of empty space across the UK still increasing, wantspacegotspace.co.uk can help to produce additional enquires for the "Got Spacer" at a relatively low cost, while the"Got Spacer" also remains in total control of the marketing process by virtue of the fact that "Want Spacers" are able to contact them directly", added Lara.
Mike Gillespie said Day's appointment was one of a number of strategic appointments that the Company would be making over the next couple of years, as the business continues to grow.
"We feel very fortunate that Lara has chosen to work with us, rather than accepting one of the other positions that she was offered. We have reached a point in the development of the business where we felt that we needed someone with relevant experience to take charge of our sales and marketing activities", he added.
To contact Lara Day, call 07882 988647.....and also take the opportunity to visit the website at www.wantspacegotspace.co.uk.
23/11/2009 CBRE now using wantspacegotspace.co.uk
CBRE's Birmingham office have signed up to advertise a portfolio of sixty properties with wantspacegotspace.co.uk, these including a number of their high profile City Centre office instructions, e.g. Two Colmore Square, Five Brindleyplace, Temple Point, Baskerville House, SBQ, Snow Hill (Buildings 1 & 2) and The McLaren Building. CBRE are one of the world's leading real estate advisors with over 300 offices in more than 50 countries. The firm currently holds a number of prestigious awards, including Estates Gazette National Property Advisor of the Year 2009, MAPIC Retail Agent of the Year 2009 and Property Week Industrial and Investment Agents of the Year 2009.
17/10/2009 Norwich City Council now using wantspacegotspace.co.uk
Norwich City Council's Estates Department have agreed to advertise a package of fifteen Council-owned properties on wantspacegotspace.co.uk. Comprising a mix of retail, industrial and office space, the buildings concerned are now in the process of being uploaded onto the website.
03/09/2009 Midlands Co-op now using wantspacegotspace.co.uk
The Midlands Co-op have today confirmed that they are signing up with wantspacegotspace.co.uk. This is seen as yet another good indication of the type of high profile organisation that wishes to achieve greater exposure of their vacant properties by advertising on the internet. wantspacegotspace.co.uk will now be working closely with the Co-op's various retained agents to assist in uploading the details of the properties concerned onto the website.
02/09/2009 SGP Property Management now using wantspacegotspace.co.uk
SGP have decided to work with wantspacegotspace.co.uk and are now in the process of uploading their properties onto the website. This will add over 100 units to the site. Mike Gillespie said "It's a great opportunity for us to show how well our systems work and to prove that we are not in competition with property consultants. By advertising with wantspacegotspace.co.uk, not only do SGP benefit but, more importantly, so will their clients." SGP Property & Facilities Management has been delivering outsourced support services to the owners and occupiers of buildings since 1986 across the retail, hospitality, commercial and public sectors.
20/08/2009 wantspacegotspace.co.uk today announces a simplified pricing structure!
wantspacegotspace.co.uk has today implemented a major overhaul of its former pricing structure.
Although visitors to wantspacegotspace.co.uk continue to praise the site for its simple and direct style, it has, however, been subject to a certain amount of criticism for employing what was seen by many as an overly complicated pricing structure.
All of this has now been swept away in an effort to simplify the charging system and so make it easier for Got Spacers to forecast and keep track of their advertising costs. With immediate effect, wantspacegotspace.co.uk is charging a standard registration fee for ALL properties, regardless of size and/or type.
Furthermore, the annual subscription system has also been scrapped and replaced by a monthly charging system.
Got Spacers can now advertise their space on wantspacegotspace.co.uk for a flat rate of £45 per month plus VAT (equivalent to only £10 per week).
The monthly fee is charged on a “per property” basis and can be paid by credit card or Direct Debit.
If required, wantspacegotspace.co.uk can assist Got Spacers and/or their agents in uploading the details of their building(s) for a one-off charge of £10 plus VAT per property.
If a Got Spacer is not using an agent and wishes to have a 4ft x 3ft 'V' board erected on their property, this can be arranged for a one-off charge of £100 plus VAT.
For further information, please call 08443 577 577 or email us at action@wantspacegotspace.co.uk.
18/08/2009 Real time search engine rankings by Google for various properties.
Hitchin - "Commercial Property Space" - page 1 items 1 & 2
"Commercial Property Space" - page 1 item 1
"Commercial Property" - page 1 item 6
"Business Space" - page 1 item 1
"Office Space" - page 2 item 7 (a climb of 5 places)
Evesham - no change from last week.
Chesham & Cuffley - no change from last week.
Solihull - no change from last week.
10/08/2009 Update in real time of rankings by Google using various search terms.
"Business Space Solihull" - page 2 item 4
"Business Space in Solihull" - page 1 item 9
"Office Space in Solihull" - page 2 item 8
"Office Space in Birmingham City Centre" - page 3 item 5
"Business Space Hitchin" - page 1 item 1
"Brand Street Hitchin" - page 1 item 3
"Latchmore Court" - page 1 items 1 & 2
"Commercial Space in Hitchin" - page 1 items 3 & 4
"Office Space in Hitchin" - page 3 item 1 & page 4 item 9
"Industrial Space Cuffley" - page 1 item 1
"Business Space Chesham" - page 1 item 1
"Industrial Space Chesham" - page 1 item 8
"Office Space Evesham" - page 1 item 8
"Office Space in Evesham" - page 1 item 9 & page 2 item 8
"Business Space Evesham" - page 1 item 4
"Business Space in Evesham" - page 1 item 1 & page 2 item 1
10/08/2009 "Office Space in Hitchin" - more good news for Latchmore Court, Brand Street.
"Commercial Property in the Brand Street area of Hitchin" reaches page 2 item 8 of Google today, having climbed two whole pages from page 4 item 9. Meanwhile, "Commercial Property in the Hitchin area" remained static, proving the point that not all news is good news!.
08/08/2009 "Office Space in Hitchin" update.
The search term "Office Space in Hitchin" rose further in the Google rankings today. "Business Space in Hitchin" has climbed to page 2 item 7 (up two places) and "Commercial Property in Hitchin" appears for the first time as item 9 on page 4.
07/08/2009 "Office Space in Solihull" on page 3 of Google.
Today sees "Office Space in Solihull" appears as item 2 on page 3, having come from nowhere!
06/08/2009 A major change in the database structure has taken place today!
We have implemented a major change in the database structure today. This will significantly improve our web hit rate and so increase the visibility of commercial properties advertised on wantspacegotspace.co.uk.
03/08/2009 The generic search "Business Space Birmingham" turns up "Business Space in Hall Green" on page 1 of Google today!
The generic search "Business Space Birmingham" turns up "Business Space in Hall Green" on page 1 of Google today, having come from nowhere in the space of 7 days!
31/07/2009 The search terms "Business Space Birmingham City" and "Business Space Birmingham" hit page 1 of Google!
"Business Space Birmingham City" made it to item 1 on page 1 today and claimed top spot on Google for wantspacegotspace.co.uk. The term "Business Space Birmingham " also showed up as item 4 on page 1. A truly impressive "double whammy"!!
29/07/2009 The generic page "Business Space in the Hitchin Area" now appears on page 2 of Google.
By typing the term "Office Space in Hitchin" into Google, "Business space in Hitchin" appeared as item 9 on page 2 today. This represents a massive climb up the rankings and just goes to prove that the web search engine at wantspacegotspace.co.uk is a first rate piece of programme engineering.
27/07/2009 "Birmingham Business Space" web search.
Using the web search "Business space Birmingham", wantspacegotspace.co.uk has risen to the top of page 2 on Google inside of three weeks!
27/07/2009 The generic page "Business Space" appears now on page 3 of Google.
The term "Business Space" has moved up to item 9 on page 3. The difference between this and "Business Space Hitchin" is that it is the generic page, rather than the property specific page, that has moved.
24/07/2009 Offices at Latchmore Court, Brand Street, Hitchin HIT THE TOP SPOT on Google!
The term "Business Space Hitchin" has today hit the top spot on the Google search engine. This is quite a feat and it has taken under 4 days to get there!!
23/07/2009 SEO update re. Offices at Latchmore Court, Brand Street, Hitchin.
Checked the Google ranking again today and Latchmore Court, Hitchin, has moved up to item 5 on page 3 - which means that it's climbed a page and a half in only 24 hours!
22/07/2009 Offices at Latchmore Court, Brand Street, Hitchin listed on Google today.
The offices owned by the Trojan Property Group at Latchmore Court, Brand Street, Hitchin were listed on Google today! The property was posted on the web site on 16th July with a view to seeing how quickly it could be listed on Google.
Against the search "Office Space in Hitchin", wantspacegotspace.co.uk may "only" come up as item 7 on page 5, but the point is that it has taken only six days to get there! Even more impressive is the fact that, against the search "Business Space in Hitchin", wantspacegotspace.co.uk appears as item 7 on page 2! Here, the blog item "Have you ever been to Hitchin" has shown up!
The team has worked very hard on the wantspacegotspace.co.uk search engine optimisation system to see how long it would take to get the property listed. The focus and challenge now is to see how far and how qucikly the listing moves up the rankings. Watch this space to see what further progress can be made over the next couple of weeks.
16/07/2009 Office and Business Space: Latchmore House, Brand Street, Hitchin, SG5 1NH added today.
13/07/2009 wantspacegotspace.co.uk marketing and PR activity.
wantspacegotspace.co.uk has embarked on a number of marketing/PR initiatives, these including leaflet drops, targeted mailshots (email and letter), local press advertising, local radio advertising, local sponsorship deals, individual presentations to networking organisations, business development agencies, chambers of commerce, trade bodies, etc., plus full and/or half page adverts in the Estates Gazette, Property Week and the Commercial Property Register.
01/07/2009 Do you want to link with wantspacegotspace.co.uk?
Today has seen the new page of web links being created. This will enable Want Spacers and Got Spacers to access relevant business websites that we feel will provide sound business advice and support. So, if you come across a website that you feel could be of benefit to others, please contact us at wantspacegotspace.co.uk and we will add it to the list.
28/06/2009 Added Industrial/Warehouse Space: 216 Bellingdon Road, Chesham, HP5 2NN
28/06/2009 Added Industrial/Warehouse Space: 80 Station Road, Cuffley, EN6 4HY
08/06/2009 Google analytics started today.
wantspacegotspace.co.uk has signed up to use Google analytics so that the business can track its progress.
28/05/2009 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's to you and me!!).
Well, its taken a while, but we think we have now sorted the FAQ section of the wantspacegotspace.co.uk website. The FAQ's are short and to the point and the whole page has been written in such a way that you do not have to search about looking for the answer. Just click on the question..........simples!!
27/05/2009 wantspacegotspace.co.uk signs up with Google maps.
wantspacegotspace.co.uk has always been about providing very clear and concise information for its customers to use and see. The business has, therefore, signed up to the best graphical representation system to aid its development.
26/05/2009 wantspacegotspace.co.uk website SEO proves to be hard work!!
The team have been burning the midnight oil to get the right wording and structures incorporated into the wantspacegotspace.co.uk website so that it can be found as easily as possible. The whole website design has been a major triumph in collaborative working, given the geographical spread of the team, with members based in Solihull, Bedford, Newport Pagnell and Norwich. The project has definitely been a classic example of the use of today's technology in today's business environment.
24/05/2009 wantspacegotspace.co.uk signs up with CardNet.
wantspacegotspace.co.uk is pleased to announce that the business has now signed up with CardNet, allowing transactions to be made over the internet.
21/05/2009 wantspacegotspace.co.uk signs up on Twitter.
wantspacegotspace.co.uk has today signed up on twitter, so you can now follow the progress of this new website as it develops.
18/05/2009 Business Space pro-formas posted today.
All the different business space pro-formas, catering for Offices, Shops, Industrial, Warehouse, Roadside and Leisure space, have now been uploaded and are available for use.
17/05/2009 The first wantspacegotspace.co.uk account has been created.
The first wantspacegotspace.co.uk account was created today. Properties will now be uploaded and become live!!
05/05/2009 It's started........it's got life and it's going to be huge!!
wantspacegotspace.co.uk as a website became a reality today. The website was created as a shell and now it's alive........
More news stories will be added soon...