Posted On - 13/03/2017
Adam Coupe of Adam Coupe Photography advises how you can have a stunning website packed with beautiful images without compromising on how quickly your site loads. It’s a fact that websites are now judged almost as much on their speed as they are on their quality. I’ve just read some research from tech experts Akamai saying that 47% of web...
Posted On - 10/03/2017
Epwin’s marketing director Sharn Samra looks at how brands can build rich relationships with customers in the social space. However, these social interactions need to be real and two-way conversations to actively engage with users online. If you really want to use social media to build meaningful relationships, you must think about the authenticity of those relationships to determine the...
Posted On - 10/03/2017
Rob McGlennon of Deceuninck discusses the best way to market a niche product. Before embarking on any marketing campaign, whatever the product and whatever the size of market, the most important thing to do is to make sure that everyone involved is clear on the objectives. Do you want to steal market share from your competitors? Do you want to...
Posted On - 09/02/2017
Like double glazing salesmen, recruitment consultants don’t have the best reputations. Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited Chase Taylor in Cannock Chase to see how things can be done differently. “I don’t like recruitment consultants,” Chase Taylor’s managing director Mat Gibson said, even before the notepad had been opened. “People don’t like being sold to. People want a consultant who...
Posted On - 09/01/2017
Unique Window Systems was ranked 21st in the 2016 Real Business Hot 100 last month, which reveals the 100 fastest growing UK SME private companies in the UK. Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited joint managing director Sunil Patel and sales director James Raven to find out how the company managed to achieve such an accolade. Unique’s turnover is reported...
Posted On - 09/01/2017
According to some, Brexit has cast a shadow over the industry’s growth prospects in 2017. We ask Emplas and customer BJH Windows and Conservatories if it is time to call time on traditional models of manufacture? “We just got to the point where the model wasn’t working for us,” Alan Hamilton, managing director of BJH Windows and Conservatories, said. “We...
Posted On - 09/01/2017
Yale’s sales and commercial director Paul Atkinson describes how it has brought together its range of high-security hardware components to launch the ultimate door and window package. With 98% brand recognition, Yale is heralded as the leading home security brand throughout the UK. Fabricators and installers can now capitalise on this with ‘The Complete Door and Window Package’ that is...
Posted On - 09/01/2017
The Master Fitter Challenge (MFC) has become one of the FIT Show’s more prominent regular features at the three-day event. Managed by the industry’s specialist qualifications awarding body, GQA Qualifications, the challenge invites professional installers to compete against each other. GQA director Mick Clayton explains how the competition is more than just entertainment. Our involvement at the FIT Show came...
Posted On - 07/01/2017
Three years since its launch, aïr has taken the industry by storm, changing the market to give brand-driven design-savvy homeowners a product for transforming their homes. Brand ambassador Jay Patel tells all. What makes a great brand? Well, first and foremost the best brands around understand their audience completely. They know how they tick, what their interests are, what impresses...
Posted On - 07/01/2017
What will 2017 have in store? Dave Broxton, managing director of Bohle, discusses. At the start of this year Brexit remains the ‘elephant in the room’. The timetable and shape of our parting with the EU remain unknown quantities. Clarity on both soon will be important in securing our continuing economic growth economic and that of our European partners. At...
Posted On - 07/01/2017
Jude Knowles, operations manager at Business Micros, was named the industry’s Unsung Hero at the G16 Awards. She told Glass Times why she thinks she won the award and how her customers can finally now put a face to her name. I didn’t find out that our MD Graeme Bailey had even nominated me for the Unsung Hero award until...
Posted On - 07/01/2017
Solarframe director Steve Taylor explains how Solarframe and Supalite have worked together over the last four years. We started manufacturing in 2009. Things were tough, especially being a new player, and from experience I knew Solarframe needed to look at products which had a potential growth and longevity in the market-place, to help us survive. I first came across the...
Posted On - 29/10/2016
Newview Windows & Conservatories has released its State of the Economy and Construction Market Report 2016, which provides an insight into the current landscape of the construction market and highlights expectations for the future. Newview commissioned Insight Data to manage the process and questioned 15,000 installers, housebuilders and architects. The EU Referendum result looks to have had an impact on...
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