April 2009 Newsletter

Client Success Story - Aeriandi Professional Services

APSIT - supporting your IT systems

Aeriandi are proud to launch their new Professional Services arm, APSIT, providing fully managed email, software and outsourced IT services. Clients range from local businesses to Banks and Insurance companies.

"Just as we take for granted the high quality office space and reception services of Clarendon, we want our customers to take for granted that their IT systems will just work" says Matthew Bryars, CEO "We take away the hassle of managing networks, Email systems and software. Our customers don't need to invest in expensive equipment, and are left to concentrate on what they excel in!"

Aeriandi has steadily grown since moving into Clarendon almost three years ago, adding both local and national businesses to the growing number of companies which value its services.

"We work with a number of people we have met over our time here. Our printing is sorted just down the hall, and the reception staff manage our leaflet distribution, for example. It's like being part of a bigger group."

If you would like to find out more about Aeriandi Professional Services, please visit their website at: www.apsit.co.uk, contact them on 0845 108 0308, or pop in for a chat with Matthew, Sam or Mutahir. (They are next to the 2nd floor kitchen in Prama House.)

Would you like us to feature your success story next month? If so, please email us at: newsletter@clarendon-enterprise.co.uk.

2009 Business Success Seminars

Staying Fit For Business

Photography by Nick White, Prama House

We had another excellent response to our Business Success Seminars in Oxford in March. The Prama House board room was a sell-out, with our clients enjoying an excellent session presented by Barry Grinham from Prime Energy about the importance of personal fitness to your business.

Barry showed how important it is to eat healthily, to gain control of your weight, and looked at easy ways of incorporating exercise into the daily routine. Fortunately, this does not mean that everyone needs to run 5 miles a day. Barry showed how simply including a brisk 20 minute walk every day could make a massive difference to those of us who aren't doing any real exercise at the moment.

Barry and his team are available to help you start this process,contact at 01865 339 339, email: barry@primeenergy.org, website: www.primeenergy.org

It was also interesting to watch the attendees at these seminars networking with other, exchanging useful ideas and business tips.

April Seminar
For April's Business Success Seminar, Alison Haill from Oxford Professional Consulting will show us how to communicate effectively in business. This will take place on Tuesday 21st April at 8.30am at Prama House.

To book your place, please contact Anne O’Reilly on: 01865 339300 or email: anne.oreilly@the-infinite-group.com

We hope that you will find access to these experts beneficial to your business and look forward to seeing you at the seminars.

Tradesman's Assistant

Are you a trades person?

The more we talk to our local painters and decorators, plumbers, builders, and handymen etc, the more we realise that you are out at client sites all day every day. From the crack of dawn to well after our bedtimes, trades people are on the go 24/7!

Quotations, Appointments, Invoicing, Chasing...

Wouldn't it be useful to have an extra pair of hands to help you with all of the essential paperwork and administration for your business?

Our clients think so, and that is why we are delighted to launch our Tradesman's Assistant package. Not only will we handle your telephone calls professionally and redirect them as required, but we can also help you with fielding sales enquiries, sending out quotations, setting up appointments, invoicing clients for work done, and chasing up signed paperwork from your clients and suppliers.

If this service could help streamline your business and help you find a few more hours in the day to see your family in daylight, please call Candy Woodington on 01865 339300 for further information.

Red Nose Day

Where's Miss Diane?

Up and down the country, normally sane people were immersing themselves in baths of baked beans and hopping around on one leg in order to raise funds for Red Nose Day!

I'm glad to say that our Clarendon clients joined in the fun too. In particular, the normally demure and always elegantly dressed Sonia Kearns from Frontdoorz was no exception! Clarendon clients paid Sonia in 15 minute units to dress up as Benny from Crossroads and conduct her professional business in this manner. I am delighted to report the generosity of her contacts meant that she had to stay in this fashion all day!

Sadly, she has now returned to her usual smart attire, and so if you would like some independent and unbiased advice in presenting your home for sale and checking that your estate agent is working for you, please contact Sonia at: sonia@frontdoorz.co.uk or visit their website at: www.frontdoorz.co.uk.

Competition Time

Brrr, it's cold!

March's Competition Results:
Many thanks for those of you who sent their Snow Pictures in. We thought that they were brilliant and please see our favourite three pictures featured above. Congratulations to our winner, Ryan Haigh from Too Juicy, who will receive his prize courtesy of our Prama House Office.

Luxury Easter Competition:
This month's question is very simple. What is the reason that "eggs" and "bunnies" have become modern secular symbols of Easter? Please send us your theory, and one lucky winner will receive a £25 Marks and Spencer's voucher to spend on their fabulous chocolates - just in case the Easter Bunny forgot to visit you this year...

Please email your answer and contact details to: newsletter@clarendon-enterprise.co.uk and we will choose the winner and theory that we like best on Tuesday April 21st 2009.

As ever, the judge's decision will be final!

About Clarendon Enterprise Centre

Cost-effective office space - hassle free!

Since 1998, Clarendon Enterprise Centre has provided both emerging and established businesses with friendly, hassle free and cost-effective serviced, managed and virtual office space.

Our offices offer instant availability and are fully furnished and cabled. Our flexible approach means that you only pay for space you use, you only commit for the length of term you want, there’s no upfront capital expenditure and you can upsize and downsize as needed.

In addition to serviced office space, our business centres offer modern and well equipped meeting and conference facilities, as well as Virtual Office, mail handling and call diversion services.

Offering the latest IT and telecoms infrastructure, and high levels of customer service, Clarendon has a solution for every type of business…and every budget.

Call us on 01865 339300 or email us at
newsletter@clarendon-enterprise.co.uk