Big news this week for Webartsco had been the announcement of our appointment as social media release Pitch Engine’s Manager for Australia and New Zealand.
The announcement was, of course, via a Pitch Engine social media release, posted by Guangzhou, China based company CFM which is the base of operations for Pitch Engine Asia.
The full release includes a link to a 14 minute conversation about the announcement, between my Guangzhou-based colleague, CFM Chief Exec Lonnie B. Hodge, and Webartsco Director, Des Walsh.
You can also read the full release from the box below: note the “full screen” button for greater ease of reading.
We see huge potential for Pitch Engine in our part of the world and are delighted to be representing this social media release platform. The term “state of the art” may be over-used, but in this context it is appropriate.
(You can read more about Pitch Engine, in a recent post on the Thinking Home Business blog)
If you have any questions about how Pitch Engine works and how it might help your business or organization, please ask – in the comments or, more privately, on the contact page: if we don’t have the answer we’ll make sure we get an answer from someone who does.
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“We” are Des Walsh and Suzie Cheel, Directors of the company.
The official name of the company is The Webarts Company Pty Ltd. We think Webartsco is suitably sleeker for the 21st century.
You can see a summary of what we do, here.
Our main sites are listed in the left sidebar under Blogroll.
The company was established in 1993 as Des Walsh & Associates (the name of our pre-incorporation consulting service), becoming The Webarts Company a few years later.
When we first established a presence online, back in the mid-90s, our business ventures were very Australia-centric, so the webarts.net.au domain made good sense. Although if our memory serves us well, we did not know then how smart it would be to own a top level, .com domain. And even if we had, we can’t recall that we would have known how to go about getting one. In those days you signed up for an account and the Internet service provider organised your domain name. By the time we got around to looking for the domain webartsdotcom it was gone. There are now more generally accessible options for getting domain names, installing websites and so on, and we are more self-reliant in Web-related matters than we were back then.
A few months ago, doing a review of the web hosting arrangements for our various online sites, and with our business activities happily more international than they were in backin the 90s, we figured it would be a good idea to do some re-badging with a top level, .com domain and a more streamlined brand.
Result? http://www.webartsco.com – new online home for The Webarts Company Pty Ltd trading as Webartsco.
Why we love blogs, Web 2.0, WordPress, Thesis…
It’s fascinating to think that back in the 90s, to have a site with only a fragment of the functionality of this WordPress site (freed download) with the Thesis theme (developer’s license $77) cost us thousands of dollars (f rom memory the quote was $5,000). And we can update this one and pimp it out to our heart’s content, whenever we want, without any more than a smidgeon of knowledge of HTML code and without having to fork out more money every time there is to be a change, as we did in those bygone days. Viva Web 2.0!
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