Fuelled By Chocolate

Sometimes all this development type stuff can get you down and there is only one main motivational factor...... chocolate.  Long seen as the pillar of many a working day this dietary delight is now taking hold in the BACK office.  The Christmas tins and bars have all been consumed and now it is time for venturing out and making our own purchases.  Heady days.

Wish us luck in our quest for sugary goodness and unbalanced diets.

Video Coming Good

We are being asked more frequently to put video services onto websites that we produce.  The visual aspect of delivering a message is becoming more widespread and effective with services such as BBC's iPlayer.  

Unlike a real life seminar the digital message can be delivered on demand which means the end user can watch it whenever they want.  A lot of companies are moving into this arena in a big with.  For example Channel 9 is a Microsoft based online VOD site that is dedicated to getting the Microsoft message across about new products, services and ideas.  Top marks for this.

One of our on-going projects involves an interactive questionnaire with videos of professionals articulating the questions so the user does not have to just read them.  The data gets captured and analysed as usual.  The client is delighted with the initial results and we look forward to delivering the full blown product but it does involve a lot of video production, editing and publication.

Video rules OK!

Low Cost Website Service Launched

Nowadays people expect any company to have a website and if they don’t they wonder why? The New Year has seen the launch of BACK Consulting Low Cost Website package. We offer some excellent packages to enable you to get a web presence that will not only impress your clients but give you a professional online presence. For as little as £199.99 + VAT you can be set up and ready to go. What makes us better than our competition is that we let you provide the content as you know exactly what you do. We also use your choice of colours and your logo. We intend to have the website set up and ready for review within 7 days. We offer many bolt-ons for minimal cost so that clients can add extra features to their websites. Please visit our website www.backconsulting.co.uk to find out more about our Low Cost Website solutions and see if we can help you. If you need any further assistance than please feel free to contact us for more information.

Change of Header - The Blue Man!!

If you have been looking at our BACK Consulting website you would have noticed that the header animation has now changed.  Our Creative Technologist Minkeun Park has made a new design to freshen things up for 2009 and bring a spot of commonality across the BACK businesses.  

The new logo is a little blue man at the top left and this blue man will be found across BACK Consulting, BACK inContact and BACK Transcribing as well as two other upcoming start-ups.  Now we need to come up with some new and ingenius ways of using this blue man to get across the brand and spread the BACK word.

Check out for a blue man coming to a town near you!

Rachel Off To A Flyer

It's good every once and a while to report on the progress of staff in the company.  For the eagled eyed readers of our BACK Consulting website you would have noticed that Rachel joined us prior to Christmas in an effort to get our office a bit more streamlined and organise the extensive multi faceted marketing campaigns.

With the position of Office Manager she has responsibility for ensuring the smooth operation of the organisation and has come to the aid of all the staff and a valuable member of the team.  Now if you ring the company main number you'll no doubt get to speak to the lady herself.

We all wish her the best for the future and see a great career ahead.

Broadband drops by 25% at peak times

According to comparison website broadband.co.uk UK broadband speeds drop by 25% during peak times. The overnight levels show a higher average speed than the evening peak rate and the daytime rate is in between. This would suggest that work needs to be done to increase the capacity to meet the demand. Broadband speed tests which were carried out in December also show that the average speed of broadband has risen for the first time since July 2008. This is good news for web surfers who should be finding that they can use the internet at a faster pace.

The average speed UK wide is up by 14% at 3.667 Mbps. Virgin has topped polls which show it as the fastest broadband provider with average download speeds of 6.073 Mbps. It is expected that 2009 will see further improvements in broadband speeds and it is expected that times should not deviate too much during peak times.