The Desk Den

Celtic Financial Planning – Providing tailored financial advice and services to meet your individual or corporate requirements. We will review your financial goals and aspirations in full and provide solutions suitable for you and your family’s future financial security. Our clients benefit from over 60 years of experience from an approachable, friendly team of professionals, We provide face to face advice on the following:

• Wealth management
• Trust and estate planning
• Retirement planning
• Long term care
• Investments

For more information about the range of services provided, please contact:

Danni Watts-Jones DipPFS,Cert CII (MP)
Telephone: 01639 622140
Fax :01639 622149
Website: www.celticfp.co.uk
Email: danni.watts-jones@sjpp.co.uk
Address: 37 Windsor Road, Neath SA11 1NB

Centre For Business – If you are considering a business idea, or wondering how to move your business forward, let centre for business help you on your journey to success.

We have helped to create over 10,000 new businesses in South East Wales, assisted 25,000 potential entrepreneurs and supported over 8,000 existing businesses, we deliver business advice, training and property in Newport, Cardiff, Torfaen, Monmouthshire, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, and Merthyr.

83% of our business start-ups are still going 3 after years, compared to South East Wales average of 67% and the national average of just 35%.

KB Ferguson Chartered Accountants – K B Ferguson, have a dedicated and experienced team able to provide services tailored to your individual circumstances.

They offer a personal service combined with a sense of commercial reality. These, together with their breadth of experience, ensure that all financial information is presented for the best possible advantage to you and your business, putting you in the best position to make pro-active decisions, which in turn help you to manage and work on your business.

KB Ferguson's focus is very much client driven, and they uniquely offer free general support over the phone for all our clients during the year. At K B Ferguson they believe that by allowing their clients to retain regular contact without worrying about hidden fees, they are kept up to date with business developments, allowing KB Ferguson to give real time advice and also preventing clients from making uninformed and possibly costly errors.

Contact Details:
Telephone : 01792 894375
Fax : 01792 899190
Email : enquiries@kbferguson.co.uk

Spring Creative – specialise in finding a creative solution for all of your design needs.

We believe that design matters.

Based in South Wales, we work with small to medium sized businesses to create innovative and effective design solutions.

From business cards to corporate brochures, we offer the full range of graphic design services that capture the personality of your business.

Our on-going relationships with several printers also means that we can take the hassle out of having to liaise with numerous companies. This also ensures that we can find you the most competitive printing costs.

Feel free to email or call us - we'd be pleased to discuss your ideas with you.

...for fresh ideas think of Spring - Creative Design.

Telephone: 01792 884573

Small Business Helper – Is your website/web marketing not delivering as you’d hoped?
Perhaps you’ve never reviewed your web marketing?
Perhaps you’re overwhelmed by the choices and don’t know where to start?
... chances are, like others, your web marketing has much room for improvement.

£45.00 REVIEW...
Know where your web marketing’s at from £45+vat(£54) for our initial review.

Our most recent review (Oct.2012):
We recently saved a company around £1,400pcm - by identifying the wasted Google Clicks they’d paid for in Sep.2012.
It turns out, 83% of their Google Advertising spend (£1,700per month) was for nonsense keywords.
That is, words which were never going to lead to the kind of business they wanted.

SO IMPROVE HOW YOU SPEND YOUR MARKETING BUDGET
Get a free conversation today.
It’s highly likely, that your business, like the majority, can dramatically improve HOW it spends your marketing budget.

Small Business Helper 0844 824 61 51
www.smehelper.com

Big Local App – is a smartphone app for iPhone and Android which is developed for local communities. It is a dedicated local resource bringing together local news, info, events, and businesses onto this one app which provides real value to users. It is effectively like a Business having and managing their very own smartphone own which lives within the Big Local App. We work with the Council, Schools, Universities, Swansea City FC and over a 100 local businesses. Any businesses looking for a cost effective and modern way of marketing please call Gareth on 07791515036.
Name: Gareth Manger
Telephone: 07791515036
Email: swansea@biglocalapp.com
Address: 23 Clos Vernon Watkins, Gorseinon, Swansea, SA4 4DH

Rocky PR – Rocky PR offers affordable marketing and PR services to local SME’s who know what they want do, when they want to do it and whom they should be doing it with. They just don’t have the experience, know how or resources to make it happen.

At Rocky PR, we work with our clients to help develop and implement communications and marketing campaigns targeted at your specific audiences – ranging from customers and suppliers to the media and your own employees. Whether you need support for a one off project, event or campaign or longer term services and advice, we can tailor our support to suit your immediate and longer term business development needs. We work with you, not for you, as an extension of your own in-house team.

Contact Details:
Telephone: 07960182525
Email: jackie@rockypr.com

Pisys.net – Pisys.net was established in Swansea in May 2003 by Steve Bain and John Merrick with the vision of providing affordable IT support and services to SME’s in South Wales.

That vision has led to Pisys.net becoming one of the leading outsourced IT suppliers not only in South Wales but with clients throughout Wales and as far North as Aberdeen and East to London, spanning both the private and public sectors from Aspers Casino’s to Morgan Hemp Accountants and Llanelli Rural Council to Shelter Cymru.

Pisys.net is the pioneer of 'Remote Helpdesk' which allows our team of Microsoft Certified engineers to gain control of a client’s computer within minutes via the Internet from our base to solve problems as quickly as possible.

At Pisys.net, we are committed to providing our clients with fast, efficient, professional and courteous service of the highest level. That best service is also supported by the best technology. We have formed partnerships with some of the world’s biggest and most respected technology providers, such as Microsoft, Dell and IBM/Lenovo, so that we can make the very best technology available to small and mid-sized businesses – but only when they’re ready and only when we know it will benefit their business.

Pisys.net is an accredited IBM Business Partner and has retained its Microsoft Partner status for some 6 years reaching Certified Gold Partner Status, this was achieved due to our commitment to the training of staff and testimonials received from our clients’, it is these industry leading accreditations and partnerships which ensure that our clients’ technology works to support and enhance their staff and services.

Swansea
Pisys.net Ltd
45-49 Wind Street
Swansea
SA1 1EF
Tel 01792 46 47 48
Fax 01792 641041

Antur Insurance – is a Chartered Insurance Broker and part of the CCV group, one of the largest independently owned insurance intermediaries in the UK. They have access to an extensive number of Insurers and
a wide range of products to meet all of your insurance needs. With their purchasing power they can negotiate competitive premiums and access policies with enhanced benefits and terms for their
customers. At Antur Insurance they are experienced in giving business owners peace of mind and high quality service in their business insurance policies.

Antur is also one of only three insurance brokers in Wales to achieve Chartered status. This exclusive title, awarded only to firms who meet rigorous criteria relating to their professionalism and capability, is the ultimate symbol of trust for insurance and financial planning. Customers can be confident they will receive the highest standards of professional practice in their business dealings.

If you are looking for the right cover at a competitive price, you can trust the skilled team at Antur Insurance to deliver prompt and impartial advice backed by unbeatable service.

Could your business benefit from a free business insurance review?
Antur can review your policy to check that you are adequately covered and advise if necessary where they could save you money or provide advice on a policy which may be more suitable for your needs.
Don’t wait until your policy is due for renewal to contact Antur. They will undertake a free mid-term review of your current insurance cover and your forthcoming requirements so that everything is in
place before the renewal date.

Contact Details:
Telephone : 01792 522622
Fax : 01792 522623
Email : sales@anturgroup.co.uk
anturinsurance.co.uk

South Wales Web Solutions – provides web design services to companies in Cardiff, Swansea and the rest of South Wales.

Based in Porthcawl, we offer all types of businesses a complete web design and build service - managing Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), e-commerce, Content Management Systems (CMS), graphic design and social media set up and training.

Because the average website visitor takes an average of just eight seconds to decide if your site is for them and make assumptions about your business, it is crucial that the web design has the desired effect.

That’s why each website we work on is individually designed to suit a client’s needs, to create the desired impact and ensure that visitors stick around and don’t head off somewhere else.

South Wales Web Solutions offers a variety of SEO packages for small to medium-sized businesses in Cardiff, Swansea and across South Wales who are looking to improve their website’s natural search engine ranking and web position.

We pride ourselves on customer service - knowing that satisfied clients are a company’s biggest asset.

Our services include;

Web Design

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - including writing your content to ensure it is ‘keyword’ optimised.

Digital Marketing

Email Marketing

Social Media Set Up and Training, explaining how Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and a blog can help you attract even more potential customers.



"No Contracts, No Hassle, No Hidden Extras! - Just friendly, Professional Service.!"

Email: lee@southwaleswebsolutions.co.uk
Email: steve@southwaleswebsolutions.co.uk

Office Tel: 01656 773388
Lee Thompson 07988 772865
Steve Protheroe 07889 022477

Office: 8am - 6pm
South Wales Web Solutions
7A New Road
Station Hill
Porthcawl
South Wales
CF36 5DL

Business Sense – our in-house consultants have been in business themselves for 20 years. They can provide you with expert help and advice on every aspect of your business, whether you are just starting out or already trading. You will be allocated your own personal consultant who will look after your business every step of the way. Our unique service offers practical support and advice to get you up and running, and to help your business grow.
We can assist you with Business Planning, Grants, Accountancy Service, Business Loans, Book Keeping Services, P.A.Y.E. and Self Assessment, V.A.T., Limited Company Formations, Web Site Design, Commercial Mortgages, opening Business Bank Accounts, Tenders Alert Service, Tender Applications, Signs and Printing, Marketing, Patents.
There are packages to suit everybody at Business Sense, Some of our clients choose advice in just one aspect of their business, whilst many opt for our full administration package which offers complete office support including accounts and marketing your business to new customers.
Contact Details:
Telephone : 01792 310110
Email : enquiries@thebusinesscentre.info
Web: www.thebusinesscentre.info

Business Network Wales – The aim of The Business Network is to help your business grow, and we do that by introducing you to other businesses in an environment designed to encourage you to build strong business relationships. Our events are structured but informal, sociable and successful. A fact we are really proud of is that we have members who have been with us from the start in 2001 and who are still generating business through their membership. We care about your business and we take the time to get to know about your business, what you are looking for and how we can help. The Business Network meets regionally. We have well-established monthly lunchtime networking groups in Cardiff , Swansea , Bridgend, Newport City and West Wales with more scheduled to open across Wales. We have recently launched a series of fortnightly breakfast meetings - Rise & Shine events - in Swansea, Bridgend and Heads of the Valleys (Merthyr). Most companies network for business in one way or another. Structured events give us all a chance to meet new suppliers and customers in a short time frame. But with so many business networking opportunities to choose from, why should you choose The Business Network? Well browse our website and then try one of our meetings.

Contact details:

Telephone: 01639 793580
Address:
Lynne Orton
The Business Network
95 Brooklyn Gdns,
Baglan Moors,
Port Talbot,
SA12 7PD