Online boost for UK small businesses

British company offers SMEs unique help to gain extra sales through social networks and blogs

A British-based company is bidding to get more small and medium enterprises online and help boost their sales through cyberspace.

Fuelmywebsite.com hopes to encourage and enable Britain's small businesses to get a stronger foothold on the Internet, by gaining coverage across social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

It helps firms interact with some of the 35,000 pre-approved blogs within their exclusive online network, fuelmyblog.com.

These blogs often have vital information that cannot be found on traditional mainstream websites and allow potential customers with a real interest in the service they are providing, or niche they are serving, to be targeted.

The idea follows on from the successful Fuelmyblog.com website, founded in 2007 by Internet entrepreneur Kevin Dixie and wife Sylvie.

Boasting over 35,000 bloggers, the network was created by the pair amid their frustration at not being able to find useful and honest blog reviews which helped them with vital information when moving to France in 2006, by creating an exclusive community, they managed to attract the best of breed bloggers on the web.

In order to keep the site safe for children, porn and spam free, they humanly moderate each user that joins up, the pair estimate to have turned away over 20,000 unsuitable blogs to date.

It encouraged bloggers to join, share information and grow readership by enabling private messaging and a voting system pushing the best content to the homepage, and now the team behind it are launching fuelmywebsite.com to do the same for SMEs.

Fuelmywebsite provide She’s a complete online backbone and seamlessly enable the publishing of news and content relevant to the SME's business, this news is automatically pushed to all major social networks. The service requires zero technology knowledge and if used properly will take under 10 minutes per week to effectively start online marketing, with guaranteed results. Effective Facebook, Twitter and Blog coverage are essential to every SME starting online brand engagement.

Kevin Dixie, 37, from Ware, Hertfordshire, said: “PR agencies and large companies are always approaching us to help them get their products or services in the hands of bloggers, and the bloggers really enjoy the challenge of writing about the products.

“But up until now, it has only been feasible for large corporations to think about getting their message across online using bloggers and social media.”

He added: “By focusing on the people who write about the areas these small businesses are serving, fuelmywebsite.com harnesses the power of blogs and social network groups to attract more customers and sales.

“It shows the power of online marketing without the average SME owner needing to take their eye away from their core business. They do not have to invest time and energy planning online strategy, we have a solution to do this for them.”

Kevin is working with one of UK Trade & Investments’ 'Dealmakers' Sheetal Mehta Walsh in a bid to reach out to the SME community.

Mrs. Walsh said: "My role as a UK Dealmaker is to encourage entrepreneurs with outstanding potential to move their headquarters to the UK.

“After careful due diligence, we “Greenlight” companies into to the Global Entrepreneur Programme and help them grow globally with the help of our Deal Maker network.

“After meeting with Kevin and the management team, it was clear to us

that by using the UK as their headquarters, they could gain the support they need to take fuelmywebsite.com global very quickly.

“We were really impressed with the companies product and ideas. It really could benefit small companies all over the world and that is why we were so keen to lend our support. With the right help the firm can grow and internationalise very quickly and we will do what we can to help them do that.

Head of the Global Entrepreneur Programme Derek Goodwin said: "By using fuelmywebsite.com, small business owners will be guaranteed online coverage and be able to use a fast track tool to get online. They can then begin to start an all-important conversation about their product, service or brand."

Since moving to the UK from France, fuelmywebsite.com has worked with many British companies and its bosses are now working with the GEP team to arrange high level government meetings in the UK and overseas.

Find out more by visiting www.fuelmywebsite.com

For further information, please contact:

Kevin Dixie – kevin@fuelmyblog.com +44 7801 547 914