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Article posted on April 28, 2010 at 8:33 am

Kariba’s stand is a show-stopper

No wonder Jodie is looking pleased with herself. At Monday’s Yorkshire Business Market in Harrogate, Kariba’s seasonal take on the Grow Your Business theme received a nomination for ‘Best Medium-sized’ stand’. Featuring a colourful and Spring-like ‘beanstalk’ intertwined with our key word offerings – Wonderful Websites, Beautiful Brochures, Successful Social Media etc – the stand also featured an animated presentation of our website work. Passers by, enraptured by what they saw, also received a ‘matching’ Grow Your Business brochure and Show Discounts leaflet.
Since Monday’s exhibition we’ve been busy following up leads ranging from a complete re-brand to some rather nifty website builds. It just shows, ‘you’ve got to be in it to win it!’

Say hello to PapaPC

When Kariba’s creative director, Chris, heard that his father (Alan) was in danger of losing his job in the motor industry, the family rallied round and came up with a new business proposition for him. Chris realised there was a market for computer support for people over the age of 50 from someone who was IT proficient, such as Alan, but also spoke the same non-techy style of language. After a lot of thinking – largely over a steaming Shepherd’s Pie one Sunday afternoon, Chris’s Mum, Elaine, came up with the new name for the business, PapaPC. A day or so later and PapaPC had a stunning visual identity designed by Kariba Stu, web hosting and email and a lovely advert placed in one of the local ‘doorstep’ style directories.

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Kariba gives eMoves.me a flying start

Your brand isn’t just a symbol or a piece of artwork, it’s about how people perceive your business. Which is why we worked extremely hard to make sure we gave eMoves.me, a new online estate agency business, the best possible chance of success. We started by creating a striking new logo and colour scheme which, when coupled with the strapline ‘buy, sell, move…save’ (also thought up by us) gives the new business purpose and direction.
eMoves.me founder Mark Lloyd is pictured here earlier this week with his striking new For Sale Board, designed by Kariba of course. Says Mark: “I’m totally delighted with the brand Kariba designed for me. Their professionalism and dedication was second to none. Chris and the team have given eMoves.me the best possible start.”

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Fishers reel in their first online enquiry – in a day!

On Monday we put yet another wonderful web site live, this time for long established Harrogate-based exhibition and removals company, Fishers. A day later and their first genuine order dropped in from the site, which just goes to show that a website that’s been well thought through in terms of its look and feel, ease of use and prominent calls to action can deliver amazing results in record time. Said David Fisher: “We have had another enquiry this morning by phone and the guy said he got us through our website and that he was massively impressed by it.
Well done to you all.”

Make your site as great as theirs

On Tuesday York-based document management company received an order from their new web site – built by Kariba of course – that paid for the site twice over! The site’s been live for less than a month. What a result.

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