onebestway’s design and marketing efforts for “Miss Newcastle 2011 – The Year of Bollywood” are being launched at Ladies Day at Newcastle Racecourse tomorrow.

And the Miss Newcastle team are scouting for entrants, too.

So do make sure that you are looking your most radiant.

Honest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/07/the_105m_website.html

onebestway is looking for an exceptional New Business Development Manager.

You’ll be responsible for securing business by gaining new customers and impressive accounts based upon existing customer profiling information and identified targets.

As time goes on, we’ll develop new profiles and targets together.

You will also learn our sister businesses, angelfysh and Dunn and Dusted and you will communicate them brilliantly too.

This is very much a senior post and we’ll need you to be effective immediately please.

Expectations are very high.

You will

Source the ‘right’ kinds of businesses for onebestway.
Follow up new business opportunities and set up meetings.
Plan and prepare presentations that will win business.
Write proposals that will win business.
Learn our pricing policy in great detail.
Establish and maintain profitable working relationships alongside the Marketing Director and Managing Director.

You’ll need to be able to drive and will have your own car.

Hours can possibly flex to suit you.

A little more about you

You’ll have great business and marketing sense.
You’ll have the ability to engage and enthuse those you talk to, getting them to believe in what we are and what we can do for them.
You’ll understand the wider market within which onebestway operates and competes.
You’ll know our business extremely well.
You’ll have great communications skills, both in writing and verbally.
You’ll be enthusiastic and self-motivated and be able to work as part of a team.
You’ll have great organisational and time-management skills.
You’ll have a positive ‘can do’ attitude.
You’ll have great negotiation skills and persuasiveness skills.
You’ll be confident and capable presenting to groups of people of any size.
You’ll display initiative and enterprise.
You’ll be trustworthy and discrete when handling confidential information.
You’ll have a smart appearance and professional manner.
You’ll enjoy networking and meeting new people.
You’ll be honourable and likeable and you’ll be committed to and loyal to the onebestway brands.
You’ll be a winner.

Qualifications, training and experience

Personal qualities, particularly the ability to communicate, plus sales experience and market knowledge are more important than formal qualifications.

However a degree in finance, marketing (CIM, perhaps) and/or business management and/or marketing would be desirable.

Training is essentially completed on the job, observing and supporting colleagues.

Experience of our sector is desirable, including a great record of success.

Summary, package and prospects

We are looking for you to to build relationships and acquire more profitable business.

Ultimately your personal success will depend on the success and profitability of your accounts.

With a starting salary of £25k + plus excellent commission, earning potential is unlimited.

What to do

Please send a current cv plus an impressive covering email to mike@onebestway.com as quick as you like.

We are looking to recruit immediately.

Superstars only, please.

Thank you.

Please click here, then click VOTE NOW.

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Stepney Bank Stables is a onebestway client.

Here’s a wee message fron Susan Tron OBE, Manager at Stepney Bank:

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Stepney Bank is through to the semi finals of The National Lottery Awards 2010 and needs your votes to get through to the final round!

Stepney Bank Stables is 1 of only 10 projects in the country and the sole 1 in the North East to make it through to the semi finals in the Best Education Project Category.

This project is the only major inner city community horse project in the country and has proven the value of the horse as a tool to motivate, educate and pass on key social skills. Despite being a unusual concept it has proven a highly effective, long term method of engaging disaffected and hard to reach groups. We are also a first class, fully-accredited, equestrian centre!!!

Caring for horses provides purpose structure and routine where it may not have previously existed and creates a team with a common interest. The rides provide an environment where people skills are paramount which is an ideal setting for positive social and personal development. It is also a powerful antidote to anti-social behaviour, crime and exclusion. Using the horse as the uniting and motivating factor we have created an environment where learning is fun and incorporates real life situations.

Riding our ponies is the massive, fundamental dream of all the young people we work with. It is the WOW factor that makes these dreams come true. It proves an instant reward that maintains motivation for even the most challenging young people. They immediately link good behaviour and trying hard with this one special event that they all desire so highly! Riding and caring for horses is not only a huge motivational force but it very often it enables those with few other skills to demonstrate that there are areas in their lives that they can achieve in.

The Stables project has brought new opportunities, opened doors and broken down barriers to a section of the community where crime and apathy are high. Our project has enabled many individuals from this background to learn new interests and gain self esteem to a level whereby they are able to seek employment or further training. For others the improvement in the quality of everyday lives is amazing.

Voting for the semi final starts at 9am on 1 June and ends at midday on Friday 18th June. To register your vote for Stepney Bank Stables call 0844 686 5540 or log onto www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards

Please help us to get to the finals as every vote counts and we really do appreciate your support!!
Many thanks
Susan Tron
Manager

To find out more about the stables go to www.stepneybank.co.uk.

Please vote now.

Paul had a tough decision to make when he was 13. He’d grown up in a tough district of Newcastle and for reasons not even clear to him he decided not to follow the example of his joy riding classmates and he decided that he’d rather hold the reins of a horse rather the wheel of a stolen car. Many years later Paul is one of the Stables greatest success stories. “ Horse riding was the last thing you would expect someone like me to take up,” admits Paul. Stepney Bank is the sort of place you can leave your troubles at the gate and know that there are people here that support you. It is like a small community and there is a sense of belonging some people have never felt before. “The Stables paid for me to go through my training and exams and I wouldn’t have been able to afford it without their help. It set me up for life in so many ways.” Paul now runs his own Show Jumping yard selling high quality horses to the rich and famous.

Stepney Bank • Ouseburn • Newcastle Upon Tyne • NE1 2PN
info@stepneybank.co.uk • 0191 2615544 • www.stepneybankstables.co.uk
• Registered Charity No. 1084687 • BHS Registered • ABRS Registered

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Junior Technical Developer (.NET Web Developer)

Required Knowledge

Microsoft .NET 2 – 3.5 C# Web Development Microsoft SQL Server/SQL Statements/Stored Proc’s HTML/CSS Microsoft IIS Javascript.

An awareness of new technologies.

Desirable Knowledge

Paypal API
AJAX / SOAP / XML
Accessibility
Documentation

Personal Skills

A strong desire to learn and a passion for software development.

The ability to not only follow direction, but to be pro-active in your attitude towards work.

The ability to research and overcome any technical problems you may have as well as being able to teach yourself when needed.

Good communication skills, especially when in the very rare times that things may not be going perfectly.

It is very important to us that you are a good team player. Everything we do at onebestway as individuals, effects everyone else on a personal level as well as a business as a whole. Effectively we require someone who is ‘nice’ and openly honest, not just a workhorse.

You must have either have had at least 1-2 years commercial experience or a related degree.

You will be required to demonstrate your skills. This will require you do a small project at home.
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Please send a stand-out email to mike@onebestway.com and john@onebestway.com just as soon as you can.

Salary is £15k to £20k.

Superstars only.

Thank you

John Stock, Senior Technical Developer, onebestway | Michael Owen, MD, onebestway

The Chip Shop Awards is a National awards ceremony organised by The Drum Magazine.

The awards are for edgy, clever, cheeky and challenging design.

Agencies enter from all over the UK and there were just over 400 entries this year.

Out of the 400 entries, 84 have been nominated for an award.

Out of the 84 nominations, only 6 Companies have been nominated for 3 or more awards.

And one of the 6 most nominated Companies is onebestway.

Nice! We’ll let you know how we do.

So initially it’s you alone and in the longer term future we will build around you as, all being well, you’ll grow to ‘Team Leader’.

You’ll be able to display evidence of:
Advanced, *complete e-commerce development (ASP.net).
Advanced, *complete CMS development (ASP.net).
Advanced database development (SQL, MySQL).
Advanced Wordpress implementation.
An ability to create fully optimisable (not optimised) websites (CSS, HTML, XHTML).
An ability to create fully DDA compliant websites (CSS, HTML, XHTML).
Other cleverness including using JQuery, Flash Action Scripting and Javascript.
A working knowledge of PHP.

*By ‘complete’ we mean that you must be able to complete the tasks perfectly and in their entirety please.

You’ll work alongside our experienced and award winning designers, to exceptionally high quality standards and you’ll be able to work very, very quickly.

Windows built websites must be developed to be hosted in a Medium Trust environment.

You’ll not be designing. onebestway’s design team will create wonderful website interfaces that you will then build.

A little more about you
You’ll be an extremely fast, committed and focused individual with immense pride in your work and impeccable attention to detail. A mild mannered genius that gets a real sense of satisfaction from doing things brilliantly well, every single time.

Significantly, you’ll be really positive, likeable and ‘can-do’ with the ability to communicate clearly and well with clients and colleagues in a jargon-free, patient and respectful way.

You’ll be able to write and deliver against your own clearly structured, understandable (by all) ‘Technical Specifications’. You’ll write the ‘Technical Specifications’ yourself, supported by one of our experienced Account Managers on all projects.

The ‘Technical Specifications’ you write will normally be generated as a result of you taking the lead in face-to-face meetings with clients.

Your package
The starting salary is from £25k to £35k depending upon your experience and ability to deliver.

It’s likely that you’ll start around the middle of the salary band and if you are exceptional you’ll move up quickly if you do indeed turn out to be the ‘real deal’. In many ways you will be growing your own role.

Here’s what to do
Please send a bang up to date cv and an impressive, stand-out covering email to mike@onebestway.com just as soon as you can.

Start date
For the right person – just as soon as possible.

Thank you.

In 2008 onebestway wanted to photograph work somewhere different.

So we asked John if we could use his beloved allotment.

Our brochure, named ‘allotment’ was shot and produced and it was lovely. If you want a copy, please email mike@onebestway.com and ask. We’ll send you one.

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Sadly; John died at the end of 2009.

Thanks John for allowing us to show the things that we love in amongst the things that you love.

Michael

Newcastle seo business angelfysh is in the Journal today with this lovely ad.

In April 2010 Emily will be joining a group of 20 people from the Sunderland Partnership (comprising Public, Private and Voluntary Sector Organisations) in attempting to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro – the world’s highest free standing mountain. The climb will take place over a period of seven days from the 16th April - 22nd April.

Emily is raising money for a fantastic charity Grace House North East Children’s Hospice Appeal.  The charity is raising funds to build, equip and run an eight bed children’s hospice for children across the North East of England.

The other half of the money will be going to the Africa Blackwood Conservation Project, which is planting trees on the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro to reverse the devastating effects of deforestation.

The fundraising target is an ambitious one so any support you can give would be much appreciated.

Please visit http://www.justgiving.com/Emily-James to donate.

Thank you

Michael