The rise before the fall
How long must we sing this song?
Top Left Design's 2nd Birthday!
Gemma - our new employee
Interns from FIE
Featured Project
Keren's Speech

The rise before the fall

In these (dare we say it) trying times, every little helps, and here at Top Left Design we are always full of ideas for ways of using the wonderful world of the internet and the wonderful possibilities of design to help market your business. We have seen so many different ways of marketing and have witnessed their results - things like using video on your website, setting up a targeted Search Engine Marketing campaign and sending out e-newsletters have all proved massively fruitful for our clients. Now, more than ever, is the time to use the relatively low cost means that good focused design and marketing can bring to increase sales, reduce costs and make your business run more efficiently. This, coupled with a team that is all on board to help out (yes, that's right - the Top Left Design team!), is what will make some businesses rise above any of today's challenges!

For something more tangible, fill in our survey and we will be sure to act favorably to you! You could even win advertising space on our next
e-newsletter, please see below for more!

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We are pretty curious about what you newsletter readers want to read and how often you think we should send this newsletter out? So, we have devised an online survey to find out. If you fill this out and give us the best answer to the last question you will win an advertisement for your company on the next newsletter we send out!

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We had our second birthday this August and celebrated in 3 different ways.

1. We went for champagne at the top of Tower 42.
2. We had cupcakes in the office.
3. We are going for a Top Left Design spa trip at the Landmark Spa.

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With the sad departure of Alex for pastures new, we were left in a bit of a pickle. We entertained ourselves with a stream of work experience/interns during the summer, who helped us with simple HTML changes and also entering our business card information into a massive database. But enough about them - it's now all about Gemma! She is an experienced Graphic Designer and brings with her innate skills for managing projects to add to our special brand of client care! If you want to ask Gemma what she thinks about working here so far, just email her!

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From October till December, we will have an intern here from the "Foundation for International Education". Nicholas Sera-Leyva is an American graphic design student keen to learn all about what it's like working for British companies. If you are a business looking for an intern, it's a really well organised scheme - you can get in touch with Jenny Scoles who works at FIE by emailing her or calling
020 7591 7760. All expenses are paid by the organisation and you can get real value from students who are already studying in your field.

We would also like to offer a special offer to all you readers - if you would like your next Top Left Design website, e-newsletter or blog at a 20% discount, we are offering this to the first 3 respondents who send us an email with the special code "TLD-Nick". This will give Nick a chance to work on his own projects - supervised by Keren, Anine, Amy and Gemma! We promise that the end result will be a website,
e-newsletter or blog site that we would be proud to add to our portfolio and Nick would be proud to add to his!

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We did a big project for Bernie from Have a Nice Day Productions and this included:

1. Website
2. E-newsletter design
3. Business cards
4. Flyers

This is what Bernie had to say about us:

'Keren and the Top Left Design Team are deliberate, detailed and do things right the first time. You always get high quality work that helps your business grow and is worth every penny. What I have got with Top Left Design is brilliant service, peace of mind and everything is done properly and effectively.

What I have found most useful is that they understand web design AND also how hard/easy it is to run ANY business, not just designing websites. They have given me very sound advice I can apply right away, again saving me time and money.'

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During the summer, Keren did a talk about common mistakes made with websites. It was rather popular and we would like to thank all of you who took the time to write back to us. We do appreciate it! If you are reading this, and you wrote back - please fill in our survey (we will be rewarding your efforts). Click here if you would like to read other people's comments about the talk.

If you would like to come to the next talk in Central London on November 11th book online on the NRG website.

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If you haven't filled out our survey, perhaps now's the time - it takes less than one minute and you could possibly win our special prize! If you fill in our survey then we would really appreciate it!

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