Last week, Lawrence Jones, UKFast’s MD was involved in a lively round table discussion with The Business Desk. The event was hosted by DLA Piper at their offices in Barbirolli Square in Manchester and Chired by Business Desk Editor, Chris Barry. Around the table were a selection of the North West’s business leaders representing some [...]

At the start of last month I did a talk for Network Northwest about incorporating online marketing into your overall strategy. I was intrigued to see that the feeling around the room was that social networking, search, blogging and video were all quite separate from the activities of traditional marketing. Many of the SMB owners [...]

Today marks a milestone in the history of the internet as ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has rolled out a system that allows full domain names with no Latin characters in them. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first three countries to benefit from this advancement, while [...]

How considering risk in information security should not be feared but embraced as a methodolgy to ensure confidence, innovation and development for both employees and customers.
The importance of embracing risk in our activities.
Assessing risk.
Controlling risk.

Mohammed Ali was famous for the ‘power of intention.’ He would psyche out an opponent by telling them that they were going to get knocked out in the third round.  He would be concentrating on meeting this goal and importantly, so would his opponent. So, having spent the last 10 years at UKFast speeding up the internet [...]

Rupert Murdoch would have us all believe that “paying for content online is right and that aggregators like Google that use newspaper content but don’t pay for it are doing something wrong.” (BBC article). And he’s actually got a level of support behind him…from the traditional print media that is. Johnson Press, the UK’s largest [...]

The latest IPA Bellwether report tells us that businesses are now more confident about economic conditions, however the vast majority are still not prepared to increase their offline marketing budgets. Is this the right approach in this climate? It may seem strange for an internet business to be supporting the idea of offline marketing spend [...]

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 looks at the growth of companies over the last 5-years and breaks down the results nationally and regionally. This year’s results have been announced today and unsurprisingly the largest area for fast growth is London, then following on, each of the regions takes its share of the spoils. It’s great [...]

It’s amazing what a little confidence can do. Within a business, this can be encouraged and grown by the culture that the company promotes. So too, in the business world is confidence developed. But here, the culture is influenced more by the media at large. With much more news about the economy looking up, house [...]

Accelerating business growth is a big focus for us at UKFast. So, it helps that we have firsthand experience of what it is like to be a growing company. Having synergies with our clients allows us to understand their needs. UKFast was originally set up because Lawrence Jones experienced sub-standard hosting in his previous business. [...]