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ArrowBlog is featured in trade magazine!

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 No Comments

ArrowBlog (this blog) is in the Commercial Motor magazine, here’s an extract…

It’s important not to rush the process of choosing a designer. Sarah Arrow, communications director at Essex-based Arrow Light Haulage, says: “It took us two years to find someone who understands our business and what our customers require. A lot of the web designers that were recommended to me focused solely on design. I spoke about people with disabilities who wanted to read my site; one designer didn’t know what I meant by ‘accessibility’.”

However, make the right choice and the end results can be highly rewarding. Arrow Light Haulage eventually selected designer Barbara Saul, who – as a first step – made some changes to the firm’s blog (‘web log’ or online journal), which can be seen on Arrow’s website. As Arrow reports: “The hits have increased ten-fold. We are averaging three times as many enquiries a day, and at least one new customer a week. That’s just from the blog.”

Source: Road Transport

The article was published on 16th October. I now need to get the website as great as the blog…

Sarah

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Fireworks: Delivering without the bang!

Posted on October 20th, 2008 No Comments

Fireworks are generally not allowed to be delivered by couriers.  And if we could deliver them, it wouldn’t be like these guys do it ;-)

And as one blog writer puts it here…

Quick quiz: If you are a professional truck driver, a good thing to haul is…

a) jelly doughnuts
b) bunny rabbits
c) designer shoes
d) highly explosive fireworks

Reuters: Oddly Enough

You need specialist training to deliver fireworks, and if you are using a courier to do this, check the small print before suggesting they do not need the training… if you wrongly suggest they can deliver the fireworks and they have an accident where do you stand with your corporate manslaughter liabilities?

Be very careful not to get caught up in the small loads small print of  8.2.3 of ADR Link how VOSA and other agencies interpret may be different from how you do. To be quite blunt, a white diamond symbol does not mean you can transport and deliver fireworks as a courier.

There are no fireworks in the UK that can be carried by road for hire and reward without the courier and all members of the vehicle’s crew having had at the very least ‘awareness’ training.

For large fireworks loads (and even small loads of fireworks in Transport Category 1) full ADR training will is essential.

Don’t  get caught out this bonfire night, don’t endanger yourself when making your deliveries. Make your bucks without the bang!

Sarah

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Courier 2.0 part deux, The Final Delivery….

Posted on October 17th, 2008 No Comments

Yesterday I blogged about our introduction as a courier company into the world of web 2.0 you can read that here – Courier 2.0

After BT Tradespace, I found the nice people at the Sales and Marketing Forum and I chatted to other people about their web experiences, and found many people who would share advice and what worked for them. I took part in a business card exchange and of the people that sent me cards was a graphic designer called Mark Ballantyne, he now has his own business forum – UK Business Labs .It’s one of my favourite places.

Web 2.0 is good for business

Image by Robert Sanzalone via Flickr

I was beginning to see many connections with people and many chances of working collaboratively. I decided at this point I was going to break out and actually have our own business blog instead of using ones in other forums!

We chatted to Mark Graves and he put us together the blog on The Courier Shop and a few months later, the blog on Arrow Light Haulage. In August this year I changed from a plain Kubrick theme to the dark and broodier road theme, I did try the blue skies open road theme, but that didn’t look too great!

The final delivery…

Well, when I started out on the road of web 2.0 I thought it had an end. But It doesn’t. I have added Zemanta reblogging tools, retaggr and loads of other widgets and grown from one experimental blog to 8 full on blogs…

Our latest project is a blogsite called Freight Emergency, 2 years ago I had never heard of a blog!

I wonder what the future holds?  will it be delivery videos on you tube? podcasts of me twittering about delivery facts and figures? Viral games and Facebook widgets? who knows! but I am sure I will get round to it in the end!

Sarah

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