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When he’s not busy working as a WordPress Developer, our latest recruit coaches Cockfield United’s goalkeepers.

Mike Onslow has over 10 years of agency experience, building bespoke WordPress and WooCommerce websites.

Mike’s favourite assignments include a website for Colchester Zoo, where he’s a regular visitor. Plus a challenging project for Freespace which involved a lot of admin area customisation, so the client can easily maintain, edit and use the complex blocks that make up their website.

When he’s not busy at work or out on the football field, you’ll often find Mike out with his wife exploring National Trust properties and hunting waterfalls.

Our new Digital Project Manager, Alexander Brewis, used to be a high ranking sword fencer in the men’s sabre.

He’s also a skilled voiceover artist. Last year he played Father Christmas in an ad for a US company that makes novelty socks.

Valuable as those skills are, they’re not why he got the job. He has an extensive background in software and IT, working as an App Developer and Support Technician before moving into Project Management.

A qualified Prince2 Practitioner, Alexander has delivered WordPress websites, software and apps to clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing and healthcare.

He’s clearly well suited for the ahem, cut and thrust of Fellowship work.

If your company has just the one website offering products or services to customers in multiple countries, you’re likely to be ranking poorly and losing sales.

This multisite project for Flexiteek showcases our ability to build and integrate targeted websites with similar functionality, across multiple countries. One WordPress CMS installation powers websites across five countries: UK, Spain, Poland, France and Italy. The content on each site is professionally translated, rather than relying on Google translate. Together with international targeting in Google Search Console, this helps them to rank well in each country’s SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

Take a closer look here: flexiteek.co.uk / flexiteek.es / flexiteek.pl / flexiteek.fr / flexiteek.it

Talk to us today to find out how we can help your business grow with our WordPress multisites.

If your company falls into any of the following three scenarios, you’d likely benefit from our specialism in multisites – multiple websites powered by one WordPress CMS installation.

1. Companies with multiple brands, that require a separate website for each one.
2. International companies with a single brand, that require dedicated, translated websites for each territory / country they operate in.
3. Companies that require a website with individual micro-sites, one for each sub-brand, product or service.

We’ve recently launched a Multisite for Cambridge Econometrics, a world leading economics consultancy who we rebranded five years ago. Since our rebrand the business has thrived, with a 50% increase in staff numbers and two new offices opened in Europe.

Earlier this month, Cambridge Econometrics opened for business in North America. They commissioned us to build a dedicated US website to promote their services. We extended their existing WordPress website, which we built in 2016, to deliver their new dedicated US site: https://www.camecon.us/

Our solution provides three great benefits for the client:

1. Time efficient: A single Content Management System, enabling the client to change the content on both sites quickly and easily.
2. Cost effective: Affordable web hosting and ongoing future development for one website, instead of accumulative costs of running multiple sites.
3. Scalable: Easy to add additional websites that target new countries or territories if required.

Cambridge Econometrics already has several US consulting engagements underway, and we look forward to helping with their future growth and continued success.

I’m really excited to welcome Danny Turnbull to the Fellowship team as our first Non-Executive Director.

Danny is a Managing Consultant at Cactus – one of the UK’s largest agency growth and M&A consultancies – having worked with over 1,000 agencies in the last 10 years. Before joining Cactus, Danny spent thirty years working in agencies, the last fifteen of which he was leading major agency brands in the UK and Europe.

Having done some work with Cactus over the last year or so, I know that Danny will bring a tremendous blend of experience, insight and enthusiasm to this new role. Our team has been growing steadily and with Danny’s guidance I’m confident we’ll go from strength to strength.

We’re delighted that business continues to grow here at Fellowship. We’re currently recruiting for two more roles – a WordPress Developer and a Project Manager. So, if you’re looking for a new challenge and want to join a growing agency, then we’d love to hear from you.

Apply for the WordPress Developer role here.
Apply for the Project Manager role here.

Business is continuing to increase here at Fellowship, so we’re on the hunt for another full-time web developer. If you’re looking for a new challenge and want to join a growing agency, then we’d love to hear from you. You can find out more here.

We’ve just launched a unique and exciting project – Flexiteek Islands For Everyone – showcasing our CGI and development skills.

Flexiteek is a world leading manufacturer of synthetic teak boat decking and marine products.

In an industry that is awash with beautiful photos of amazing yachts, we set out to create a campaign that…

• Demonstrates that Flexiteek 2G is the perfect decking for all boat types, from small tenders to superyachts
• Showcases the decking as the star of the show (rather than the boat)
• Stands out from the crowd, and has the ‘Wow!’ factor.

Here’s what we did…
Working with our CGI partner, we created Flexiteek Bay, a stunning image that features a tropical island with a range of boats to suit all budgets  – ‘Flexiteek Islands For Everyone’.

We then built an interactive microsite so users can explore the boats and their deck designs. Our developers had fun using Vue and Tailwind for rapid prototyping, which then transitioned seamlessly to the finished product.

We’re delighted that Google’s Lighthouse has awarded the site a maximum 100 point score to each of its areas – performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO.

Along with the website, we’re also managing a global digital marketing campaign as well as designing printed ads for marine magazines. Finally, Flexiteek Bay will take pride of place in the new exhibition stands we’re producing for this season’s boat shows around the world.

Explore for yourself: https://islandsforeveryone.flexiteek.com

We went into lockdown with a team of 12. Now, as we take our first, tentative steps out of lockdown, there are 18 of us.

That’s a 50% growth in posts, including three more web developers, a finance manager, an account manager, and another graphic designer.

Recruiting staff remotely has been an interesting experience. Last week, all of us got together for the first time. We had a meal outdoors and reassured ourselves that we’re all fit and functioning.

Looking back it seems crazy that our pre-Covid policy was to allow staff just one day per week working from home. Our new hybrid model of homeworking and some time in the studio is definitely here to stay. Going forward we plan to be very flexible, while still making sure the whole team get together on a reasonably regular basis.

Quiz nights on Zoom have partly filled the social gap, but we’ve all really missed lunches at the pub and our walks and talks around the scenic Hartest countryside. And while remote scrum sessions have worked well using Zoho Sprints, they’ve definitely been sit downs rather than stand ups.

Thankfully, we’ve been busier than ever – more on that to follow.

We’re delighted to welcome Marisa Harwood to our team as our new Project Manager. She has almost 20 years experience in digital and e-commerce, starting her career as a designer and front-end web developer soon progressing to project manager with a passion for delivering websites. She has worked amongst marketing, design and technical teams to gain a broad knowledge of the digital spectrum and is a keen advocate for Agile delivery. Utilizing all of these skills, she works as a team player to deliver top class websites with the client’s needs at the heart of every project.

With Marisa on board, our total team size is now 17.