Its a slippery slope at Customer Street

Well actually I am going to a slippery slope in Switzerland for a few days skiing but before I go I thought I would comment on what has been a hectic couple of weeks.

It is getting increasingly exciting to be part of the Customer Street team. This last few days I have spent talking to two of Britain's best known high street names about launching joint ventures between us and them. It is delightful for me to consider the prospect of Customer Street working with one or more of these FTSE 100 companies.

Both parties have recognised the excellent performance of our products and growing market share and have asked us to see if a little of the Customer Street success can rub off on their organisations. We are happy to oblige and once some progress is made I will be happy to update this blog with details.

That's enough work now until I return on Tuesday.

Customer Street's Ufindus Directory gets yet another award

I was delighted to see that we were awarded yet another Hitwise award for Ufindus for the growing traffic levels at the end of December. Hitwise are one of the industry leading independent traffic monitoring companies.

What is frustrating is that these awards are calculated on a per site basis and cannot aggregate all our sites together and so this does not include the traffic from the other directories and portals in the Customer Street network which would quadruple our traffic numbers!

Customer Street's multi platform approach to marketing does have it's drawbacks in these instances but what is most important is that from our customers point of view it gets results.

Customer Street relaunch Moreuk.com

This week some of my colleagues have been working on a new layout for our national directory, MoreUK. I am pleased with the layout. During the next few weeks we have a number of changes coming the the directories including a major classified listings project that will be included on Smilelocal.com and I am very excited to be have been involved in some of the meetings to encourage this new product along. I think our users will like it.