Barney Durrant, director and owner of Bluebell Digital, explains why the business should win the Startup of the Year category of the Guardian Small Business Showcase competition:
In just under two years, Bluebell Digital has grown from nothing to a thriving digital marketing business serving a wide range of diverse clients from local companies to other startup businesses.
We have helped to launch an international-calling tech business, building up its brand on social media to more than 2,000 followers and getting customers to sign up to the service in this competitive marketplace. We have taken a very traditional professional services company and inspired their senior management to take up social media, get their voice out on Twitter and via LinkedIn, and quickly building their presence up to more than 50,000 social impressions per month in a short period of time.
We have helped to build word of mouth – both online and offline – for a new vineyard, promoting them to potential partners, visitors, shops and restaurants.
We continue to grow our client base and will be looking to move beyond partnerships and freelancers to employing our first staff in the next twelve months.
All entries which meet the competition criteria are published and our judging panel select a shortlist of the top three for each category. Winners are announced at an awards ceremony in summer 2016.
