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We are proud to announce that we have won our first award! We have been awarded the BT Scotland Yound E-ntrepreneur Award: Most Environmentally Responsible Business 2009.

We have put a lot of effort into our ‘Green’ credentials and are extremely proud of our environmental policy. For us to be recognised with this award makes our effort to show that businesses in the IT world could and should be making strivings to reduce their carbon footprint and think about the environment when running their businesses.

We’d be delighted to tell you more about how a Web Design and Internet Marketing company from Glasgow, such as us, has managed to implement policies and an overall ethos and we rewarded in such a way. Contact us for more information.

Have a look at the press coverage on the awards below and see who else won an award.

Read a copy of the Evening Times article here »
Read a copy of the Scottish Daily Express article here »
Read More at the Evening Times»
Read More at All Media Scotland»
Read More at Business 7»

Not since I was dressed as a scarecrow at a primary school fancy dress competition have I been in the papers and as for Ryan…it’s been so long he can’t remember. So yesterday when we opened the Evening Times and saw our cheesy grins smiling back its was a shock to say the least! Being excited about the award we couldn’t miss this opportunity to put a copy on our own site.

Read a copy of the Evening Times article here »
Read a copy of the Scottish Daily Express article here »
Read More at the Evening Times»
Read More at All Media Scotland»
Read More at Business 7»
Read More at the PSYBT»

he internet marketing company PoLR Ltd has launched a PoLR bear mask photography competition throughout the UK offering fantastic prizes.

Glasgow, Thursday 19th, February, 2009 – The Glasgow based online marketing and web design company PoLR Ltd has launched a UK wide photography competition. PoLR Ltd has teamed up with Sno!Zone, Tunnock’s, and the Edinburgh Zoo for a chance to win fantastic prizes. The closing date is on the 31st of March.

There are three different photography categories including the most inventive location, the most populated location, and the best artistic imagination. For each category a prize can be won which are the following: a day of skiing or boarding lessons, a box of 288 chocolate snowballs and a family day pass to the Edinburgh Zoo.

To enter the competition the user must take a photo of him or herself in a random place or situation wearing either a supplied plastic polar bear mask or a downloaded paper mask (www.polr.co.uk/mask). PoLR Ltd representatives will also be distributing plastic polar bear masks and flyers throughout Glasgow city, targeting universities and selected business centres.

The photographs must be sent to the PoLR Ltd headquarters or via e-mail. At the closing date PoLR directors and the representatives of the prize sponsoring companies will select the top 10 images for the final public vote. The public can vote their preferred winner during a two week period by visiting the website www.polr.co.uk/mask. The winners will be chosen and their pictures displayed on the PoLR Ltd website within the following week of the public vote.

This marketing competition will increase awareness of the PoLR Ltd brand and its services, which include web design, e-commerce, and search marketing. The aim is to reach potential customers, especially young companies that are looking to create an online presence.

For additional information on the ‘Show Us Your PoLR Face competition’ contact PoLR Ltd or visit www.polr.co.uk/mask.

About PoLR Ltd:
PoLR Ltd is a young and innovative web design, e-commerce and internet marketing company based in Glasgow. For more information visit www.polr.co.uk.

Contact:
PoLR Limited
Ladywell Business Centre,
94 Duke Street,
Glasgow,
Scotland
G4 0UW

e: mask@polr.co.uk
t: 0141 572 8819

When @thirdsectorlab Tweeted about needing a logo designed for the Glasgow Twestival we didn’t hesitate in volunteering to help out. We were chosen to create the logo and so set to task coming up with ideas that really said ‘Glasgow’.

Anyone who live in Glasgow (and many that don’t) will be all too aware of the GoMA statue with the perpetual traffic cone ‘hat’ and so we thought this was a great way to get a little Glasgow into the design without the cheesy SECC outline! We did consider a bottle of Buckfast for a time but thought it probably wasn’t putting out the right vibes.

Anyway, we were very happy with the finished logo and look forward to the night.

** Update **

The night was a great success and really did Glasgow proud by raising £3675 for No Strings Attached Scotland.

On Thursday 3rd September 2009, PoLR Ltd made it to the final of the PSYBT Regional Business Award (Glasgow region) and finished as very respectable Runners Up!

We’d like to extend a huge congratulations to the Winners: Tom Lauckner and John Moore of www.laucknerandmoore.com who won the award thanks to their popular and thriving sandwich shop ‘Piece’ located at 1056 Argyle Street.

The first prize was sponsored by D8 Design Consultants the runner up prize sponsored by Glasgow City Council. The event was  held at the CCA (the Centre for Contemporary Arts) in Glasgow and was attended by many PSYBT representatives, volunteers and up-and-coming new businesses.

Sadly, Lynne Foster (Co-Founder of PoLR) had a long standing holiday to the USA booked and couldn’t be at the event to encourage me to behave myself. With John Moore (the other half of Lauckner and Moore) having work commitments at Piece to attend to (although he did make it later on in the day), it was left to myself and Tom to field the questions at the Q&A section of the awards. This went reasonably well, even though Tom had just came off a flight from Canada and we had previously dared each other to attempt to include as many song titles as possible in any answers we gave whilst on stage (we chickened out).

All in all, the day went brilliantly and it was great to see the new entrepreneurs at the event with their business ideas and innovative products. As well as representatives from Business Gateway, Regeneration Agencies in Glasgow and the Council.

We’re extremely proud to have been recognised as runners up in the Business Award for the Glasgow region and all the support and guidance given to us by the PSYBT in starting up and the aftercare.

Today we have had the pleasure of making the final of the PSYBT Regional Business Award (Glasgow) 2009.

The award is there to showcase up and coming businesses that have been funded and guided by the PSYBT and particularly to award those who show promise, endeavour and innovation in their field.

We are proud to have finished as Runners Up in this Award and were pipped to the post by Tom Lauckner and John Moore of Lauckner & Moore for their fantastically gourmet sandwich shop and cafe ‘Piece’ located in 1056 Argyle St. They have shown true entrepreneurial spirit by having a clear idea about what their unique selling points are and providing great food and service to their loyal and growing customer base. So well done guys!

Click here to read about the award from PSYBT themselves.

Today we have had the pleasure of making the final of the PSYBT Regional Business Award (Glasgow) 2009.

The award is there to showcase up and coming businesses that have been funded and guided by the PSYBT and particularly to award those who show promise, endeavour and innovation in their field.

We are proud to have finished as Runners Up in this Award and were pipped to the post by Tom Lauckner and John Moore of Lauckner & Moore for their fantastically gourmet sandwich shop and cafe ‘Piece’ located in 1056 Argyle St. They have shown true entrepreneurial spirit by having a clear idea about what their unique selling points are and providing great food and service to their loyal and growing customer base. So well done guys!

Click here to read about the award from PSYBT themselves.

On Friday we travelled down to Leeds for the second Think Visibility conference of 2009 (the first being in March). It’s a great conference for inspiration and ideas and we’re glad there’s something like this within easy reach of Glasgow as so many of these are London based.

Talks we enjoyed are below and if you want the full round-up then look at our blog post.

• WordPress SEO Strategies – Joost De Valk (@Yoast)
• Big Site SEO : The Telegraph.co.uk – Julian Sambles (@JulianSambles)
• Maximizing Universal Search – Judith Lewis (@JudithLewis)
• Debunking the ‘F-Pattern’ – Fiona Thomson (@fiThomson)
• Have Blogs Gone Wrong? – Tom Smith (@Everythingabili)

Once again, thanks to The Hodge and all the @thinkvisibility team for organising it.

It’s been a busy and conference filled few weeks for PoLR what with Think Visibility and now the FOWD tour but well worth the long drives and early mornings to hear from some of the experts in web design and SEO.

The FOWD tour was fantastic for the design team to get along to as not only were there some great presentations (listed below) but there was a 1/2 hour speed networking session where we had the chance to meet other attendees whom we might never have got chatting to otherwise. I thought the speed networking was an excellent addition to an event like this as it’s so easy to just stick with who you arrived with at these events!

Talks we enjoyed were:

• ‘Making your content discoverable with Microformats’ by Drew McLellan
• ‘Keyboard Access Essentials’ by Patrick Lauke
• ‘The Future of HTML 5′ by Bruce Lawson
• ‘Design, Release, Iterate: The Importance of Acting on Feedback’ by Colin Hewitt

If you want to read the full round up then please see our blog article.

We received a Google alert today that made us all a little excited.

It was from the Independent newspaper’s website and on reading it we discovered their reporter (Rhodri Marsden) had picked up on the e-commerce survey that we conducted at the start of 2009 and had quoted some of our stats.

We then nipped out to the newsagent and we proud as punch that the story was the centrefold!

Since there were no links to the articles we thought it only right to put them here for anyone who would like to read more.

View Independent article here >>

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• E-commerce Survey – Security Opinions
• E-commerce Survey – Instore or Online Shopping?
• E-commerce Survey – Persuading an online sale
• E-commerce Survey – Who shops for what online?
• erce Survey – What stops a buyer buying?
• E-commerce Survey – Internet Usage
• PoLR Ecommerce Survey Demographics