New Product Launch as the Countdown to HIPs Begins
Three local companies have combined their expertise to create a new, unique solution to meet the needs of Solicitors, Estate Agents and Home Owners as they prepare for the launch of the National Home Information Packs (HIPs) on 1^st June 2007.
Dorset companies, Condor Office Solutions and PraktisIT together with Saratoga Technologies (UK) have created a fantastic new and unique tool which can help securely scan, manage, retrieve and distribute electronically all the documents required to produce a Home Information Pack.
“Home Information Packs will make a big difference to home-buyers and sellers, providing clear information for consumers and speeding up the process. More and more companies are now coming forward to support and promote Home Information Packs.” Yvette Cooper, Minister for Housing and Planning, said recently. “I welcome their commitment to ensuring that Home Information Packs are introduced smoothly and effectively in 2007.”
“Whether they are planning to use a HIPs provider, produce HIPs themselves or if they have no plans yet, this quick and easy-to-use system will help Dorset Law Firms, Estate Agents and others to keep ahead of the competition.  The system will allow firms to; control their HIP costs, integrate with their in-house systems using their own branding, and produce HIP packs and components with ease. We are extremely excited about the opportunities this product offers local Solicitors in particular to get a comprehensive HIPs solution in place before most of their competitors both locally and nationally.” enthused Sue Mitchell, Business Development Director, PraktisIT.
The three companies are hosting a not to be missed launch event on Thursday 15^th February to introduce local Solicitors to the product. The event will also combine presentations providing the latest HIPs information and related topics.
The first event is being hosted at Saratoga Technologies’ offices at Tower Park, Poole. To be ready and organised for HIPS, reserve your place now.
Further events will be held during the countdown to the HIPs launch.
For further information contact:
Rob King
Condor Office Solutions
01202 537709
hips@condoroffice.co.uk

Here is a PDF document with further details, a form to register your place and ‘how to find us’ details.

hips-a4-flyer-26107.pdf

See you there
Wayne

I have put together an e-book introducing this topic and 8 of the most widely used resources for online promotion.
It is only intended as an introduction to get you started and point you to the relevant resources.
I look forward to seeing your online promotional work in the near future

Wayne

an-introduction-to-online-promotion-e-book-jan-2007.pdf

New rules regarding electronic communications for all Limited companies
Limited companies in the UK must include certain regulatory information on their websites and in their e-mails from 1 January this year or risk breaching the Companies Act 1985. Every company now has to list its registration number, place of registration and registered office address in legible characters on its website. The information must also appear in e-mails and online order forms. This data is already required on business letters but the duty has been extended to websites, order forms and electronic documents by an amendment to the law.  Legal news service Out-Law has published a brief guide to the new rules at: http://www.out-law.com/page-7594
To avoid being caught out, why not create a signature for your outgoing e-mails? This will add the required information to every e-mail without any need for you to remember or do anything.
Create an e-mail signature in MS Outlook. I know not everyone uses Outlook, but it is the most popular e-mail client. If you use a different e-mail client it should be quite easy to find instructions on how to create a signature from the provider or via a Google search.

1.                      In Microsoft Outlook, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Mail Format tab.

2.                       Click Signatures, and then click New or Edit (if you have an existing signature that you can just update).

If you are creating a new signature follow steps 3 to 5, if you are editing an existing signature follow steps 4 to 5 only
3.                       In the Create new signature box, type a name for your signature and select Start with a blank signature

4.                       Under edit signature, insert the text or pictures, or both, that you want to use for a signature. Use the formatting tools to apply formatting to your text.

5.                       Click Finish/OK.
6.                       In Options select the signature you have just created for signatures for new messages and signatures for replies and forwards.

7.                       You can have multiple signatures if you wish. Follow the steps above, but choose a different name for each signature.

I hope this proves to be of help

Wayne