Want to be your own boss – help is available!

Whether you want to start up a part-time business, turn your hobby into a money-maker, or be the next Richard Branson, enterpriseGY is the place to come.

The good news is that with additional funding from Great Yarmouth Borough Council the enterpriseGY programme of business support is here for you for at least the next two years. Building on the success of helping to set up 500 businesses in phase one the aim is to establish a further 400 in phase two.

EnterpriseGY can give you one-to-one business advice and guidance plus business skills courses, to take the worry out of running your own business, all free of charge.

This will be the support you need to get you going and keep you on the right track.

Come and meet our team of A4e Business Advisers and Trainers. They have a wealth of experience between them, and have all run their own businesses. Every day they pass on their wisdom to the next generation of business newcomers......you!

The team have been helping people to become their own bosses, as well as mentoring existing business in the Great Yarmouth area, for the last five years.

So if you live in the Great Yarmouth borough and are looking to start up a business in the area we have everything you need. To see our range of courses visit our website and don’t forget that all of the advice and training courses are fully funded – all at no cost to you!

So what are you waiting for???

Starting a business can be easier than you think with the support of enterpriseGY.

Contact us now on 0800 458 0146 to book your first step.

Check out the website http://www.enterprisegy.co.uk/ to see what we can offer.

Call in and see us at the Novus Centre, The Conge, Great Yarmouth NR30 1NA.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Programme Targets

The current targets for the 2 year enterpriseGY programme (2011-2013) are:

800 applicants to be given pre start-up business support and advice

1,000 pre start up business applicants given training

400 business start ups created

8 Social enterprises created

A4e

A4e is a leading public service provider, serving thousands of people across three continents – Europe, Australasia and Asia. A4e’s core mission is to improve people’s lives. We work in partnership with governments, public sector organisations, private sector companies and voluntary and community groups to delivers a range of front line public services, including employment and welfare, training and education, and money and legal advice. For more information please visit www.mya4e.com/about/facts---figures

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Trusted Indigenous Oil field Equipment and Materials Provider in Nigeria Oil and Gas Upstream Market

OilPro Energy Limited supplies various specialist products and services for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries in Nigeria ; while providing unique value solutions to technical problems through a well-developed network of international partners, supported locally by experienced and skilled staff.

According to Peter Eledan, Managing Director of OilPro Energy Limited stated that "the most rapid growth in oilfield equipment demand through 2012 - 2013 will occur in the rapidly growing oil producing countries of the developing world – Nigeria and including emerging oil suppliers in sub - West Africa region which presently comprise particularly large markets as it holds a significant potential. In addition, ongoing modernisation in the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry will open up considerable opportunities for suppliers of oilfield equipment and materials going forward".

According to him, "OilPro is "One stop shop" for Oil, Gas, Chemical and Petrochemical industries", access to renowned International partners and local knowledge to the market has enabled us to provide outstanding services to some of our major clients in the Nigeria. Our ability to supply goods of all types in Nigeria, to specification, price and deadline is our critical success factor".

The Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry are always in need of equipments and materials as they are of today largely manufactured abroad. We have an extensive experience of dealing with a vast range of items used in this industry. The Products and Services provided are categorised into three broad areas as follows;

REFINERY, PETROCHEMICAL AND EQUIPMENT

- Compressors and Turbines- Separators and Filters- Petrochemical, Refinery Equipment- HVAC Equipment and Supplies- Pressure Vessels and Boilers- Heat Exchangers

PIPES, PUMPS, TUBES AND VALVES

- OCTG - Casing, Tubing, Drill Pipe- Pipe Fittings and Flanges- Pipe and Tubular Products- Valves and Actuators- Hoses and Fluid Handling- Pumps, Parts and Accessories

DRILLING AND COMPLETION TOOLS

- Oilfield Drilling Chemicals and Muds- Oil field Drilling Equipment- Offshore Oil field Drilling Rigs

How to Contact Us

Online

For more information about our products and services, please visit http://www.oil-pro.com.

Submit Your Request via Our Online ‘Contact Us’ Form.

You can also fill in all the necessary fields online via ‘Contact Us’ form or Email:

Nigeria Office:

Contact: Customer Services Team
E-mail: Nigeriaoffice@oil-pro.com

UK Office:

Contact: Customer Services Team
E-mail: UKoffice@oil-pro.com

USA Office:

Contact: Customer Services Team
E-mail: USoffice@oil-pro.com

Our Procurement and Customer Services Team will deal with your enquiry without delay.

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Pay for Results SEO Services Set To Revolutionize Australian SEO Industry

There's a change about to blow through the SEO (or Search Engine Optimization) Industry in Australia. According to Brisbane SEO Consultant, Darren Johnson, that change can't come soon enough for struggling small and medium sized businesses trying to carve out a legitimate space for themselves in the Google landscape.

The SEO industry arose from the ever increasing competition to be found within the results of search engines in general, and Google in particular. In December 2010, a survey by Netcraft Web Server estimated there were 266,848,493 live websites in the world and that this figure increases by over 7 million, every three months. If each website contains a conservative estimate of an average 30 web pages each, that's over 8 billion webpages. When Google displays 10 results on the first page of a search query, we can easily how visibility can be an issue.

Even in the early growth years of the web when names like Netscape, Magellan and Alta Vista ruled the "Information Superhighway" creative individuals serviced the need for people and businesses to show up in the top results of searches. The process of changing a website so that it was more attractive to search engines and would rank higher in the search results was known as optimization, and a new industry was born.

The SEO industry has since boomed along with the growth of the web and the growth of businesses eager to prosper from online endeavors. In Australia, like the rest of the world, there is no specific regulatory body or accreditation for this comparatively young industry.

Consumers and businesses conduct their own research in an area where they are probably not an expert. Typically research involved searching online for SEO service provider, obtaining quotes and proposals and making a choice on the limited resources available. Most SEO services have required clients to enter into contracts of 12 months where the customer pays an upfront charge and then a set monthly fee for the period of the contract.

The problem with this arrangement is of course, if the SEO provider is not performing as expected, the customer is locked into a long term agreement of payments. Not surprisingly as the industry has matured many SEO providers have begun to dispense with long term contracts and offer pay by the month options which are far more palatable to new clients unsure of how their online ventures are going to perform.

Brisbane SEO Services Consultant, Darren Johnson, welcomes this change but says there is more that could be done.

"Back in the say you would look at some quotes, read some testimonials, sign a contract and hope that you had done the right thing. And it was a hope because as I found out through personal experience, there is very little protection to be had if the SEO firm you're dealing with doesn't treat you as you expect."

Mr Johnson says the minimum protection to look for is a firm that guarantees not to take on direct competitor in your niche or industry and be very careful about signing long term contracts. But he also believes there is a more efficient way to protect your SEO investment.

"After I made mistake with an SEO provider I chose. Like any industry, some plumbers are better than others some Doctors are better than others. I was so frustrated after my experience of being an SEO providers customer, I spent 10 years learning the SEO craft. But along the way I also discovered a better way to offer SEO services to clients. It's the Pay for Performance model. And that's what I've brought to the market with www.ResultsFirstSEO.com.au. Our clients rank first and they pay second."

Under the pay for performance agreements, a client pays a deposit to retain expert SEO services and secure exclusivity of that expert so that they cannot work for a competitor. The client and SEO consultant then work together on a plan of goals and objectives that the client wants to achieve. Payments are then made once these goals are attained. In this way, clients pay for what has already been achieved, not what they hope will be achieved.

According to Mr Johnson, "This way of working shows that SEO consultant has confidence in his or her abilities. If they don't meet targets, they don't get paid – they'll also want to achieve the goals quickly. It is also very safe for the customer who only pays for goals that are already achieved. Businesses are going to love this way of working and I truly believe www.ResultsFirstSEO.com.au as a pioneer of this approach in Australia is laying a road others will be scrambling to follows once they realize how well this works. It really takes the financial risk out of the equation for the client. And that's the fairest way to work."

Anyone interested in finding out more about pay for performance SEO should visit http://www.resultsfirstseo.com.au today. Or, they can call +61.7.402.846 to speak with someone over the phone.

Contact Info:

Darren Johnson

Results First SEO
www.ResultsFirstSeo.com.au
P O Box 4071
Eight Mile Plains
Brisbane, Queensland, 4113
Australia
Tel: 0402357846
media@resultsfirstseo.com.au

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Three Days To A New Life

An Oxford woman who was out of work while caring for her sick mother has found a new job - caring for others.

Charlene Mullee, 26, had been searching for a job for 18 months and felt directionless when she went to A4e for help under the Government's new Work Programme.

She was caring for her mother, and also an elderly couple living opposite her - but never realised her caring nature would lead her to job success.

At her first meeting her advisor quickly spotted her potential and organised a Carer training package - which enthusiastic Charlene aced.

However, with an interview at Care UK lined up Charlene began to panic - about not having a suitable outfit to wear to the interview for the job she so desperately wanted.

Advisor Lee Woodley said: "Charlene came to me and explained that she didn't have any interview clothes to wear, and was panicking. I calmed her down and explained that we could help. Charlene was over the moon - she went out that afternoon and bought herself some trousers and a blouse, brought us back the receipt and was grinning from ear to ear."

In her smart new outfit and inspired by the A4e team, Charlene was offered a job on the spot and will begin her new job on the 23rd September.

She said: "I felt down before coming to A4e, my confidence was low where I hadn't been working.

"I am really happy. I had an interview and a job offer within 3 three days of starting at A4e. I now have a job that means I can gain new qualifications - everyone at A4e was friendly and really helpful."

Employment Minister Chris Grayling said:

"This is a great example of how the Work Programme is starting to have a positive impact on the employment prospects of thousands across the region. The new Work Programme is revolutionary in the way it tailors support to jobseekers' needs. People on out-of-work benefits who have previously been shunted from dole queue to training room to dole queue again will now finally be able to access tailored support."

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Producer Edward Bass to Chronicle Life of Serial Killer Belle Gunness

Producer Edward Bass’ Belle Gunness documentary begins principal photography.

"I have begun shooting a documentary on the life of Belle Gunness, as I had just finished penning the screenplay for the feature film," says Bass.

“It has been a while since I did a documentary, I produced Something Less Serious, which was on Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World in the 90's. It was especially great working with the movie legends Jerry Lewis, Carl Reiner,and Mickey Rooney and late greats like Sid Cesar, Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Arnold Stang, Buddy Hackett, and Norman Fell.

Bass, who was a partner in a Stanley Kramer production, has continued to work on a Mad Mad world sequel with Mrs. Stanley Kramer, since Stanley always maintained sequel and remake rights to his films.

“Interestingly enough, while working with those comedians, who were often depressed, prepared me for the real world of interviewing serial killers and doing the a film about the life of Belle Gunness.”

Belle Gunness, is nothing like the Charlize Theron character in Monster, but like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, with a poison pen, rather than an ice pick. Before Craigslist and Facebook, she killed her victims the old fashioned way: using good old fashioned greed and sexual desire. It is believed that she netted almost $1 million dollars from murdering her unsuspecting lovers and disposing their bodies by feeding them to her hungry pigs.

Gunness was the “woman next door”, whose exterior hid a dark secret, a woman with keen entrepreneurial skills highly regarded among the business people in her town. She was a philanthropist who donated money to orphanages and civic projects. At night however she lived a lurid lifestyle of sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction that led to her eventual demise, and she was rumored to have take the lives of hundreds. As people lined up to watch Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter, Belle has the same appeal and more since she is real..

Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of A Doubt classic was a depiction of a small town Santa Rosa, complicit in a serial killer’s crimes. In Belle however, in contrast to the the events in Hitchcock's film, which were fiction, the events in La Porte were real. Here Belle Gunness became the most wealthy woman in Indiana because of her business acumen-- however, as we will see in the film, some of the towns folk’s most prominent citizens were complicit in her crimes. By cleverly absorbing each of her victim’s cash assets, she shrewdly invested their funds into her profitable hog farm, along with bribing or pulling the wool over the town's leading figures.

The town of La Porte has in their county historical society museum, pieces of the Belle Gunness casket that was recently exhumed in an effort to finally determine whether it was Belle who died in a suspicious fire, or someone else. The results were inconclusive and we have joined investigators who are searching for living relatives in Norway. The mystery continues...

Bass is currently set to direct two upcoming films he has penned, including the Belle Gunness story and is executive producer with producing partner Christopher Beatty of Chlorine and Chronicle and James C. Herrmann, with Director Jay Alaimo who Bass launched with Slingshot. His other producing partners have included Sir Anthony Hopkins (Bobby), Kevin Spacey, and Guillermo Del Toro.

Bass has also launched a syndicated column nicknamed, "The Column", is quickly becoming infamous for his satirical “IF I WERE PRESIDENT...” tagline beginning each column. Featured in "Slash Magazine", The Column appears in over 300 publications regularly. His humor is tagged as "a bit over the top", with a Will Rogers sense of irony and controversy.

Bass notes,” As a director I enjoy writing a column and having my own slant, humor and “unedited” views on issues, the auteur in all of us needs a good release!”

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