AXLR8 News updates
25th June 2008
The Triathlon has already raised £11k in cash collected and there is another £3k pledged. The day was rated very highly by all entrants as shown by comments on the main forums. For example, view this link to the Runners World event ratings. Also, you can view results and photographs, see comments and participate in discussions on the forum .
9th June 2008
Entries for the AXLR8 Triathlon have exceeded the venue limit. More than 1000 competitors and spectators will be present on the day for what is now one of the leading sporting events of the year in this area of Berkshire and catching up with some of the bigger running events, the Three Counties Cycle and other great local community occasions. The AXLR8 Triathlon attracts people from the South Coast to as far as Milton Keynes with many coming from much further afield. The sponsorship from local and national businesses has been astounding with business owners providing hundreds and in some cases more than a thousand pounds worth of prizes, services and goody bag contents! Their help means virtually all the money goes to the two charities: www.cancerresearchuk.org and www.naomihouse.org.uk. The most generous (and the 80 volunteer helpers every year) are unlikely ever to benefit financially. See this link for more information on who they are, though! Particular mention needs to be made for Speedy Hire and Allen and Foxworthy Scaffolding who build the transition zone every year.
29th May 2008
AXLR8 have won and implemented a number of new applications and web based systems for clients building on steady growth in FY 2007/8. In the property industry, we have completed and relaunched the Parkhomeseller site for long term client Seekers to coincide with their leading printed catalogue in that marketplace. In the NFP/public sector AXLR8 have won a contract to build a private information sharing and forum portal for interested parties persuing environmantal projects on Dartmoor.
4th April 2008
30% up on entries for the AXLR8 Triathlon compared to the same time last year.
4th January 2008
The date was set back in November for the 2008 AXLR8 Triathlon. Hopefully we can raise another £14k for the two chosen charities www.cancerresearchuk.org and www.naomihouse.org.uk. This will bring the total funds raised for the five years to £50,000 as well as having created a great event for our local community that reaches out to the entire region. Competitors come from the South Coast and Cornwall up to Scotland and from all over London and the M4 corridor up to about Bristol.
We already have a few early bookings and one lady has bought an entry for her husband for his Christmas present!
3rd December 2007
Many new implementations took place last month. Too many to mention but:
Tower Hamlets have invested in the AXLR8 FOI system following 38 other local authorities to make it the most popular document library and request tracking system and one of the most installed systems of any type in the notoriously fragented local government market! More than a thousand historical EIR, DPA and FOI requests have been imported and the system is ready for its live launch in January 2008.
The Actors Centre have sucessfully implemented the AXLR8 Events and Membership system for their training course bookings and subscription payment systems. Hundreds of courses have been booked live. Next phases include members', teachers' and public web views and booking/accounts areas. An exciting project we have all enjoyed and look forward to doing much more.
Other clients took up the ever popular AXLR8 Job Tracking and AXLR8 Professional Services Automation systems to automate their customer service offerings.
20th October 2007
The last of the sponsorship money has trickled in from the 2007 AXLR8 Triathlon. In teh four years it has raised a grand total of £36,000 for the two chosen charities www.cancerresearchuk.org and www.naomihouse.org.uk.
This really is a great achievement for all concerned: Several hundred competitors and their families and friends who came to spectate and picnic (under teh RedBull tent this year as the evnt mad Glastonbury look like a desert! Special thsnks to 80 marshalls and other volunteers who gave up so much time.
20th June 2007
The AXLR8 Triathlon is set to be even more successful in 2007!
The fourth annual AXLR8 Triathlon took place at Wellington College this year on 24th June. £24,077 has been raised for www.cancerresearchuk.org and www.naomihouse.org.uk so far. Around a thousand people attended this year, whether competing or spectating. The event grows considerably each year and the charity funds increase each time. It is a major community and sporting event now with around 80 volunteers involved and a couple of dozen sponsors providing help with logistics, prizes and "goodies" for the bags.
For the elite, the course record of 46:10 is there to be beaten!
The ability range is very wide and the age range is from nine year old Guy running with his dad Steve to a 69 year lady who wishes to remain nameless as her friends would know she is lying about her age. Her dad was not running with her!
Many have done several AXLR8 Triathlons before. For others it is their first Tri and they have taken advantage of the six pre-event trainings which run in the months beforehand.
It is a great achievement for all concerned.
14th June 2007
AXLR8 online selling seminar at Actinic is packed out!
AXLR8 and long term business partner Actinic, the leading supplier of web catalogue systems ran a joint seminar for clients. Experts covered search engine positioning and optimisation and related subjects such as Google Analytics and Adwords. A wide agenda included case studies on the use of social media to directly increase footfall, enquries and sales by building or leveraging existing online communities.
21st May 2007
AXLR8 affilliate sponsor at Catalyst conference and show for online traders run by Channel Advisor. AXLR8 presented their links between web shops streams of order data and the leading SME accounting packages: Sage (50 and 200 /MMS) and Quickbooks.
9th May 2007
AXLR8 were invited to the launch of South East England's offer for the 2012 games organised by www.SEEDA.co.uk.
14th March 2007
Hosted by AXLR8 and Uniq Systems at the prestigious Headquarters of Sage UK, AXLR8 presented the admin time savings when the internet and other applications can update accounts securely and directly. Imagine being able to see your accounts reports from a computer at home or entering expenses directly from your smartphone!
6th February 2007
Royvon Dog Training Schools have won the "Best use of CRM in an SME" at Technology for Marketing Awards 2007 at a glittering award ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. They were also a runner up for the Judges Special Prize in a group with HP, Nike, SuperDrug and Yell.
This is a huge achievement for MD Darren James whose vision and drive have made it possible for AXLR8 to deliver systems to support his innovative ideas. Darren is a business leader who sees technology as an essential foundation of his marketing plans and as a tool to help him continuously exceed his customers' service expectations.
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