Rick Jones Email & Phone Number

Manchester

I founded the company to assist my Son, to fulfil his desire to run his own LED Video installation company, which supports adi.tv amongst many other LED Video companies, I have assisted in some of the largest LED Video installations in Europe including installations in: Dortmund, Berlin, Paris, locally I have installed and ran the led at Burnley Preston and Bolton football clubs, and the largest LED ceiling in Europe at the Printworks Manchester. During the last 6 years, I have developed the company from only doing LED installations to providing stage crew to artist including Pink, Ed Shearon, The Killers and many more, this has taken the company in a different direction, and we now supply both permanent and temporary staff to companies such as LCR, this has brought the company to the attention of a large production company, who are now in the process of buying us out.I have taken over as Managing Director whilst the sale is going through.

Specialist marketing and business growth services for the LED Screen market.

Accrington

Create and implement a new business modelCustomer growth through innovative and low cost methodsRevenue growth that is scalable with reduced riskOperational structureDevelop key partner relationships.

Oversee all aspects of product and sales development within the groups many companies

Development and implementation of the marketing strategyDesigned a marketing mix to both educate and generate businessDrove cost of acquisition down for £1500 to £500Introduce bespoke IT systemsDeveloped introducers market from 0 to 15,000 in 12 months

Accrington

Creation of a dedicated on-line marketing agency especially for the SME

Burnley

Upon my return from Ireland I was approached by the old directors of commercial network and asked to get involved with their new venture “Jini” the company had secured the selling rights to a Microsoft product called Keywords this product was to replace the use of domain names by allowing users to enter a keyword into the address bar that could be linked to a website. My role was to create a package of products and oversee the recruiting and sales processes. The company grew very quickly and within 6 months had 100 staff based at the old coloroll building in Nelson. My role soon changed when Microsoft canceled the service due to poor uptake on a global basis (Jini was responsible for 80% of all sales of the product). I was tasked with finding an alternative product, and understanding how the microsoft product worked I approached lancaster university and took on 3 graduates who built a replacement product called Jini keywords, I then approached all of microsoft’s resellers and offered to replace any of microsoft product they had sold for free providing they would resell our product in the future, we managed to convert every reseller to our platform.

Newbridge Ireland

I was approached by Deltanet who operated a similar company to commercial networks but relied upon the Domain Name Registry )DNR) Ireland’s version of Nominet to register .IE domain names. the company had fallen foul of the very strict guidelines and had received bad press, the strict guidelines also hindered the growth of the company. My role was to firefight the bad press and to try to obtain the same success achieved at commercial networks. I set about creating a direct sales force which covered the whole of southern Ireland and helped restore the companies reputation with the customers but the DNR was a different matter no matter what I tried I could not get them to relax their registration rules so I was left with one option and that was to create and alternative. I then set about researching how this could be done and discovered that you can subdivide a domain name so I then researched the best domain to buy and the technology etc required to enable this to be done on a mass basis. I discovered the domain IRL.COM wich i then purchased from Internet relations Lts in new york and hosted it on a dedicated server i then enlisted the help of a IT lecturer from queens colledge Dublin to create the software needed to allow for mass subdived. At the point I left Ireland IRL.COM had a total of 12,000 domain names in use appose to only 4,000 .IE domains. the company ceased to trade when the owner died a few years later and the use of IRl.COM declined when DNR relaxed theri criteria.

Nelson

the company was very small with only three employees when I joined and dealt with the emerging website and domain name market, my role was to create products that could be sold on mass to small to medium sized businesses, I soon developed a range of products that could be mass sold and started to increase the levels of staff, within 12 months we had 70 staff and sold the business for £36 million to Ted fort OBE the company is now Touch PLC who run Touch Local.