A year ago today I started working for myself, just little ole me. Yes I’ve been doing this same job for 30 odd years and I did have my own business before but as a partnership which grew bigger than we could handle and we merged with another company to give us room to expand. It’s all a bit complicated really! But this time last year I legged it to start working on my own again for various, boring reasons, and here I am a year later still alive and busier than ever. Thanks everybody who has stuck with me and for all the work that’s found it’s way to my desk.
It’s a great feeling to know you have worked in partnership with other companies consistently for many, many years. In web design one of the biggest concerns I hear is; “if I ask you to look after my website, how do I know you’ll still be able to look after it in 10 years time?”. It’s all about customer confidence. Of course nobody can say for sure what’s round the corner but you can look at the history of a business or tradesman to get a feel for their reliability and loyalty. Here’s another customer I have been working with in various design projects since 1986 
Documents came through this morning. Now officially a member of the Federation of Small Businesses.