Hitchin to Hitchin 2011

Keith Yexley, Stewart Peart, Laurie Hill, Tim Tate, Fred McBreen and John Stavely all work at Hitchin based businesses.

They set off on a 210 mile journey from Hitchin market square, and after heading up north on the train, cycled round national cycle routes and climbed up more than 1,900ft to the top of the Hartside Pass.

Read the full story in The Comet

LinkedIn Seminar – By Consultek

Worldwide over 43 million people have created an account on LinkedIn, the on-line business network website that has members in over 200 countries, here in the UK there are 2 million+ accounts . Informed opinion has it that more than 90%  are still trying to understand how to use LinkedIn to grow their business.

Applied IT hosted a seminar presented by Steve Windsor of Consultek to help local businesses unleash the power of LinkedIn Read More

Bedford Rising Stars Awards 2009

Applied IT were highy commended this week in two categories at the prestigious Bedford Rising Stars Awards 2009

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Applied IT wins SME Business Growth Award

Applied IT wins SME Business Growth Award

Friday, March 26, 2010          The Swan Hotel Bedford

Last night at the Conquest Business Events Annual Awards Evening, organised and run by Pam Woods,  Applied IT scooped the hotly contested SME Business Growth Award 2010.

In front of a packed audience of local business people at the Swan Hotel, the awards ceremony was opened by Alistair Burt MP who in his speech stressed the important contribution made by SME business to the recovering economy, he made it clear that the quality of entries had been very high and the judges had had to work hard in their deliberations.

The SME Business Growth Award was presented by Councilor Ken C Matthews, the Portfolio Holder for Economic Growth, Skills & Regeneration. He highlighted the impressive and consistent track record of Applied IT over the three year period and attributed their success to a straightforward business model that aligns the interests of the customer with that of their IT provider. He went on to explain that Applied IT charge a fixed fee on a rolling monthly contract, for which they provide the complete service normally enjoyed by companies with an in-house IT department, including unlimited help desk, same day equipment repair or replacement, advice on IT, hardware and software at the right price and 24/7 system monitoring. He was impressed that their strategy of business networking had been the source of a stream of referrals from satisfied customers and business partners.

The award was accepted by Stewart Peart, MD of Applied IT and Mandy Andrew the Operations Director.

In an interview conducted later by Judy Oliver for Local News TV, Stewart said that the award was recognition of the hard work put in by Applied IT’s skilled and enthusiastic technical team who go beyond the call of duty to deliver great customer service.

linkLocal Launched

linkLocal is a group of businesses who live, work, or want to do business in the SG area Read More

Applied IT Cycle Challenge Begins

Stewart Peart, MD of Applied IT is on an epic cycle challenge in aid of charity

He left the Applied IT Office on the morning of 9th September and will be returning four days later

 follow Stewart on his journey and  read more about it here

JJ Hardy Match Donations

Today we had a call from Andy Pailor, MD of JJ Hardy, one of our long standing customers agreeing to match Applied IT contributions to Macmillan Cancer Research by donating a pound for every mile cycled. If you want to chip in then please visit Stewart’s JustGiving Page and remember to tell your contacts about The Ride

linkLocal Business Growth Show

Applied IT is sponsoring the linkLocal Business Growth Show in Stevenage on May 17th 2011

Register as an Exhibitor for only £75 or Attend Free

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