Please join us in saying thanks to our forward thinking partners for helping make Local Social Summit ‘09 possible.

Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor: Profero

About Profero Connect:

Profero Connect is the web design and build agency division of the Profero Group. Formed to deliver business innovation and large-scale technology solutions, our mission is to create competitive advantage for clients through the intelligent use of technology.
Our strategic approach ensures we balance commercial viability, desirability and technical feasibility in the projects we undertake.  We also understand that great user experiences are born out of a user-centred designed delivered through frequent build iterations.  This means our products look great, work hard and deliver real business value.

Gold Sponsors: Akesios

About Akesios:

Akesios have developed a platform and reporting interface to make implementing online products for directory companies fast and straightforward. This flexible system caters for any products from websites and video to search and social media. Technical integration is handled within the system along with configurable exception handling, allowing new products to be introduced with minimum pressure on directory IT staff. Uniquely, the system provides aggregated reporting across the products both internally for product intelligence and directly to customers via email in a unified format tailored to the directory branding.

Akesios is also a local search consultancy assisting directory companies with their online strategy and implementation.  Directory and media businesses are under threat from declining revenues and increasing competition from non-‘traditional’ areas. With a few exceptions, usage – and therefore revenue – continues to decline in printed products where the majority of their revenues reside, and from which they achieve such high EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) contributions. Increasing competition from pure-play local search services and search Engines such as Google threatens their usage unless they continue to invest heavily and cease to rely on their printed portfolio.

You can view some great Akesios case studies here.

Additional Sponsors: Lingospot and British Interactive Media Association (BIMA)

Partners

Our PR partner is Furlong PR.

Our Video partner is Tom and Jones