Great news for us, and for anyone focused on documented quality procedures: Code String has retained its ISO certifications. We are ISO27001:2013 and ISO 9001:2015 compliant – that’s for Information Security Management and Quality Management respectively. In some ways, it felt more challenging being re-evaluated than it did submitting the business to the initial ISO…
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Business is good. Over the past few months, we added no less than five new people to our Code String team. On the face of it, these are committed programming, quality assurance or client relations professionals. That much is indeed true and is what you’ll see if you visit. But, as is always the case…
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Happy Birthday Code String! The milestone of 5 years of trading was reached last month. All I can say is It’s flown by! So I pause and take a moment to look back on all the things we have achieved, I can see how different the company is now from 5 years ago, it’s staggering to…
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We have been certified…in a good way! Code String are proud to announce that a major company objective for the year has been completed. Attaining ISO certification for the business is a real achievement. We were successfully audited by the Alcumus ISOQAR Certification Technical Review Team late last year and it has now been confirmed that the…
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It may be an old story now, but it’s worth revisiting the Hoover ‘free flights’ promotion to give a reminder of how NOT to do an online promotion. In 1992 (yes, it’s really 24 years ago and people STILL talk about it, it was that bad!), Hoover came up with what they thought was a…
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Online promotions are a fantastic way to get lots of engagement from your fans and customers, but there are some things you can miss by not thinking it all through. Here are our top five tips things to consider outside of the actual mechanics of the promotions: 1. Use social media to leverage your promotion. …
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We consider ourselves rather lucky to be based in such a lovely little market town as Market Harborough. It’s a peaceful place that has a great community spirit, but with a fast train to London so we’re not totally cut off in the sticks. We reckon all the fields and fresh air make for a…
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There’s no denying, that over the years, we’ve all experienced the promotions that went wrong: • Money-off coupons going to print with a product barcode – so the cost of the product was added rather than deducted when scanned at the checkout. • Launch of an on-pack promotion offering partner rewards without the prior agreement…
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It is with great pleasure that I introduce Kiran Chettra and Nick Wake, our fabulous new apprentices! In July 2016 Kiran and Nick made the decision to become fully fledged geeks by joining the Code String Team. Here’s what they had to say over a cup of tea… AUDREY: You guys have been with us…
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Hi, I’m Nick Wake. I am an Apprentice Developer at Code String and have been working here for three months. I am currently working on a task set by Steve to re-create a previous client’s website, and this week I have added server side validation, thank you page design and a JQuery layout. This task…
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