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2. How does venues work?

The www.venues.org.uk site has thousands of venues across the UK who can select any number of categories from which they wish to receive leads. The user searches by selecting the category (i.e. conference venues) from the search bar on the home page, they then add in the location they require, set the capacity and click the search button. Easy!

A search list of compatible venues then appears and the user can then post their lead to multiple venues, or select the home page of their preferred venue. Once there, they then fill in a brief online form, with the date of the event, type of event, numbers attending, contact details (email and telephone) and any additional requirements. This lead is then posted directly to the nominated email address of the venue in real time.

We attract our visitors through powerful search engine optimisation via Yahoo, Google, Bing, MSN, Lycos and others.

We continue to retain the number one spot in generic searches such as "venues" "function venues" "venues for hire" and also retain extremely high rankings for corporate event venues, corporate hospitality venues, banqueting venues, birthday party venues, wedding venues and many, many more.

Allied to this we can apply these searches to regional terms (Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Glasgow, London, etc.) and still retain high rankings across multiple categories.

Prospects continue to come back time and time again as we add more venues. Our news section on the home page features top quality content from across the industry and from our registered venues and we constantly get direct feedback to continue to improve our customer's online experience.

We are heavily involved with active campaigns with partners and other sites in exchanging high quality links and listing the www.venues.org.uk site in key general business directories and Venue guides.

We do plenty of online marketing, but also invest in:

• Full page magazine advertising
• Listings in all trade directories
• An active PR campaign
• Visiting & exhibiting at key exhibitions such as "Confex"
• Building partnerships with key associations & trade bodies

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