Case Studies

'Ensuring the pieces fit....'

The case studies below are a sample of some of the recent activities successfully undertaken by EFish Consulting:

Wordtracker - www.wordtracker.com: provides market leading services aimed, principally, at the search engine optimisation market. After five years of operation and commercial success, Wordtracker's owners wished to expand their business within their core geographical markets. EFish was engaged to assist them with the formulation of their expanded business strategy, and to then aid in the identification and negotiation with significant new suppliers.

" has been an excellent help to Wordtracker in both a negotiating and business strategy capacity....exceeded expectation in both roles.” - Andy Mindel - Owner Wordtracker

In2Vista - www.in2vista.com: provides innovative media production services aimed principally at the recruitment industry. As a mid-life start-up, the CEO engaged EFish to develop the ongoing market and product strategy of In2Vista, potential investor identification, new service definition work and supplier selection mechanisms, and finally a programme framework in order to help control subsequent new technical developments. This was conducted to timeline and budget.

" true professional - he commits, he completes and he delivers." - William Barribal - CEO In2Vista, on the consultant engaged

Outblaze - www.outblaze.com: Outblaze Limited, founded in 1998, is a global provider of hosted email and related white label services for registrars, ISPs, enterprises, SMEs, portals, web hosting companies, and the education community. The company manages approximately 40 million active mailboxes worldwide and provides perimeter security for an additional 30 million mailboxes. The Outblaze platform offers scalable email systems and protection against spam, viruses, and phishing. Other offerings include online scheduling, file sharing, contacts management, and other Messaging, Collaboration, and Messaging Security services. Due to further expansion plans in Europe, EFish has worked with Outblaze to help engage them with some key new customers within this region, as well as providing advice on how to develop a 'to grow from' organisational framework.

" EFish has been fantastic in helping us within the UK. A combination of clear strategic thinking, combined with a practical and pragmatic approach, has allowed us to make considerable and successful progress." - Richard Bye, European VP Sales and Marketing, Outblaze.com

Be Internet- www.beinternet.co.uk a new business providing market leading broadband solutions and services, made possible by their embracement of the opportunity provided by LLU (local loop unbundling). EFish was engaged to help provide sourcing, process, analysis and selection expertise in regards to certain of Be's offered services.

" Very good job assisting us with the evaluation of offers for some of our future services...... highly professional, helpful, devoted and understood perfectly well our limited timeframes". Joachim Garmer, CIO of Be There.