After working in the IT Retail Sales Industry for many years & whilst running my own small rural business (see our Company History below), I noticed that there was a sustainable market for promoting & supporting small rural businesses by advertising them all together in one place.  Rural businesses especially, seem to be constrained by technology rather than it providing greater business opportunities.  Business owners are often from more agricultural sectors and/or live in areas where they have been “missed off the grid”.  This means that often emailing, using the internet to promote their business & seeing social media as a way to network is often a task that seems too far reaching & learning technology skills not an option as it takes them away from their core business.  This is where www.thecountrycompanion.co.uk fills the gap providing Yorkshire’s rural businesses with a One Stop Shop approach to marketing with likeminded businesses, putting them in front of more customers.  By providing a network of businesses, the opportunity for hits and increased trawl time is maximised.  Often one click leads to another and your customers see us as the place to look for recommended businesses. We work with your business, we can spend time with you understanding what your business needs and then give you an action plan of how to get there by looking at what services we can offer to help you move forwards.

The services we offer are:

• A yearly business listing & advertising service all from one simple website which showcases your business & provides access to using your services or buying your products – customers simply click from our website on to yours.  Don’t worry if you don’t have a website yet, we can list your contact telephone numbers, your address & display your logo. 
• We design simple & functional websites for customers without a web presence at a low yearly cost, which is hosted by one of the most reputable companies in the world.
• We provide social networking advice – whether it be Twitter, blogging or Facebook, we can show you how you can use this well publicised phenomena to put your business in front of customers that wouldn’t normally be able to reach.