Free trial of OpenHand for mobile access to your email, contacts and calendars

OpenHand is mobile email and much more. Fast, secure, real-time access to your business information including email, calendar, contacts, tasks and shared files- from almost any mobile device from anywhere in the world.

Pick up a CD at the next Ryedale Business Network Event or click the OpenHand logo below to sign-up for a free trial now.

AntiSpam Service for Small Business Users

Sick of finding more spam than real e-mail in your Inbox?

Annoyed that your internet link is slowed while you wait for all the spam to arrive in your Inbox?

tKnowIT now offer a hosted spam filtering service for small businesses. All your emails are checked against spam databases before been passed through to your company mail servers - so only genuine emails are delivered to your inbox. Spam email are held back and you receive a daily or weekly report of items held back.

25% off broadband installation for Ryedale Business Network members

From 10-08-2008 Until 10-09-2008

Get 25% off the the setup and installation of broadband services from tKnowIT

Free website hosting setup

If you are a member of Ryedale Business Network, sign up with tKnowIT for website and email hosting and we will provide our setup service for free - saving you up to £75+VAT.

Special Offer :: FREE VoIP enabled wireless broadband router

From 30-12-2008 Until 31-01-2009

Get a free wireless broadband modem/router from tKnowIT which will also allow you to make and receive phone calls over the internet for 1p/min (typically) and in some cases FREE. This device allows two conventional phones to be connected to the internet to make or receive calls.

Offer subject to tKnowIT VoIP setup service and is limited to first 10 installations. Contact tKnowIT for more details on 01653 698905 or email tKnowIT

Free Freephone numbers from tKnowIT

tKnowIT are now offering freephone number, along with other Non-geographic marketing phone numbers.

What do they cost?

Setup - FREE
Monthly Rental - FREE
Min. Contract Length - One Month (so ideal for trying out or short marketing campaigns)
Call cost - 5p /min*

*The caller, from a BT landline, calls for free and you pick up the cost of the call which is 5p+VAT /min. - billed by direct debit.

Contact tKnowIT for more details on 08081 68 28 44 (FREECALL) or 01653 69 89 05

DIY CCTV Systems - easy to fit, easy to use, wireless security cameras

New for 2009 - Wireless CCTV security cameras.

Simply screw the CCTV camera to the wall, ceiling, floor or wherever you want it, plug the receiver into your TV, video, DVR or CCTV recording system, switch the camera and receiver on and off you go.

DIY Kit includes one wireless camera and one wireless receiver, 2 power supplies and cables to connect receiver to TV, VCR or DVR. 

No additional wires required.
Day and night vision.
Up to 4 cameras per receiver

DIY installation

Digital CCTV multichannel digital recorders and other CCTV cameras also available.

FREE - Yes FREE - Health and Safety Audit

From 11-09-2008 Until 11-12-2008

Are you aware of your Health and Safety Obligations? Do you have a Health and Safety Management system? If you are unsure of either of these then contact CHILTON SAFETY SOLUTIONS who will come and carry out a basic Health and Safety Audit free of charge and inform you of whether you meet the requirements of current legislation. For further information see the web site chiltonsafetysolutions.com

Core Business Virtual PA

From 29-01-2009 Until 29-01-2010

Welcome to Core Business Virtual PA

Your Virtual PA will take some of the pressure from you allowing you to concentrate on the more important and business critical aspects of your role. Typically she can:

• Deal with all VIP clients for a major cruise company
• Handle all new memberships to a loyalty scheme
• Receive calls from retail stores and administrate the retail incentive schemes
• Book places on to training courses for an in-house training department
• Book all management medicals for numerous corporate clients
• Take the phones for meeting or holiday cover, it’s easy to divert calls

Our virtual PAs have also been known to sort concert tickets, arrange flowers and gifts, send cards, and be happy recipients of the odd in-tray to sort through, file, and courier back to the office. They can also proof-read, type, receive dictation, and respond to generic enquiries and written correspondence. Oh and you can also have posted mail directed to our office here, so the first you see of it is when it’s all done, dusted and dealt with and it arrives at your office in a box ready for sending to archives, or if you like, on a disc ready for filing.

The benefits are obvious, and working remotely is easy once you get used to it.

Your virtual PA is paid to take initiative and is flexible, professional, personal, friendly and will do a great job.

How does it work?

You can virtually interview your PA before you begin, there is no monthly fee, no contractual commitment and no minimum spend, you have all the flexibility of a temp, but you get a named virtual PA who is there for you time after time, so you only need brief her once, and then build on that relationship, just like you would an employee within your own team.

You can go into a meeting/attend a training course/disappear off on holiday knowing that your emails are being attended to, your office and/or mobile calls are being answered and you’ll only be contacted if something urgent crops up.

You can go for that marketing initiative that needs additional resource because you have your corporate virtual PA, who is backed up by as many PAs as you might need to deal with the bigger call volumes or response peaks.

And here’s the best bit...

You can try it, free, for two weeks, with our compliments and with absolutely no commitment. And if it doesn’t work for you, we’ll ask you to let us know why and give you a bottle of organic wine from Mcconnell Thomas (Hovingham and Kirkbymoorside) as a thank you for your time and feedback.

And if you’ve got a holiday coming up, what have you got to lose? Call us on 0845 226 8496, or send me an email to g.edgar@corebusinessvirtualpa.com and make contact that way.