Dan Derricott; Company Formation Agent, Marketing Whizz and Business Advisor

I thought it may be interesting to add some content to this site that focuses on what I do away from the SU, mainly for personal reasons to showcase what I do – but also to give you a better understanding of who I am and what affects how I operate when working at ULSU.

In Lincoln, I work at ASDA Living on the George Department selling everything from the cutest babywear through to support pants for our more mature customers – there isn’t much I can say about this job that’s of interest, except Asda are pretty good to work for and the decent pay comes in handy.

The main focus of this post is on my job in Coventry at Small Firms Services Limited (SFS) as a member of the Client Services Team. SFS are, by trade, Company Formation Agents but also specialise in providing document legalisation services, registered office services, mail forwarding services, company products, company secretary services, template documents, resolutions and a number of business advice websites.

Because of our wide portfolio of products and services, there is a lot to be learnt before you become good at the job and being away for 9 months of the year at college / university really doesn’t help. I’ve managed to settle back in each time I return to the office – bit it is tough when things are forgotten and new laws have been introduced that you’re not familiar with.

But I battle on and as well as dealing with Company Formation though our leading website, Simple Formations, selling services and answering clients questions on the phone; I also get to write content for new websites that are developed to ensure that budding entrepeneurs are equipped with the relevant knowledge – and they also link through to our core collection of money-making websites!

Some of my recent contributions have been to www.directadvice.co.uk (4th on Google for ‘Business Advice’) and www.starting-business.org.uk (in development), as well as a number of microsite posts and article submissions to various external websites.

I’m hoping to be able to dedicate a little more time to writing website content and articles over the next twelve months – whether that be for SFS or independantly. I find that it’s a great reason to do some research on a topic and then write about it for the world to learn from, obviously anything I write isn’t going to get that much coverage at the minute, but as I publish more and develop my SEO skills, I’m sure I can get some attention from somewhere, and who knows… I might make some money at the same time.

For more information about Small Firms Services, please take a look at a couple of their websites:
www.simpleformations.com
www.sfsgo.com
www.simpleonlineshop.com
www.apostille.org.uk