SHILDON-BASED ENTREPRENEURS PUT ‘BUMS ON SEATS’ AT LAUNCH

North East training providers gathered in County Durham last night for the launch of an exciting new website which will help sell training courses online.

http://www.helptrainingcourses.com/ has been designed to fill up those few spare places on courses across the North East and allows companies and individuals to snap up remaining training course places at a discount instead of them going to waste, and from last night’s turnout the website seems to be just what training providers and companies have been looking for.

Lynn Mohan from SpringBoard Safety Services attended the event and said: “The new website is definitely something that the training industry has been looking for as you are really limited on other advertising websites as it all comes down to cost. We advertise on numerous other websites but have now put our courses on www.helptrainingcourses.com and much prefer this one as it gives training providers the opportunity to put exactly what they want without a charge.

“The last minute facility is great as like all other training providers, we often have courses that aren’t booked up to full capacity and so the discount idea is excellent to try and fill up those last few places. It can also improve relationships between training providers, companies and charities that perhaps don’t have the funding to afford training at its full price.”

The search phrase sale where trainers could buy key phrase packages such as ‘First aid training’, generated a great deal of interest. The night also consisted of presentations from founders Craig Fantarrow and John Patrick which allowed people to find out more about the website and its features.

Craig, who already runs successful training company, Help! First Aid Training, came up with the idea for the new website when trying to find ways to fill the remaining few spare places on his own training courses. He said: “We were pleased with the turnout tonight - Our aim for the website is to help get bums on seats and we’ve certainly managed to do that tonight.

“We had already received interest but the feedback tonight has been brilliant, so we are really pleased that the hard work we’ve put in over the last few months is starting to pay off. The number of training providers on the site is continually increasing but we need to keep building on that.”

If you are interested in advertising your training on the website for free, would like to find out more or look at the training courses available please go to http://www.helptrainingcourses.com/.

Craig and John plan to employ a small team of three once the business is established, before aiming to expand the website to cover other regions of the UK.