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Who is Hurll Nu-way?

Hurll Nu-Way is a leader in the provision of heating, cooling and process equipment solutions to industry in Australia and New Zealand. Representing world leading brands such as Nu-Way and Bentone packaged burners, Hauck process burners, SBM and Roberts Gordon radiant heaters, Aerzen blowers and screw compressors, Blackmer pumps, Fluid Power Products, Actaris and Neptune meters, Patterson Fans high velocity fans and many more Hurll Nu-Way provides the best quality products and solutions for customers’ needs

Major Challenge

Can you add content to several sites from one source?
Hurll Nu-Way is a leader in the provision of heating, cooling and process equipment solutions to industry in the Asia Pacific region. Their original website was simply a static website with content that was increasingly out of date. We redeveloped this site into a database driven website with a content management system. The next phase of the project was to find a way to roll out additional websites, but to update of their extensive product range from a single point.

Solution: In order to make the project scalable, we built a central ‘donor’ website that then updates specific content to each recipient website. This concept makes sure there is no double handling of information and filtering allows each website to show only the data that is relevant to it’s specific market.

Further into the future it will be possible of all of the websites to sell their own ranges of spare parts etc online, in the correct currency.

The Bizar Difference

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Who is Slippers Zone?

Slippers Zone is a 100% online business which sells Australian made slippers mainly into the UK.

Major Challenges

1. Usability
The easier a site is to use, the more it will sell. We ran extensive research across this both site others within the Global Web Shops group to make sure we were maximisng the site’s conversion rate. We did this with a combination of Google Multi-variant testing (link) and user group feedback.

Solution: Nothing is where it is on the site by chance. For example we tried different sizes and colours for the add to cart buttons, different lengths of product descriptions and different positions for many other elements on the pages.

2. Speed
When it comes to online selling, the speed of the site (how quickly it loads) will significantly impact on sales. In the world of the internet, customers have no patience. If a site takes too long, Google will gladly point them to your competitors.

Solution: Bizar ensured this site has the smallest amount of code possible to load each page. We also ensure that the site makes the minimum amount of calls to the server as possible (less back and forward between the users computer and our servers). Without boring you with technical jargon we used specialised diagnostic tools to track our changes and ensure the site was fully optimized for speed of use.

3. Multicurrency
Whilst Slippers Zone is targeted for the UK, users all over the world purchase slippers. For an online shop to sell internationally it absolutely has to have a currency converter.

Solution: This site has a currency converter which recalibrates to the exchange rate once per day. However, the conversion rate can be overridden at anytime. I.E Exchange rate + 10%, This prevents the customers from getting any nasty surprises when they are charged.

The Bizar Difference

There are two key reasons that Slippers Zone came to Bizar.

1. Turn around time. This site was completed and live within 1 week. This is due to our ability to instantly understand the clients needs.
2. Our ability to work closely with the clients SEO company to ensure it tied in with their marketing

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Who is ALH Group?

Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group has the leading portfolio of pubs across Australia. They offer a diverse hospitality experience including electronic gaming, sports bars, bistros, restaurants, cafes, retail liquor, accommodation, nightclubs and wagering. Their facilities are located in capital cities, and urban and regional centres across Australia.

There four main business activities are:

· Pub operations such as bar, food, accommodation, functions and entertainment
· Retail liquor sales incorporating large liquor barns, drive through outlets and walk-in bottle shops. Their brands include BWS and Dan Murphy’s
· Property development. They acquire, redevelop and refurbish venues to optimise our portfolio and offer state-of-the-art, comfortable, and interesting places to visit.
· Gambling operations. They are Australia’s leading pub operator of electronic gaming machines, wagering, sports betting outlets and KENO.

Background

ALH Group have been a client of Bizar Software for over 4 years. Until recently ALH had approximately 15 web providers across their 280 venue websites. In 2009 ALH have awarded a major tender to Bizar Software to become the sole provider for the ALH Group. This project makes Bizar responsible for the recreation and maintenance of all 280 venue sites over the coming years.

Major Challenges

1. Regulation of content Issues
This industry is heavily regulated in terms of acceptable content. For example, venues can not show pictures of pokie machines or advertise alcoholic drink specials. Ensuring that Bizar can be trusted to follow these guidelines was a vital part of Bizar being selected as the vendor.
Solution: using strict guidelines and agreeing on content collection methods has ensured that the content across all venues is consistent as well as legally compliant.

2. Project Management
This project requires almost 300 websites to be created. Content gathering for this project is a huge undertaking. Then of course each site has to be maintained. Taking maintenance requests from each venue has to be recorded and tracked.
Solution:A number of project tracking tools have been implemented to ensure this project is well managed. For example Bizar and ALH are making use of tools such as Basecamp and Zen Desk. The systems allow Bizar to log any works and allows ALH Group to track progress 24/7 without needing to contact Bizar.

The Bizar Difference

ALH Group is part of the publicly listed Woolworths Limited and directly employs over 14,000 staff. Many international and large national web development companies competed to win the business of this major project. Whilst it may seems logical for a company like ALH Group to use an equally large web developer, Bizar demonstrated that it was in fact one of its strengths to be small. It means we have a much larger invested interested in the outcome of the project and it is meant that ALH Group can expect much more of a personal touch that only a smaller organisation could provide.

Rick Cohen (head of IT) was quoted as saying “nobody in the world knows the ALH Groups website needs like Bizar does”. We feel there isn’t a better compliment.

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