How we (and you!) are supporting the UK creative industry

As a company we’ve always been very focused on supporting, promoting and directly contributing to the UK digital creative industry. Whether it’s as small as tweeting a resource or as big as sponsoring a conference, we’re always keen to do what we can to help develop an industry that’s increasingly becoming one of the UK’s most important assets.

But we couldn’t do it without you.

When you buy, renew or resell web hosting or any of the many other products and services we offer, or recommend us, you’re helping to fund and fuel a wide range of UK websites, conferences, projects and businesses as a direct result.

Some of the many things we are committed to include:

Conference sponsorship

We sponsor a wide range of conferences, events and workshops throughout the UK. Covering everything from typography to the future of web design, we regularly support (and attend!) get-togethers of all shapes and sizes. Find out more on our Heart Internet Tour minisite.

In addition to monetary sponsorship, we also help to promote events through blog posts and social media, and by offering some great goody bag freebies and exclusive competitions for attendees.

If you have a conference, mini-conference, workshop, or similar UK event planned and you’re looking for sponsors, we’d love to hear from you. Drop us an email at marketing [at] heartinternet.uk with the details.

Helping to promote you!

Promoting your business is difficult, especially when you want to keep costs to a minimum. In addition to recommending customers for design projects and HostPay work via social media, we also tweet great customer websites we come across and help to promote you in various other ways, such as:

Interviews and Case Studies

Website of the Month contest

Blog Promotion

Customer Spotlight

We love seeing your projects and websites, so feel free to tweet us or post on our Facebook Timeline or Google+ page and we’ll check them out!

UK Advertising

Our support (and your support) helps to fund great content and other investments for lots of other UK websites, including blogs, magazines, forums and more. We’re always on the lookout for more advertising opportunities, so if the majority of your visitors are UK-based and you have decent traffic, let us know at marketing [at] heartinternet.uk.

Supporting small businesses and freelancers

We know you’re on a budget, so wherever possible we try to make life easier for you.On average we share over 2,500 resources, tips, tutorials, articles and freebies every year to help you with your website and/or business. All the links we share are handpicked and carefully reviewed to make sure they are interesting, helpful and high quality resources. You can find them on Pinterest, Google+, Facebook, Twitter and here on the blog (and we try to avoid posting the same thing more than once where possible).

We also offer 70+ free one click installs of all the software you need to power your website and business, whether you’re looking for a simple WordPress install or an invoicing solution you can get set up in seconds. There are lots of excellent applications you can use to power your business or projects for free, and we’re picked out the best and most practical solutions to save you even more time.

Resellers get exclusive Heart Internet discounts on a range of our most popular products and services, and we offer plenty of discounts and special offers to all existing and new customers throughout the year. We want to make the web affordable for everyone.

Keeping Heart Internet completely UK based

Unlike many other hosting companies, all our staff – including all levels of our support team – are based in-house in the UK. As well as creating and maintaining safe jobs here, it also has a positive effect on many other local and national businesses who receive our custom (even web hosts need stationery! And caffeine. Lots of caffeine).

Hiring UK designers

Our in-house team is brilliant, and we’ve also commissioned work from our customers, including two icon sets, one of which is pictured below (download them both for free from our Resources page). We’re planning to expand our involvement in this area significantly over the coming years for the dual benefits of supporting UK designers and helping to provide more excellent high quality resources for you. If you’re a designer or a developer interested in producing premium-quality resources for us in exchange for hosting credit or cold hard cash, please get in touch via marketing [at] heartinternet.uk.

Giveaways and contests

In the past two and a half years alone we’ve given away over £8,500 in useful prizes to lucky winners, including *deep breath* two 27” iMacs, fifteen Amazon, iTunes and Play.com vouchers, £2847 in web hosting and domain names, a Motorola Xoom tablet, three iPods, three Google Nexus 7 tablets, a MacBook Air and much more!

So next time you buy or renew something from Heart Internet, embrace the warm fuzzy glow. You’re helping to make the creative web industry what it is today.