The Associates programme is a way for independent professionals to work with Enterprising IT in their spare time, as a second career, or as a stepping stone to a more permanent post here or elsewhere.

You stay self-employed and choose work from our list of tasks, and get paid per task completed (or, for Sales Associates, on commission.)

You get many of the benefits of working with Enterprising IT (e.g. access to peer support, the Enterprising Academy, ability to list your role on LinkedIn and get a great reference) without any permanent commitment. As long as you enjoy the work and find it profitable, we hope you’ll continue to work with us!

Just email associates@enterprisingpeople.co.uk to register your interest. We will reply quickly (normally within a couple of days) to answer any queries you may have and explain what happens next.

We typically run 2-3 intakes for each type of Associate per year, so you won’t normally have long to wait before one of our intake programmes begins.

We are a website partner with a difference. We take the work and cost out of websites, providing awesome ongoing hosting, maintenance, upgrade and support packages that deliver far more, and cost far less, than the competition. We are very proud of our 5-star rating for this service.

But what makes us REALLY different? The fact that we work with the best designers and developers to ensure that our clients’ websites always look (and perform) their best – which for new customers often means developing them a completely new site from the ground up! (We are very proud of our 5-star rating for these build projects too!)

The fact that a complete, highly professional website rebuild is included in an already market-leading maintenance package is, we believe, completely unique. It represents incredible value to business owners, and ongoing peace of mind that their website is always going to be at its best. We’ll take care of it.

Our unique service is to take on, improve, support and maintain people’s websites for a low monthly fee (often less than they’re paying already) – and as part of that cost, will also completely redevelop their site for them using top professionals. Or, if they don’t have a website already, we’ll build them a great one – also at no up-front cost.

We have three main services – MyStartupSite for simple sites, MyBespokeSite for more complex sites, and MySellingSite for e-commerce sites.

There are also a number of potential complementary services customers may be interested in – MySitePromoter (online advertising), MyContentCreator (blog post creation) and MyBrandDesigner (brand/logo/stationery design) being just a few examples.

Because we will either rebuild websites that need it, or create great new websites for people that don’t have them yet, our two target markets are:

1. People with a website
2. People without a website

As you can tell, this is pretty broad! We think almost everyone who has a business that they would like to be more successful, and who’d like the best professionals in the business to help them make their website a part of that success with little or no effort from them, would benefit from one of our services.

This is an easy answer.

None.

We do not charge, and will never charge, an initial fee for any of our services. Money is tight for all businesses, and having to pay a fee to get started (e.g. hundreds or thousands of pounds on new website development) is the last thing most people need.

What they need is an improved website, more customers, and top quality ongoing support and maintenance service. Because we deliver all of those things and more, we keep our clients very happy and they stay using our services for a very long time.

That way our initial investment of time and expertise to support their success gets repaid over a very long period, during which time they will have become more successful because they use us. Everybody wins!

This depends on the complexity of the site we are maintaining – and is extremely low compared with any other service they will find, even though these mostly deliver only a fraction of the benefits of our services.

For our MyStartupSite service, which suits small businesses who need a few templated pages, we charge £29.99 per month.

For our MyBespokeSite service – which tends to be more pages, more individual tailoring and often more complex functions – the price starts at £59.99 and rises other options/functions/pages are added.

For our MySellingSite service – an eCommerce solution which takes NO fees at all from our customer’s sales – the prices starts at £89.99 a month. Like MyBespokeSite, this will be higher if they have complex things to support.

The commission structure is really simple and transparent, and is based entirely on the value of the maintenance plan.

We are unique in that we pay you three times for every sale! And each time, you’re getting a whole month’s worth of your new customer’s maintenance plan value.

Yes of course! If you sell a typical MyBespokeSite at £59.99, you get £180 in total, representing three months of their maintenance plan value, and paid in three stages.

You get £60 literally as soon as you have gathered your new customer’s requirements for us and they press the button to sign up to the plan. (We aim for you to have these funds the very same day!)

We are 100% focused on customer satisfaction, and it’s vital that what we deliver for them matches the expectations that you’ve set during the sale. So when their new site is ready for review a few weeks later, you are the person that checks back in with them to see how happy they are, lets us know if there’s anything more we can do to ensure their satisfaction as we finish the build project. As a thank you for doing this, you get paid an additional £60, doubling your initial commission.

Finally, we are a young company and constantly striving to improve – not just for our customers, but for you our associates too. So after each sale is complete everyone is encouraged to spend a few minutes thinking about (or helping create) changes that make sales easier, and customers happier, in future. This is a win-win for you as you benefit from the work you and others do to increase your sales rates and take-home pay even more in future. And as a thank you for doing it, you get paid another month’s maintenance fee (in this case, £60 again), trebling your initial commission from £60 to the £180 mentioned above.

The work you need to put in tends to be less with MyStartupSite (3 x £29.99 = £90 total commission) and more with MySellingSite (3 x £89.99 = £270 total commission).

None at all! We are grateful for every individual customer you find and will be happy to look after each one, and we also have the scale to deliver – no matter how many clients you bring in.

So whether you find one client a month for a bit of extra cash, or find 10 in the first few days and discover a sudden great income stream, you’ll still be equally valued and appreciated for every one of your sales – and, of course, paid promptly!

No targets, no limits, no nonsense, just an openness and transparency in everything we do.

Typically, we find that 10 plans sold will consist of roughly 7 MyStartupSite packages, 2 MyBespokeSite packages and one MySellingSite package (an overall commission value of £1,260).

However this is up to you – you may find that you target particular business sectors and sell a lot more of one particular type of service as a result.

It might be tempting to focus on the high-value sales but actually it can be just as easy to sell three low-value sites as one high-value site, for the same return, so our advice is to cast your net wide and approach as many different business types as you can.

None!

This isn’t a technical role, and customers aren’t normally looking for technical answers – though we’re always on hand to provide those if you need them.

It’s important to be able to create a good rapport with potential clients and to see things from their perspective. What do they want and need? And how can the services we provide best meet those needs?

It’s also important to remember that you are representing our company. Our reputation is absolutely vital to our success, so ensuring a level of professionalism at all times is our only other requirement.

Apart from that – there are no requirements to become a Sales Associate. Your ability to find new clients (and help ensure they’re happy) is all that matters.

Lots!

You will join a group of people sharing ideas and materials, and what worked well (or badly!) for them in the past.

You will be helped with answers to any questions that the client asks that you’re not able to answer – this might be lots initially! But it’ll soon become second nature.

You will have access to all the existing sales material, and the ability to request more whenever you think it would help (plus the access to change/add material yourself if you prefer).

YOUR success is OUR success. So of course we’re going to give you all the help you need!

Great! We run regular short webinars for people who are interested, normally hosted by Martin the M.D. of Enterprising, where we answer any questions that you have and explain the (very simple!) application process.

If you’d like to put your name down for one of those sessions, please drop us a quick email at associates@enterprisingpeople.co.uk and we’ll let you know as soon as the next one is arranged.

We’re looking forward to meeting you!