Richard Hewitt
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Update
Having held a team meeting last Thursday I felt it would be timely to update members about developments and also to clarify our hierarchy at Fish & Fly/Fishing Magic.
Firstly a little bit of history for new members;
Fish & Fly acquired Fishing Magic some 20 months ago from Magicalia Group following their announcement they were to close the site. The site has proven to be a great addition to our portfolio of fishing sites and we have been very pleased with the way the site has developed and with the general support and the large increase in traffic which is actually showing the largest growth of all of our sites.
The chart below shows growth for the last 12 months as per Google Analytics figures based on monthly visits.
The various changes have not been without difficulty especially picking up the pieces of a site where advertisers and members had been told of a pending closure, the forced change to a completely different web platform and also the retirement of Graham Marsden as Founder and Editor of the site has meant some cultural changes as the overall management of the site now comes under the wings of the team at the HQ of Fish & Fly.
Hierarchy
Fish & Fly is privately owned and currently has 2 Directors myself and Dr Colin Bradshaw. If you want to contact us regarding a corporate matter, a constructive suggestion or indeed a serious complaint please email us in the first instance at directors@fishandfly.com
We then have the other members of our management team at HQ consisting of Paul Sharman, Group Editor, Sofi Wolstenholme, Manager Member Services, Matt Daymond, Creative Director and Phil Broughton our Head of Sales and Marketing.
Paul as Group Editor is responsible for Editorial Strategy over all of our sites. (He is a very keen coarse angler!).
You can contact any of the above by emailing info@fishandfly.com or by using the menu tabs on all web pages.
Within FishingMagic our Content Editors are Geoff Maynard and Jeff Woodhouse and they report directly to Paul Sharman. They are always grateful to receive contributions from members for publishing and these can be submitted via the menu tabs under the ‘contact’ button.
It is perhaps worth mentioning that all of the team fish apart from Matt who is keen to learn!
Moving forward we do anticipate expanding our editorial team perhaps in specialist areas such as carp and we will keep you informed of any developments in that area.
FM Forums
These are very popular and are a very important resource for both members and guests with a vast number of posts on a wide number of subjects. They are the heart of our sites and we never lose focus as to the value of the contributions made by members to keep them lively and up to date.
The forums are regulated by fairly standard terms and conditions that are designed to protect both us as owners and you as members and to also ensure that posts meet certain reasonable criteria. We do ask that any complaints about the way the forums are run are in the first instance notified to us as quite often there are misunderstandings or they relate to issues that are best dealt with privately.
With our forums we feel we are in the ‘hospitality’ business where we provide you with the ‘facility’ to both be entertained and to entertain with as little interference from ‘management’ as possible. We want to make your stay as comfortable and enjoyable as possible, and like all good ‘landlords’ we want to be beetling away in the background and certainly not dominate the conversations on the other side of the ‘bar’. Our contribution (apart from the fixtures and fittings) is to provide regular news and features for your entertainment and discussion and to make sure the ‘door is always open’ and the ‘plumbing works’. The moderators are there to ensure that a friendly spirit is maintained and fair comment is encouraged.
If for some reason the moderators are unable to deal with a particular point then all members have the option to email either info@fishandfly.com or in a serious instance directors@fishandfly.com. We do actually appreciate constructive criticisms or ideas to improve the service we offer and we will always respond!
Both myself and Paul Sharman plan to communicate more frequently in the future and to keep you posted with regard to developments and our plans to improve further the experience of visiting Fishing Magic.
I hope the above goes some way to clarify the ethos we are trying to generate and I would repeat how much we do appreciate and value the contributions made by members both within the forums and with articles etc.
We are investing a lot of time and money at the moment in new initiatives for members and guests of all our sites and we should be in a position to outline them shortly.
In the meantime enjoy FishingMagic and your fishing and if you are visiting Sussex give us a call!
Richard
Having held a team meeting last Thursday I felt it would be timely to update members about developments and also to clarify our hierarchy at Fish & Fly/Fishing Magic.
Firstly a little bit of history for new members;
Fish & Fly acquired Fishing Magic some 20 months ago from Magicalia Group following their announcement they were to close the site. The site has proven to be a great addition to our portfolio of fishing sites and we have been very pleased with the way the site has developed and with the general support and the large increase in traffic which is actually showing the largest growth of all of our sites.
The chart below shows growth for the last 12 months as per Google Analytics figures based on monthly visits.
The various changes have not been without difficulty especially picking up the pieces of a site where advertisers and members had been told of a pending closure, the forced change to a completely different web platform and also the retirement of Graham Marsden as Founder and Editor of the site has meant some cultural changes as the overall management of the site now comes under the wings of the team at the HQ of Fish & Fly.
Hierarchy
Fish & Fly is privately owned and currently has 2 Directors myself and Dr Colin Bradshaw. If you want to contact us regarding a corporate matter, a constructive suggestion or indeed a serious complaint please email us in the first instance at directors@fishandfly.com
We then have the other members of our management team at HQ consisting of Paul Sharman, Group Editor, Sofi Wolstenholme, Manager Member Services, Matt Daymond, Creative Director and Phil Broughton our Head of Sales and Marketing.
Paul as Group Editor is responsible for Editorial Strategy over all of our sites. (He is a very keen coarse angler!).
You can contact any of the above by emailing info@fishandfly.com or by using the menu tabs on all web pages.
Within FishingMagic our Content Editors are Geoff Maynard and Jeff Woodhouse and they report directly to Paul Sharman. They are always grateful to receive contributions from members for publishing and these can be submitted via the menu tabs under the ‘contact’ button.
It is perhaps worth mentioning that all of the team fish apart from Matt who is keen to learn!
Moving forward we do anticipate expanding our editorial team perhaps in specialist areas such as carp and we will keep you informed of any developments in that area.
FM Forums
These are very popular and are a very important resource for both members and guests with a vast number of posts on a wide number of subjects. They are the heart of our sites and we never lose focus as to the value of the contributions made by members to keep them lively and up to date.
The forums are regulated by fairly standard terms and conditions that are designed to protect both us as owners and you as members and to also ensure that posts meet certain reasonable criteria. We do ask that any complaints about the way the forums are run are in the first instance notified to us as quite often there are misunderstandings or they relate to issues that are best dealt with privately.
With our forums we feel we are in the ‘hospitality’ business where we provide you with the ‘facility’ to both be entertained and to entertain with as little interference from ‘management’ as possible. We want to make your stay as comfortable and enjoyable as possible, and like all good ‘landlords’ we want to be beetling away in the background and certainly not dominate the conversations on the other side of the ‘bar’. Our contribution (apart from the fixtures and fittings) is to provide regular news and features for your entertainment and discussion and to make sure the ‘door is always open’ and the ‘plumbing works’. The moderators are there to ensure that a friendly spirit is maintained and fair comment is encouraged.
If for some reason the moderators are unable to deal with a particular point then all members have the option to email either info@fishandfly.com or in a serious instance directors@fishandfly.com. We do actually appreciate constructive criticisms or ideas to improve the service we offer and we will always respond!
Both myself and Paul Sharman plan to communicate more frequently in the future and to keep you posted with regard to developments and our plans to improve further the experience of visiting Fishing Magic.
I hope the above goes some way to clarify the ethos we are trying to generate and I would repeat how much we do appreciate and value the contributions made by members both within the forums and with articles etc.
We are investing a lot of time and money at the moment in new initiatives for members and guests of all our sites and we should be in a position to outline them shortly.
In the meantime enjoy FishingMagic and your fishing and if you are visiting Sussex give us a call!
Richard
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