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case study: Beermat.biz

Our client

Beermat.biz is a community website supporting start-up and growing businesses. It was founded by Mike Southon, best-selling co-author of The Beermat Entrepreneur, The Boardroom Entrepreneur, Sales on a Beermat and Finance on a Beermat books.

Our brief

A full range of community and e-commerce functionality was required, to allow members to share advice, request help, and learn from others. Members needed to be able to interact in many ways including blogging, private messaging and registering for offline networking events. Integration to a third-party payment provider was required for subscriptions, events and a shop.

Our solution

The Beermat.biz websiteWorking with MWA Design, websushi completed the technical development work giving users the ability to:

  • Register as a member including log-in, forgotten password, email confirmation and management of personal details
  • Post blogs and comments including full moderation alerts, rejection emails and profanity filtering
  • Register for events, membership, online payment, attendee lists and email reminders
  • Send private messages between paying members
  • Conduct advanced searches for other members
  • Search for and buy/download resources (including payment handling and email delivery)


If you need functionality to connect with your website's visitors, you need to speak to these guys!
- Mike Southon, best-selling author and 'Beermat Entrepreneur'



The site launched in March 2006.

Visit: www.beermat.biz »



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