West Country Dream, set up by Helen and Murray Garrett, brings together a unique combination of a farm, self-catering cottage and a number of agricultural courses for those considering moving to the region in the hunt for the good life.

Helen explained, “Around 10 years ago we took the decision to relocate to the South West from our farm in the Home Counties. This process took over a year to complete, involved hundreds of miles of travelling as well as a number of logistical hurdles and headaches. We know that many people look to move to the South West, whether they are already in agriculture or looking to purchase their first smallholding, and we wanted to make this process easier and simpler for them to achieve.”

The business offers a complete property search and selection service, calling upon their own farming experience in identifying the best-suited smallholdings and property with land on the market.

Helen continued, “There are three things we want to help reduce for those looking to relocate; mileage, time and stress. By ensuring we’ve already seen the properties before our clients’ visit we can make sure that they’ll only view ones that could be the perfect home.”

Those on the hunt for rural property with West Country Dream won’t be left in the local hotel; the business has a self-catering holiday cottage on their farm and encourages those looking to test the water to enjoy one of their taster packages.

“We realise that not everyone looking to find a smallholding in the South West will already have farming knowledge. With the holiday cottage on site and Murray’s experience as a qualified agricultural lecturer we thought it was the ideal opportunity to give people the chance to get involved with farming life and learn at the same time.”

For more information about West Country Dream please visit www.westcountrydream.co.uk or call Helen Garrett on 07816 514667

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If your business is rurally based and you employ less than 10 full time employees these courses are aimed at helping to provide your business with an online platform from which you can grow and flourish.

The second course, which will focus on making your website work for your business and ranking better in search engines, will be held at the Tavistock Work Hub on Wednesday 29^th January from 12:30pm – 4:30pm.

There is a cost of £28 to attend the event.  All bookings and queries should be directed to West Devon BIP at this link: http://www.bipwestdevon.biz/Rural-Skills-Development-Project.html

Here is what the course will be covering:

Making your Website work for your business: Ranking better in search engines 

Google is a massive shop window for your business; 3.5 million searches are made every minute and a number one ranking can get anywhere from 15 – 25% more clicks.  This session will provide you with the knowledge and understanding you need in order to start optimising your own website and to get yourself ranked higher on Google.

This session will aim to provide you with:

1. An understanding of how Google is changing and how you can use these changes to gain a competitive advantage
2. An overview of how Google ranks your website against your competitors
3. How to identify the key words your customers are searching for
4. Steps you can take to improve your ranking for those key phrases and drive business to your website
5. How to effectively use tools in order to rank better in search engines

We hope to see you at a training course with us soon! If you have any questions or queries regarding our online training courses, including bespoke courses for your business please email hello@mihidigital.co.uk or give us a ring on 01566 784860.

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