Michael Williams Featured in UCEA’s Student Focus

I have been featured in the University Church of England Academy’s Compass Magazine. Talking about how I became a Managing Director as as well as being a student completing A levels.

The ‘Student Focus’ article reads:

‘I have always loved computers and the idea of being a business man, when I was 12 I was given the chance to take my GCSEs in ICT at the Academy (then Sutton High) so I jumped at the chance.

I was awarded a Diploma in Digital Applications and by the time I was 17 I had a BTEC National Diploma in ICT. During this time, I developed a love for building websites and after leaving year 11 within great GCSEs, I launched my own business, with the help of fellow UCEA student Laura Doggett, in 2009. We worked with two companies called Cashillion UK Ltd and WOW Media UK Ltd. We promoted some of their websites and after a few months we decided to reinvest the money we’d made into some new products.

We bought a cashback site called Free Coin in February 2010 for £10 and after a month, we’d turned over 100 times the amount we’d spent on purchasing the site.

Since we’ve been running this site we’ve worked with some of the UK’s biggest brand names including Mobile Phone Networks, Computer Games Stores and Supermarkets. The site has gone on to win a ‘BeenPaid Award’. As we carried on expanding into different areas of internet marketing I began to use my business in my Business Studies Coursework.

In January 2011 we converted the business into a Private Limited Company and I became its Managing Director. We won a contract with another company to manage one of its biggest websites as it had been suffereing falling sales and profits. Just one month in we’ve made a great start in turning it around and their sales have started to rise again, so muuch so that they have asked us to manage another part of their business. Looking to the future I’m working with a number of companies in the local area with plans to help them move their businesses onto the internet, not just by building them a website, but getting them a presence on social networks as well as other methods of marketing online. I believe the Academy has a lot of potential, many of the members of staff are incredible and I wouldn’t have been able to achieve what I have today if it wasn’t for their guidance over the past 7 years.’

If you’d like to look at the article check it out on Entirety Media’s Facebook page!

Keep your eyes peeled for some more press coverage coming over the next few months!