About Beknowin'

Business-focused WordPress websites

About Beknowin'

Business-focused
WordPress websites

Beknowin is all about delivering an excellent customer experience.

With a background in finding solutions to customer problems, Beknowin' delivers websites that hold your customer at the heart of everything you do.

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Corporate Beginnings​

I’m Sam (nickname Beknowin’).

I worked in the corporate world for over 20 years, predominantly in technical Senior Sales roles, with great exposure to every type of business, in terms of sector, size, challenges and business areas.  I predominantly solved problems in Project Management and IT, most recently in cloud-based hosting.

My experience within IT & technical environments goes back to the days when you could only access the ‘world wide web’ with a modem and a fixed phone line – and I was part of a Global Account Team that built Nokia’s first website. Back then, websites were a novelty with hardly anything interactive about them. 

Disillusioned by the need to hit targets over customer satisfaction, I left that environment behind to help smaller companies achieve great things. I get greater work satisfaction and I get to geek out all day.

Beknowin is all about delivering an excellent customer experience.

With a background in finding solutions to customer problems, Beknowin' delivers websites that hold your customer at the heart of everything you do.

Live your passion

Releasing The Inner Nerd....

In 2017 I set out to become a full-time web developer. After re-training and joining Univers Labs, I was introduced to WordPress, where I worked on websites including

THE INNER TEMPLE | SAFFRON BRAND CONSULTANTS | ALAN TURING INSTITUTE | SCIENCE GROUP

I went on to freelance under my own company name and my first 3 clients came via word-of-mouth through my ‘other’ business, eWoof dog day-care – with websites for an architect, an electrician and a dog walker.

I now specialise in helping small businesses to create beautiful functional websites.

“The creation and promotion of the eWoof website pushed our business forward immensely, taking it to a fully viable, ‘fully booked’ dog day-care business.  The website stands out compared to many dog boarding businesses, to the extent that the Licensing Inspector was convinced we were part of a large franchise. With the addition of basic SEO and local promotion, we now have more enquiries then we can possibly accept and have never had to pay for advertising or promotion.”

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Live your passion

Releasing The Inner Nerd....

Find a WordPress web developer

In 2017 I set out to become a full-time web developer. After re-training and joining Univers Labs, I was introduced to WordPress, where I worked on websites including

THE INNER TEMPLE | SAFFRON BRAND CONSULTANTS | ALAN TURING INSTITUTE | SCIENCE GROUP

I went on to freelance under my own company name and my first 3 clients came via word-of-mouth through my ‘other’ business, eWoof dog day-care – with websites for an architect, an electrician and a dog walker.

I now specialise in helping small businesses to create beautiful functional websites.

“The creation and promotion of the eWoof website pushed our business forward immensely, taking it to a fully viable, ‘fully booked’ dog day-care business.  The website stands out compared to many dog boarding businesses, to the extent that the Licensing Inspector was convinced we were part of a large franchise. With the addition of basic SEO and local promotion, we now have more enquiries then we can possibly accept and have never had to pay for advertising or promotion.”

12 things about Beknowin'

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It’s important to get a feel for an individual, other than the fact I am a self-confessed nerd, here are 12 random facts about Beknowin’.

INFJ

The rarest of all personality traits.
With immense insight and wisdom, the counsellor/advocate - exists to help others be their best.

Perfectionist

Always seeking to improve and make things better, faster or easier. Every day is an opportunity to perfect something new. 

Artist

To clarify...
amateur, 'wannabee' mixed media artiste, sometimes it's epic and sometimes it becomes the canvas for the next project - but who doesn't love a bit of finger painting!

Handy

City & Guilds Level 3 qualified electrician & student award winner for my year.  For no other reason other than I love learning something new!

Sporty

Certified netball nut, playing in Premier / Div 1 local leagues & winning multiple mixed netball tournaments. Also a Level 2 qualified coach.

Life Saver

No, really!
3 people - 1 drowner (stranger), 1 choker (friend), 1 heart attack (husband)!

Music

Music is life and I'm enjoying some weird stuff lately (think instrumental / cat meets lo-fi) but old-skool hip hop is a firm fave! 

Dog Life

We run a family-owned, licensed dog daycare and home boarding business. And up until recently, we were owned by our beautiful German Shorthaired Pointer, Jasper.

Learning Sponge

Love to add new skills and knowledge to the cerebral.  Always questioning and looking to do things better.

Cultural Traveller

Love to visit and experience new cultures
Malaysia and Cuba are up there, with Thailand and Reunion Island on the horizon!

Green Fingers

Currently an orchid junkie - but I only have 17, for now!

Thrill Seeker

Advanced Scuba Diver with night dive, wrecks and dry suit specialities under my weight belt.

the origins of Beknowin'

What's with the name?

I seem to know a lot of random stuff. This earned me the nickname Beknowin’, which I am still called today.

I remember it well, it was the 25th of June, 2009. I was on a weekend away with the girls, Michael Jackson had just died and the airwaves were full of MJ hits 24/7.

Anyway, throughout the day, random questions were asked for no particular reason. Something might have been heard, seen or said and one of my friends would just have a follow-up question. All day I seemed to have the answers.  The final straw, ‘What’s that African food, you scoop it up with your fingers and mop up the gravy?’, to which I replied ‘Fufu’.

What else can you say to someone who is clearly the queen of random general knowledge except, ‘How are you so beknowin’? ’
And that’s where the nickname came from, Beknowin’.

I like to think of it as ‘someone who just knows’ and hopefully I know enough to deliver great websites that make great business sense and that my clients love.