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Have a listen to what these local business owners have to say about Arnold Community Group and how much business the group has generated for them, We are a great way to get your products and services in front of an engaged local community....  Build trust & drive sales for your business today....

Testimonials

I am so very grateful for this kind group, thank you, As a small business it’s been amazing for letting me advertise and more people to the surprises I do Thank you once again for your kind help, Lovely group thank you.

Kelly Morgan Secret Deliveries

A big shout out to Arnold Community group, this is a great way for small businesses to advertise special offers. To be seen and supported by local people, who perhaps wouldn't know your little business exists? It really makes a big difference when we put a promotion in the Arnold community group to the footfall we have in our shop. Great work & support. I would highly recommend this group.

Teresa Scott Floral dreams

We are Nationwide Cleaners Nottinghamshire and we provide a range of domestic cleaning services for our clients throughout the county. We have found the Arnold Community group a huge help in recruiting new cleaners in the area recently and would certainly recommend other like minded businesses use the group when recruiting or advertising. The group is run in a professional manner which really helps when attempting to get a post out in a timely fashion as business dictates. We also found the added exposure that the group created was great for furthering the business in the area and will certainly be using the group again in future.

Owners - Brett & Beth Bramwell Nationwide Cleaners

Since joining Arnold Community Group UK, we’ve been massively helped by way of recruiting, advertising our services, getting our business up to a standard we’re happy with and that couldn’t have been done half as easily if it wasn’t for ACG UK. Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend both the group & Total Web Services behind it, brilliant service.

Luke Mundy Landlord at the Greyhound Inn

We love the attention we get from the Arnold Community Group, we post regular on the group, and always get a brilliant response and plenty of our own page shares, So getting even more attention!. We are always trying to promote ourselves and this group has the best shares because the community cares about what is happening. Waggon and Horses at Redhill have worked hard to be a community pub, and with the help of the group we defo feel part of the community.

Donna Clarke SouthGate Landlady - Waggon & Horses Public House

Arnold Community Group has helped promote our 2 local businesses, Summers in Time Dance ltd at Eagles Nest on Gedling road and Dance in Time Boutique in Woodthorpe on Melbury road. This Facebook group is great for advertising and we have had great responses and feedback from all our posts. We highly recommend it, if you have a business in the Arnold area too, I would definitely post on here

Sarah & Stephen Summers Summers in Time to Dance Ltd

At Ohannes Arnold, whenever we have promotions or Uber Eats, Just Eat or deliveroo offers, Arnold Community Group has been fantastic. We couldn't be successful without their help honestly. And we are really grateful for all their professional and good help

Abdulvahap Gül Owner - Ohannes Burgers

I would highly recommend using Arnold Community Group to promote your business. It has been great for my grab hire business. I post an advert once a week and get lots of phone calls from the ad. We will definitely be using Arnold Community Group again.

Seb Thomas Owner - Thomas and Son Grab Hire

To be honest I'm really thankful of this group for promoting my business. It is a great platform for small businesses like me to reach out to the customers and advertise our products and services. I run a small business of Postoffice with a gift shop in the retail side. My customers often told me that they saw an advert on the group and then came to buy the stuff. I have already recommended this group to other small businesses as well. Thank you for providing this immaculate platform to help small businesses . You are doing a great job. Thank you from killisick Estate Post Office .

Mazhar Iqbal Owner - killisick Estate Post Office

Being a member of the Arnold Community Group has had a positive impact on my business introducing me to lots of local people , I’ve also found the group very helpful when I requested help or information.

Carl Regan Owner - Arnold Garage

Any small Businesses out there??, Want to get great coverage, then Keep Arnold Community Group In Mind... We run 2 Businesses in Sherwood, Sher-Lock Locksmiths & The Sherwood Cobbler. We often use the Arnold Community Group to advertise as well as inform the "congregation" of what we do, and in some cases what not to do... like putting WD40 in a lock... no no no... We get great feedback from the group and ultimately have developed a good strong customer base in and around Arnold, we could not recommend the Arnold Community Group highly enough... Trust us... its worth that little effort to get yourself noticed... There's no better advertising...Getting recommended from someone on a group like this one goes a long way & ultimately grows your business allowing you to go from strength to strength

Dave & Vanessa The Sherwood Cobbler Est 1934 Nottingham's Oldest Independent Cobbler & Sher-Lock Locksmiths

I have been using the Arnold Community Group on facebook for at least a couple of years now. The main part of using the community group has been to promote my small business on coppice road MBAS WORKWEAR. I have to say that each time we posted out any news or information regarding the business on the community group page we had a fabulous response on each occasion, in-fact it has been somewhat of a comfort blanket allowing targeted and local opening hours information to be communicated easily and effectively.

Paul Carter Owner - MBAS Workwear

Having run advertising on the Arnold Community Group, I found it useful and very helpful in letting our customers know what's happening during lock down, plus it's at the heart of Arnold, great group, very professional administration team too.

Brendan Quinn Owner - Amelia Cafe

Arnold Community Group is an amazing place for people to truly get to know the town they live in. As a small business owner, I have loved being a member of this group, as it has given me the chance to personally communicate with the community and show what my restaurant has to offer. It is lovely getting to know people and to hear/read all about the other things going on within Arnold, as well as being able to support other local businesses/people too. I would definitely recommend anyone to join a group with their business, in order to really get to know the people that come into their places, as well as an opportunity to find out what people are looking for within their own experience. Over all it has been a great group and I feel I have been able to make many improvements on my business because of it. Arnold Community Group has been a great benefit for us, thank you! Emilios and Team

Emilios Owner - Emilios Greek Restaurant

My name is Louise Martyn, I am a resident in Arnold and lived here my whole life and know a lot of the Arnold community. We had a family business in Arnold but due to circumstances we closed it and decided to start a new business Flooring-2-u 18 months ago. We have had a great support from friends family and old customers, we have used the Arnold Community Facebook Group to promote our business for advertising in the community with success and great support. I would highly recommend this group. It has a great network for not only businesses but for everyone to use. kind regards Louise

Louise Martyn Owner - Flooring-2-u

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Below we have tried to list the most commonly asked questions so we can try and make purchasing adverts and services from us as easy as possible, However we can't think of everything so if you have a question than please send us an email on the contact us page .. or PM one of the admins in the Facebook group. 

Basically, we allow any local or non local Business, Social Enterprise, Sole trader, Charity to join Arnold Community Group as their own page, and you are allow to post and advertise your products and services any time to suit your needs without waiting for approval from a group admin. 

We are a local Community group and we like to promote local businesses, and because we're such a popular group many businesses from outside the area use the group too. So in order to cap this a little, we offer favourable rates to local businesses. Non-local and national businesses of course are welcome to advertise, but they'll pay a bit more.

Good Question, we are glad you asked, there are a few reasons to why we charge for adverts, the main one is to stop rogue traders from advertising and scamming residents so we create a database of trusted businesses.

We are an established group, over 4 years in age and the group is strictly managed to be a fair and pleasant group, so we have a broad age range of members in the group. And all of this takes time and many hours of hard work, so to pay for this, we charge advertising fees to cover the costs.

Engagement, we have massive engagement from our members, over 85% - 95% visit the group several times Monthly, this is massive compared to other facebook groups.

Check out our listed benefits and our testimonials, they speak for themselves. Plus you can try it for a month, there is no commitment to continue using the service. 

We don't charge for adverts in some cases, for example a small volunteer led children's football team, but we ask everyone to register, the reason being in the past on many occasions residents of Arnold have been scammed or miss-treated,  so we have a database now of everyone who advertises in the group, so if something goes wrong we have the full contact information on file.. its a blanket policy to keep everyone safe.? 

Yes of course, Total Web Services Ltd is the holding company for various online brands, social media groups and trading names, including this website and WantWebDesigns.com which are responsible for managing Arnold Community Group which is a privately managed facebook community group. 

We send out an instant payment receipt upon purchasing a service and that will be followed up with a full invoice within 3 business days. 
Invoices will be issued by


Total Web Services LTD
Company Number; 13242589
Registered Address; 61, Bridge Street, Kington, Herefordshire, HR53DJ 

Emails; business@arnoldcommunitygroup.co.uk
business@wantwebdesigns.com

 

 

Payments

All customers will pay the full agreed price before their advertisement / service will be published or access granted, If paying monthly then you need to ensure payment is cleared 10 business days before the the start of the following month.

Any invoice outstanding beyond 30 days of the date of the invoice may be referred to debt recovery agents and will be subject to a surcharge of 20% to cover the collection costs incurred. This surcharge together with all other charges and legal fees incurred will be the responsibility of the customer and will be legally enforceable.

Refunds

No refunds to be made after 10 business days before the access or publication month, any additional works that are agreed, the balance of payments must be paid within 14 days of receipt of invoice.  Also, we offer no refunds on digital products like graphic designs, artwork, we do however offer up to 3 revisions to ensure your satisfaction. 

Copyright

It is the customers full responsibility to ensure and obtain all necessary authority and ownership rights to any logo’s, Websites, pictures, images, photographs, designs, or any other material that may be used in the advertising, posts or promotions within the group.

Proofs

If you require us to do any graphic work or design work then we will provide you with a proof for your approval no later than 5 business days before publishing, if we do not hear a response we will presume the proof is ok and publish it,  if you want any changes after being published, this will incur an additional fee.

To access our full Terms and Conditions please click HERE

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Yes, basically we charge advertising fees to all profit-making organizations, sole traders, self-employed and Charitable organizations that have paid staff, here is a list of those exempt from charges. 

* 100% volunteer-led organisations & Charities
* Under 20's we encourage young entrepreneurs
* Over 60's, as long as you're not an owner/shareholder in a profitable business with employees, you can advertise for free, Most over '60s maintain a hobby to top up their pensions, and you're more than welcome to advertise for free. 
* Recruitment posts are allowed in the group for free, as long as you're not a recruitment agency, if you are, fees apply.
*School events & Information are free

We want to encourage new businesses and startup businesses in Arnold, so we have put together a special package for them to help boost their business and showcase it to the community.  We only charge a tiny fee of £10 a month for 3 months. Speak to an admin or send an email to take up this offer. 

Yes, this is the beauty of Facebook and online marketing, is that you get to see how many people you have reached, and not only that, you can engage with customers in the comments section, all using your branded business page. 

We only offer a monthly report with our paid managed service, however, you can request analytics twice a month..  So, for example, you have an offer running and you've posted this offer twice a week for the month, you can request via email the analytics two weeks in and at the end of the month... so you know how well your promotion has worked.. 

Within the group, residents are allowed to post genuine grievances or issues if they have received bad service or faulty products. 

However, we like this to be fair for all parties, and we give the business a chance to respond because after all there are two sides to a story.  In most cases, any decent business knows the best way to resolve things is to offer to put it right, offer a refund or something on the house the next time the customer visits..  

Our Reputation service ensures that this public exchange is done fairly and we monitor all comments to ensure things remain fair and remove any non-related comments that may be added from others... 

What we have found is, even if it wasn't the businesses fault if they offer a freebee or went out of their way to resolve it, and other residents in the group see this,  it is big bonus points to that business, it gives the impression of trust and a well-run business if the situation is resolved amicably for all parties.

Well, you don't have to if you don't want to, be here are three good reasons why you should. 

1) You're promoting your business constantly with a business page profile rather than a personal facebook profile. 

2) You're posting and commenting as your business, and not a personal profile, so you can free up you personal messenger for family & friends, and drive business via you business message centre. 

3) Likes Likes Likes, by using your business profile in the group, you get likes to your own business page, this way creating and growing your own loyal customer base. 

Simple, If your registered business address, trading address, or your residential home is within the circle you are classed as Local.  If your registered business address, trading address, or residential home is outside the circle, you are classed as non-local. 

You only need to have one of the three ( registered business address, trading address, or residential home ) within the circle to qualify for local pricing

In our Opinion yes... and here's why, you get to see how many people have seen your advert and how they have reacted to it, like clicks on your links, shares and other interactions, a print newspaper all that is guesswork, there are no guarantees anyone saw your advert. 

Also, you can interact with your customers if they comment on your advert .. which means you can answer their questions and drive them to your sales/service offer. 

And all this is done via your business page and not your personal profile.. so you are constantly marketing your business to others who might be reading the comments.

As a paid customer, you can post your offers & services any time you want for the month you have paid for. 
However we do advise that you stick to no more than 3 posts per week, anything more than that seems spammy, and you will find it a negative effect in your engagement numbers. 

Some exceptions will be allowed, like a countdown to a competition end for example, but please always check with an admin first. 

Admins reserve the right to delete any posts it deems are being repetitive or excessive. 

Remember, we are here to help you grow your business, so reach out to us anytime for tips and advice.



 

Yes, We encourage you to post your offers and service, we advise using link shorteners as Facebook algorithm tends to demote posts with long Links or URL's. 

We don't allow any get rich quick schemes, or affiliate marketing links, so if thats your business model then this isn't the group for you.  
 

No, there is nothing in Facebook Terms & Conditions that says an owner of a Facebook group can't charge for adverts or services.

Millions of Facebook Group & Page admins charge users to access their groups, pages to access their content or charge for adverts. 

In fact Facebook itself has approved many of Total Web Services facebook groups for monetisation, via their Brand Collabs Manager Tool,  However rather than partnering with big brands to show their adverts to our users, we prefer to promote local businesses instead. 

 

Since the creation of the group we have always said sorry no to MLM businesses, mainly because we didn't have the resources to verify each MLM brand, and with the popular brands like Avon and Ann summers, they are that popular as a work from home business, nearly every street in every town in the UK  has a rep or agent of some sort, imagine 1000's of MLM businesses and 10's of thousands of reps ... so we blanket banned them.  

Now we get asked all the time, so we have decided to do a trial run of 6 months and allow some MLM businesses to advertise, the MLM brands will be approved on a case by case basis. 

We will Cap it to a maximum of 5 agents per MLM brand only,  so for example; 5 reps from Avon, 5 Reps from Osborne books, 5 reps from Weight Watchers, We hope thats clear. 

And we will only be allowing 1 post every 7 days per rep or agent. this is so we don't swamp the group with adverts. 

You will pay the same pricing as normal businesses, local and non local pricing and you will be classed as one man / woman band businesses. 

The 5 allocated spots will be on a first come first served basis, and admins have the final say in regards repetitive posts, same offers, and the T&C's set out here.  Try and mix it up a bit, be creative with your posts. 

We hope this 6 month trial is successful, if we decide to close this trial at six months  or earlier,  and say you've paid for 12 months posting. you will receive a refund for any months not used.



 

All Charities are run like businesses and most advertise and have allocated budgets to spend on marketing. This is called cost of funding, so say they spend £20 on adverts, badges, leaflets, to aim to raise £100.  Like any Charity or business, we have overheads and operating costs so we apply a small fee to charities who have paid staff, if a charity is 100% volunteer lead .. then adverts are free.  

We will delete any posts from businesses that are bumped up by making repetitive comments in the comments section of the post

Come on people it's boring, annoying, and amateurish,  surely you can think of something more creative ... if your posts are not generating any interest, then reach out to us, we'd be happy to help you with marketing suggestions.

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