North West Business Development Centre Inc.

Wayne van Elsen

Wayne started Newport Digital in 2008. Newport Digital is a web hosting and design business,that focusses on fast turnaround, affordable websites. Newport Digital's core service "Website in a Week" is primarily aimed at new or existing business requiring a web presence quickly at a realistic set price.

When Newport Digital began in December 2008, it offered many services without a core product to take to market, the Business Growth Program and the use of the business mentors has helped Newport Digital realise it’s unique selling position and as such has strengthened and solidified the services offered to it's clients. Newport Digital recognises the market in which it operates and can now confidently sell it's core services to prospective clients.

Wayne proudly states, “I have been involved in small business for more than 10 years, but the last seven months have probably been the most rewarding. The Todd Street Incubator & NWBDC have been of immeasurable help in getting Newport Digital established and focussed, proof would be that in the last ten weeks of the first financial year Newport Digital recorded 70 % of its turn over for that year. Thanks to the advice of the business mentors at NWBDC and the virtual tenancy services offered by the Todd Street Business Incubator, I have been able to sell Newport Digital as a professional service business, this would have been a lot more difficult without the combined services provided by the NWBDC and the Todd Street Business Icubator.”