Eleanor: So, I actually started out as Designed by Eleanor (DBE design) and then two years ago, I decided I wanted to rebrand my business, and I set up QUAY Media as a limited company.
I just felt that Designed by Eleanor was no longer the market that I wanted to be approaching – it was fine for business start-ups, but I wanted to be approaching the bigger businesses, and get bigger clients.
Then, after rebranding as QUAY Media, I came up with the idea of publishing my own magazine.
I’ve designed magazines for other businesses over the years; I have a background in publishing as well, designing books.
Now that I’ve got such a great network of people around me, especially through Your Partnerships and BBX, I felt the time was right to make my own magazine.
I wanted to do a business magazine, to publicise positive business and to help others that were in the same position as me in the early days of starting a business, with not knowing where to go or what to do. And the same with businesses that are already operating – they might want to expand, but again, they don’t know what to do or how to do it.