Our 2012 speakers so far are....

The Real Business Club 

 

 

 

Back by popular demand.....

Isabel King, co-founder of The Real Business Club

Presenting - Title to be confirmed

Isabel is currently an independent business consultant, idea explorer and teacher. Life started with a career as an Architect and then senior manager in a charity. However things changed dramatically on deciding to give up regular employment and see what happened. The adventure of consultancy, creativity and innovation in a range of contexts is ongoing. Helping people and teams see and grow their ideas, communicate better and gain personal and business benefit has many challenging miles ahead!

ProjectFive

 

 

 


projectfive

Presenting - Exchange Servers explained

Projectfive provide comprehensive IT Support to small and medium sized businesses.  Operating since 2002 they have continued to grow from strength to strength.  Continually growing and developing to keep up with IT demands of the modern day!  projectfive are well placed to help businesses get more from their technology. Whatever your situation, we have probably seen it before and will have a view on how to avoid the mistakes that so many people make.


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Yvonne Bignall

Presenting - Networking with Confidence

Whether you’re new to operating your VA business or you’ve been up and running for some time networking always appears on the ‘to do’ list.  We’re going to take a look at what networking is, why we do it, the barriers to good networking and how we can get past the barriers to network confidently. Bring your cards, you’re going to need them!





Our 2011 speakers were:-

 Do Your Own PR

 

 

 

 

 

Paula Gardner, founder of Do Your Own PR

Presenting - Seduce The Press

Paula Gardner of http://www.doyourownpr.com reveals the secrets of wooing journalists. With over 20 years experience in public relations, Paula is the expert on how to build rapport and relationships with the press to produce long term results and build your brand. In this advice packed seminar Paula will show you what you can be doing, right now, to help the press fall in love with you.

 

 

Flourish Studios

 

 

 

 

 

  Fiona Humberstone, Flourish Studios

Presenting - Low Cost Marketing

Fiona is an author, mumpreneur and Managing Director of award-winning graphic design and marketing agency, Flourish. Whilst there are many experts out there prepared to share their high-falutin strategies and the way that things should be done, Fiona shares her knowledge in an inspiring, down-to-earth and easy to understand manner. She’s not afraid to share the tricks of her trade and won’t "hold back" those essential "how to’s" that so many business owners crave.Fiona’s style is energised, inspiring and above all, practical.

She'll leave her audience with checklists and simple "to do's" that they can implement immediately for commercial gain.

Fiona is the author of Exhibit!: The SME’s Guide to Using Exhibitions to Grow Your Business, available at Amazon.

 

 The Real Business Club

 

 

 

 

  Isabel King, co-founder of The Real Business Club

Presenting - Stepping Stones to Success

Isabel is currently an independent business consultant, idea explorer and teacher.

Life started with a career as an Architect and then senior manager in a charity. However things changed dramatically on deciding to give up regular employment and see what happened. The adventure of consultancy, creativity and innovation in a range of contexts is ongoing.

Helping people and teams see and grow their ideas, communicate better and gain personal and business benefit has many challenging miles ahead!

 

 Jo Dodds

 

 

 

 

 

   Jo Dodds

Presenting - How to use Social Media to get more clients for your business and for your clients’ businesses too

After many years in the ‘corporate world’ in Retail HR, Jo Dodds started her own small business in August 2005 publishing a local community magazine in her home town. She expanded the business over the following three years to include, at one stage, eight local magazines. She did this mainly through business networking: connecting with local business people, getting to know them and helping them to achieve their business goals (and not necessarily through advertising in her magazines!).

Jo still publishes the Hythe Handbook with a distribution of 9,000 on a bi-monthly basis but her main focus now is on helping home based business to get their business online using a social media model, which generates more leads, prospects and customers through search engine optimisation, blogging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & YouTube. You can follow her on http://twitter.com/jododds or ‘like’ her business page on Facebook http://facebook.com/jododdspage or connect with her at http://linkedin.com/in/jododds If you have no idea what any of that that means then you need to hear her speak on Social Media!