Good
morning <Name>
I hope you like the sunny hue of our Thursday newsletter.
If you are a member of a business network in Berkshire then send us in
a story about your group and we'll give you a mention in our Thursday,
Networking News.
March is going to be our Networking month so we'll need
a story a day about business networks in the county.
Enterprising Britain kicks off this week and Saturday sees
a very enterprising idea,
WORKING ABROAD magazine launching on the streets of
Reading. A magazine for young people considering working abroad. Check out
Sustainabilitylive! coming up in May and next week, if
you're in the retail world, you should get yourself along to
springfair.com and join
80,000 buyers at the NEC.
Google are looking at ways to make more
billions via
online gaming and Kevin would be happy with one million for
his
photographs so he can refurb his sailing boat!
And
there's more on
pensions,
finance and the
property market.
Enjoy!
Jon Davey
01753
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| January Focus -
Charity |
Charity is the focus for this months
newsletter.
With the start of each new year it's a great time to reflect and
be grateful for what we have. Charity allows us to give a little something back
and our chosen cause for January is Thames Hospicecares
Sunflower Slimathon. Please give generously. And for those
who need an incentive to give, we have on. 10 lucky businesses |
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Berkshire for the last 6 years and each year it has progressed steadily along
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| February -
Innovation |
For next month our focus will be on
Innovation. We will have an article per day around the theme of innovation. If
you have a story to tell, talk to Hannah on 01189 661178. Innovation
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Sustainabilitylive!
Knowledge, Inspiration, and Answers –
That’s Sustainabilitylive!
Taking place at the NEC in Birmingham
from 1st to 3rd May 2007, Sustainabilitylive! is the UK’s largest forum
for excellence and innovation in environment, water, land and energy.
Comprising of the already successful Environmental Technology (ET),
International Clean Up (ICU), and National Energy Management (Nemex)
exhibitions, Sustainabilitylive! also introduces the International Water and
Effluent Exhibition (IWEX) and Environmental Services (ES) into Faversham House
Group’s impressive water and environment portfolio.
Focusing on the environmental, land remediation, energy and
water sectors, Sustainabilitylive! offers a high-level conference, keynote
speaker sessions, networking and innovation forums with industry achievement
and excellence recognised at related Awards ceremonies. Special events will be
taking place across the shows, with the Drilling & Tapping event at IWEX
being just one example.
Sustainabilitylive!
Enterprising
Britain Launched This Week
Launched on Monday 29th January, Enterprising Britain 2007
is a national competition to find the most enterprising place in the UK –
it can be a town, a place, a city, or indeed an area of the country. The
winning champion of UK enterprise is the one judged to be contributing the most
to improving economic prospects and encouraging enterprise.
Enterprising
Britain 2007 offers an opportunity to gain high profile recognition for the
work you, your business, your town, or your county have done to help create an
enterprising culture. This could range from the introduction of programmes to
reduce unemployment in the area, to specific projects representing innovation
and enterprise to overcome challenges.
The competition is run in two
phases offering the opportunity for recognition both regionally and nationally.
During the first stage 12 regional winners will be selected from across the UK
before going forward to the national final when the overall Enterprising
Britain 2007 winner will be selected.
Enterprising Britain Launched This
Week
WORKING ABROAD
Magazine
WORKING ABROAD is a brand new national magazine
full of seasonal jobs abroad, it will attract thousands of young people
considering working abroad for the first time with news, views, interviews and
essential information about the reality of resort work, how much you'll earn,
the hours you'll work, what it's like to work for one of the Industries biggest
recruiters and what to do to make your cv stand out.
WORKING ABROAD is
packed full of interviews with people actually working abroad telling you the
facts about how challenging or fantastic it can be and how, for most people,
it's a life changing experience.
WORKING ABROAD Magazine
Google May Launch
Virtual World
Last week we published an article focusing on ‘virtual
world’ websites such as Second Life and Habbo Hotel. Now this week rumours
are rife that Google plan to launch their own virtual world offering – a
Google-engineered "metaverse" which industry experts are already referring to
as a "world game."
The metaverse would use real-world data gathered
from Google's existing properties to craft the alternate online platform.
Google are rumoured to be looking at ways to tap into the expanding world of
in-game advertising, following Microsoft’s 2006 purchase of Massive –
a company specialising in in-game adverts for publishers and advertisers.
Apparently Google are in discussion with in-game ad company AdScape as they
prepare to monetize their virtual world format.
Google May Launch Virtual World
LPA Launches
Gallery 1839
We are very excited to announce that
the LPA are opening an online gallery selling your work directly to the public.
With web-sales of art skyrocketing, it’s definitely the right time to
offer online sales and the gallery will be another great benefit from the
LPA.
Gallery 1839 will be open by the end of February and will be
marketed to the consumer and commercial sectors selling contemporary
photographic prints. It’s inclusive – both LPA members and
non-members can take part. Gallery 1839’s mission is simply to sell your
art to a wider market!
LPA
Launches Gallery 1839
Pensions- are they worth
it?
This is a question that is being
asked more frequently as time goes on. The UK is allegedly heading toward a
pension crisis, so the need to save for the future is more pressing than ever.
But, with many people struggling to pay high mortgage and utility costs,
finding money for a pension may be simply too much.
Company
pensions
I don’t know if any of you saw the programme on
“Where’s My Pension Gone?” (ITV1, 25th January 21:00-22:00), but
it examined some interesting issues relating to company pensions. At least two
thirds of large companies (Sainsbury’s is one example, Thomas Cook
another) have now closed their final salary scheme. The money which these
companies are paying out is decreasing, and many people are now not bothering
with a pension at all.
Pensions- are they worth it?
Rate Rise Prompts
Remortgaging Rush
The Bank of England's decision to
increase the base rate to 5.25 per cent led to a sudden flurry of people
seeking fixed-rate mortgages yesterday (January 11th).
Landlord
Mortgages in Wokingham, Berkshire, revealed that the decision had barely been
announced when the phones started ringing, with homeowners desperate to obtain
favourable rates before lenders adjust their rate tables.
Lee Grandin,
managing director with Landlord Mortgages, told the Financial Times that it was
"all a bit mad".
Rate Rise Prompts Remortgaging
Rush
HSBC and Standard Life launch new
Sipp for SMEs
HSBC has teamed up with Standard
Life to launch a new self-invested personal pension (Sipp), aimed at small and
medium-sized businesses.
The product gives investors the benefits of a
Sipp, but does not require the same level of investment as the bank's existing
stakeholder pension.
The Sipp only requires a minimum £10,000
contribution, although the bank advises that it is ideally suited to customers
with a retirement fund worth at least £100,000.
HSBC and Standard Life launch new Sipp for
SMEs
Berkshire Property Unaffordable for
Many
House prices in Berkshire are rising so high that, for many
people, homeownership is simply out of the question.
The average
property in Reading now costs over £200,000 and in Windsor and
Maidenhead, that rises to £379,233, the BBC reports.
As a result,
many people are being priced out of the market and being forced to either
continue renting or to consider affordable housing, where they buy a percentage
of a property and pay a subsidised rent on the remainder of the value.
Berkshire Property Unaffordable for
Many
REPEAT: Spring-clean your
finances
Make 2007 the year to get it
right.
This past two weeks I’ve been talking about saving your
money, but what about a complete spring clean? This again involves looking at
all your finances and knocking any debts on the head.
Don’t get
caught up in debt!
You’re the one in control of your expenditure
so it’s your responsibility. Last year it was reported that a record
number of people (100,000) became insolvent with the figure set to increase
this year. So what can be done about it?
Take Control
There
are many factors as to why debt occurs. Here are a few of them:
REPEAT: Spring-clean your
finances
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Our New Year promotional offer is
aimed at marketing companies looking to add value to their existing portfolio
of clients. Clients who are looking for something a little different to try
during 2007.
Ideally, something that is proven to work!
LiaiseOnline Limited has been involved in online marketing for 7 years and so
we thought we’d add a little online marketing magic to our New Year
promotion!
Seven years creating email marketing campaigns, five
producing our online newsletter, Business in Berkshire, combined with three
years content management leads to one magical online marketing solution! (I
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able to include one super special "offer of the day" per month for their goods
or services, which will feature in one of our daily newsletters, giving the
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