3rd December 2008 - Business in Berkshire News: www.businessinberkshire.co.uk/031208.html

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Top Stories Wednesday 3rd December 2008
 
 
   

Focusing on your passions in life could hold the key

Focusing on your passions in life could hold the keyDo you feel as if you never get everything done?

Does your to-do list keep growing even as you tick things off?

Does the doom and gloom on the news leave you feeling negative?

Focusing on your passions in life could hold the key to a brighter future!

Just a 20% focus on what is most important to you will bring about 80% fulfillment in your daily life, says Marina Duskov, Wokingham-based Personal Development Leader and certificated Passion Test facilitator. Passionate about supporting people's inner strength so that they can achieve more and feel better about themselves, Marina feels it's never been more important to focus on the positive.

Focusing on your passions in life could hold the key
   

Advice on managing the VAT sensibly for business

Advice on managing the VAT sensibly for businessSo will the pre-budget report VAT change affect our pockets and our businesses?

I have received a number of phone calls on this issue. I have watched as the media reporting that it will be costly for retailers and small businesses to change all of their prices on the shelf, on the web and on printed material by next Monday!

Advice on managing the VAT sensibly for business
   

In search of a competitive edge?

In search of a competitive edge?Given the economic turmoil, now's the time to have a competitive edge. Make sure you are using your data to develop an advantage over your competitors.

Do you know what information your competitors use? Have they ever caught you off guard? Perhaps they announced a new volume discount or compelling cross-sell offer.

Did they introduce a loss-leader used to gain business from your customers. Perhaps they made a bold attempt to steal your market share. But could it be that they have developed a competitive edge?

In search of a competitive edge?
   

Media Plant goes green with environmentally-friendly packaging

Media Plant goes green with environmentally-friendly packagingMedia Plant know that you're trying to reduce your carbon footprint, and we want to help. That's why we've formed partnerships with some of the most forward-thinking manufacturers in Europe to bring you the most environmentally-friendly media packaging on the market.

The world's first biodegradeable USB memory drive

Media Plant can now offer customers the world's first biodegradable USB memory drive! Make your company's green credentials clear by using the FD-300, a USB drive made from an advanced form of polylactide (PLA), which uses annually renewable plant resources as raw material. The result is a USB drive which can degrade right down to carbon dioxide and water at the point of landfill; in fact, it can compost 71% of its content within 108 days! The FD-300 is distinctively corn-shaped, making it stand out from standard USBs and proving your commitment to sustainable ecology. Available in 512MB, 1GB and 2GB, the FD-300 can be branded with your name and logo and is guaranteed for 12 months.

Media Plant goes green with environmentally-friendly packaging
   

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Business in Berkshire's Christmas in Berkshire space has been in the number 1 spot for the phrase Christmas promotion for the last 4 years!

If you are an organisation looking to make the most of your Christmas promotion then we would like to invite you to send us details and we will help you make the most of it for 2008.Call 01753 852904.

At the weekend, after a record month for new BinB micro sites, we were looking to generate 6 new micro sites at Wokingham Carnival to close the month on a momentous high. It didn't happen, the rain came down and the temperature dropped so people didn't want to hang around and chat, they needed to keep warm and so kept on moving down the road...

December is going to be the month where all our loose ends will be tidied up. Old members who have not been approached about renewing their space during 2008 will either opt to pay the £99 + VAT for their BinB micro site or be deleted and have to start their accounts from new in 2009. If we haven't called and you are wondering how you stand, call us on 01753 852904 for clarity.

When you consider how we have grown our Christmas in Berkshire micro site, we have simply been adding a few new articles each year around this time and the micro site has gone from strength to strength. In November we had over 1300 visitors, up 30% year on year, with over 500 people finding us through the search engines. That could be you and at a cost of £99 + VAT per year, equates to around 2p per visitor via the search engines or less than 1p per visitor overall!

And with the added benefits that Google alerts brings to the party then this means 2009 is set to be our best year ever and it could be yours too. If you don't need our help then we wish you luck. If you choose to become one of our new micro site owners then we bring not only our dominance with Internet marketing to the party but also our offline connectivity and are always happy to help a business partner move forward.

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On this day 3rd December

On this day 3rd DecemberBorn on this Day 1795 Rowland Hill, 1857 Joseph Conrad, 1895 Anna Freud, 1930 Andy Williams, 1944 Ralph McTell, 1945 Paul Nicholas, 1948 Ozzy Osbourne, 1952 Mel Smith, 1953 Franz Klammer, 1953 Eamonn Holmes, 1960 Daryl Hannah, 1979 Daniel Bedingfield, 1999 Charles Davey

On this day 3rd December
   

Working lunch - business lunch special offers

Working lunch - business lunch special offersNeed to have that meeting at lunchtime, need to eat, then The Green Olive has the answer.

The Green Olive have a great lunchtime offer of only £7.25 per head for 5 Meze dishes between 2 people.

Offer is available in Windsor, Henley and Chobham and is available from Lunchtime and can be ordered right up to 7pm.

Working lunch - business lunch special offers
   

Relief Chef Urgently Required in Wokingham

Relief Chef Urgently Required in WokinghamTemporary Relief Chef required for a busy café in Wokingham to cover the resident Breakfast Cook. Every other Sunday to start with the potential for additional days for the right applicant.

Covers between 100 - 150 breakfasts per shift. Experience essential & up to date hygiene certificate preferred. Hours from 8am until 2pm. Competitive hourly rate. Meals on duty provided. Full team on hand to waitress, serve and clear down...

Relief Chef Urgently Required in Wokingham
   

Leading change through uncertain times

Leading change through uncertain timesOne important theme that comes up regularly in my work with senior executives, especially in the current business climate, is that of successfully leading strategic change.

When Kurt Lewin wrote over 50 years ago, the management of change appeared to be a logical and systematic process. One had simply to be able to clearly articulate the desired future state, understand where the organization currently was with regard to that future ideal and put in place a project plan to manage the transition. The organizational architecture was unfrozen, reshaped and then refrozen.

Leading change through uncertain times
   

Executive lets in Wokingham

Executive lets in WokinghamSt Swithins Cottage has 5 executive rooms to let to YOU!

A beautiful Country House in nearby Hurst being only 1 mile from Twyford Railway Station & only some 2 miles from here is The Farm Cafe, ideal for your full breakfast enjoyment!

Executive lets in Wokingham
   

BUY Christmas gifts locally this year please

BUY Christmas gifts locally this year pleaseBusiness in Berkshire took part in Wokingham Carnival this weekend. We put together a top flyer and connected with 3 of our clients who had gifts that have that Christmas vibe.

Lorraine from Allergy Cooks has some great calendars for foodies looking for some healthy eating options. Annick McKenzie, a local artist based in Maidenhead has published 13 different colourful thank you cards for your post Christmas thank you notes. And Sally Amoore provided one of her wonderful bronze resins "No Closer" Mother Gorilla & Child.

BUY Christmas gifts locally this year please
   

Uplifting news from The GAME Group plc

Uplifting news from The GAME Group plcInterim Management Statement

The GAME Group plc ("GAME"), a leading European retailer of pc and video games products, today issues its Interim Management Statement as required by the UK Listing Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules. This relates to the period to 29 November 2008.

Uplifting news from The GAME Group plc
   

Creative Wokingham Art Exhibition

Creative Wokingham Art ExhibitionBerkshire abstract artist, Jayne Leighton Herd, will be exhibiting in the Creative Wokingham group exhibition at the Mall Gallery in Wokingham from 24 November to 12 December 2008.

This joint exhibition of work by artists from Wokingham Arts Forum and Twyford & Ruscombe Art Group is a celebration of the ongoing creativity in the Wokingham Borough.

Creative Wokingham Art Exhibition
   

Silver for Philip Lee Harvey

Silver for Philip Lee HarveyLand Rover contacted Philip with a commission to commemorate the brand's own 60th anniversary. When asked to suggest ideas which reflected 1948, the Magnum co-founder Rodger's journey into Africa immediately sprung to mind. "I suppose there's an aspect of school-boy adventure to it all," says Philip, "and Rodger is a photographer I've known about since I was a boy. He lived in the area where I grew up, and I was always aware of that, even though he was a very quiet man."

Silver for Philip Lee Harvey
   

Juan Martin Blood Wedding review

Juan Martin Blood Wedding reviewJuan is currently playing in Blood Wedding at the Playhouse in Liverpool. Alfred Hickling glowing review in the Guardian makes for excellent reading and if you're in or around Liverpool you should get yourself along tonight or tomorrow, show ends its run 29th November 2008, call 0151 709 4776 or online here...

Juan Martin Blood Wedding review
   

Vote for Joe - I'm a celebrity phone numbers

Vote for Joe - I'm a celebrity phone numbersGood honest Joe

I wrote in my last review of the antics on 'I'm a Celebrity....' how much I admired Joe for standing up against the bullies; well he's been at it again!

This time he really blasted Nicola and her 'gang' for not giving Timmy & David a 'fair crack of the whip'. Even Brian Paddick seems to have taken notice this time and with his powers of diplomacy negotiated the peace talks!

Vote for Joe - I'm a celebrity phone numbers
   

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Adding a news story to your Micro Site

Promotional Micro Sites from only £1200 + VatDo you want people to find your web pages when they search for an answer to their current problem? Then you need to publish the thing that is preventing them moving forward, and the web page that answers their question, so that they can be indexed by the spiders.

The fastest way to get your pages indexed, with the answers for all those people out there that need your product or service, is to publish them on a Business in Berkshire Micro Site. The content is generally indexed in minutes of publication and ready to be found by those in pain!

How do you do that easily? By adding a new news story to your BinB micro site. Please look at the image below and follow these steps.

Adding a news story to your Micro Site
   

Managing Your Content Management System

We have produced 4 video's that give you a short introduction into the key areas of the website CMS. Please download and review as required. They have been made in house, enjoy!

If you need a higher resolution version for perfect viewing then please let us know and we'll send you a CD.

Managing Your Content Management System
   

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