Good
morning <Name>
While preparing this newsletter, I got a call from Richard, the
chap who stood in for me yesterday. Anyway, he got a call from someone he
hadn't heard from for 15 years. They've arranged to meet up and who knows where
it might lead. Who needs friends reunited when they've got
BinB!
Bringing people together is what networks are all about. People
deal with people, they like to get to know them before they consider the
business side of things.
Dave tells me they have around 30 for this
Friday's NRG lunch. What they have failed to mention in
their blurb is that both
Christine and
Hannah will be doing a double act. Hannah will give a 5
minute presentation during lunch on our
Innovation Showcase and Christine will balance this with a
5 minute presentation on
Women in Business in preparation for our
Networking month in March.
How are you fixed for the
1st March, friends of mine at Yomp need some
business experts to help mould the workforce of
tomorrow!
Enjoy!
Jon Davey
01753 852904
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Business
Matters
Business Matters is a new business club founded
by the Rt Hon John Redwood, Member of Parliament for Wokingham and set up in
cooperation with Wokingham Chamber of Commerce.
The purpose of the club
is to:
Provide a friendly forum for business people in the area to meet
each other, to pick up business leads and opportunities
Allow business
people to exchange their experiences of business success and business problems
Expose business people to experts who might help with aspects of their
business
Business Matters
Business experts
required to help mould the workforce of tomorrow
Whether your business background is 20 years of
international trading or 20 months of start-up trickery, your knowledge and
experience could make a world of difference to students about to enter the
world of work. We would therefore like to invite you to join us at YTN07 to
inspire and be inspired by some of the regions most enterprising students.
Business experts required to help mould the workforce of
tomorrow
Recognising Customers in Innovative
Ways
Looking for an innovative way to recognise and
reward your customers? Newbury-based Recognition Express could well have the
answer. The firm offer a fascinating range of promotional products and business
gifts including pens, awards, badges, document holders. They can also be
counted on to provide something extra – as this story shows.
MD
Tony Quinn – known as Quinney – explains: ‘We recently produced
a thousand branded USB Flashdrives for one of our clients. They were to be used
as promotional giveaways at a product launch they were presenting to their top
customers.’ A fairly typical request – the type of project
Recognition Express handle all the time – but in this case, the firm came
up with an innovative twist. ‘The client asked us if there was something
extra we could provide that would really make an impact on their customers, so
we hit upon the idea of supplying the USBs pre-staged with a promotional
presentation.’
Recognising Customers in Innovative
Ways
Protect Your
Creativity
Intellectual Property
Thursday, 1st March,
6pm to 9pm
Seventh in a Series of FREE Monthly Workshops
Open
to artists in the creative industries sector residing in Berkshire looking to
significantly increase their income.
So, whether your creative area is
innovative working with technology, film, new media, design/visual arts or
performing arts if you want to grow your business come and find out how we can
help.
To register for your FREE place – contact Bobbi Johal,
Community Business Advisor, Enterprise Link, Slough Borough Council on 01753
476614
Protect Your Creativity
South East FSB
Procurement Survey
Windsor & Maidenhead Council 4th in the list of Best
councils in South East in FSB Procurement Survey.
Royal Borough of
Windsor & Maidenhead Council has been listed 4th in a survey by the
Federation of Small Businesses. The FSB recently published the results of a
study, which shows that local authorities in the South East are making good
progress in improving their procurement practices and processes, to encourage
small businesses to bid for public sector contracts. This study has identified
Windsor & Maidenhead Council is the 4th “Most Small Business
Friendly” in the field of public procurement in the whole of the South
East of England.
The “Local Authority Procurement Report”
published last week, is based on responses from 52 of the 74 local authorities
in the South East (a response rate of 70 per cent).
South East FSB Procurement Survey
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Successful Women - Who Inspires You?
As a successful woman in business, who has been
your inspiration? Perhaps it has been Anita Roddick with BodyShop, or Glenda
Stone with Aurora?
Why not join other successful women and the Success
Network in their second year of celebrating International Women's Day in March.
This will be a unique workshop & networking experience. They are
celebrating successful women in business on the evening of Wednesday 7 March
with their workshop entitled ‘Successful Women – Who inspires
you?'
This will be a great opportunity to learn from successful women
who are at the top of their field.
Be inspired by speaker Nina Sian,
winner of the Prowess Award for Business Support Professional of the Year 2006!
Successful Women - Who Inspires
You?
How Clean is the Air
Indoors?
In recent years there’s been a
growing body of scientific evidence suggesting the air inside our homes can
actually be just as polluted as the outdoor air in a large industrial town.
With studies showing that people spend around 90% of their time indoors,
it’s never been more important to minimise the risk of air pollution
exposure – indoors rather than outdoors.
Old back-to-back houses
of the early 1900s were often regarded as unhygienic and potential death traps.
But there are growing concerns that we may have simply swapped one set of
health hazards for another. Today’s sophisticated homes, with their high
levels of insulation, triple-glazing, and draught excluders mean many of us
could be breathing in stale air.
How Clean is the Air Indoors?
Green Tea Easter
Eggs – Healthy Easter Gift Idea
China’s Secret Teas have come up with an unusual Easter
gift. Instead of the traditional chocolate Easter eggs, or easter baskets
crammed with sweets, they’ve introduced some hand-crafted Easter eggs made
from green tea, a healthy sugar-free alternative Easter gift with a difference.
Even though some traditional Easter gifts, such as bonnets or flowers,
are inedible, most Easter gifts and basket fillers are edible and sweet. Why
would anyone put green tea (even when hand-crafted to look like a chocolate
Easter egg) in an Easter basket or give it to someone as an Easter gift?
Green Tea Easter Eggs – Healthy Easter Gift
Idea
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LiaiseOnline Limited has been involved in online marketing for 7 years and so
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