25th February 2009 - Business in Berkshire News: www.businessinberkshire.co.uk/250209.html

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NRG Networks BLG Lunch Box

NRG Networks BLG Lunch BoxNRG Networks have teamed up with one of our longest serving partners, LiaiseOnline, to bring you some amazing added value for NRG Members.

The BLG Lunch Box gives you online business lead generation while you eat!

Involved in the Internet since 1999, LiaiseOnline launched BusinessinBerkshire.co.uk on the 20th February 2002. The site has gone from strength to strength, providing a very powerful platform for businesses to launch their latest news to the world.

NRG Networks BLG Lunch Box

   

Berkshire JAM - The Art of Presenting

Berkshire JAM - The Art of PresentingNever before has it been so important to present your business in the best possible way. People do business with people, and the ones who come across the best get the business. Berkshire Jam is delighted to present Geoff Motley, television presenter and coach to The One Show and GMTV. Get some useful tips which will help with your confidence and presentation skills. Geoff in harmony with Hanif Khan, owner of Video Shoot Productions and a Sky News cameraman, will give you an insight into "The Art of Presenting". This event will be a gift for you - so reward yourself with the opportunity for a real treat and huge business learning curve.

Berkshire JAM - The Art of Presenting

   

Sell your self! Online sales from Jazzmouse

Sell your self! Online sales from JazzmouseWith revenue streams diminishing for many of us it is refreshing to discover a system that enables those of us in the creative arts to sell what we do easily and from the comfort of our own home or offices.

Jazzmouse, in conjunction with our e-marketing solution partners LiaiseOnline, can now offer a one-stop solution for your online sales requirements.

We are offering the opportunity for you to sell either digital (download material audio, photographs , printed music or artwork) or physical media (DVD, CD, Art, sculpture or anything) either via your own web site or via your own micro site.

Sell your self! Online sales from Jazzmouse

   

Strategic Development: delivering superior returns

Strategic Development: delivering superior returnsWe have been asked to speak to three companies in three weeks on the subject of strategic development. It may be too early to describe this as a trend, but we do find it both interesting and instructive.

All three organisations stated in their various ways that they have in the past taken a rather shotgun approach to investing in learning and growth, and that, given the current challenging economic climate, they could no longer justify this haphazard spend.

Strategic Development: delivering superior returns

   

Good morning <07 Name>

Last week it was our 7th birthday! Business in Berkshire was born on 20th February 2002, deploying a content management system in 2005 and achieving over 1,000,000 visitors in 2008.

Since August 2005 we have created 1134 micro sites. Many businesses change direction, don't get the Internet, struggle with content management systems, forget to pay their bills or simply don't appreciate the value of our service, this means 647 remain and an increasing number of our micro site owners are looking for a white label solution, one that reflects their brand.

These websites are being created under Business Lead Generation Promotional Micro Sites, an incredibly powerful solution to business lead generation. Please call 01753 852904 and we will contact you to discuss your online marketing needs within 48 hours.

Over the next month you will notice many of the older sites take on a Business Lead Generation format as we turn "sleeping" accounts into this style to promote our service. If you know that your micro site was up for renewal, you need to pay us online ASAP before we convert it to the new lead brand.

This month I have been exposing myself to a spot of training, listening to wise old business wizards who have the scars and trophies to demonstrate their real life experience and qualifications for preaching to others. This has underlined our need to prioritise and that leads us to focus our energy on those who value our services and this is demonstrated by their willingness to pay for our consultancy.

For years we have been happy to provide free consultancy to anyone who has asked and many have taken our knowledge and looked for cheaper service providers. This proves to be terribly irritating and not very profitable! Today we have 10 years of real life exposure to online marketing under our belts. If you would like some advice and guidance then you need to be part of our gang by purchasing a BinB micro site at the very least, so that we can continue to invest in this service.

We're also turning up the volume. Our focus is now on those who have budgets of £5k or more to spend on building their business. If you know companies that are looking for help with their online marketing and business lead generation then please introduce them, we'll pay you a handsome fee for the right introductions

We are working with business partners like NRG, Jazzmouse, Hanif, Mary Flavelle to name but 4 who have branded micro sites that they offer for resale to their own networks. We're in talks with some other networks and we'll obviously keep you posted as those who "get it" join our party and we help build their respective businesses.

If you have some ideas around this, let's talk. 01753 852904.

   

The Art of Presenting

The Art of PresentingPicture: A day at the office for Hanif!

These days making an impact is vital in such a competitive market place. Businesses need to get their messages across and one of the best ways is video, whether on TV, on the PC or on a large conference plasma screen.

Hanif Khan of Video Shoot Productions has teamed up with broadcaster, presenter and media trainer Geoff Motley to offer a bespoke service making video presenting more effective than many think is possible.

The Art of Presenting

   

Floor cleaning - How safe is your kitchen floor?

Floor cleaning - How safe is your kitchen floor?Kitchens can be dangerous places to work. Quarry floors are chosen as the optimal material for industrial kitchen floors for a number of reasons: their porous nature delivers cushioning and enables employees to work more comfortably. However, it's exactly this porosity which can make granite floors so dangerous. Every spill and splash works its way into the minute spaces within the granite, locking in grease and creating a slick surface. Even steam can carry oil and grease into the structure of granite floor tiles.

Floor cleaning - How safe is your kitchen floor?

   

ADCCT annual Heaven Sent Ball

ADCCT annual Heaven Sent Ball15th May 2009: ADCCT annual Heaven Sent Ball

ADCCT supporters are looking forward to the Trust's annual black-tie fundraising ball, which will be held on 15th May 2009 at the Oakley Court Hotel in Windsor. Now in its third year, the event has raised £20,000 and £25,000 in previous years. How much will the Heaven Sent ball raise in 2009 in support of a local children's hospice in Berkshire?

ADCCT annual Heaven Sent Ball

   

Archiving and Off-site Storage

Archiving and Off-site StorageOur Space is your Space . . .
With the ever increasing cost of premises, more and more businesses are looking for ways to store off-site. We provide tailored solutions for all kinds of documents for a wide range of companies.

Whether your priority is reliability, confidentiality or a fast collection/delivery service, we've got it covered.

Pallet Storage
Our pallet storage service enables you to free up valuable office space by removing boxes from your premises which rarely need accessing and archiving them cost-effectively on our pallets.

Archiving and Off-site Storage

   

Release the Talent of Everyone in your Business

Release the Talent of Everyone in your BusinessDo you need to get more from less? Have you recognised that, in order to achieve more with less resource, you need to tap into the leadership capability of every single individual in your organisation?

You recruit your team based on talent and strengths (as well as experience, skill and attitude), but what are you doing with your talent once they have joined the business?

Release the Talent of Everyone in your Business

   

No Pay Rise this Year? some low/no cost Employee Benefits

No Pay Rise this Year? some low/no cost Employee BenefitsIn the current challenging economic climate many businesses may be unable to award their staff a pay rise or bonus this year; hopefully most employees will realise that this is a result of the credit crunch and not their employer taking advantage of the recession.

With fewer jobs on offer employees will be less likely to 'chuck in' their job than in more buoyant times; but unless they feel that they are appreciated as soon as the economy picks up they may well leave, just when your company really needs them.

No Pay Rise this Year? some low/no cost Employee Benefits

   

Just what are Swap and LIBOR Rates?

Just what are Swap and LIBOR Rates?Just what are Swap and LIBOR Rates?

Hi all, I've had a few queries about the markets, as lots of customers are coming in wondering why mortgage rates and fees are still high despite the drop in Bank Rate to 2%.

Well firstly, rates have thankfully dropped a lot this last month following the Bank rate cut, and the best buys show that we are now getting sub 4% trackers and fixed rates filtering through. However, the lowest rates continue to be subsidised with high arrangement fees, and you will have to keep doing the maths to work out what arrangement would suit best over the few years they intend to keep the mortgage.

We do tend to band about the terms LIBOR and swap rates, but you may not know the difference between the two, and most importantly, how they affect the new mortgage rates for your clients.

Just what are Swap and LIBOR Rates?

   

Generating significant revenues for business

Generating significant revenues for businessOur Business in Berkshire website www.absolutehss.co.uk has proved one of the best and most valuable tools that we have invested in. (Joined August 2005).

It allows us the freedom to generate useful industry related news items, which are then picked up locally by our client database and other local and national businesses.

Since 1st January 2009 our website with Business in Berkshire has generated not only a high level of traffic our way, but new clients totalling £61,000 in revenue for the first two months of 2009 and with a guarantee for repeat business in the next 2 years - that's in less than six weeks.

Generating significant revenues for business

   

Peanut allergy hope of cure

Peanut allergy hope of curePeanut allergies are becoming more frequent affecting more than 2% of British schoolchildren with reactions being extremely severe or life threatening in some cases. There is now hope that such allergies could be 'cured' by a process of desensitisation.

A team from Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital exposed four children to peanuts over a six-month period, gradually building up their tolerance. Such trials have been attempted before but this time the children were fed with peanut flour in increasing doses and at the end of the period the children were able to tolerate up to 12 nuts a day without suffering any reaction...

Peanut allergy hope of cure

   

On this day 25th February

On this day 25th FebruaryBorn on this Day 1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1901 Zeppo Marx, 1943 George Harrison, 1937 Sir Tom Courtney, 1938 Herb Elliott, 1941 Lord (David) Puttnam, 1945 Elkie Brooks, 1964 Lee Evans, 1967 Nick Leeson

On this day 25th February

   

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Promotional Micro Sites from only £1200 + Vat

Promotional Micro Sites from only £1200 + VatA LiaiseOnline promotional micro site offers businesses increased web visibility and a year of dedicated email marketing for a one-off cost of £1200.

What you will get:

- a micro site built under your own relevant domain name which will give you greater visibility on Google searches, driving more customers to your door. The site will be built for you by the expert internet marketing team at LiaiseOnline

- 1200 words of copy written in consultation with you by a professional copywriter

Our copywriter will liaise with you in order to write five relevant, SEO-rich articles which will then be sent out in our regular newsletters to our database of thousands of readers. The stories will also be turned into attractive PDFs by our professional design and type-set team, for you to use as promotional marketing collateral...

Promotional Micro Sites from only £1200 + Vat

   

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

   

Thanks for reading today's News

Jon DaveyHave you considered promoting your news and events via Business in Berkshire?

June 2008 saw over 120,000 visitors to more than 500,000 pages on Business in Berkshire and partner websites.

Enjoy today's news...

Jon Davey

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