Northwest Region Awards
EN Magazine North West Entrepreneur Awards 2010 – EN Magazine’s North West Entrepreneur of the Year Awards scheme, now in its ninth year, exists to honour the achievements of the region’s most tenacious and successful entrepreneurs – and to provide encouragement and a standard against which they can measure themselves to those who Read more…
Over 80 women from Bradford met at the Carlisle Business Centre last night to be inspired by EUK Ambassador Dr Mah Hussain-Gambles to start and grow their businesses. Dr Mah is the owner of SAAF cosmetics which produces a range of Halal approved and organic beauty products. The event was hosted by Bradford Grid and Read more…
The Virgin Media Pioneers Manchester Meet up accommodated some very cool people including Enterprise UK representatives and an exclusive network of ‘Virgin Media Pioneer’ entrepreneurs. The event was held at the very atmospheric Corner House Lounge and proved to be a relaxed way for the entrepreneurs to interact and inspire each other.
Not only did they Read more…
Last week I managed to bag myself a ticket to the media140 Third Sector event held at We Are Social in London. The event focused on how Social Media is and can be used in third sector organisations with talk and debate from leading advocates in the industry. Safe to say being a bit of Read more…
Back in the office having attended the Flying Start Rally event at Southbank University.
With over 250 people taking their seats in the auditorium, the event was hosted by the very funny and very talented marketing guru, Dan Sodergren.
“sucessful marketing is 10% an idea and 90% execution”
So after a whistlestop session on guerilla marketing with top Read more…
Steven and his team show how an afternoon of Entrepreneurs and Tapas can make you feel…happy!
If you’ve never been to Morpeth in Northumberland, I urge you to visit. It’s picturesque, charming and above all is home to some extremely dedicated and enterprising individuals.
Steven Peart runs the Morpeth branch of Northumberland Business Services Ltd and I’m guessing he Read more…
Our friends at NCGE Flyingstart are running an awesome event during GEW09.
With a line up confirmed to include David Lammy, James Caan, Caroline Marsh, Imran Hakim and hosted by MYM Ambassador, Dan Sodergren, this looks to be a real gem during an already action packed week.
So whether it’s a Dragon’s Den or a Secret Millionaire Read more…
Nominations for the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion 2010 have now opened. Lord Mandelson suggests that ‘recipients of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion (QAEP) are outstanding individuals who are inspiring tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and giving them the skills and attitudes they need to succeed’ and that ‘they hold the key to unlocking Britain’s entrepreneurial talents Read more…
I went to an interesting panel discussion last week hosted by Weber Shandwick. The title was ‘What’s so hard to reach about the hard-to-reach?’ It quickly became clear that the consensus was that groups were only hard to reach if companies and organisations didn’t make an effort to reach them, and that there were plenty Read more…
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Make Your Mark is currently in the process of developing a student alumni scheme for young people who have taken part in the fabulous MYM activities such as Make Your Mark Challenge, Make your Mark Club and Make Your mark with a Tenner.
This is going to be the chance to support Read more…
It’s very rare that I watch a programme which really inspires me but last night I was lucky enough to catch Mary Portas Queen of Charity Shops and it honestly left me buzzing. I’ve been thinking for a while that charity shops should be taking advantage of the recession and making it sexy to buy Read more…
Yesterday saw the finale of the Make Your Mark in the Markets competition and a few of us trotted along to find out more. We ended up in the very plush surrounding of a parliamentary reception and chatted to some of the finalists whilst sipping tasty juices and eating scrummy cakes.
It was then time Read more…
Last night saw the launch event of the eagerly anticipated MET Academy at Aston Villa Football Club – entitled Creating Young Stars.
Head of MET Academy Debbie West and her Academy Manager Seta Bassi had done a sterling job of putting together the event, which was attended by over 80 Enterprise partners, ambassadors and businesses Read more…
Recently we held more Ambassador training at our London premises. We saw media know-nothings turn into media extraordinaires with the Media and PR Training run by Media Trust. Also more of our ambassadors undertook the Advanced Public Speaking and Presentation Training with James and Al from SpeakersBank. Check out the previous blog about the training sessions Read more…
Week 4 – Top “Online Marketing” Tips from PureOnlineGenius.com
Most small businesses owners wear many hats. It’s not unusual for the entrepreneur to be in charge of sales, marketing, business development, operations, taking out the rubbish and filling up the water cooler!
Many rightly believe they don’t have the time it takes to do justice to their Read more…
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