Well, we are all aware of the havoc that has been caused by the snow and ice over the last couple of weeks but here in Yorkshire we thought it was the perfect opportunity to look to the positive – yes there is one… home working!
Many of our ambassadors are successful home workers. Nadine Hill Read more…
Enterprise UK Ambassador Nadine Hill – Founder of The Dream PA was interviewed on the Supermummy Radio Show on Wednesday. Mel and Nadine chat about Nadine’s book The VA Handbook, the growth of the VA industry, Nadine’s latest project and of course GEW!
If you’d like to listen to her interview please click on this link.
Today marks the 4th day of GEW, and I thought I’d drop a quick blog to tell you all about some of the great events I’ve been to since the GEW launch event on Monday.
On Tuesday I headed to Westminster, for an event called People, Planet, Profit, ran by Talent2Trade. This event included brilliant workshops Read more…
We live in the age of information. You can find advice on love, personal finance, business, cooking, parenting, health, travel and style but what about on creating your future?
Time management is one of the key disciplines anyone needs to have to get where they want, but it’s always been a subject with a slightly boring Read more…
At the weekend I was asked to participate at The Enterprise Show, Leeds, which was an event hosted by Business Link as a ‘one stop shop’ for people with a business idea, to attend and get all the information they need to get their business off the ground.
As a Make Your Mark Ambassador, I’m often Read more…
I am a Make Your Mark Ambassador and I was invited to speak to the fashion students yesterday at the Leeds College of Art!
Being a women in business, I am often called upon to deliver talks to schools when they have an Enterprise programme or to take part in a Business Studies class. The fashion Read more…
Today I read an article that advised me that I should regularly monitor my competition to see what they are up to, to work out their sales strategy and showing me a few ‘back door’ ways to keep tabs on what my competitors are doing online.
I put down the article and said to myself “Absolute Read more…
Trust.
A word with only 5 letters and yet it is such a BIG word.
We are all living in a time where trust is one of the most important elements of human interaction. Let’s face it – do you trust the banks any more, or big corporations? I remember growing up in an era where my Read more…
Waking up to snow on Monday I was both excited (hey it’s not every day we get to play in 8 inches of snow) and disappointed because I didn’t want it to dampen enthusiasm for Make Your Mark with a Tenner – our fab new enterprise initiative.
So I decided to combine the two (snow + Read more…
In reflection of these belt-tightening times, there has been a definite mindset shift in all of us about how we choose to spend our money. Saving is the new spending – there is now no shame in brandishing 2-for-1 meal vouchers in restaurants and being chic on the cheap is the way forward for frugal fashionistas.
But has Read more…
Hey – it’s snowing and let’s face it, it doesn’t happen often to this scale in the UK (well, not since I was a kid in the late 70’s and 80’s!) So as my children are home with me today with school being closed, we had to do a mercy dash to the shops and Read more…
A 6 year old’s view on enterprise!
Today whilst collecting my 6 year old daughter from school, I thought about this question and whether the most enterprising ideas come from a ‘Eureka’ moment or gritted teeth?
To fill you in, I’m up in beautiful Yorkshire – well it usually is beautiful but today it’s raining and snowing! This was the reason for Read more…
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