I have started a part time internship at Enterprise UK. Apart from gaining invaluable experience, it has set me thinking…
If you’re anything like me you would have left university being very scared of starting your career. ‘So what are you going to do with your life!?’ asked by all family members, whilst ‘There are NO 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…
Hi all, my name is Phil Crowshaw and I am one of those weird folk, people call an Entrepreneur. I run a business called Experts Business Solutions (www.expertsbusinesssolutions.com) but I am probably best known as the founder of online business TV web site www.expertsonline.tv , which I started in 2004.
All sorts of stuff runs through your mind when Read more…
Check out Make Your Mark doing a live ideas mashup at their team meeting last week on youtube!
www.makeyourmark.org.uk/ideasmashup
My brother works for a head hunting firm – perfect to help out people with mock interviews etc and help prepare them for the world of work!! And he always asks me how he can get involved in work-related learning. Well I used to tell him to contact his local school, but now I’ve found Read more…
In 2009 WinWeb will celebrate it’s 15th anniversary by hosting a Business’09 Competition to win £10,000 or an equivalent currency value for small business owners or budding start up business entrepreneurs.
Make Your Mark are supporting this excellent initiative and recommend that you take a look Read more…
My last day of Enterprise Week (booo) was spent at Wolverhampon Molineux Stadium where I facilitated a group of students for the Wolverhampton EBP Business Challenge. The aim was to come up with a business idea that could potentially be franchised in the future. Out of the 9 schools that attended the group that won Read more…
Well it’s none stop here in Yorkshire and Humber region. After yesterday’s success with the Challenge we thought the students would be taking it easy… not likely!
Students from Challenge College in Bradford had a great day with the launch of the One Water Challenge. More than 200 students turned up to discuss ways in Read more…
I’ve been inspired by a wide variety of fantastic entrepreneurs at each event I’ve been to so far this week. From committed community based social entrepreneurs like Chrissey Townsend, founder of the Teviot Action Group, to energetic dynamic young entrepreneurs Sally Broom of YourSafePlanet and Nathaniel Peat of The Safety Box and , to brilliant innovators Read more…
Today I have been at Brew Tea Bar were teams of students from 5 schools across Merseyside have been taking part in the Brew Tea Challenge.
Make Your Mark Ambassador – Phil Kirby set Year 12 students from All Saints High School, Bebbington Sports College, Broadgreen International High School, Carmel College and Pensby High for Girls Read more…
OPPORTUNITY PRICELESS, FUN GUARANTEED
Teamworks Karting in partnership with Make Your Mark is holding a unique event where 30 ‘up and coming’ women entrepreneurs will spend a day as team members and mentees to one of five successful business women.
Mentors include:
GITA PATEL, FOUNDER STARGATE CAPITAL
SANDRA HARRISON, MD, REVIVAL STUDIOS,
DANIELA VARLEY, FOUNDING DIRECTOR, RECRE8NOW
If you Read more…
Year 10 students at Pensby High for girls were treated to a visit from Wirral MP Steven Hesford and Make Your Mark Ambassadors Clare Molyneux and Tim Coleman.
Steven, Clare and Tim were on hand throughout the morning to talk to the girls about enterprise, the Make Your Mark Challenge and how they can develop and Read more…
There is a major free business networking event at the Hilton Metropole Hotel on Monday 17th November from 6:30pm.
The organisers are holding it in support of Enterprise Week 2008 and are expecting around 1,000 businesses to attend. This event brings together many networks and business communities and offers the opportunity to meet other high calibre Read more…
The North West Women in Business Awards 2009 have been launched!
If you are a woman entrepreneur Making Your Mark in the North West you can enter by downloading an application form from www.nwda.co.uk/women.
The awards are an opportunity to celebrate, recognise and reward the entrepreneurial talent of women in the North West and to inspire others and Read more…
Winweb International have kindly offered to provide OnlineOffice for free for 9 months to any entrepreneurs that would benefit from using it during Enterprise Week 2008.
OnlineOffice is a complete Small Business Infrastructure for micro business, home business and contractors. It allows you to set up your website, online shop and blog to promote your business. Read more…
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