Jai­mie Dob­son at Busi­ness Net­work­ing Group proNet

Last Thursday was a busy day of net­work­ing and present­ing as I made an exhib­i­tion of myself at the GRID* Enter­prise Expo in Bradford.

The day star­ted off in the dark at 7 am with a busy busi­ness net­work­ing break­fast cour­tesy of proNet which was imme­di­ately fol­lowed in the same build­ing by a small busi­ness Expo organ­ised by those folks at the Brad­ford Grid* Park Lane.

Des­pite early pre-match nerves regard­ing low advanced book­ings, minds were set at rest on the day as num­bers through the doors proved to be plen­ti­ful and steady.

Jai­mie Dob­son of iNet inSights

iNet shared exhib­it­ing floor space with sup­port agen­cies such as Brad­ford Kick­start, Busi­ness Link and ser­vice pro­viders ran­ging from HSBC, a couple of mar­ket­ing com­pan­ies, an IT pro­vider, an account­ant and a HR con­sultancy to name but a few.

Wide Range of Interests

Interest from those that came to say hello ranged from a health coun­selor who wanted to know about the the ins and outs of blog­ging, through to a web designer start-up want­ing advice on the logist­ics of run­ning a web design busi­ness and a private health­care pro­vider want­ing to get to grips with LinkedIn.

Mid-way through the event I con­trib­uted one of the mini bite-size sem­inars that were being run through­out the day by talk­ing to a packed room of small busi­ness own­ers about the ways in which they can pro­mote their web­site for free. This present­a­tion may be viewed again on our slide­share account.

Pleas­antly Surprised

Tra­di­tion­ally I’m not a great lover of exhib­i­tions (both as an exhib­itor or as an attendee) — how­ever, this one proved to be a good one as not only did we run a busy stand but we picked up a few enquir­ies as well.

Lovely jub­bly!

Cur­ry­ing Favour

Being in Brad­ford, the curry cap­ital of Bri­tain in my book; exhib­it­ors and attendees were treated to a scrump­tious curry buf­fet meal at lunch­time. None of this pre-made, polit­ic­ally cor­rect man­u­fac­tured rub­bish either, the real McCoy with a bit of a kick to it. (You can tell I’m a curry fan).

What else would you expect in Bradford!

What a way to curry favour with local busi­nesses? Great net­work­ing, a great mini-Expo and a great lunch.

Thanks to every­one at the Grid* for their hard work in pulling it all together.

Pho­tos

The above pic­tures were taken by John Steel Pho­to­graphy. You can view more of John’s pic­tures of the proNet net­work­ing event here and of the Expo day here.

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