Expo..se Yourself to Curry Favour
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 [...]
My regular blog readers and Twitter followers will know that over the last couple of weeks or so I’ve been housebound as far as work is concerned because of the atrocious weather conditions which in themselves have been exacerbated by the combination of ungritted roads and sub-zero temperatures.
Subsequently I have now [...]
Boost for Bradford Businesses at Expo
The first major business event of 2010 in Bradford will be held at the Park Lane Centre on January 28 and its an event iNet inSights is supporting and exhibiting at.
The event will include a networking breakfast featuring an “ask the experts” Problem Platform, an exhibition, free information and advice sessions and several workshops and [...]
Does Your Business Image Scream ‘Small Company’?
If you’re a small business then you need to think carefully about how you portray yourself to others if you don’t want to be labeled “I’m a small amateur business”.
Definitely one to be avoided if you’re trying to build credibility amongst your clients and particularly if you’re targeting the larger business-to-business sector.
Hang Out with [...]
Which Social Networking Site Do You Use for Your Business?
Real-world business networking groups have been around for several years. The more traditional ones such as the Chambers of Commerce and Trade, the FSB and Rotary Clubs to name but a few; have traditionally dominated the scene here in the UK and were a lot more subtle in their approach to generating business for their [...]
Before Working with a Web Designer: Read this!
At a business networking event this week I got talking to a partner of a large firm of accountants who told me that his business was mid way through the process of having its website refreshed with a local team of web designers.
“How’s it going?” I casually asked, to which I was subjected to a [...]
The commercial laws of supply and demand essentially dictate that the more common a product or service, the cheaper it costs to buy. Conversely, the scarcer a commodity becomes, the more expensive it becomes to acquire.
This demand is often inflated or deflated by changes in fashion, ease and cost of production and dare I say [...]
Forget Your Email Address! What’s Your Twitter ID?
This lunchtime I found myself talking to two business owners over a very decent Indian buffet at a networking event in Bradford (the curry capital of Britain).
As we chatted away, munching on our Samosas and Tarka Dhall; the person I was talking to suggested that we meet-up away from the event to talk things through.
“So [...]
This Networking Malarkey is Kid’s Stuff! Not!
Thrust into a room full of enthusiastic teenagers was one of my more unnerving experiences this week. However I survived unscathed enough to Blog the tale.
This week I was invited by Young Enterprise in Bradford to attend a business networking event with a ‘difference’.
Young Enterprise is a Yorkshire and Humberside based charity that brings young [...]
Little Known Ways to Get Referrals for Your Networking Peers
How to encourage the members of your weekly or fortnighly networking group to recommend your business to others and vice versa.
Prepare the Way Forward
Before I start, here are some ground rules that each member of the group should adopt:
Get to know the businesses of your fellow group members through One-2-Ones or even by testing their [...]
