Seminars
If you're starting a business or looking to get advice from the UK's finest business experts, Business Startup is the place to be. Get your free tickets now!
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Sir Tom Shebbeare
Helping Young People Into Business
Don’t miss the chance to hear first-hand about how Virgin StartUp want to help you establish your own business
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David Gold
Q & A with David Gold
David will host a Q and A session outlining his rags to riches tale and how he succeeded in business after...
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Doug Richard
Growing your Small Business
Former BBC Dragon and serial entrepreneur Doug Richard will take you through his key steps to startup success
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Brad Burton
Life. Business. Just got easier.
The UK’s #1 Motivational Business Speaker is back.
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Erik D. Lazar
Key Business Law Issues in Global Expansion
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Rachelle Headland
Marketing for Start Ups
Managing Director at Saatchi & Saatchi X
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Felicity McCarthy
Facebook's Head of SMB Marketing Communications
Using Facebook to drive sales for your growing business
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Simon Booth
From my lounge to global dominance in 10 years
Kiddimoto have gone from strength to strength in a competitive global market
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Rob Halliday-Stein
How I built BullionByPost into a £100m business in four years.
BullionByPost has grown rapidly to become the UK’s no.1 online bullion dealer.
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Dara Nasr
Head of Agency Sales, Twitter UK
Twitter and your business
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Lara Morgan
BUILD ON YOUR DISCIPLINES OF SALES GROWTH ACCELERATION
Lara Morgan is most widely known for building her own international business
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Lucy Tarleton
London Stock Exchange Director
Aim for Growth
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Andy Eustace
Your Network Matters! Using LinkedIn to drive your business
There is a lot of excitement around Social Media for Sales and Marketing at the moment
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Caprice
My story in business
In 2006 Caprice invested her own money to start up By Caprice Lingerie
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Graham Corfield
Developing and growing your business with technology
MD of JUST EAT UK
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Martyn Dawes
Lessons in how to start, build and sell a high growth business
Martyn Dawes founded Coffee Nation in 1996 and sold it for £23m in 2008.
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Jason Oakley, Managing Director of Commercial Banking
Banking for entrepreneurs
Metro Bank, the newest high street bank in more than 100 years, launched in July 2010 with a focus on providing...
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Clippy McKenna
My Eight Pieces of advice – from farmers market to supermarket.
Clippy is an everyday Mum who accidentally became a kitchen table entrepreneur
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Eamon FitzGerald
Social Media vs Social Business
Eamon FitzGerald is COO at Naked Wines
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Clive Rich
Is British business – top or bottom of the Negotiating League? The £500billion pound a year opportunity for your business
The £10bn negotiator explains why give-to-get beats dog-eat-dog
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Ben Hunt-Davis
Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?
Through a highly engaging Olympic story Ben will show why it is critically important to
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Craig Parrington
Fund your Business with your Pension
With todays economic climate business are finding it extremely challenging to raise capital
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Richard Cross
Retail and You!
If you are running a retail business, and want to know that you are not alone
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James Hardy
How to take your business global with Alibaba.com
Have you ever thought about taking your business global?
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Warren Knight
Grow your Business with Social media and Online Marketing
You will learn about the 4 core areas for online success and building online relationships
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Guy Jeremiah
Bottling up Success
British-made, innovative drinks bottle defied predictions of the BBC’s “Dragon’s Den”
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Shweta Jhajharia
Business Re:think – Strategies to grow Cash, Profit and Sales
Shweta will help you to identify red flags and green signals that can make or break your business
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Paul Dunn
The POWER of small
Small. Nimble. Quick. Able to work miracles. Focussed.
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Kimberly Davis
How to stop wasting and start making money on your marketing
Don’t waste another penny on marketing again!
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Katie Alcott
Water for Water: A social enterprise that saves lives
Founder of FRANK Water
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Dwain Reid
Get the most out of networking events every time
“Your network is your net worth” but how do you build a powerful network if you are too shy to network?...
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Bas Gevaert
PayPal Heretm - Enabling businesses to take card payments anywhere
PayPal Heretm, the highly anticipated Chip and PIN solution for small and medium-sized businesses
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Mark Slattery
The 10 things you need to know when you have employees
An introduction to everything you need to have in place and how to prevent the possible pitfalls.
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Russell Hall
From bright idea to booming business: how to make success happen
From bright idea to booming business: how to make success happen
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Bill Morrow
Funding – what are the options
Serial entrepreneur, Bill Morrow, has been creating, building and selling businesses for the last 25 years
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Nicola Cook
4 strategies to accelerate your business growth
Successful businesses know how to accelerate growth
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Jonathan Dowden
Start your Business in a Weekend
Jonathan will share the common mistakes and how you can avoid them.
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Clive Lewis
Alternatives to Bank Finance
Banks are lending less money to business.
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Shaa Wasmund
Stop Talking, Start Doing: from NOW to £5m
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Caspar Dean
Simple Steps to Digital Success
Marketing your fledgling business online can be a daunting prospect.
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Jessica Huie
Why PR is essential for your business
Jessica Huie explains why PR is essential for every business and how it can be leveraged to increase sales.
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Craig Potter
Apprenticeships – a smart business decision; featuring the Lloyd’s Apprenticeship journey
Lloyd’s, as well as other large and SME employers, are increasingly looking at Apprenticeships for their new talent and future leaders.
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Chris Smith
Create, Innovate & Protect - Intellectual Property explained
The seminar will cover the four main areas of intellectual property
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James Nicholson
How to rank your site on Google in 2014 and beyond
In this seminar, James Nicholson will discuss the latest ways of ranking your website in 2014
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Jonathan Pfahl
How to drive sales to your business and get access to funding
In this exciting seminar, MD of Rockstar Mentoring, Jonathan Pfahl will be showing through real life and recent examples how Start...
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Xenios Thrasyvoulou
How to lighten your entrepreneurial load
Starting a business is exhausting and stressful. Building a product, assembling a team and getting customers are just a few of...
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Mark Linton
Stop being a busy fool whilst networking – get results!
Mark Linton is showing business owners how to get the best out of networking without being a busy fool.
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Mark Slattery
Employment Contracts: Protect your Business
An explanation into what should go into employment contracts and what you can put in to give you extra protection.
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Clwyd Probert
How To Grow Your Business By Building Your Online Reputation
You will learn how to generate a 10% increase in revenue for your business by careful use of reviews and testimonials.
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Zameer Nazarali
The Rules of Engagement – in Employment Law!
Businesses can get lost in the worlds of Employment law & HR
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Terry Cooper
OK, So What Stops you Selling?
This energetic seminar will help you to understand the sales process better and encourage you to sell more.
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Peter Darbyshire
Actionable insights – turning clicks into customers
Peter will show how some real-time cleverness will have you hitting prospects when they’re hot.
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Andrew Pinnell
Your Responsibilities in Running a Limited Company
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Gareth Davies
Your Responsibilities in Running a Limited Company
The seminar will explain how to incorporate a limited company,
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Paul Hughes
Your Responsibilities in Running a Limited Company
The seminar will explain how to incorporate a limited company
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Derek Joseph
Taking the mystery out of Small Business Funding
Can’t get bank funding for your new business?
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Aisha Ejaz
Take the Mystery Out of Business Finance
Are you seeking finance? Have you approached financiers and been turned away?
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Sumit Agarwal
Discover how to manage books efficiently and smartly
This seminar will open eyes to efficient way of managing books and accounts
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Mindy Gibbins-Klein
A Glimpse Between the Covers: What it Takes to Write Your Best Book
Most business owners could dramatically increase their credibility and their income with a great book.
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Terry Doherty
Hybrid Cloud solutions for SME’s – Helping your staffs productivity and your businesses bottom line.
Cloud can mean different things to different people, but what does it mean to the SME market?
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Matt Perkins
Organise your finances before your first sale
The earlier your admin is organised in your business, the easier it is.
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Emily Coltman
Organise your finances before your first sale
At FreeAgent we talk about getting your books organised before your business even starts
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Steve Dean
Learn how ISO Certifications can ease pressure and help your new business achieve success.
This session offers a practical solution for tackling competitive markets and enhancing customer confidence.
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Robert van Amen
Winning loyalty schemes: what makes them tick?
Keeping customers is critical to business success
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Stef Thomas
Business Networking for Dummies
Ever wondered how to really make networking work for you? From desperation Stefan HAD to make networking work and, in this...
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Donna Obstfeld
Employing staff, getting it right and getting it wrong!
Employing staff can be challenging, get it right and you have an advocate who will help your business succeed, get...
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Simon Letchet
The Simple and Easy Steps to Equity-Based CrowdFunding
Crowdfunding is the new and exciting way to fund your business, your idea, your project.
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Professor Roy Seaman
How to Successfully Franchise Your Business
Attendees will benefit from experience gained since 1981
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Joe Davis (FREC)
Start Your Own Recruitment Agency- Keep 100% Profit
JOIN THE DIGITAL AGE RECRUITMENT REVOLUTION
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Stuart J. West
Using United States Provisional Patent Applications to Leverage Your Business and Intellectual Property Positions
We will discuss potential ways to use the US provisional patent application process to minimize cost while maximizing patent protection.
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Roderick Beer
Get your business funded
How you can attract that all-important wealthy backer?
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Ryan Philpott
Branding and Emotional Engagement
Pendo Deals have received wide attention for their left-field marketing approach and effective and amusing brand strategy.
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Tom Jepson
A Practical Guide to Google Organic Search Success
Tom Jepson, head of SEO at Digital Marketing Agency High Position, will take you through the practical steps of setting out...
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Matthew Armitage
The benefits of operating your business from the Cloud
This seminar will look at how you can run your entire business successfully in the Cloud using managed hosted services.
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Andrew Firth
Going Local: Getting Ahead on Google+ Local
A well optimised Google+ Local page increases the visibility of your business and best of all it only costs you your...
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Nick Williams
Find the right Franchise for you
Deciding to run your own business has now become much easier having the “Franchise Option
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David Green, Managing Partner, MTA Solicitors LLP
Protect Your Business from the Outset: Top 10 Legal Tips you can’t do without
This seminar will ensure you cover all the essential legal bases for your business
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John Gladman
Business Intelligence – BI or is it just BS?
John will showcase Sage BI in the Accounting software world
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Charlie Wade
Better ways of working
Are all these life-changing new technologies actually just adding complexity?
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Will Strange
How to Create a Successful Business Strategy
We explain how to avoid the most common mistakes that SMEs and start ups make
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Martin Kemp
5 Top Tips For Start-Up Companies On Maximising Custom From Shopping Centres Without The Cost
Starting a business can be daunting
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Catherine Batley
Cloud Back-up and Recovery – The Essentials
Understanding the misty world of the cloud can be difficult for anyone.
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Gordon D’Silva
How to Grow Sales, Profits and Cash Predictably
Most business owners make success more difficult than it really needs to b
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Meeten Nathwani and Liam Henry
Tax Planning Strategies for Growing Businesses – How to reduce your tax burden when planning growth and expansion
Leading corporate tax expert discusses the strategies you can implement in your business to ease the tax burden throughout its growth...
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Richard Flewitt
Video for Business: how to create impactful video that will get your company noticed
With 78% of people watching online video, the big question as a business owner is how to access the segment of...
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Lucy Chuo
How to protect your business: 7 potential contracts you may need for your buisness set-up
When starting up a business, there are many different contracts that may be required
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Carol Rawson
The Traumas of Dressing for Success
If you want to succeed in business, dress for the job you want not the job you have!
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Sabina Ali
Increase your sales by 400% with an effective business strategy
Get tips on how to turn your business ambitions into a strategy.
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Pete Jenkins
Gamification & VoIP - essential innovations that will drive your business forward
Gamification is used to motivate staff and increase customer engagement, leading to greater success for your business.
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Robert Foster
Increase your sales by 400% with an effective business strategy
Get tips on how to turn your business ambitions into a strategy.
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Julie Simpkin
Bottling up Success
British-made, innovative drinks bottle defied predictions of the BBC’s “Dragon’s Den
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Richard Turner
Five easy steps that will protect your business
You’ve got a world class idea for a business, you’ve thought about start-up capital, you’ve even considered premises and designed a...
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Jens Münch
What entrepreneurs need to know about mobile payments and running a business
Recent technology developments such as mobile payments - which allow people to take card payments via mobile phones - have opened...
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Christine Blackledge
Healthcare Recruitment Workshop
Are you interested in starting and running a healthcare business?
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Duncan Cheatle
Breaking Down the Barriers to Growth
Duncan has run The Supper Club for ten years and hosted over a thousand intimate discussions with Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs
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Adam Coleman
Automation or outsourcing of the Human Resources functions or task in your business, is it a good or a bad idea?
Companies say, their best assets are their people, do they mean it?
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Rod Davies & Tim Hammett
The Business Doctors - Antidote to the Dragons’ Den
Wondering how to get your business to the next level?
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Matthew Levington and Rod Davies
The Antidote to the Business Consultant
Business Doctors is a business support franchise dedicated to helping SME’s achieve their vision.
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Alex Beattie & Kate Andean
Ideas and Resources
Applying for and obtaining patents and trademarks can be expensive.
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Mike Brown
Business Benefits of Microsoft Office 365
This seminar is designed to introduce the audience to the business benefits of Office 365
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John Davy
Power up your network with LinkedIn
LinkedIn serves some 238 Million people
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Richard Williams
Finding the way to success
Richard will share his story and help others to be successful either by mentoring or coaching.
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Richard Bevan
The benefit of being resourceful, connected and usingnmore than one brain
Do you wonder what it would be like to have the support you need, when you need it with certainty around...
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David Fletcher
The Lifepreneur – Because Life Counts More than Money!
Fed up with the daily grind?
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Brad Burton
LIFE. BUSINESS. JUST GOT EASIER.
Sometimes provocative. At times hilarious. ALWAYS Inspiring.
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Tom Chetwyn
In-House or Out of House SEO for your SME?
If you run your own business you may not have the time to commit fully to your online marketing strategy
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Vince Stanzione
Starting your own business on £100
Want to fire your boss, do what you love and reclaim your life?
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Jonathan Yates
Freesourcing: How to start a business with no money
Jonathan Yates will be offering a wealth of advice and tips designed to get your business up and running with minimal...
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Sunny Thakkar
Simple steps to really help you improve your sales and new client winning strategies
This seminar will help you to think about the ways you can improve your customer retention rates and get more
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Christopher Slade
Why isn’t anyone listening? How to Talk About Your Business Better
An engaging and interactive look at how we all communicate
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Professor Roy Seaman
How to Successfully Franchise Your Business
Attendees will benefit from experience gained since 1981.
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Mark Davies
Getting IT right from the start.
In this session Mark Davies will discuss the benefits and pitfalls of having a cloud or hosted solution over on-premise
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Dee Blick
The 7 Essential Marketing Secrets of Successful Small Businesses
In this fast paced masterclass including small business case studies Dee will reveal the 7 essential marketing secrets
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Shaa Wasmund
Stop Talking, Start Doing: A motivational kick in the pants!
Sháá Wasmund is here to give us all a good nudge to help get that business idea off the ground!
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Simon Coulson
How To Get Masses of Traffic To Your Website
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Ben Kench
Without Sales You’re Dead – Selling For Non Sales People
NO business can succeed without sales…
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Andrew Reynolds
COPY THIS IDEA. He buys something for £50 and sells it for around £2,000. He banked over £50Million.
Ordinary down to earth guy gave up his corporate jo
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John Coupland
ACCELerate (TM) Your Social Media
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Andrew Scowcroft
Turning More Conversations into Contracts - how to improve your influencing skills
This seminar will provide practical guidance and tips on effective influencing.
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Paul Lancaster
How to market your business for free!
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Simon George & Tien Ngo
Future trends within the card payment industry. What retailers need to know?
We will talk you through major trends within the card payment industry and new initiatives that can potentially optimize your business.
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Paul Lancaster
Using social media to market your business
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Vijay Shah
Build effective management team on a budget to succeed.
The Seminar will concentrate on importance of effective management and teams.
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TIM RIVETT
MENTORING – IT’S HERE AND IT WORKS
A LOOK AT THE IMPACT THAT MENTORING HAS ON SMALL BUSINESS
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Andrew Weaver
Run before you can walk
Starting or growing a business involves a host of decisions, different opinions and opportunities for you to say no.
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Graeme Bell
Getting ready for auto-enrolment
Described by many as the biggest change in pension legislation in a generation
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Richard Winslow
Getting your business online: it all starts with your domain name
Richard will be explaining how small businesses can make the most from being online.
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Sanjay Parekh
Opportunities of Cloud Computing
Sanjay Parekh, Co-founder and Managing Director of webexpenses discusses some of the challenges and opportunities that Cloud technology brings to businesses,...
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Frank Gramage
Define your business to build your brand
Building a presence in a crowded market is tough business
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Darren Winters
Learn the Secrets of Stock Market Millionaires, Trading as your new income stream
Learn From A Multi-Millionaire Trader Proven Strategies, That Require Just A Few Hours A Week!
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Joseph Blass
Demystifying the cloud - Benefits for your Business
New & Established businesses are evaluating Cloud computing as an alternative IT solution.
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Brian Whitford MBE
Barter – The tool for business growth
How the oldest form of currency is exploding in the 21st century to help businesses to grow
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Jonathon Jones
Why my .co.uk website represents the best of British Business
Join Jonathon and learn how his business has grown since launching his e-commerce website
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Philip Bryan
Understand the numbers and get more from Email Marketing
Many people use an Email Service Provided (ESP) to send out email marketing messages.
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Ben Brophy
How To Get Free Traffic From YouTube
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Simon Coulson
Essential Strategies To Grow Your Business Online
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Warren Cass
Disruptive Marketing – Standing Out From The Crowd
There’s too much noise! How do you stand out?
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Shweta Jhajharia & Ian Christelow
The 3 Keys to Earning £100k a Year
AC UK co-founder, Ian Christelow, explains how helping others can be the fastest way to make a million
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Nick Robus
How To Grow Your Business Using Facebook
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Rick McMunn
How To Write a Book and Become A Bestselling Author
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Andrea Loasby
Is Self-Employment for you?
A check and balance to being self-employed.
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Scott O’Brien
Start-Up Loans, and the next steps
so you’ve started, what next?
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Julia Haydon
How To Quickly and Easily Create Professional Websites Using Wordpress
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Karen Warren
How To Leverage Social Media To Drive Traffic To Your Website
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Giuliano Zanchi
An easy journey to Workplace Pensions
You will need to auto enroll your staff to workplace pensions by law.
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Simon Coulson
Outsourcing
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Amanda Hill
Why a blog should be the centre of your social media strategy
Social media is the buzzword in marketing and most people will tweeting or using a facebook fanpage
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Simon Middleton
Build a Brand in 30 Days
You don′t need a marketing degree or intensive training to build an attention
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Daniel Priestley
Discovering what business idea is best for you
Daniel Priestley, will explain how to find your ‘entrepreneurial sweet spot"
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Simon Coulson
How To Start An Internet Business From Scratch
