Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

Last week Thursday Better Networking hosted two Let’s Talk Biz chats hosted by our members.  The objective of this chat is to help answer questions for people who have questions on certain topics and at the same time  connects people in the most wonderful ways.

Simon Raybould of Curved Vision hosted a chat about Presentations and the presenting of presentations.  My general knowledge knows that there are certain key elements to giving a good presentation but I have to say that I did learn some excellent and very handy tips in this chat.  What to do about nerves, breathing and all sorts of useful tools.
You can read more about  the presentation chat here.

Chris Lodge of Kasler Solicitors in Kent hosted a Let’s Talk Biz community chat about Road Accidents.   I don’t know much about road accident law in the UK and to be honest I did not know that one could have a road accident solicitor to fight your case.  I suppose that’s because I have been fortunate not to be in that situation.  Now I am definitely more informed about road accidents and that road accident solicitors are available to help you.  The chat also provided some interesting entertainment which had me rolling with laughter.
Read up on the Road Accident chat here

Better Networking’s Previous Chats

Irina Ponomareva of Viscomp who is a web desinger and knows her stuff on SEO.  Interesting questions and useful answers, especially for business owners who are needing websites.  I recently read a blog written by Nikki Pilkington “Google no longer uses title tags” and other blatant lies from SEOs and it annoys me when I see how people get messed about with inaccurate information.  This article confirmed just how useful Irina’s chat was.  I am no SEO expert and will never be but even I know the basics.  The best advice before choosing a web designer or SEO expert,  check up on Google they give you the information needed for SEO, this way if someone says, “Google no longer uses title tags, etc.” you know to go somewhere else.
Read more about the web design and SEO chat

The VAT man with a sense of humour, Robert Killington of Vatark hosted the very first Let’s Talk Biz online chat.  All about VAT.  I don’t need to worry about VAT just yet but did learn when I do need to worry about VAT and when that time comes I know exactly who I am going to turn to.  Read more about the VAT chat

The next Chat Session

The next Let’s Talk Biz chat will be hosted by Robert Zarywacz of Zarywacz, I don’t have the details for the chat yet but I am sure it will be about copywriting some how.  Date: 6th August.

Visit Better Networking to find out more about upcoming chats.

If you are exhibiting, sponsoring or speaking at an event, it may be your own event or someone else’s event, one of the fundamental things to do is promote and market the event in which you are exhibiting, speaking or sponsoring.

Organising a few events, I discovered that all marketing and promoting was left up to the event organisers.  While I am aware that a lot of the responsibility lies with the event organisers to market and promote the event and ensure that the event is a success, word of mouth advertising is still one of the most powerful forms of advertising.

Inform your customers, colleagues you work with and your friends.  By doing this you will be reaching a far wider audience as the event organiser does not have access to your specific network.

Think about it this way, your network is different to the event organiser’s network.  The company exhibiting next to you has a totally different network of people.  The caterer again has his own network.

Let’s say each of you have 500 people in your network.  If you, the event organiser, the caterer and the company exhibiting next to you decide to promote the event, you will have new leads, new people and even more opportunities.  A network of 500 people has suddenly grown into 2000.

Ways you can promote the event:

• Twitter the event in your network.
• Ask the event organiser for promotional material which you can hand out.
• Publish a press release.
• Blog about it in your social community network.
• If you belong to clubs, tell other club members.
• If you run a newsletter, send out a newsletter informing your subscribers.

Romany Thresher

Another successful event hosted and organised by Sarah Arrow regional leader of the Business Scene in Essex and co organised by Romany Thresher, Direct Assist Online.

Firstly, thank you to all our guests for your wonderful support and for joining us last night.  It was good to see so many new faces and I had the opportunity to see some familiar faces of people who I have been interacting with for quite some time.  Su Butcher, Sally Ormond, Chris Lodge, Laury Burr, Liz Chukwu and Don Cooke and Andy Harris who surprised us all the way from Exeter and Katherine Davison.  There were also some popular networking groups among the visitors, BMI, Friendfeed, Ecademy and members of Better Networking a community recently launched by Steven Healey, Romany Thresher and Sarah Arrow.

I would like to thank all our sponsors who were superb.  Adrian and his team from Simply Fine Foods who offered refreshment drinks at an excellent value of 60p and who supplied a finger buffet on the house to all the guests.  Amy Cutbill and her team who supplied the wine and featured our sponsors on video.  Pawel and his team who did all the photography and also did profile photos for a fiver.  Kevin Arrow from Arrow Light Haulage one of the main event sponsors.  Sam Dimon a budding entrepreneur at 16 who provided the sound in the last hour and lastly Asim Husain and John of Mercedes Benz Chelmsford who provided an excellent venue.  Richard White of The Accidental Salesman our guest speaker spoke on sales and generating leads.  We closed with a raffle prize draw, monies collected went to charity.  A Blackberry compliments of Blackberry, The Business Launchpad sales training valued £297+VAT supplied by Richard White and a bottle of champagne by Arrow Light Haulage.

A special thanks to Sarah Arrow for putting together such an enjoyable event and for inviting me to co-organise the event with you, it was excellent working with you.

How was your experience at the Business Scene in Essex, we would love to get your feedback.

Romany