BinB News week ending 26th February
By BinB News26-02-2010 The sports sponsorship market held up well in 2009 with the number of deals increasing year-on-year, despite the financial downturn, according to The World Sponsorship Monitor Annual Review.
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Business Continuity Template Available25-02-2010 Doc-U-Ment has created a "complete it yourself" or "do it yourself" business continuity plan template. Its tailored for any small or medium size enterprise to use. A completed plan can then be used to protect your business against major incidents including flooding and fire. Often such incidents bring businesses without a plan to a premature end. A direct consequence of covering against serious but infrequent incidents is that lesser but more frequent every day incidents are also covered.
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24-02-2010 When it comes to recycling packaging, 73% of packaging can currently be recycled in England but we only recycle 33%. So what happens to the left over 40%? It either ends up in landfill, or sent across the waters for it to be recycled elsewhere. As a consumer, it can indeed be very tricky in terms of knowing what can be recycled at the same time the what cannot.
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Leadership and Learning24-02-2010 Never underestimate the power of coaching in the moment. Thirty seconds spent talking together during a critical incident, where you remember to ask questions rather than issue instructions, is coaching at its most impactful. Or consider a situation where you get someone to change their mindset from describing an intractable problem, to flipping it over and turning it into a “how to” statement which contains a goal that can now be worked towards. That is the power of coaching in real time.
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24-02-2010 Help for Heroes - Tattoo to be staged at Bracknell Leisure centre on Saturday 6th March 2010. The Tattoo is the first event of its kind in support of Help for Heroes. There will be two performances 14:30 & 19:30 hrs
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23-02-2010 My name is Kevin and I am the director of a family run print business in Newbury called Omega Offset Ltd. We specialise in business stationery, this can range from letterheads, comp slips and business cards to invoice forms, quotation sheets, delivery notes.
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Calling all tourist attraction owners & managers23-02-2010 How can a Pod Walk benefit your organisation? • It helps your visitors to enjoy their day out even more. They can take away a lasting memory of their day out, and spread the word to their friends and family
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Commercial deep cleaning23-02-2010 With years of experience behind them, Surefoot deal with the deep cleaning of kitchens, toilets, shower rooms and other commercial and industrial areas. We have a uniquely gentle yet firm approach. We don’t use harsh chemicals, nor do we scrub and scrape at grime and grease. Instead, we use products which emulsify dirt and oil, making it easier for us to lift dirt completely out of the surfaces of floors, walls, tiles and grouting. We take pride in leaving kitchens and other commercial areas sparkling, secure in the knowledge that a properly deep-cleaned surface is a safer surface.
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23-02-2010 Windsor Farmers’ Market celebrates its fifth birthday on Saturday 6 March at its permanent location in St Leonard’s Road, Windsor.
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23-02-2010 Recently I have been completely amused by the number of really, what I would consider, strong companies that have added the Twitter logo to the front page of their website with a link to their Twitter account … but then have only a hand full of followers … what does that say??
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23-02-2010 Learn more about the world of E-Commerce and how you can make it work for your business. Select two of the four seminars and walk away with some practical help to promote your business ahead of your competitors. Lots of networking opportunities so make sure you bring your business cards!
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Rotary Collection in Windsor for Polio23-02-2010 Eradication of Polio a Possibility or a Dream ? Worldwide cases now reduced to 1600 per annum. It is over 28 years since the last case of Polio in the UK but many still remember this horrific, crippling sometimes fatal childhood disease. In 2010 Polio, a disease for which there is no cure, is still however a harrowing reality for children in Africa and Asia.
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21-02-2010 Born on this day 1732 George Washington,1857 Lord Baden Powell, 1908 Sir John Mills, 1926 Kenneth Williams, 1928 Bruce Forsyth, 1933 Sheila Hancock, 1933 The Duchess of Kent, 1933 Bobby Smith, 1942 Christine Keeler, 1949 Niki Lauda, 1950 Julie Walters, 1974 Drew Barrymore, 1974 James Blunt, 1974 Chris Moyles
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Raw Powerlifting Competition21-02-2010 Come and see some of Britain’s top strength athletes compete in a Raw Powerlifting Competition SUNDAY 28th FEBRUARY 2010
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There's a BUZZ in the air that can feed off Twitter !
By Jon Davey
Is Google BUZZ more than intelligent TwitterIs Google BUZZ more than intelligent Twitter? For the last year or so the world has been gripped by celebrities telling us what they have been having for breakfast on Twitter … now with Google BUZZ they can video it, take a picture, add 140 words rather than 140 characters and we can get an even better understanding of their world.
Jon Davey Social Media Directors has been created as the demand by people and businesses to understand all this online stuff increases.
LiaiseOnline Limited As this video illustrates it is not difficult to become a thought leader in your market place you just need to keep telling people you are THE thought leader for your market and do you know what … you will become THE THOUGHT LEADER !
Valentines Day
By chantalbEden Flowers is your local freelance florist, based in Windsor.
We offer free local delivery on the actual day and prices start from just £10.
Have a look at our website www.eden-flowers.org or find us on facebook.
Look forward to hearing from you soon,
Chantal
Eden Flowers 07517 426 340
What can RSS news feeds do for you?
By Jon DaveyRSS news feeds allow you to distribute your news to other websites like Twitter without you having to take a second action. Once you have the feed connected then all you need to do is add your news to your blog and it will send it out automatically ... marvellous !
Better still ... if other website owners spot your content and like the look of it then they can take your RSS feed and add it to their website without you having to move a muscle ... how great is that??
Checking out sites recently while revisiting our Business in Berkshire membership and it was noticeable how many of the members websites didn’t have RSS as standard. Our BinB site doesn’t allow RSS as the code is from 2004 and that was part of the reason for creating BLUK.
I would encourage you to check your site, see if it has an RSS feed, if not sign up for a FREE Blog on BLUK and get started.
If you find yourself using the site regularly and adding content then you should consider becoming a Group Leader as this allows you to highlight your knowledge in a specialist subject to others who may be interested. This could ultimately see you considered a thought leader in your market and asked to speak at various conferences ... that is the logic behind our Group Leader membership level.
You can pick up the RSS News Feeds on our BLUK site by looking down the right for the these images:
The main feed on this site is for the magazine which is the aggregation of all our blogs:
http://www.businessleadsuk.co.uk/xml/magazine.xml
The smaller RSS feed image can be seen against the members profiles and if you want to take a direct feed from a member then you will end up with something like the link below which relates to Jon Davey:
http://www.businessleadsuk.co.uk/xml/members/profile/1/blog.xml
Go and have a wander around Business Leads UK, better still join in and add your words of wisdom to BLUK Today!
Thank you...
Boosting your online and offline profile
By Jon DaveyView our Social Media Director Series
What do you think of this advice? Your feedback is appreciated.
My name is Jon Davey and I have been helping small businesses boost their online profiles for around 10 years. Before that I spent 10 years selling products and services on behalf of corporate employers.
I am actively looking for a meaty project to get my teeth into and this is likely to come from a larger organisation. Setting up your social media takes more than 5 minutes and includes more than technology, it's about profile building both on and offline plus education for the people involved ... if you know of anyone who could use me then please connect me or call 01753 852904 ... thank you.
I decided to produce a bunch of short video clips 60 - 90 seconds in length, that give some key pointers to those interested in boosting their online and offline profiles.
Please watch one or two of the clips below and then do me a favour, rate the content and add a comment to YouTube ... this will boost our profile and also boost yours into the bargain! These videos were shot a couple of days ago and have been loaded up to YouTube in the last few days ... very new, very fresh, your feedback is appreciated.
Because the top few videos always get the most clicks I will re-jig the videos below in order of the most views, with the most popular at the bottom of the list...
Thank you.
1-12 Shoot video clips - 2 views
1-9 Take a walk through your town - 4 views
1-11 Telemarketing smile & dial - 5 views
1-7 Connect with local journalists - 6 views
1-8 Become a thought leader - 7 views
1-5 Join Rotary International - 7 views
1-6 Do you need a blog? - 8 views
1-4 Create a Linkedin profile - 8 views
1-10 Smile both on and offline - 9 views
1-2 Create a single page website - 16 views
1-3 Connect with top networkers - 21 views
1-1 Check out local networking groups - 29 views
Spreading Christmas cheer...
By Jon Davey
Book a FREE 2 hour appointment for Jon Davey to establish your current levels of engagement with online marketing & social media and he will make at least 3 recommendations on how you can improve your current position!
Make LOVE not war!
By Jon DaveyCame across this ... bloody marvellous way to use social media ...
http://ijustmadelove.com/
The world is changing, social media is about social not in your face business, by sponsoring ideas then companies can get their branding out there with subtelty, not with a BIG FLASH BRICK!!
Did you concur, are you on the map already???
Facebook business or pleasure?
By Jon DaveyHow do you use it for business or pleasure?
Then Cleopatra Caesar : Now Murdoch Microsoft
By Jon DaveyGoogle earns billions from its pay per click model and gets 90% of all the searches here in the UK.
Bing isn’t on the same page, even Microsoft execs use Google a former Managing Director of Microsoft UK told me at a business networking event last month !
Rupert Murdoch has the lion’s share of offline media and he’s determined to look after it ... combining with Microsoft and blocking pages makes sense as many journo’s use the web to search for more information on their story ... and they will pick up content from other news sources and replicate that in their releases ... as Steve of the Birmingham Mail showed.
Today anyone can set up a social network and ultimately we are all able to share our thoughts and opinions with the world. The quality of an online community, social media site, network, whatever you want to call them defines itself by the management team.
If they want to be heavy handed then those with the opposite opinion will be pushed / bullied away and that community will become known to have a strong leaning towards x ... it will then attract people who agree and love x ... it will then be sponsored by those whose target market is the perfect X !
I think there will be millions of social networks around the world all with a specific focus ... the number of people who work for each social media network will be directly determined by the audiences willingness to pay membership and or sponsors looking at a target market ... without money it is not a business but a hobby site ... natural selection will determine which are which ...
Mr Rupert Murdock or indeed any publisher out there looking for a Social Media Director should knock on my door and we can talk about your mission and work out a social media strategy to help you be king of your chosen castle.
Jon Davey
01753 852904
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