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Mini Seminar - Making it as an entrepreneur

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Rasheed is a life coach and business coach helping people achieve greater success and fulfilment.  Click the link below him in action.

Mini Seminar - making it as an entrepreneur

Rasheed helps people achieve greater success, happiness and balance in their lives, careers, relationships and business. He works with individuals, entrepreneurs, teams and organisations, providing life, business and corporate coaching. He runs motivation talks and workshops and produces self/business development books, CDs and MP3s.

Everyone is unique, so Rasheed helps people in different ways to boost:

  • Clarity
  • Confidence
  • Performance
  • Customer awareness
  • Productivity
  • Interview, networking and selling skills
  • Life balance

Who can Rasheed help?

Any individual, business, organisation or team seeking greater clarity, confidence, performance, meaningful success and happiness.

Key services

  • Life coaching
  • Business coaching (especially for sole traders, entrepreneurs and small businesses)
  • Corporate coaching (within organisations for managers, staff and teams)
  • Motivational talks, workshops and seminars
  • Team building, strategic away days
  • Coaching services in person, on site at his Coaching Studio or on location.

Find out more

Tel: +44 (0)20 7207 1082
Email: rasheed@rasaru.com
www.rasaru.com


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Calling all Disabled Business Owners in Bristol!

Do you run your own business?

Do you have a disability or long term health condition?

 If so you are invited to the launch of a proposed network of disabled entrepreneurs on Thursday 19th November 2009.

 The launch meeting will include a free training session to help you improve your networking skills.

 With growing numbers of business being run by disabled people we want to encourage owners to meet up on a regular basis to:

Provide peer support; sharing information, advice and tips

  • Encourage collaboration; providing opportunities to develop joint projects or tenders
  • Arrange shared training and information sessions
  • Lobby for appropriate support for disabled-led businesses

We know that women’s business networks have played a key role in the success of women-led businesses over the past 10 years and this is a chance to see if the same approach can help disabled entrepreneurs.

The Launch meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn, Filton Road, BS16 1QX starting at 16.30.  A light buffet will be provided at the end of the meeting at about 18.30.

To book your place please complete the attached booking form and return it to Business Link.  If you are unable to attend the launch, but would like to be kept in touch with future developments please complete the network registration form and return it to the same address.

 The launch of the network is supported by Business Link which is working with the disabled-led business Will Bee Consultancy Ltd to support this initiative.

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In conversation with Lord Sugar

Whether you already run your own business or dream of being an entrepreneur, this event is a unique opportunity to hear from one of the UK’s best-known entrepreneurs about his path to success and his inspirations along the way.

A passionate believer in entrepreneurship (as his recent Government appointment shows), this evening event with Lord Sugar will be encouragement to anyone considering building their own enterprise. Put your questions to Lord Sugar about all aspects of his amazing personal and business journey.

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September business events at British Library

The Business of Inventing

Mark Sheahan, Ideas21 and British Library Business & IP Centre

Tuesday 15 September

9.30am - 4.30pm

British Library Conference Centre

http://www.ideas21.co.uk/store/products/4

 
Getting a Product Designed and Manufactured

She’s Ingenious! Monthly Meet-up

Thursday 17 September

11am - 2pm

British Library Business & IP Centre

http://www.shesingenious.org/design.html

 

 

Building an Outstanding Online Brand

Azrights Solicitors

Thursday 17 September

2.00pm - 5.00pm

British Library Business & IP Centre

http://www.ip-brands.com/content/news/events/british-library-course.aspx

 

Winning Contracts

Social Enterprise London & LCRN

Monday 21 September

9:45am - 4.45pm

The British Library Conference Centre

http://www.sel.org.uk/events_30_3507.aspx

 

 

From Brainwave to Business

British Library

Wednesday 23 September 2009

6.15pm - 9.00pm

The British Library Conference Centre

http://www.bl.uk/bipc/workevents/brainwave.html

 

 

External Events

 

 

Social Capital

KNOWLEDGE CONNECT

Tuesday 22nd September

7pm - 10pm

Jewel Bar Covent Garden

http://www.knowledgeconnect.org.uk/kc/event_details/57

 

 

 

On the Road - Protecting Your Ideas

British Library Business & IP Centre

Tuesday 22 September 2009

10.00 - 16.00
Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, London, W10 5JJ How to get to Westbourne Studios
http://www.bl.uk/bipc/workevents/ontheroad.html

 

“MumPreneurs in Social Business: Are you sustainable? Can you manage? What makes you different?”

Ogunte

Thursday 17th September 2009

1pm - 2pm

The Hub, 5 Torrens Street, London, EC1V 1NQ

Contact islington.hosts@the-hub.net to reserve your place. Payment on the day


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New eBusiness programme in Wales.

Tawemedia Ltd have been appointed ebusiness Consultants that can provide advice and support under the Welsh Assembly Governments new ebusiness programme.

                 

There are a number of ways in which your business can benefit from the initiatives on offer.

 

The online Business IT Guide gives straightforward information about how to profit from using technology. The guide directs you to business –focused answers in the form of FAQs, best practices, articles and case studies. To access this free guide visit  www.business-support-wales.gov.uk/bitg

 

You can get free support from an independent and impartial consultant to undertake an ICT diagnostic orbusiness health check. At the end of the process, you will be equipped with a report outlining potential solutions and opportunities to drive your business forward.

 

Businesses that need to extensively integrate new or improved ICT systems can draw upon eBusiness Support; Your dedicated Welsh Assembly Government Project Manager and independent impartial consultant work together to bring a package of support specific to the businesses requirements.

 

Funding is available to qualifying businesses.

 

Eligibility for the programme is subject to Welsh Assembly Government criteria and their approval.

 

If you would like to discuss the programme further, or book for a  “Free” impartial ICT Diagnostic please contact:

Paul Gadd on 01792 346235 or email: info@tawemedia.co.uk

 

 
 


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FREE Advice on How Social Media Can Help Your Business

Hi everyone,

I came across this really useful link to a series of downloadable small business guides on how Social Media can help grow your business.  Take a look!

http://www.facebook.com/dellsocialmedia


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What keeps you awake at night?

This is the title of a blog posting of Robert Craven, SME marketing guru.  It’s an interesting observation and there are some helpful links from his blog page.

http://robert-craven.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-keeps-you-awake-at-night.html

 

 

What keeps me awake at night is most often trying to align work commitments with home and parenting commitments or, put another way, how to squeeze another 6-hours into every day!  

What is it that keeps you awake at night?


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RTS Group mentoring

Do you want to talk through a particular business issue with other disabled entrepreneurs? What about discussing common issues to your business sector?  

Between now and September, RTS is running a number of themed teleconference calls, facilitated by a business mentor,  to RTS entrepreneurs.   Calls are free from a BT landline (we’ll send you full and straight forward joining instructions) and you can raise problems that are concerning you, hear other people’s questions and solutions, and meet (or at least hear) other disabled entrepreneurs in a similar position or building a business in the same sector as you.

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10 Ways to get coverage in your local media

If you want to attract customers locally, you could pay for an advert in your local newspaper or radio station. But, as a number of RTS entrepreneurs are discovering, getting into the editorial sections of local media has more credibility and greater impact with potential customers, to say nothing of being free!

Have you managed to get any free editorial coverage?  Did it win your business any enquiries? I’d love to hear about your experiences.

In the meantime, below are some tips to get free coverage in your local media.

 1. Get to know your local media. Familiarise yourself with your local newspapers’, magazines’ and radio stations’ audiences, get to know how their content varies from day to day and section by section and, crucially, learn what their deadlines are. You should also note the names of writers, editors and broadcasters who produce material that might appeal to your customers.

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Free advertising - on Radio AGAIN !!!!!

Dave Monk on BBC Essex was talking about “Free Loaders” on benefits. I sent an e-mail telling him my views on the benefits system. I also told him I went to Exeter to do a training course on Service and Repair of clocks and set up my own business.

Dave précisied my e-mail and read out the bit about me setting-up Tiptree Clocks and business was beginning to pick up. Now wait and see if I get any work from it?

Does anyone else use this “Free?” service. If you listen to radio stations similar to BBC Essex where there are discussions with audience participation there are opportunities to contribute to the discussion and get the business mentioned. I have now managed to do this three times in the last three to four months and, whilst the response has not been overwhelming, I have had two jobs from it and perhaps others will remember when they need a clock repaired, so it is worth the effort.

From Jim Tiptree Clocks www.tiptreeclocks.co.uk/


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