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Forging The Future

Sunday 31st May 2015

We gathered 37 of Kent’s leading growth business owners and senior executives at the exquisite Westenhanger Castle Conference venue in May 2015. The castle, originally the estate of the 11th Century King of Denmark & England Cnut ( known to English history students as Canute ). As you will recall King Cnut is famous for the…

FSB FINANCE FACTSHEET

Saturday 30th May 2015

Better Business Finance http://www.betterbusinessfinance.co.uk/?finance-finder Better Business Finance provides impartial information and support to businesses and entrepreneurs looking to develop and grow; whether the business is seeking finance, or starting out or exporting abroad. Crowd Funding UK Crowd Funding Association http://www.ukcfa.org.uk/ Crowd Funder www.crowdfunder.co.uk Invest And Fund a local Kent/Sussex Crowd Fund Platform https://www.investandfund.com/index.aspx Free business banking…

The 3 Keys To Startup Success

Friday 29th May 2015

How Do You Make Your Startup A Success? By Neville Gaunt CEO Mind Fit For the most part Mind Fit as a company works with larger organisations that have many employees, and work with teams focused on business growth and improving performance. The process starts (Mind Fit Foundation Programme) with changes that individual players make…

3 Keys to Improve Employability

Friday 22nd May 2015

Who’s Helping Young People Focus? It might sound simple to answer the question but like any, it has to be answered in context. So, “Focus for or on what?” is, for instance, a good question to consider. If I said “Focus for life, their life” then the context is suddenly quite big and important not…

Transformer

Thursday 21st May 2015

The joy is in the journey: how remaining open to learning and embracing change helps you to improve “The Transformer relates to the ability to manage change, not only in the day-to-day operations of the firm, but also in finding space to think strategically about the future” [1] On Tuesday’s Business Bunker Show we were…

Enthusiasm is Essential for Organisational Success

Saturday 16th May 2015

Why the Right Kind of Enthusiasm is Essential for Organisational Success “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing of your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and…

Building a recruitment strategy for your business

Thursday 14th May 2015

Dakota Blue Consulting In partnership with Moore People are holding a fascinating one day workshop at the Hilton Hotel in Maidstone. Building a recruitment strategy for your business Are you responsible for recruitment within your business? Do you know who you need, when you need them, where you will find them and how you will…

FSB Broadband Checking

Tuesday 12th May 2015

Federation of Small Business Kent & Medway We are discussing business broadband and the issues that effect micro, small and rural businesses Here are a list of Ofcom accredited price comparison sites that all have speed checkers: Broadband.co.uk broadbandchoices.co.uk Cable.co.uk Simplifydigital The new SME specific OFCOM portal Diagnose your computer: Actual Experience offers a tool…

What is Dark Social Media?

Wednesday 6th May 2015

The last time you shared a funny or interesting article with your friend, chances are it was over email or online chat. This is because you don’t always want your public feed to see everything you are sharing, so you communicate more privately. This is called Dark Social Media and it’s changing the way we…

Help local Kent business to Pitch to Richard Branson…

Friday 1st May 2015

Help local Kent business to Pitch to Richard Branson… West Malling based menswear and ecommerce store Monks Clothing is entering national competition Pitch to Rich for the chance to win mentoring and a £250,000 investment from Sir Richard Branson. Pitch to Rich is in association with, LinkedIn and aims to find and support Britain’s brightest businesses….

So…. How’s Your Social Media Etiquette?

Wednesday 22nd April 2015

Social Media Etiquette, a lot of people don’t quite understand what they should and shouldn’t be sharing. I’m all up for sharing about your lives and what you’re up to, but there is ways it should and shouldn’t be done. Ignorance Being ignorant on social media is one of the worst things you can…

Jane Ollis Talks Social Enterprise on Business Bunker

Thursday 16th April 2015

There are around 70,000 Social Enterprises operating in the UK, contributing £18.5 billion to the economy and employing close to a million people (many of whom might otherwise be disadvantaged in the labour market), it’d be a mistake to measure their success in purely financial terms. Profits are re-invested toward social or environmental goals, and…

Is the force against you?

Monday 13th April 2015

Have you ever wondered why you’re getting thousands of visitors but nobody converting? Or why people have added items to their shopping cart but then left the page? Then maybe something is using the force against you. By something I mean your website, and by the Force I mean friction, I’m not talking about Star Wars…

Business master class gives women in business top knowledge – and a crèche for the kids

Sunday 5th April 2015

Small businesses that are owned and managed by women are being offered the chance to attend a unique training day this April, complete with crèche. Organisers Rebecca Robertson, Evo Girls Kent and Deborah Turner, Kent and Medway’s Federation of Small Businesses Champion for Women in Business, spotted a gap in the market which led…

The Critical Role of Organisational Structure in Effective Decision Making

Friday 3rd April 2015

What happens when you sit twelve owner-managers, in a hierarchical fashion, in a room, separated by screens, don’t allow them to talk to one another and task them with solving a puzzle that they all hold part of the answer to? Well, let’s see As part of the BIG Network session on The Foundations…