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Chris Moody
Rugby Branch Secretary
01788 298034 or 07852 159092

We welcome Julia Doherty of Green Umbrella to the November Breakfast meeting. Julia will be presenting

“How to REALLY use LinkedIn for Business”.

The breakfast invite below has more details on what Julia will be talking about.

Rugby FSB Breakfast invite 25-Nov-11

Also, after the breakfast meeting & talk, Julia will be running a three hour Linkedin workshop. The FSB have subsidised the cost of this for FSB members to only £25 (non FSB members have to pay the full price). Places on this workshop are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

Rugby Breakfast Linkedin workshop with Green Umbrella

I look forward to seeing you there.

Chris Moody
Rugby FSB Branch Secretary
01788 298034

Verity is a specialist debt recovery solicitor at Mercian Law Limited and has over 10 years of experience in helping companies get their overdue invoices paid.

Verity also works to assist property owners (both commercial and residential) regain possession from tenants that have fallen into rent arrears.

At our meeting on 28th October Verity will ask the group to consider her Top Tips For Bad Debt Prevention which includes, knowing your customer, credit management policies and differentiating between the can’t payers and the won’t payers.

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

Venue: The Morgan Centre, Rugby College, Technology Drive, Rugby CV21 1RW

Time: 7am prompt – 8.45am

Cost: £12 per person (1st time attendees £6)

Parking: in the Business Sector Car Park, off Technology Drive (nearest Mill Road)

To book your place download the invite, & post the booking form to Ewen with payment.

Chris Moody
Rugby FSB Branch Secretary
01788 298034

Rugby FSB invites you to the ‘Peacock Lounge’ on Wednesday 12th October. Try Thai &/or Korean cuisine whilst networking with fellow FSB members and guests.

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Venue: The Peacock Lounge Bar, 69 Newbold Road, Rugby. CV21 2ND

Time: 7 for 7.30pm

Cost: £15 per person

Website: www.thepeacocklounge.co.uk

We need to book  in advance so to reserve your place please download The Booking Form, and then post it with payment to:

Chris Moody, Rugby FSB Secretary, c/o ASL Computer Services, Unit 7
Sir Frank Whittle Business Centre, Great Central Way, Rugby. CV21 3XH

John and Robert will give insight into what the Economic Development and Forward Planning team does and future development sites. We will hear how the economic objectives of these sites fit with the council’s wider economic vision for the Borough. A short Q&A will follow the presentation.

To book in for the Rugby September breakfast, Download the invite, print out & fill in page 2, and pop it in the post to Carolyn Lilley at ASC Warwickshire.

Other FSB Rugby events:

Second Friday Club: 9th September & 14th October. Meet and chat over a drink at the Merchants Inn in Little Church Street after work at 6pm. Contact  hannah@pinkenvelope.co.uk for more information.
Evening networking: Wednesday 12th October. Peacock Lounge, Rugby 7pm Watch out for the emailed invitation due very soon
October Breakfast: Friday 28th October, Morgan Centre, Rugby College. Verity Griggs of Mercian Law will provide Top Tips on Bad Debt Prevention’

Chris Moody
Rugby FSB Branch Secretary
01788 298034

To share or not to share, Social Media and your website by Evelyn Williams

During this workshop Evelyn will combine her web design and social media knowledge to demonstrate how you can use social media to help share your business knowledge and expertise and increase visitors to your website. The workshop will start with a short, fun interactive session followed by examples of how your website (and business) can benefit from using social media. The aim is to give you an understanding of how to use social media to enhance your online presence. You will come away with ideas of how to drive visitors to your website and more importantly what to do with them when you get them!

Evelyn Williams is a local web designer whose company Ewedesigns, specialise in Joomla! Websites, IT solutions and hosting for small businesses.

To book in for the Rugby August breakfast, download the invite below, print out & fill in page 2, and pop it in the post to Carolyn Lilley at ASC Warwickshire.

Rugby Networking Breakfast invite

Regards

Chris Moody
FSB Rugby Branch Secretary
Tel: 01788 298034

You’ve heard the buzz and seen the logos everywhere but is social media relevant to growing YOUR business? What are people saying about you and your business online? Are your existing and potential clients listening? Do you want to be part of that conversation? With a strong background in marketing, Sarah Gorev started Social Media Spice to help businesses understand and build a social media strategy, and execute it for maximum impact.
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Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, blogging and Foursquare, give businesses great online marketing opportunities. This workshop will help you better understand the Social Media channels and how and why businesses use them. Importantly, we will also look at return on investment for this activity. This interactive workshop is filled with helpful hints and tips that will allow you to assess which channels (if any) are right for you to connect with people relevant to growing your business.

If you wish to attend please complete the booking form in the invite below, and send it with payment to Carolyn or Ewen.

July Networking Breakfast invite – Social Media workshop with Sarah Gorev

Note that the venue this month is still Rugby College, the same as last month. The committee was very pleased with this new venue at last months meeting. Please let us have your comments on if you like it or not.

Chris Moody
Rugby FSB Branch Secretary
01788 298034

by Andrew Semple

Friday 24 June 2011 at 7am

Note the change of venue to Rugby College

Andrew Semple is founder and senior consultant at Orginspire, a senior training and people development company providing learning solutions, survey interpretation and management development.

Andrews presentation “ What employees really want “ looks beyond motivational theory and uses examples from over 1000 employee and management interviews to explore why building trust should be a priority for every leader.

To book yourself a place at this months Rugby Networking breakfast,  print out & fill in page 2 of the booking form, and pop it in the post to Carolyn Lilley at ASC Warwickshire.

Rugby Breakfast booking form

Regards
Chris Moody
Rugby FSB Branch Secretary
01788 298034

Many of you will know Emma’s dad, David Smith, who regularly attends our breakfast meetings as a representative of The Road Ahead.

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As the local Air Ambulance is our nominated charity for 2011, and “The Road Ahead” is one of our regular breakfast attendees, we thought it appropriate to give Emma some publicity on our website.

If you wish to sponsor Emma in her five kilometre run please use the Just Giving link below.

www.justgiving.com/emma-wnaafunrun

Please help Emma reach her target of £250 sponsorship.

Chris Moody
Rugby FSB Branch Secretary
01788 298034

5th July 2011, 8.30am – 11.30am

Weston Hall, Nuneaton, Nr Coventry CV12 9RU

Warwickshire-based Chartered Accountants & Business Advisers, Burgis & Bullock, is hosting a free ‘new to business’ event for anyone who has set up a brand new business, is thinking of setting up in business or has been running a business for over 12 months.

The free event, which will be hosted on Tuesday 5^th July 2011 at Weston Hall, Nuneaton from 8.30am to 11.30am will be held in association with The Federation of Small Business (FSB), The Chamber of Commerce, The Warwickshire Investment Partnership and business start up advisers from HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays banks.

Commenting on the event, Sean Farnell, Business Growth Partner at Burgis & Bullock said: “We appreciate that it’s not easy setting up in business, so our event will show you the best steps to take in moving your business forward.

“The delegates attending the event will be offered a complete and detailed strategy for setting up in business and lots of support from across the business community. In addition, there will be a networking session after the presentation, which will offer the perfect opportunity to discuss any issues you may have with our team of business advisers and panel of experts, on a one-to-one basis if you prefer. So it is definitely worth a visit!” More information here