Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
A helping hand.
We are please to say that one of our sponsors has helped a local charity with a brand new website. Stick 'n' Step, in Liscard, Wallasey help Children with Cerebral Palsy live much fuller and more independent lives through Conductive Education. It is truely amazing how some simple exercises can make such a difference to young lives.
Now Stick 'n' Step have a website to be proud of and one where they can update everything quickly and easily including their latest shopping list. The shopping list is an easy and affordable way to help the charity with everyday running costs. Just pop along to the website (http://www.sticknstep.org) and take a look at the things on their shopping list, when you next go shopping just buy one of the things on their shopping list and drop it off at the centre. Alternately you can bring it along to the next WBa meeting and we'll drop it off for you. Choose how much you spend from a box of tea bags to a ream or two of printer paper - everything will be put to use for the centre alone.
The website gives lots of info on what Stick 'n' Step do to help kids across the northwest who suffer from Cerebral Palsy so please do go and have a read.
http://www.sticknstep.org
Now Stick 'n' Step have a website to be proud of and one where they can update everything quickly and easily including their latest shopping list. The shopping list is an easy and affordable way to help the charity with everyday running costs. Just pop along to the website (http://www.sticknstep.org) and take a look at the things on their shopping list, when you next go shopping just buy one of the things on their shopping list and drop it off at the centre. Alternately you can bring it along to the next WBa meeting and we'll drop it off for you. Choose how much you spend from a box of tea bags to a ream or two of printer paper - everything will be put to use for the centre alone.
The website gives lots of info on what Stick 'n' Step do to help kids across the northwest who suffer from Cerebral Palsy so please do go and have a read.
http://www.sticknstep.org
Monday, September 13, 2010
Tulip Publishing
Hi all for a few months I was receiving demand letters for advertising in a 9nine9 emergency services booklet/leaflet to the value of £195-00 from Tulip Publishing and FGD Debt Management Services both based in Chester in fact across the road to each other. I found out from Chester Police that they were both suspect scammers and that they both work from PO Boxs. I have also reported them to the Trading Stands.
So be careful you don't get conned out of your hard earned money!!
All seems to have stopped now. And no I did not part with any money!!
So be careful you don't get conned out of your hard earned money!!
All seems to have stopped now. And no I did not part with any money!!
Monday, June 07, 2010
Social Networking Viral Marketing Experiment
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He is experimenting with a new type of Social Viral Marketing that appears to
get him backlinks to his site just for sharing the word.
This seems to be the truest form of Viral marketing I have seen yet. It uses
social media and blogs to get the "news" out about something rather than
Tell-A-Friends etc.
But the main thing I want to share with you is that you can get 3 Kick-Butt
copies of his latest newsletter and you don't have to pay $89.00 to get it.
Just click the link below and it is yours Free!
P.S. - Even if you THINK you are not interested in his newsletters (Which are
pretty good from what I see) I suggest you give it a shot for 2 reasons. 1- You
may be surprised at the quality. And 2- Wait until you see how he is trying this
new viral marketing.
Friday, July 24, 2009
A Lesson from Andy Lopata
Author of top selling book 'and death came third' on networking and public speaking Andy's article on 'Connecting is not enough' has some really good tips pn getting the best from networking. here is just a sample (Thanks Andy).
6 - They focus on the sale, not the relationship
Few people go to networking events to buy. So you have to ask yourself what the point is of trying to sell to people who aren't in buying mode. Think beyond the short-term gain and develop relationships. After all, wouldn't you prefer to get ten referrals from a long-term relationship than one sale from a passing contact?
RESOLUTION TIP - Go through your contact management system or business card file and pick ten people to whom you haven't spoken for a while. Re-establish contact and then stay in touch.
I suggest you read the rest too.
6 - They focus on the sale, not the relationship
Few people go to networking events to buy. So you have to ask yourself what the point is of trying to sell to people who aren't in buying mode. Think beyond the short-term gain and develop relationships. After all, wouldn't you prefer to get ten referrals from a long-term relationship than one sale from a passing contact?
RESOLUTION TIP - Go through your contact management system or business card file and pick ten people to whom you haven't spoken for a while. Re-establish contact and then stay in touch.
I suggest you read the rest too.
Monday, June 29, 2009
A 'lesson for kids' we should all take note of....
This was wrongly attributed to Bill Gates but actuall was by educator Charles Sykes. It's an excerpt from his book "Dumbing Down our Kids". It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and directed at high school and college grads. Perhaps we should take a step back and listen to this as adults.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents'fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents'fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Free or Paid?
The question was asked the other day whether it is better to attend a free networking event or a paid one. In my opinion how much it costs isn't the point.
Networking is all about building long term relationships. It isn't about meeting somebody once and scaring them into doing business with you. Effective business networking means meeting the same people on a regular basis and establishing a relationship with them that potentially leads to business for you both. It probably won't be immediate - trust takes time and patience.
When you recommend another business part of your own reputation goes along with it. A poor recommendation reflects badly on you and you lose a little face. A good recommendation makes you look great and increases trust in you too. So wouldn't it make sense to know more about the person you are recommending?
It might no be possible to see the work of the person you recommend but if you have taken the time to get to know them then trust can be built in other ways.
Relationships should be two way, they should have trust in you before they pass you work. You should encourage this. Mostly recommendations are of the person not the business - you recommend the person you have built a relationship with rather than the business they are in. People buy people and trust is a major factor in their choice.
So the question of how much should you pay for networking is a mute point. Cost is immaterial as any networking event is what you make of it. If you network effectively you build relationships.
Networking is all about building long term relationships. It isn't about meeting somebody once and scaring them into doing business with you. Effective business networking means meeting the same people on a regular basis and establishing a relationship with them that potentially leads to business for you both. It probably won't be immediate - trust takes time and patience.
When you recommend another business part of your own reputation goes along with it. A poor recommendation reflects badly on you and you lose a little face. A good recommendation makes you look great and increases trust in you too. So wouldn't it make sense to know more about the person you are recommending?
It might no be possible to see the work of the person you recommend but if you have taken the time to get to know them then trust can be built in other ways.
Relationships should be two way, they should have trust in you before they pass you work. You should encourage this. Mostly recommendations are of the person not the business - you recommend the person you have built a relationship with rather than the business they are in. People buy people and trust is a major factor in their choice.
So the question of how much should you pay for networking is a mute point. Cost is immaterial as any networking event is what you make of it. If you network effectively you build relationships.
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