We have only one more week before The Building a Better Business Event at the Milton Park Innovation Centre on Wednesday 31st March.
Our sponsors are Richardsons Accountants based in Thame who will also be exhibiting at the event. Other exhibitors include: Chilli Promotional Products; Spirit Health Club; Ock Health Limited; TBAC; Business Link; Barrets; JEK Software Support and Leachprint.
Our speakers are all local small business owners who understand the challenges that small businesses face. Our Speakers:
Chantal Cornelius from Appletree - Marketing Planning
Appletree works with entrepreneurial companies who want to stand out from the crowd, stay ahead of their competitors and attract the right kind of clients who will then tell the world how great they are.
Hilary Lewis from Creative Training - Creative Shots to keep you energised throughout the day
Creative Training run inspirational courses for those looking to move forward both personally and professionaly with confidence, motivation and a clearer focus.
Merrill Jacobs from Genero Web Design - Web site Useability
At Genero web design we provide easy to use websites, designed with your customers in mind.
Catherine Warillow from Publicity Oxford - Twitter for Business
If you want to know what Twitter is really all about, understand how it works for businesses like yours, and work through how to set up an account and start using Twitter, join this workshop with Catherine Warrilow of Publicity Oxford.
Find out:
- How to use Twitter as a research tool
- Build relationships
- Extend your online visibility
- Better understand your industry and customers
Steve Gunn from Steve Gunn & Associates - Writing Content for the web
This workshop will provide useful guidelines for anyone involved in creating web content. We’ll take a look at:
The functions of the homepage
Ten tips for writing sentences.
Writing for search engines.
The use of key meta-tags
By the end of this session you will understand how to create content that draws people to your website, helps them find what they want quickly and efficiently, and encourages them to take action.
Kevin O’Brien from Web Power Services - Search Engine Optomization and Pay Per Click
You can now have a web design solution that works for small businesses. A site that will continue to evolve over time.

We have a ‘dream team’ assembled for the Building a Better Business Event 2010. They are willing to share their trade secrets and give you access to their specialist knowledge at one very special event on 31st March 2010.
After reviewing your comments about last years event - this year we will have more workshops to choose from, more exhibitors and more opportunities to talk to one another PLUS specialist clinics and amazing creative shots to keep you enegized. For more information check out the website and watch this space for developments.

Are you looking for ways to improve your marketing activity?
Would you like to learn new sales techniques?
Does the thought of social networking leave you cold?
Is your website ready for a revamp?
Will you be updating your business plan next year?

If the answer to any of these questions is YES then come to The Late Breakfast Builing a Better Business Event on Wednesday 31st March 2010.

At this event - which has now been extended to a whole day of activity - you will have the opportunity to go to three workshops of your choice, experience a ‘Creative Shot’ and have lots of opportunity to network as well as collect more information and advice at the business exhibition.

Details on our website - book now to be sure of a place.

Remember there is only ONE event in December on the second Wednesday ie 9th December at The Four Pillars Hotel Abingdon.
This will be a very special event when Scooter Mackenzie will be running a mini cartoon drawing workshop. We are expecting a big group so book NOW.

Last week saw two great presentations at Milton Park and Thame - but quite different. On Wednesday at Milton Park, Chantal Cornelius from Appletree did a short but insightful presentation about How NOT to network! Chantal was her usual entertaining, informative self giving simple but useful hints and tips that guests could implement immediately.
On Thursday Bob Swanton took guests through the fire regulations - sounds slightly boring? But the presentation wasn’t. Bob is passionate about his work and was able to make such a difficult subject both interesting and ‘entertaining’ whilst getting the pertinent points across.

Last week we had two amazing presentations around a marketing theme. At The Late Breakfast Milton Park Catherine Warrilow did a brilliant presentation about social networking. Working through the most common social networking tools Catherine explained when, why and how to use them and the time they may take. To find out more about Catherine check our her website - http://www.warrilowpr.co.uk/

Then on Thursday we had another really good presentation by Steve Gunn from Steve Gunn & Associates. Steve spoke about the value of surveys including internal team surveys the more popular customer satisfaction surveys. We understood how the information can be used to improve services and generally get an understanding of customer needs.

Next week at The Late Breakfast Banbury on Wednesday Katrin Neafe will give a talk about the value of PR to small businesses - if you haven’t booked there are still places available - send an email or call Peter who will book you a place.

First of all The Late Breakfast is sponsoring a barrel at the Choko Beer Festival 2009 on 26th September in Cholsey. This is a great event and we know that on the day itself we will be exposed to 500 plus participants as well as the presence on the website for £120 its an absolute bargain.
Today we had a brilliant presentation by Merrill Jacobs of Genero Web Design about Twitter. Although I have a couple of accounts and do tweet about The Late Breakfast and Marketing I learnt so much more today about adding pics, creating groups and hash tags. If you would like more information contact Merrill he is a great source of information.
Next Wednesday we have The Late Breakfast Abingdon - Networking in small groups in a dynamic , challenging and entertaining atmosphere , it’s “speed networking , with a little less speed”
Our latest news is the new venue we will be launching in October at Silverstone - keep watching the website for details of our speaker and put Tuesday 6th October in your diary.
Watch out for Catherine Warrilow who is repeating her very popular presentation on social networking at Milton Park on 16th September - not to be missed - we had one of our biggest turnouts when Catherine presented at The Late Breakfast Abingdon.
See you soon………

We have a treat tomorrow with a presentation by Diksha from Fixme . If you haven’t booked then just turn up tomorrow it would be great to see you.

Very informative and easy to understand presentation by Debbie Sadler and Kathy Hill this morning at Milton Park. If you are a consultant or provide services of any kind this was a ‘must hear’ presentation.

We have asked Kathy and Debbie if they will do another event at one of our other venues so keep an eye on the website for more information.

Don’t forget we have The Late Breakfast Thame tomorrow with Greg Lovett from Fizz Accounting - his presentation is entitled - “Live like an MP: how to get the taxpayer to contribute to your expenses (without getting caught).” Come and join us there is no need to book.

I learnt how to breath from my diaphram, project my voice and claim my personal space in this excellent interactive presentation by Patrick Bird - patrick

Patrick demonstrated his acting skills, training skills as well as his town crier skills all in a dynamic and exciting 20 minutes.

Next Wednesday at Milton Park there is Debbie Sadler and Kathy Hills from Blake Lapthorn with a presentation - What does your consultancy agreement say about you? - a discussion of the employment and tax considerations for self-employed consultants’

Contact peter@thelatebreakfast.co.uk if you would like to book a place.