Entrepreneur Country presents
'A New Common Sense Emerges'
Wednesday 27th February 2013
9:00 - 6:00
Category: Forum
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How To Push Your Boundaries
Recently I gave a presentation for the Association for Coaching on Pushing your Boundaries. It is a topic that seems to be increasingly popular, perhaps because the economic downturn drove many people to minimise risk taking and focus on maintaining what worked, rather than looking for new opportuntiies. One of the...
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Why Sales People Should Never Demo Their Product
Have you ever been on the receiving end of a product demo that seems to go on interminably until you feel that you have lost the will to live? Ever felt that the sales person is simply lobbing feature after feature at you, desperately hoping that that at least one...
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How To Ruin Your Referral Networks
During a discussion with a group of networking contacts recently, I realised that we all knew at least one person who was ruining their chances of getting referrals just by trying to be seen as a ‘jack of all trades’.It is easy to become unnerved by the slowdown in business...
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Why Start-Ups Need A Well Articulated Strategy
I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s) and my take on his argument is this.1. You need to first create a compelling product. Compelling in...
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Ingrid Vanderveldt on Empowering a Billion Women by 2020
This month, I spoke to entrepreneur, investor, media personality and Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Dell Inc, Ingrid Vanderveldt. With a mission of “Empowering a Billion Women by 2020” (EBW2020) as well as creating and curating the $100m Dell Innovators Credit Fund to power entrepreneurs worldwide, Ingrid continues to run her own businesses...
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An Interview With Carl Churchill, NetPay
British technology entrepreneur Carl Churchill is still in his twenties and has already pulled off a string of business successes. We find out what prompted Carl to attend as a speaker at a recent Breakthrough Live event in Southampton.In 2003, British technology entrepreneur Carl Churchill was listed at the top...
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Remote Working: The Benefits For Small Businesses
If you run a small business, you’ll probably know all too well about the need to keep every single overhead to a minimum. Scrimping and saving has become a necessity for a huge number of SMEs in the UK, especially over the past years which has seen two recessions, anaemic...
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Leadership Lessons From a Growth Company
Having effective leadership is important for any company on a growth trajectory, and it is no different for Omega Security Systems. The Bradford based company that specialises in designing, installing and maintaining security systems for the commercial sector grew 44% last year, are now expanding into the domestic market by...
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4 Ways To Lose Repeat Business and How To Keep It
‘The customer is king’ is one of the most overused sound bites in business. It’s also one of the most meaningless.Because while companies spend fortunes telling the world how much they value their customers, at the coal face, the customer experience can be something else. Somehow that message about customers...
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What I Have Learnt about Leadership
I have been an entrepreneur all of my life but I think I have only been a leader for the last few weeks. It is a strange shift and one that I think many of us couldn't benefit from understanding.I look back on the last five years and can now...