2012, A bright new year or gloom and doom?

January 3, 2012

Happy New Year to you all 2012 has started with some ferocious weather, and plenty of stories of financial doom in the papers. – But in this Olympic year, how are you and your business feeling? After a fantastic 10 day break over Christmas, i’m ready to go back to work, but my son isn’t [...]

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Making the Media work for you

November 22, 2011

Our speaker last night was Ann Wright from Roughhouse media. With over 20 years experience as a Journalist and TV producer, she had some fascinating insights to give us on how to get yourself as a small business into a position with the media, so that your story and opinion is used. We learnt about [...]

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Why don’t you Buy goods and services locally?

November 14, 2011

Our last months survey gave us some great insights into the habits of local buyers. We asked about the main factors that would dissuade you from buying locally 70.6% of respondants said that insufficient range was something that made them look elsewhere 64.7% said that cost was and issue and the next most burning issues, [...]

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And the winners are….

October 18, 2011

Over the last few weeks, we’ve had a survey out to find out what Horsley people think about Buying Locally. We wanted it to be all about the best of the goods and services locally, what makes people buy locally and what makes them go further afield. We had some great and telling results, about [...]

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Blogging for your business

September 28, 2011

So you know that Social media is there to help your business get known, – you’ve been told that Blogging would be a good idea, but what is it? and how should you start? Our very own Fiona Humberstone is a blogging expert, and her stylish blog is full of ideas, but here is one [...]

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Social media – How do you start?

September 28, 2011

Our talk from Jon Machtynger last week was great, about the large amount of social media methods that can be used to help business’s communicate in efficient ways, – but if you havn’t started yet, – should you? – do you need to? – and how do you? – Thanks to Karen Skidmore of CanDoCanBe, [...]

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Social media – can what the corporates work with be useful for small business?

September 20, 2011

Our talk last night was by Jon Machtynger. As Lotus CTO for IBM, ( that’s chief technical officer, – or clever bod that does lots with information and computers to those like me who’ve never been had a corporate life) he is brilliantly based to give us an understanding of how a multinational corporation uses [...]

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Family Fun Day at Horsley Towers this Sunday 24th July

July 20, 2011

Those of you that have come to one of the meetings at Horsley Park over the the last few months, will know that that there are fantastic grounds surrounding the Conference and hotel buildings, and the De Vere team will be putting them to good use this weekend at their Family Fun day on Sunday [...]

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Horsley Towers, The Horsley Business Network Venue

July 4, 2011

Have you ever noticed that you see things when you walk places that you don’t see when you’re driving past? The Horsley Towers Devere Venue, is so well hidden that even if you walk along the Ockham Road South, you might well miss it But hidden behind the wonderful lovelace flint walls and cottages near [...]

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Jamie Lywood – The Empathy lobbiest

June 22, 2011

Monday evening’s meeting included a brilliant talk from Jamie Lywood. Empathy is a word that most of us know and take to mean sharing emotions, -understanding what someone else is going through. Jamie is a natural story teller, he shared with us how big businesses are finding that customer satisfaction is not enough, – that [...]

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