Family businesses aren’t merely commonplace they are actually the most common form of business structure around the globe, making up more than half of all companies in the European Union, and over 95 percent in the US.
Unfortunately, it’s all too common for family empires to collapse within just three generations. We met with Paul George from the Business Families Team at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and asked him how to make sure family run businesses can avoid being another unfortunate statistic.
Elevator pitches are like business cards, everybody has one. Yes, they are a handy synopsis of who you are and how you can help, but with everyone reeling off their own little pitch, your story could get lost in the babble.
In this show, Business Networking Strategist Andy Lopata dresses down the elevator pitch, while providing food for thought about what you should be saying when you meet people at networking events.
Angels Den, the online funding website where entrepreneurs and investors meet, has launched a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs to pitch directly to Angel Investors.
Using a three minute video pitch, entrepreneurs can now interact with Business Angels through a relaxed and pre-recorded pitch, which can be watched alongside a detailed business plan.
The filming of video pitches started in early June 2008 and is now available to entrepreneurs who are registered with Angels Den. For further information visit www.angelsden.co.uk
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At the age of 14, Sabirul Islam started his own web design company. Now aged 17 Sabirul has published his first book. Sabirul’s inspiration to write the book rose from the vast amount of young people who approached him asking for business advice.
Sabirul is an amazing example of Britain’s teenage tycoons and with the help of Angels Den; Sabirul’s book will become an even bigger success, helping many more young entrepreneurs.
Angels Den, the online funding website where entrepreneurs and investors meet, has launched a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs to pitch directly to Angel Investors.
Using a three minute video pitch, entrepreneurs can now interact with Business Angels through a relaxed and pre-recorded pitch, which can be watched alongside a detailed business plan.
The filming of video pitches started in early June 2008 and is now available to entrepreneurs who are registered with Angels Den. For further information visit www.angelsden.co.uk
This video features Chop’d
Jasper Wright, Managing Director of Chop’d, is currently looking to expand his salad bar business from six outlets to nine by the end of 2009. Chop’d is very popular with city slickers and provides sophisticated shoppers with healthy fresh salads, soups and breakfasts.
“Video pitching is great. I can effectively pitch my business plan to Angels in person. After all, a large part of a business deal is seeing whether you can work together.” Jasper Wright MD of Chop’d
Founder, Bill Morrow, talks about how Angels Den can help entrepreneurs find angel investment quickly and easily.
Watch this videoHave you got a great business, idea, product or service, but you just can't get the revenue growth you are looking for? Do you know there's heaps of potential, and it's time to drive things to the next level?
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Everything is focused on helping you achieve an explosive increase in sales. You won't be expected to pay the sizeable fees that this team would normally cost. We realise that this would be prohibitive for most businesses. Instead using the latest web technologies, you can connect with your team every day to get all the benefit and virtually no risk.
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Social networking sites have grown exponentially in number and in members over the last few years. As more and more people sign up and build their profiles, unless you show people there’s something special about you, you might just end up getting stuck in the crowd.
In this show we talk to social networking experts Lori Richardson President of Score More Sales, Bryan Eisenberg co-founder of Future Now, and Penny Power, founder of Ecademy about the best ways to use social networking to build a great business network.
So grab a pen and paper, turn up your sound and join the social networking experts right now!
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You’ve no doubt seen what great viral advertising can achieve for a business, and if you’re lucky you may even have experienced it yourself. Creating something truly unique that people spread willing across the web has a lot of business appeal.
Virals are cheap, people love them and a successful one will get your business buzz for a long, long time. So what is the secret to creating these elusive but highly successful ads?
By watching this show, you’ll find out what the experts like thought leadership strategist David Scott, founder of Ads of the World Ivan Razl, and Ypulse.com founder Anastasia Goodstein say about producing great virals.
So grab a pen and paper, turn up your sound and hear from the viral experts right now!
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If you have a web based business, or even a web presence, the first contact many of your customers will have with you will involve your website. The first words they hear from you will need to be sharp if you want them to stick through your sales process.
Watch this show to find out from the experts how you can create copy that people will definitely respond to, how it can be used in emails, blogs and on your site.
To help you do that, we've interviewed some of the top online copywriting experts including Jeremy Wright CEO of b5media, Bryan Eisenberg co-founder of Future Now, Sean Cohen Director of Client Relations and Development for AWeber Communications, Stefan Tornquist Research Director of Marketing Sherpa, and Penny Power, founder of Ecademy.
So grab a pen and paper, turn up your sound and join the killer copy experts right now!
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We’ve heard a lot in recent months about how marketing is becoming less one sided, with businesses seeing the rewards of conversations with their customers. Talking with your customers is good, and blogging is proving to be an exceptionally good way of doing it.
In this show we speak to a handful of the world's top online conversation experts, including Penny Power founder of Ecademy, thought leadership strategist David Scott, blogging guru Shel Israel, Jeremy Wright CEO of b5media, Bryan Eisenberg co-founder of Future Now.
Once you’ve seen this show, you’ll know how blogging can free up the channels for conversation, how that will get people more interested in what you do, and how that can translate directly into sales.
Many business owners shy away from email marketing, but the reality is, that if you approach it carefully, email marketing is still one of the most cost effective marketing tools available.
Watch this show to find out how to use of this highly effective tool safely. Here how to do it from the experts themselves including Ben Chestnut of Mailchimp, thought leadership strategist David Scott, Ypulse.com founder Anastasia Goodstein, and Raj Kerha, CEO of MailerMailer.
Find out how a carefully considered email campaign can drive a lot more sales - grab a pen and paper, turn up your sound and join the email marketing experts right now!
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The year 2006 marked the turning point where more people looked to the internet for entertainment and news. The days of telling a captive audience what you wanted them to hear are long gone and businesses need to change the way they talk.
By watching this show, you’ll find out a number of exciting ways you can do this, and how by being comfortable with these new conversations, you could increase your sales dramatically.
Hear from a group of today's top online marketing experts, including thought leadership strategist David Scott, blogging guru Shel Israel, Ypulse.com founder and author Anastasia Goodstein, and Ivan Razl, founder of Ads of the World.
Watch this videoEvery entrepreneur knows that to build a big successful business, there are a number of elements that simply must come together. And while it’s not everyone that has the ambition to grow into a large operation, it’s always a good thing to understand how it’s done.
That’s because growing your business quickly and successfully doesn’t take some special gift. It can actually be very simple, as long as you work hard to stick with proven principles.
In this upcoming show, which is the seventh and final instalment in this series on finance, you’ll find out from Nigel Reynolds, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, just what these three principles are, and how they ensure your business grows quickly!
Watch this videoSearch engine optimisation is becoming more complex with every passing week. As fast as the engines revamp the methods they use to rank sites, optimisers are finding new ways to push listings higher up in search results.
In this show, you'll hear from top SEO experts Rand Fiskin CEO and Founder of SEOmoz, Andrew Girdwood Head of Search at bigmouthmedia, and Sasha Lueken Search Engine Expert at second-elements marketing, as they tell you how to help the engines find your site and deliver crucial traffic.
Anyone with a website knows what Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) means to driving traffic to their site.
Getting a good ranking on engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo is the name of the game, but it demands an approach that will deliver your listing to the right kinds of people, and therefore send you the right kind of customers.
In this show, we talk to some of the world’s leading SEO experts, as they reveal the tactics they use themselves to get not just top ten listings but on the right kind of searches.
Hear expert advice from search guru Rand Fishkin, CEO and Founder of SEOmoz, Stefan Tornquist, Research Director, Marketing Sherpa, Bryan Eisenberg, CoFounder of Future Now, Andrew Girdwood, Head of Search for bigmouthmedia, Rick Wilson, Executive Vice President of MivaMerchant, and Search Engine Expert Sascha Lueken, of second-elements marketing.
After watching this show you’ll know how the top experts approach SEO requirements, including:
So grab a pen and paper, turn up your sound and join the Search Engine experts right now!
Watch this videoIn this show, you’ll hear from the following celebrated entrepreneurs as they reveal their top tips for getting started in business.
Stay tuned to yourBusinessChannel for this truly amazing opportunity to get advice from all these experts in one place!
Watch this videoHear from our Celebrity Entrepreneurs as they dig to the depths of their experience to reveal their thoughts on what it takes to succeed.
In this series, you’ll hear from these experts and more:
Together the entrepreneurs in this series have decades of experience between them, and they reveal the secrets they have gleaned over the years, right here, in this show.
In this series, you’ll hear from these experts and more:
But how do you fly high and still keeping a clear view of what’s happening at ground level?
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Being different is proven path to business success, so what do the UK’s top entrepreneurs have to say about it? In this series, you’ll hear from these experts and more:
Great for the startup or those wanting great advice, this series will feature celebrated entrepreneurs as they let you in on their best kept secrets. This upcoming series will bring you a truly amazing range of business experts and celebrities as they address a wide range of business issues and reveal the secrets of their success.
In this series, you’ll hear from these experts and more:
In this show, you’ll hear from blogging guru and bestselling author Shel Israel, bestselling marketing and PR author David Meerman Scott, CEO of b5media Jeremy Wright, co-founder of Salesopedia Clayton Shold, and founder of Ecademy Penny Power.
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