Come and have the opportunity of meeting upto 200 local businesses for this free networking event.
There will be a guest speaker, a free cold buffet and cold drinks. Plus the opportunity of you winning a 42" Flat Screen Plasma TV. It's a must! For more information please call Vanessa Kaye 01462 481005 for further details or click here to let us know you are coming.
Last night at the Conquest Business Events Annual Awards Evening, organised and run by Pam Woods, Applied IT scooped the hotly contested SME Business Growth Award 2010.
In front of a packed audience of local business people at the Swan Hotel, the awards ceremony was opened by Alistair Burt MP who in his speech stressed the important contribution made by SME business to the recovering economy, he made it clear that the quality of entries had been very high and the judges had had to work hard in their deliberations.
Phil Berg is an International Speaker as well as a successful businessman in his own right and amongst his many roles he is our BNI AREA DIRECTOR for HERTS and BEDS. In this video which is showing on youtube Phil is interviewed about the many advantages members enjoy being part of BNI the NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD - WORD of MOUTHBUSINESSREFERRAL ORGANISATION.
In this video Phil is interviewed at the BNI Vision Chapter's recent successful launch day.
So spend a few moments of your time listening to Phil and the interviewer Michael Cuschieri of Vision Chapter and make your own mind up if BNI BLAZE is for you and if you think it might be, why not come to our next meeting and see what it's all about for yourself?
You've got nothing to lose and lots of potential new business contacts and future business referrals to gain!
If your business is based locally in or around Hitchin then Visit Blaze Chapter this Thursday and have a look at how being part of this great group of like minded business people could help grow your business!
So ask yourself this simple question?
CAN YOU HANDLE MORE BUSINESS?
If you can, why not contact martin@expresstelephony.co.uk or Phone 0800 849 3366 today to discuss coming to our next meeting!
If you had a break in and your PC’s were damaged or stolen, what would be the impact on your business and your insurance?
From a recent British crime survey, there has been an overall increase in reported burglaries from small businesses of 4% in this recession so far. Domestic burglaries have also seen a small increase. As the recession deepens these figures can only deteriorate. A CCTV system can help protect your business and its premises.
Print Hut! see loads of micro business coming to us wanting to see their name in lights. Often a start up business is desparate to see the business name on their printed matter as large as possible. In actual fact guys, this can be a costly exercise and a strategy as effective as throwing money out of the nearest open window.
EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATES by Martin Miller of Mclellans Solicitors
Employer responsible for work related suicide
Employers have a duty of care to prevent foreseeable injury to employees. The House of Lords has ruled that the widow of a man who committed suicide six years after he had suffered severe head injuries in a workplace accident should be compensated by his former employer.
EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATES by Martin Miller of Mclellans Solicitors
New rights for agency workers The Government has announced a compromise deal between unions and employers that will give agency workers in the UK many of the same rights as employees after 12 weeks employment. It is hoped that this will improve the lot of agency workers whilst providing employers with flexibility.
EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATES by Martin Miller of Mclellans Solicitors
Age discrimination - young workers The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 make direct and indirect age discrimination illegal in an employment context, unless the treatment can be objectively justified. The legislation applies to discrimination against young as well as older workers. Recently, a women who claimed that she was dismissed for being “too young” won her age discrimination claim.
EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATES by Martin Miller of Mclellans Solicitors
Changes of contract terms and conditions
If an employer seeks unilaterally to make changes to the terms and conditions of an employee’s contract of employment and the employee is not in agreement with them, it is generally a breach of contract.
EXPRESS TELEPHONY LAUNCH ONLINE DATA BACKUP SOLUTION
For many years Internet Service Providers (ISP's) have offered the ability for SMEs to back-up their data over broadband to a central storage facility but only recently has this really taken off. So what’s changed? Andrew Dickinson, Sales and Marketing Director at Griffin Internet one of our Broadband wholesale partners, investigates Online Backup and the potential benefits to resellers and their customers.
Express Telephony in conjunction with Griffin Information systems will supply their ExpressBackup product to anyone needing a reliable backup solution. This will provide a fully resilent off site supported backup solution that conforms to all disaster recovery regulations and for a little over £7.00 per month for up to 25gb of data it's great value and offers peace of mind in event your systems crash and you need your data in a hurry!
is always looking for ways for small businesses in Beds, Herts and Bucks to keep their cash for longer and if we can't find it in their printing costs we will find it other ways;
I often hear punters talking about cost of print and not the value of print. Therefore I was delighted to read this article recently and thought I should share it with you:
The Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) Inserts Council has revealed that inserts are being devalued as marketers fail to acknowledge their ability to generate a significant online response. Research commissioned by the council showed that an average of 52 per cent of responses to inserts went online, with some advertisements prompting an online response as high as 70 per cent.
Continuing with his theme of the environment and the print industry, Frank Golden, Print Hut's printhuteer#1 continues to examine what the Industry is doing to clean up its act; howwever let's take a break and see what the consumer can do whilst still benefiting from an Ultra Wholesale printing CompanyWhy use recycled paper?
Continuing with his theme of the environment and the print industry, Frank Golden Printhuteer #1 continues to examine the Industry he loves and what it is doing to clean up its act;
The UK’s regulator, Ofcom, has decided to change the rules that apply to 0870 numbers. Operators will be required to charge callers no more to call an 0870 number than it costs them to call a “geographic number”, with a dialling code starting with 01 or 02. As a result, the amount callers will be charged will reduce substantially, essentially eliminating the chance for organisations using 0870 numbers to generate revenue.
Well this is a very contentious issue. Lets be honest folks shall we!!! IT IS DISCUSTING!! Millions of Tonnes of waste, millions of sq miles of virgin forest being systematically felled and burnt, factories and mills spuing out toxic waste into the skies and oceans as well as global landfill issues from the World corportation's insatible appetite for junk mail
In November 2008, BtoB Magazine, a magazine for marketing strategists, did an exclusive survey of marketing executives. The results were reported in their December issue. Among the results are some encouraging numbers for vendors to the media industry.
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