It’s that time again!  On March 9th, we are holding our 4th(!) annual conference at the British Library.

The Women Unlimited conference is all about you. It’s inspiring, motivating, exciting, and invigorating.  We use this day to celebrate your bravery, celebrate your successes, and celebrate each other.

This year our theme is all about how to make your business THRIVE! in 2012.

What to expect

We have an absolutely fantastic line-up, and feel truly blessed to have so many remarkable women who are willing to come along and share their stories, advice and expertise to help your business become the business that you have been dreaming of.

“An AMAZING event. I am now going ot find 10 women and encourage them to attend the next event. Outstanding quality of information, it made you feel great about being a woman in business” Christine Alexander-Smith

To be successful in business you need to have a lot of passion, self belief and a powerful vision. But you also need really practical marketing tools and techniques that will help you get the message out, get more clients and powerfully sell your business.

We get that. So we are focusing this year on practical and inspirational marketing skills that will help you get more customers, more clients and more revenue.

All our speakers have achieved fantastic success in their own businesses will share with you what works and what doesn’t. They are bringing their specialist knowledge and expertise to you in a beautifully wrapped package.

What do we promise?

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn and you’ll be inspired. At the end of it you’ll be so glad that you came, you’ll wish you could do it all over again.

This year we want to help you make 2012 your best year yet.

Wendy Hallett

12 years ago, Wendy Hallett started her business from an office in her home with a small bank loan of £1000. Today Hallett Retail is responsible for an astounding £170 million of High Street fashion sales. Wow! Hallett Retail is the operational umbrella for the unique and innovative concept of Fuse – a department-store concession that brings together ten or more brands in a cohesive, boutique-like setting in host stores. The beauty of her business is that it helps small retail brands to get into large stores such as House of Fraser and Debenhams without having to bear all the costs and gives them a much bigger platfrom to sell their products from.

2011 was an incredible year for Wendy, culminating in being awarded the Everywoman Business Woman of the Year. Wendy will inspire you in ways that you can’t imagine. We can’t wait to hear her story.

Dee Blick

There is not much that Dee doesn’t know about small business marketing. In fact, she wrote the book on it! And, it became a Number 1 bestselling business book on Amazon within 48 hours of it’s launch. Dee will be running a practical session on techniques you can use to leverage your brand and your marketing message (AND tell us why we don’t need a USP to be successful), in her fast and furious small business marketing session. You can connect with Dee @deeblick

Lara Morgan

Those of you who came last year will know Lara and know how incredibly inspiring and no-nonsense she is. Lara is the founder of Pacific Direct, which she sold in 2010 for £20m and since then she has launched Company Shortcuts and also reached number one on Amazon with her book More Balls than Most. The secret to Lara’s success was her incredible sales ability and during her session, she will be sharing with us how we can learn to love sales and become superstars at selling within our own business. You can connect with Lara @IamLaraMorgan

Elizabeth Cairns

Elizabeth Cairns runs Amovita, a people development practice that uses a mix of well-being, alternative therapies and coaching to help clients live their lives to the full. Elizabeth is an enormously inspirational speaker, sensitive facilitator and general bringer of enthusiasm to everything she does. She is holding a session on how to be truly present in your business called Today is a gift…A talk for women of power and possibility. This session will leave you uplifted and refreshed and full of energy to put towards your life and your business. Connect with Elizabeth @ElizabethCairns

Joanna Penn

Joanna Penn is an Amazon bestselling author and professional speaker on writing, digital publishing and internet marketing. Her business, The Creative Penn, has helped hundreds of aspiring authors write and market their own books across a wide range of disciplines.

Multimedia is such a powerful marketing tool and really gives your customers a chance to connect with your business. At the conference Joanna will share with you how you can use multimedia to promote your brand and really make it stand out in a crowded marketplace. Connect with Joanna @TheCreativePenn

Lynne Stainthorpe

Lynne Stainthorpe is the co-founder of Big Idea Brand Marketing and a creative brand expert. She delivers provocative and practical strategic branding solutions for clients from retail to B-to-B. Now she brings her big brand expertise from her time with ICI to small businesses and has amazing techniques for helping businesses gain clarity in their brand value. Lynne is going to run an insightful session on how to develop your brand personality to create more sales. Connect with Lynne @LynneStainthorpe

Julie Hall

Julie will be the MC for the day and the founder of Women Unlimited and Springmedia. She is self-confessed Internet geek and knowledge hound. She runs the Women Unlimited business clubs as well as delivering all of our social media and web marketing workshops. She has a passion for helping entrepreneurs gain the skills that they need to create THRIVing businesses and will be sharing some her of tips and tricks throughout the day. Connect with Julie @women_unlimited

At the end of the day

Lara A King, this year’s Funny Women Award winner with close out the day for us.   Lara spreads her own particular brand of joy wherever she goes and leaved us wanting more!

Brilliant day – a combination of inspiration, advice and laughter. What more could you want in a conference
Valerie Eaton

Fantastic Networking

We are scheduling in the networking for this event!  You will have multiple opportunities to network with each other and our speakers during the conference.  And for those who don’t want the fun to stop, we will decamp from the British Library and continue the fun over at the Betjemen Arms in St. Pancras Station.  We believe  that meeting and engaging with other women who are experiencing the same challenges and successes as you are can be extremely heartening and motivating so take this opportunity to meet and learn from each as much as possible.

Where, when and how much?

Date: March 9, 2012

Time: Registration and refreshments from 9:00, conference from 10:00 – 16:30

Where: British Library Conference Centre

How much: £95 (includes lunch and all refreshments)

This really is going to be a FANTASTIC day, so give yourself and your business a boost and book your ticket today.

The Women Unlmited conference will empower you to lead your business to the next level, while introducing you to a community of intelligent, ambitious like-minded women who are all overcoming the challenges and enjoying the rewards of running a business.

We’ll see you there!

“I was at TEDActive last week. The weather is better in Palm Springs, but this event beat it for REALISM, inspiration and most of all, laughs and love.” Catherine Shovlin

Some more quotes from our last conference…

“Lara Morgan was amazing. I am thrilled to see the growth and success that epitomises this year’s event. What a magnificent day, utterly stimulating – I am energised!” Sue Hall

“Wonderful event – great to meet likeminded women, all interested in promoting women in business and DOING the business” Rosemary from Taxi Zapp

“The best women’s event I have been to all year!”

“The most inspiring event I’ve been to in a long time – and the most laughter I’ve had in ages!” Sue Oliver

“An inspiring day amongst a group of absolutely fabulous women. Looking forward to next year’s conference already! Michelle Beck

“Amazingly inspirational day. I laughed, cried, met incredible women and learned a huge amount. THANK YOU!” Galia Orme

April 11, 2012. London Breakthrough the barriers that are holding you back. Now more than ever we need to be taking action in our lives and our businesses to survive the rough ride ahead. This is a dynamic workshop that gives you simple techniques for turning fear, indecision and frustration into power and action. This workshop has been developed specifically for women in business but you can apply it to all areas of your life.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London
10.00am to 4.00 pm

Imagine feeling confident enough to ask your clients for more money. Imagine being able to stand up in front of 40 people and sell your business with confidence and flair. Imagine being able to pick up the phone to 30 people you don’t know and promote your business. Imagine being able to find a way to do all the things that you know you should do, but somehow can never quite face up to.

“The workshop was inspiring. It helped me realise what I need to do to put into action to live the life I want.”

Who should attend

• Women business owners who are worried about how they are going to ride out the current climate
• Women who are thinking about starting their own business
• Women who would like to achieve better results in their business
• Women who want to feel more confident in their business and personal lives
• Women who want to achieve more.

“An eye opener and has given me a positive outlook on life”

Why you should attend:

Learn the truths about fear and how to take full responsibility for your thoughts and feelings. Learn how to choose your reactions to any given situation. Learn how to communicate effectively and turn negative self talk into a powerful vocabulary that will change the way that you work in your business and how you relate to others.

Logistics:

Date and time: April 11, 2012
Location: British Library, BIPC, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB

Dynamic and inspirational, the Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway® workshop is filled with concrete techniques to turn passive behaviours into confidence and self-belief. The workshop teaches you to stop negative thinking patterns that say “I can’t” and re-educate your mind to think more positively – “I can handle it!”

This workshop is based on the international bestselling book ‘Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway®’ which is a registered trademark of Susan Jeffers PhD. Includes a copy of the book and is being delivered under licence from Susan Jeffers (www.susanjeffers.com).

Women Unlimited have partnered with Di MacDowell, registered Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway® trainers to deliver a full day workshop for women entrepreneurs to help them address areas of their business or to help them take action in other areas of their lives.

“Thoroughly enjoyed the class, It was inspirational and fired me up to be more positive.”

“Di MacDowall is remarkable. She has made me realise I’m remarkable too! I’m buzzing! All the control lies inside me, not outside. Looking forward to a new life Thank you!!!”

“Excellent and I am delighted that I came.  It struck many chords with me and will give me the confidence to move on.”

We hold one of our fantastic Business Club sessions at the British Library on the last Wednesday of every month. The club is hosted by Julie Hall in the wonderful British Library Business and IP Centre next to St. Pancras.

Each month we feature a new business topic to discuss and engage with each other about. We have chosen this format because quite honestly, we’re tired of the traditional type of networking that is out there and think it’s time for a change.

The Business Club meeting features an extension of that month’s SPOTLIGHT topic. In January our SPOTLIGHT topic is all about how to optimise your website to get results

This month’s meeting topic:How connect with your customer through your website

Most people create their website, get it live and then don’t look at it for months at a time. A few months ago, we did a session on calls to action on your website, but this time we are going to focus on how to create a website that keeps people engaged and gives them what they want. We’ll look at blogs, social engagement, community development, layout and navigation. We’ll discuss what makes a website work from a content perspective, not just from a visual perspective. If you come along you’ll have an opportunity to look at and discuss your website in particular in your breakout group and get feedback and ideas that you can take back and implement straight away.

What to expect

With straight talking and clear training, we’ll show you what really works. You will walk out with your own action packed, focused marketing strategy that you can take away with you and implement straight away.

You will go away feeling inspired and full of ideas that you can implement straight away. Come along and figure out how to make your website sing. Tra-la-la.

Where, When and How much

Where: British Library, Business and IP Centre (1st floor)
When: February 28, 2012 from 10:00 – 1:00
How much: A bargain at £25!

Here are few things that some of our business club members have to say…

“The business club offers a rare opportunity to speak openly and honestly about your business. It’s great to be a member of a group of business woman who really “get it” I have made some excellent contacts at the club, but even more importantly, business friends and allies.
Julie’s training talks are always on point and stimulating, and provide a very useful focus point to the meetings.
I come away from the club feeling energised and uplifted – thanks Julie!” Felix Macintosh, Tigersonic

“I get so much from every single business club meeting I attend. Not only do I get to meet with likeminded women business owners, aiming to take their businesses up a level, I also get support, advice and the opportunity to develop my business through in-put from the business-wise and very knowledgeable Julie Hall. What a woman! What a club!” Claudia Crawley, Winning Pathways Coaching

““The Women Unlimited Business Club provides an extra dimension to networking. You also get to learn about practical tools and strategies for your business development. The combination of input, interaction and supportive challenge is both motivating and inspiring”.” Sue Oliver

“Thank you for organising such amazingly helpful sessions through the Business Club. It is extremely valuable and unique to be able to pool our knowledge and work together to help both ourselves and other peoples businesses. It is providing the fresh approach and constructive criticism that we lack when we are working on our own in our small businesses. It is also incredibly informative and great fun. ” Emma Hammett, First Aid for Life

“What you have created is ‘networking with a difference’. It’s how women naturally network and I think you’ve uncovered something that no other networking group is really doing as it embraces how we network as women (we collaborate, support etc). Your meetings also incorporate learning so I feel like I’m getting more from it than just networking and this adds real value to my business as I come away with great ideas and I’m inspired.” Anne Loyd

February 29, 2012, London Bridge, London. Women Unlimited and Springmedia, a london digital marketing agency, are running a workshop to help you create your own website in 1 day. During this workshop, you will create your own website using WordPress.  WordPress is a blogging platform that is used by people all over the world to manage their websites and blogs – and also the platform that Women Unlimited is built on!

Please note this workshop is open to both men and women.

We will provide the platform for you to work on for the day, or if you would prefer to work on your own website, we can upload wordpress to your webspace or provide hosting with installation for a fantastic price.  You choose the package that is right for you.  So when you come along on the day you are able to get right into the fun stuff of building your website.

We will help you define your menu, choose your design, show you how to change your designs, how to add functionality without ever needing to get your hands dirty with the code.

WordPress workshop. We  will take you through the process of creating a website or blog using WordPress.  It is an incredibly flexible system that gives you the chance to manage and update your own website at will.  This is the 6th time we’ve run this workshop and you can see some of the fantastic sites that have been created by some of our previous delegates below.

What you will NOT learn:

Firstly, (and this is really important), you will NOT be learning how to write html or coding language.  WordPress has an easy to use interface, everything is available to you through an easy to use administration panel. Using plugins and widget, WordPress takes all the tricky coding out of your hands.

We specialise in making technology simple and will be on hand through the whole day to show you and assist you.  This is a practical course in the extreme in that at the end of the 6 hours you will have your own website that you can be proud of.  That will look professional, that will be easy to update (as WordPress will be your content management system), and will be Google friendly!  What more could you ask for?!

WordPress agenda items

1. How WordPress works
2. How to add templates to your site
3. Choosing and applying your design
4. How to add pages to your site
5. Creating your navigation so that it makes sense
6. How to add and remove elements from your site
7. How to add functionality to your site (ie Twitter, Google sitemap – don’t worry, we’ll give you a few of our favourites and show you where to find the rest)
8. Where to find more information

How will it work?

You can bring your own laptop to the workshop or use the computers onsite.  We will provide you with all the software that you need and the templates that you will be using.  For the purposes of this workshop, you will need to use the templates that we have provided as they have been chosen for their quality and suitability for business sites.  However, we will direct you to other sites where you can choose from thousands of other designs (most of them free!)

What you will need to have in place

All of these things  listed are necessary, but we are happy to talk you through the requirements and how to get them on a one to one basis with each person who books on the course.

Hosting: You will need to have hosting in place if you want to work on your own website and not just any hosting, you need Linux hosting with a MySQL database. Typically this costs about £5 per month (and we are offering this as an option at £50 per annum). We will provide a working wordpress installation for you to work on during the workshop.

Laptop: If you bring your own, please make sure you have a wifi connection.

Domain: Not explicitly necessary to build the website, but your site can’t go live without a name.  We can also go through how to connect your domain to your hosting company, set up your emails etc – we recommend UKreg for domain purchasing.  Never let your web developer buy your domain as you are likely to pay over the market rate and this will become one of your most important assets and you want to make sure you own it completely.

Images: As part of the workshop we will show you were to find images, but will not be able to spend a lot of time on this.  If you would like to have specific images on your site, we recommend you purchase or source them in advance.  Best site for this is http://www.istockphoto.com

Content: Ideally you will have your own content to add to the site.  But don’t it stop you if you don’t – we will provide you with dummy text that you can change at any time.

Who is this for?

• Anyone who wants to create their own blog
• Service based business such as accountants, Virtual PA’s, Coaches, Marketing Consultants, Graphic Designers etc
• Anyone who is interested in creating their own sites for internet marketing

Type of sites this workshop is this not for

• E-commerce sites (sorry, while it can be done, it is out of scope to create this type of site in a day)
• Payment based sites – see above

WordPress is one of the most powerful tools on the internet today and once you have the skills to create your own website, your only limitation is your own imagination.

Logistics:

Where: LMG Training and Development, 202 Blackfriars Road, Southwark, SE1 8NJ (click here to see a map, it’s about a 10 minute walk from London Bridge, 8 mins from Waterloo and 2 minutes from Southwark)
Date & time: February 29, 2012 10:00 – 5:00
Cost: £145.00

Previous delegates websites

But don’t take our word for it!  Here are some of the sites developed by our previous delegates

WordPress is a (free!) blogging platform that is used by people all over the world to manage their websites and blogs – and also the platform that Women Unlimited is built on! This is the third time we’ve run this workshop now so now we can show you some of the fantastic sites that our previous delegates have created. These are website that any new business would be proud of. A lot of work has gone into these websites but it has really paid off!

… and some feedback …

“I attended the ‘Build Your Own Website In Word Press’ workshop a couple of weeks ago, and apart from a few minor problems which were easily overcome I now have a fully functioning, totally fantastic Word Press website! I love it, it’s easy to use and have really enjoyed putting it together. I really wanted to take control of my website, because things change sometimes daily and it was important for me to be in front of the curve as far as new developments are concerned. Julie has been absolutely brilliant (and very patient) in helping me to do this – I do find technology challenging, but I decided to take up the challenge and it’s absolutely fantastic to actually get a result for a change. I definitely recommend everyone to come on this course, it’s money very well spent.

Thanks again, and now looking to upload some audio having just worked out how to use Audacity to record an MP3 – there’s no stopping me now!”  Wendy Dashwood Quick written on June 15 after attending the previous workshop on June 4.  www.resolutioncoaching.co.uk

Not to sound melodramatic, but taking the ‘Build your own website or blog in WordPress‘ course with Women Unlimited was seriously like a weight being lifted off my chest. I’d had experience running WordPress sites before, but invariably ended up wasting hours trying to figure out what became obvious in a matter of minutes on the course. In just one day, Julie and Viv managed to give me the tools to now be able to create and manage WordPress sites independently. Unlike other courses where info is piecemeal and there’s a DVD to buy at the end, Women Unlimited’s approach is to give you everything they can – as well as free support phone calls and webinars – to make sure you’re needs have been tailored to. Basically, I couldn’t recommend it more and just wish I’d seen the course sooner.

Christian McLaughlin, producer/director, Dakus Films

November 21, 2011. We’re holding another of our entrepreneurs evening networking events in central London at the Star Tavern in Belgravia.

Emma Jones

Our speaker for the evening is Emma Jones. Emma is a multi-talented woman… she is the founder of Enterprise Nation and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up’, working 5 -9, Go Global AND has a new book being released November. She is also the CEO of Startup Britain and the Founder of Bitsy, a small business market place.

Emma Jones started her first business at the age of 27 from her spare room in Manchester and successfully sold it 2 years later to Tenon Group plc. This experience provided the inspiration for Emma’s next venture, Enterprise Nation which launched in January 2006. Since then, Emma has not looked back. Enterprise Nation is evolving to help even more would-be entrepreneurs. It has launched a new website Bitsy (www.bitsythis.com), the web’s friendliest B2B marketplace, and Brightword Publishing (www.brightwordpublishing.com), a joint-venture between Enterprise Nation, Harriman House and serial entrepreneur Doug Richard. Brightword produces books, kits and digital products for the small business market. Finally earlier this year, Emma became co-founder and CEO of Startup Britain.

What to expect

Emma is going to share with us her insights, stories and learning from her own journey but also from the experiences of the numerous entrepreneurs that she has interviewed and helped. It will be a great networking and sharing event for entrepreneurs at all stages of their business. Come along and let’s have some fun!

Where, when and how much

Where: The Star Tavern in Belgravia, 6 Belgrave Mews West, Belgravia, SW1X 8HT

When: November 21, 18:30 – 22:00

How much: £15

We hold one of our fantastic Women Unlimited business clubs in Wandsworth on the second Tuesday of every month from 10:00 – 1:00.

Each month we feature a new business topic to discuss and engage with each other about. We have chosen this format because quite honestly, we’re tired of the traditional type of networking that is out there and think it’s time for a change. We are building a network of female entrepreneurs who are a bit braver, a bit bolder and who want to engage with other entrepreneurs that are just like them. The Moxie Club is fun AND will really make you think about your business in a different way. If we don’t give you an A Ha! moment in every meeting, quite frankly, we haven’t done our job.

Now, here’s the thing… this is not a sales network — it’s a trust network. It’s a network that supports each other, promotes each other, and learns together. By sharing your challenges and your successes, you’ll be amazed at how quickly you get to know each other. You’ll get more out of listening to 15 minutes of someone talking about their business at a Moxie Club event than you will out of an hour at a 1 to 1. Each month we build on that connection and develop relationships that will last you a lifetime.

Many women join networking groups because they feel the need for a peer network. Here we have created a peer network that you can be completely open and honest with. You may have noticed, that when you are at a traditional networking event, that everyone’s business is doing great… and it all feels like you’re hearing the same old stuff every time. At the Women Unlimited business club we cut through the proverbial crap and talk about business in a real way. We embrace our challenges and help each other find solutions. You can share as little or as much as you want and know that you will get great advice and support from the other women in the group. It’s a great way to move your business forward and generate some fantastic ideas.

What do you get out of it?

You’ll get a network of friends and peers that you can turn to comfortably for advice, for opportunities, for celebration.   You’ll get new insight into different ways that you can market your business.  You’ll get the opportunity to get out fire fighting mode in your business and spend time working on your business, not just in it.

Honestly, you won’t know until you try it, but I can promise you, once you’ve been to a Moxie Club, you’ll wonder how you ever did without it.

This month’s topic: Calls to Action

Each month is different and we will focus on a different business topic or exercise. The Moxie Club is a chance to work on your business, rather than in it!

Most of us operate in relatively competitive marketplaces. Even if we are not competing on products, we are competing on the customer’s wallet. So how can you make your customers decide to buy from you? you’ll have a chance to work on it directly in the session. It’s Fun. It’s Sassy. It’s networking with a Twist. It’s the Moxie Club.

About Shazia and Third Door

Shazia is passionate about finding ways to help make the lives of working parents that little bit easier through the business she run’s, called Third Door. Third Door is the UK’s first integrated workhub with an onsite nursery. As a parent, you are finally able to work, be near your child and network amongst similarly minded professionals. Additionally, the beauty of Third Door is the flexibility- use the facilities on the days you need them, whether on a Pay as You Go basis or on a regular contract.

Date: Tuesday, December 13 from 10:00 – 1:00

Location: Third Door, 16 Point Pleasant, Wandsworth, London SW18 1GG

A few comments from some of our members and delegates

“What a great club! I connected with three women who helped me with a big issue – this was priceless. The buzz and energy in the room was so motivating and made us feel we could achieve the success we desire!” Wendy Kerr, Momentum

“Just loved it!” Shirley Palmer, CalmRed

“The Women Unlimited Business Club is inspiring and motivational, a different way of networking with a moxie twist” Sue Oliver, Insight2Impact

“Moxie Rules!” Alicia Cowan

“Inspiring, friendly, informative and FUN!” Debbie Brooks

June 14, 2011. Farringdon, London, Innovation Warehouse.  So, what’s all the fuss about Twitter?  Is the reality up to the hype?  Will Twitter work for your business?  Does Twitter work for your business?

Twitter is an incredibly easy tool to use and with a little forward planning can be a great way to spend some of your marketing time (and let’s face it time = money!) At Women Unlimited I use Twitter to post articles, engage with friends / contacts and promote our events and workshops.  And it works!  So I’ve put together this mini workshop to share with you all my tricks, tips and tools on how to use Twitter in your business.

Using 140 characters you can market yourself, build relationships with the Twitterati, drive traffic to your site and make sales!  What’s not to love?

This is an introductory workshop to help you understand how you can use Twitter as an effective marketing tool for your business

In this  workshop we will run through the in’s and outs of Twitter

1. Is Twitter for you?

2. How to get started

3. How to find followers and who you should follow

4. Hashtags, Lists and RT’s oh my

5.  What to tweet

6. Getting familiar with the Twitter tools

7. Twitter Etiquette

8. How to use Twitter for business

9. … and more!

Come along for some fantastic networking and find out how to use my favourite (really!) marketing tool.

We’re running this as a free workshop as part of the launch week for Innovation Warehouse, a wonderful workspace in Smithfield Market (also where we are holding one of our Business Club launches on June 13th).  This workshop is open to both men and women.  I look forward to seeing you all there!

Women Unlimited are running a FREE 4 part series giving you a chance to call in and ask our team of experts whatever question you like around your business and their expertise. Starting on June 17th, every Friday at 10:00 am we will be running a free phone in and webinar discussing a key topic for small business owners.

To be honest with you, this is a bit of an experiment, so if you like it, we will hold more. Give us your feedback below and let us know what you think.

Please note that by registering below, you will be added to our newsletter list. If you have a specific question you’d like to ask, please put it in the comment box on the main WU site. Free recordings of the calls are available to Business Club members.

Every Friday at 10:00 am starting June 17th… block out your diary!

June 17: PR Maven, Diana Soltmann of Flagship Consulting, a Top50 PR agency will be answering all your calls about how to get better PR

June 24: The Mary Poppins Lawyer, Jo Tall of Offtoseemylawyer.com will be on hand to give you her expert advice on all things legal

July 1: The sagacious small business marketer Tamsin Fox-Davies from http://www.tamsinfoxdavies.com will give you her insights on your business

July 8: Our own social media savvy Julie Hall will give you her tips and tricks to get the most out of all the social media channels

We will be putting a registration form up for each of these web chats very shortly, so watch this space.

4 Sessions: 4 Fabulous Female Experts

June 17th: Diana Soltmann from Flagship Consulting

Diana is our PR Maven.  There is not a lot she doesn’t know about PR.  She is the founder of a Top 50 PR Agency, Flagship Consulting and has worked with clients such as Global Entrepreneurship Week, Docklands Light Rail and MWB. She kicks ass in the PR world and has run many fantastic media training workshops for us here at Women Unlimited.  Diana will be doing a 15 minute session on how PR fits with your business startegy and then it is open to you to ask her whatever question you like about PR and your business.

To register for a place click here, spaces are limited, so please make sure you book early.

June 24th: Jo Tall from Offtoseemylawyer.com

Jo is the Mary Poppins of the legal world for small business owners and founder of small business legal site, Off to see my lawyer.  She is one of the smartest lawyers I know and works with the big boys (Dell) as well as female entrepreneurs. She’s highly in demand, but has gracefully agreed to help you out by answering your legal questions.  She is going to start out by doing a session on keeping your website legal (who knew!) and then will answer all your burning questions about your own situation.

Click here to register your place on the call with legal eagle Jo Tall

July 1st: Tamsin Fox-Davies from Enthuse Marketing

Those of you who have met Tamsin before either at our extraordinarily fabulous conference or our speed mentoring session you will know that she has all the tricks for small business owners to be able to market themselves cost effectively.  She is the founder of small business marketing agency, Enthuse Marketing and has one of the best small business newsletters out there. She will be doing a 15 minute session on some of her favourite small business marketing tips and then it’s over to you to ask her whatever you like.

As always, spaces are limited, so make sure you register here if you’d like to ask Tamsin how to market your business.

July 8th: Julie Hall from Springmedia and Women Unlimited

Julie runs all our social media and web workshops here at Women Unlimited and really knows her stuff.  She’s been building websites for over 10 years including the fabulous (if we do say so ourselves) websites for Jo Tall www.offtoseemylawyer.com and for Julie Meyer, online Dragon and founder of Ariadne Capital.  She LUVS Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and think they’re a real game changer for small businesses.  She’ll be doing a session on the top 5 things you should use each one for and then answer all your burning questions.

Click here for your last chance before the end of the summer to ask Julie your social media and web marketing questions

If you like these or like the idea of the please leave your comments below as we will run more in September if they are what you are looking for.  Let us know!

Friday, June 16 2011: 9  inspiring speakers are coming together for the charity Peace One Day.  This is a fantastic event that will inspire and educate you at the same time.  Definitely one for the diary!

• Davina McCall Television Presenter,
• Ben Fogle Presenter, Writer and Adventurer,
• Rosie Arnold Deputy Executive Creative Director of BBH London / Vice President Design and Art Direction,
• Simon Woodroffe of YO! Sushi,
• Marc Koska OBE Founder Star Syringe,
• Miles Hilton-Barber, Blind Adventurer,
• Jeremy Gilley of PeaceOneDay.Org,
• Steve Bolton founder Platinum Property Partners,
• Daniel Priestley of Triumphant Events / Author,

Never in history have you had more opportunity to get your message out to the world. But here’s the problem…so has everyone else.

In an increasingly overcrowded and noisy world full of emails, tweets, video, websites, articles, events, radio, podcasts, how do we make our voice heard, in life, in business? How do you reach your market in such a clogged environment…?

Getting Above the Noise is the latest POD Talks speakers’ event, bringing together remarkable communicators from diverse disciplines, all of whom have managed to make their own voice heard above the noise of the crowd. Learn their winning strategies by joining us at the Royal Over Seas League (ROSL), London SW1 on Thursday 16 June during the day. Tickets will go fast for this extraordinary speaker and networking event – buy yours now.

Who would benefit from attending?
This event is designed for entrepreneurs, business leaders, committed employees and anyone interested in maximizing their potential in their chosen field.

What are the key benefits of attending?
Not only will you get insider and networked with like minded individuals, you will also learn that winning strategist for achieving you goals, including:

• PR & comms for the ‘New Economy’
• Use & integration of social media
• Creating a message that moves people to action
• How to produce a message that goes viral
• Engaging with high profile people
• Progressing a cause forward
• Turning marketing into bottom line
• Unique auction prizes and gift bags
• Opportunities to become more involved with Peace One Day

All profits go to the non-profit Peace One Day to further its campaign to institutionalise Peace Day 21 September and bring about a Global Truce on Peace Day 2012.

Click here to find out more and reserve a place at POD talks for what is going to be an amazing day

The professionals: business bootcamp

Put together by experts and business owners, this two day bootcamp is designed specifically for sole traders in the professional services, from IT consultants, marketing freelancers to accountants. In times of recession, many people are setting up their own businesses, based on their professional skills.

The bootcamp will give you all the tools needed to grow your business beyond your existing client base. The content will be tailored to your key information needs based on the few questions that will be asked when booking.

This is an intense and effective way to spend your time which in the long-term will save you significant time and money. The content across both days covers all of the essential issues you are facing as a new business.

Along with practical exercises and inspirational presentations, you will receive a fact-file of research reports and guides to use afterwards.  This information alone would cost in excess of £500.

The benefits of the bootcamp

• Meet with like-minded people
• Understand how effective networking can boost your business
• How to present a perfect pitch
• Best practice look at financial viable models
• Get information on professional service delivery from the experts
• Discover more about how to refresh your business plan
• Introductory guide to intellectual property
• Develop a strategy to carry your business forward.

Experts

• Johnny Martin – get to grips with your finances with the no.1 small business numbers coach.

• Nick Winton – understand how to grow your client base and potential profits with clever strategy and lead generation.

• Rasheed Ogunlaru – how you can learn to ‘be your brand’ and grow your profile with effective networking.

Event details

Who should attend? Anyone running a business which provides professional services
Place: British Library Business & IP Centre
Cost: £89 with discount code BL89
How to Book: Book your place online

Event dates

Mon 13 June 2011, 09.30 – 20.00. Tues 14 June, 09.30 – 17.00