Here’s a little bit of information about our fantastic contributors…
New Kids on The Block:
Louise Turner
Louise is a PR and communications professional who has spent the last 13 years working in PR teams in both the public and private sector. She has won a clutch of Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) awards for her work and now runs her own business providing PR and communications services to SMEs.
Your Virtual PR’s services are packaged up to give clients clarity on price and service.
- Story-Finder will root out the bits of your business which are interesting to the media and turn them into professional press releases for your target publications.
- Media Savvy provides training and coaching for those wanting to take on journalists on their own terms. Learn how to get your messages across, whatever the question and without sounding like a politician.
- In It To Win It takes the stress out of writing your own award submissions. We get to know you and your business then create high-impact award entries that are sure to get you noticed.
- The Whole Package is for those who want a full PR service. This is a bespoke package, tailored to you and can include whatever you need – from strategy to implementation and everything in between, perhaps even including a virtual press office so you don’t have to speak to journalists.
Louise is also a Member of the CIPR and holds their Accredited Practitioner status, guaranteeing her commitment to continuing professional development.
Connect on Twitter @YourVirtualPRUK
or drop an email to louise@yourvirtualpr.com
www.yourvirtualpr.com
Our Awesome Regulars:
Margaret Abraham
Hi, I am Margaret Abraham. I am an experienced Life Coach, Trainer and Emotional Health Consultant. My passion is people, how and why they do what they do. My mission is to encourage them to embrace change, learn techniques for managing their emotions and behaviours.
There are times when we feel discouraged by where we find ourselves. Despite our best intentions we look around and realise that we are not where we would like to be. In these moments it is easy to feel as though we are personally lacking some necessary elements of success. One of the things we can do is to reframe our disappointment and move from frustration to conscious creation.
The services I offer have the following aims in mind.
- To help you discover who you are
- To help you heal the wounds from living who you are not
- To give you the skills and knowledge to be YOU.
web: www.healthandwealthresources.co.uk
email: margaret@healthandwealthresources.co.uk
Tel:07971 864509
Tomi Ayodeji
Toi Ayodeji is a Director of B. Avanté, a beauty distribution and retail company. They are currently the exclusive U.K distributor of ME! Bath, an American luxury brand, retailed in hotels and stores across the world including Sephora, The Four Seasons Resort, Marriot Hotels, Ritz Carlton Resorts and The Waldorf Astoria. ME! Bath spa treatments are also available in spas in the U.K and worldwide. Tomi started out her career as an Accountant and thereafter spent 8 years in Customer Service Management. In the autumn of 2009 along with two of her sisters, B. Avanté was set up and dedicated to bringing fun and innovative beauty goodies to the U.K. Find ME! Bath® and B. Avanté on line at www.b-avante.co.uk.
Marianne Cantwell
Marianne Cantwell runs Free Range Humans. She helps out-of-the-box thinking women make their business (new or old) fit their personality and lifestyle… while growing their profits. Aside from travelling the world with her backpack, running courses and writing her blog, Marianne is currently writing a book on “how to create your ‘totally you’ free range business – without living on baked beans for a year” (to be published in 2012). For more tips on breaking the rules and making your business work for you (not the other way around), subscribe to her blog and Friday ‘love letter’ at http://www.free-range-humans.com (and follow her on Twitter @freerangehumans)
Denise Dale
Denise Dale has worked in the Image Industry for 18 years and specialises in helping people create a personal impact whilst saving money. Denise offers bespoke packages to help you with your personal branding and advice on how to build a capsule wardrobe that matches your budget and life-style. Denise also helps people discover their purpose & how to make their dreams a reality. This means that they can live lives they are proud to own. Denise has been a guest on Premier Radio’s Woman to Woman and was live on air for Kate and William’s wedding in April. She has been a Personal Shopper at Debenhams, and as a specialist consultant in Colour and Style to the Burtons Group. She is a teacher at Kingston and Havering Colleges on Colour & Style. Denise works with a number of professional people, working mums, teenagers and young people. She is also a Nutrimetics Consultant and offers wedding make-up and wedding planning services. www.altogetheryou.co.uk denise@altogetheryou.co.uk Tel: 020 8397 3936
Michelle Daniels
An experienced and effective business development and marketing strategist, Michelle has built a successful career increasing top line growth for service businesses and organisations. She helps her clients turn their marketing, business development and thought leadership plans into reality with her ‘hands on’ support and practical advice. A prolific writer, Michelle also combines creative flair with business nous to produce highly effective results. She has written (and ghostwritten) for many professional and business publications and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and professional services marketing group. Extended Thinking is a hands-on marketing and business development consultancy. Bringing together great minds and great ‘doers’, we help our clients devise and implement plans that achieve real business growth. Our clients come from a wide variety of backgrounds and sectors, but invariably are those who are too busy or lack the resources to action their marketing and business development plans. We roll our sleeves up and muck in to free them up to do what they really want to do and are good at doing.
Tamsin Fox-Davies
Tamsin Fox-Davies is London’s favourite marketing mentor, and the marketing expert for Women Unlimited’s networking club. You can get a FREE marketing plan for your business from Tamsin when you sign up at http://www.tamsinfoxdavies.com/freeplan/.
Tara Daynes
Tara Daynes FCIPD, MSSP, is a fully qualified freelance HR and training consultant with 16 years’ post-graduate experience. She is a qualified Employment Law Paralegal & a registered Investors In People adviser/assessor. Specialising in employment law & business training, Tara helps organisations improve their business performance through how they manage & develop their staff. This includes start-up HR functions for SMEs, writing people management policies and procedures and staff handbooks, and providing training for line management and staff on key issues. Email taradaynes@gmail.com or visit www.taradayneshr.com for more information. Other ways to connect with Tara: www.linkedin.com/in/taradaynes www.twitter.com/TaraDaynesHR www.facebook.com/TaraDaynesHR
Oma Edoja
After failing in several businesses due to lack of clients, Oma Edoja learned what works, built her client-attractive business and now helps women business owners attract regular, ideal clients! She is the creator of the GetClear, GetKnown, GetClients System (TM): 7 easy steps to attracting regular, ideal clients. Through this vehicle Oma shares her wisdom and experience gathered over 20 years and learned from her successful mentors. This way, she is able to help you avoid the mistakes she has made, saving you time, money, and wasted effort! Find out more at http://getcleargetknowngetclients.com/about-get-clients-program/testimonials/
Donna Joy Hubbard
Certified Confidence Coach and Founder of BeDynamic Coaching – www.bedynamic.co.uk – Donna is an experienced Coach and Speaker who works with Individuals & Organisations on getting results through building robust confidence. She has worked with hundreds of people on transforming how they think, feel and act in order to feel great about who they are and fulfil their goals.
Donna’s relaxed and upbeat coaching style allows people to focus on themselves and their lives with ease and for maximum effect. In both 121 sessions and workshops, clients benefit from exploring her innovative tools for positive change including; Choosing a Positive Outcome Focus, Building Bounce-Back-Ability and Shaking Off Limiting Beliefs.
Donna is passionate about helping people to feel great about who they are and achieve their goals, grabbing life by the horns and chocolate.
Wendy Kerr
Wendy Kerr is an expert in Corporate Crossovers® – women who have left corporate careers to start their own businesses. Her company, Corporate Crossovers®, offers coaching, mentoring and resources to enable these women to thrive in their businesses and their lives. Every month she offers free Momentum Masterclasses over the phone with relevant topics to give you a burst of momentum for your business!
Wendy has been coaching for over nine years and has worked with hundreds of clients to help them achieve their goals. Before she became a Corporate Crossover herself, she spent 20 years in corporate, including as General Manager of high profile internet start-ups, FT.com and Quicken.com.au and marketing global brands including Apple, Smirnoff, Tia Maria and Colgate.
Through her company, Corporate Crossovers®,Wendy works with women business owners to help them get more focus in their business, feel more in control of their work and to make more income. For more information, and your free e-book to “Discover the Four Blocks that Stop You From Earning What You Used To and How to Overcome Them ”, visit http://www.CorporateCrossovers.com
Catherine Lee
Catherine Lee is a business blogger and founder of Kaleidoscope Virtual Assistant Services. She has more than 20 years’ experience in office management and Personal Assistant Services, and is now an indispensable right-hand woman to executives working all over the country. Catherine is also on a mission to inspire women to make careers as self-employed Virtual Assistants, and to encourage Virtual Assistants to remember they are giving essential, professional business services and to know their own worth. For more from Cathering check out her blog: http://www.kaleidoscopeservices.co.uk/kaleidoscope-virtual-assistant-blog.html. You can also follow and tweet Catherine on Twitter with @catherineleeva and find her on linked in http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9272295
Sarah Lloyd Hughes
Sarah Lloyd-Hughes, author of “How to be Brilliant at Public Speaking” (Pearson 2011) and founder of Ginger Training & Coaching (www.go-ginger.com) is an experienced, energetic and empowering speaker, coach and writer who works with individuals to support them in reaching their potential. She has taught thousands of people of all ages across three continents. Ranging from professionals in India’s largest IT company, to young people in inner city London, Sarah builds confidence and inspiration in her audiences, whatever their experience levels.
Sarah’s much-lauded workshops are bursting with fun, practical and extremely powerful ways to improve your public speaking. These days she focuses on working with professionals wishing to become key people of influence in their field. She challenges and supports them on the journey to become passionate, authentic and inspiring speakers.
A practicing Buddhist, Sarah suffers from a life-long obsession with happiness. Her personal passions include helping people ‘live life outside the box,’ watching sunrise and eating cake whilst it’s still warm.
Viv Oyolu
Viv is the lead consultant at Bounce Point, which helps start-ups brainstorm and test their ideas before they embark on a business plan or sourcing investment. Her experience spans over 20 years working as Marketing Consultant within the Education, Utilities, Telecommunications, Entertainment, Financial and Automobile industries.
Prior to setting up Bounce Point, she founded Divine Communications Trust (DCT), a social enterprise that creates education resources and programmes for children and young people in 2006. This was after taking a 5-month sabbatical volunteering with an organisation in Brooklyn, New York, working with inner-city children and young people – an experience that changed her life.
These days you can hear Viv fulfilling her dream as a radio presenter on her show called Dream Corner, where she interviews female entrepreneurs, charting their journey to inspire women of all ages to follow their dream and passion.
In her spare time Viv loves to read non-fiction and crime thrillers; watches football (a keen Manchester United supporter!), golf, tennis, snooker and athletics.
Email: viv@bouncepoint.co.uk, Tel: 020 3002 7899, Mobile: 07710 643 828
Deborah Rowe
Deborah Rowe, is a chartered marketer, member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and fellow of both the Institute of Direct Marketing and the RSA. She has more than 20 years of solid marketing and communications experience which she puts to good use as principal consultant of Sheba Marketing. Originally from a science and engineering background, she gained much of her initial experience in the construction industry, civil engineering, and the built environment. She now works with a wider range of clients in industries including professional services, professional associations and publishing. Through her enterprise agency clients she works with micro-businesses, and start-ups, to engender best practice and a strategic approach to marketing. She has been successfully running her business for 11 years. Sheba Marketing provides no-nonsense business-to-business marketing support to small and medium-sized organisations in a range of sectors. The principal consultant works with a network of professionals to provide clients with tailored services to suit their needs. www.shebamarketing.co.uk
Tanya Smith
Tanya Smith is known as the Marketing and Mindset Mentor. She helps Service Business Professionals (Coaches, Consultants, Therapists, Trainers and Solopreneur Business Women) to consistently attract more ideal clients and make bigger profits by using back to basics simple marketing and sales strategies which work. Her approach is to show you ways to use leverage in your business, to make a bigger difference, positively impact more clients and make more sales without being left overwhelmed and time challenged. Tanya is known for simplifying the complicated, and guiding her many clients in a step-by-step approach. You can check out her FREE resources at http://www.InnerGameProfits.com starting with the ‘Get More Clients Marketing Plan’ which gives you a full audit of how successful you are at getting clients now, then the 6 simple steps to rapidly boost your client attracting success, with step by step strategies and fill in the blank templates to apply in your business today.
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Other Great Contributors:
Carole Bozkurt
Hi, I’m Carole Bozkurt, founder of The Blueprint Practice. I have over 20 years marketing and sales support experience as well as nine years with a business coaching company that pioneered executive coaching in the UK. The Blueprint Practice is all about exceptional marketing and business development consulting. This focus strongly connects with my role as a business coach helping clients to achieve individual and company-wide growth and outstanding performance. Whatever your marketing or coaching needs, feel free to get in touch. You can reach me at carole@blueprintpractice.com.
Grace Marshall
Grace Marshall is a mum of two children and a coaching business where she helps busy entrepreneurs make the most of their time and talent. Rather than a one-size-fits-none approach, she’s passionate about helping her clients tap into their unique strengths and personality to do life and business on their own terms, in a way that works for them and their family (rather than the other way around). For more tips on making the most of your time and talent, check out her blog, connect with her on Twitter @GraceMarshall and get her free report “Yes You Can! Top Ten Ways to Grow a Successful Business without Compromising Your Family” at http://grace-marshall.com/yesyoucan.
Joanna Penn
Joanna Penn is an Amazon bestselling author and professional speaker on writing, digital publishing and internet marketing. Her business, The Creative Penn, helps people write, publish and sell their books. Follow Joanna on Twitter @thecreativepenn
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Natalie Smith
Natalie Smith, a CIM qualified marketing professional, is an Account Manager at Blaze Communication where she helps clients to build brands, increase sales, excite customers and communicate more effectively. She regularly blogs about marketing on the Blaze Blog (http://blog.blazecommunication.com) and can be found twittering on at @Blaze_Group.
Charlie Ashworth
Charlie Ashworth founded The Patent Factory™ to help people to protect their ideas. Charlie has helped over 3,000 people with their ideas over the past 10 years, and is an Associate of CIPA, the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. She co-authored the book ‘Patents, Registered Designs, Trade Marks and Copyright’ for the popular Dummies series, and has also successfully licensed her own ideas. If you need help protecting your business and ultimately your ideas, you can contact Charlie at The Patent Factory on charlie@patentfactory.co.uk, phone 0208 408 0659 or follow her on twitter ‘patentfactory’.
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