March Meeting :-

Date:Thursday, 18th March 2010
Time: 11.45 am to 2.00 pm
Venue:The Belfry, Littledean
Lunch Cost: Free for members, £15.00 for non-members

EVERYONE WELCOME!
Our speaker for the March 18th lunch is John Sherahilo from Thomson and Bancks Solicitors who will be exploring how “Divorce can seriously damage your wealth”. John will explain how it effects the person and their business. Even if this does not effect you directly you may learn something to help a friend or work colleague and it will no doubt prove to be informative and enlightening. 
Join us for a chance to network with our businesswomen in the Forest of Dean, swop business cards, display literature and swop experiences with like-minded women in business.

April Meeting :-April Meeting :-

Date:Thursday, 15th April 2010
Time: 11.45 am to 2.00 pm
Venue:The Belfry, Littledean
Lunch Cost: Free for members, £15.00 for non-members

EVERYONE WELCOME!
Our speaker for the April meeting is Frances Kay. Editor of their best-selling title THE GOOD NON RETIREMENT GUIDE. This is an annual publication: a new edition comes out each January. The 24th edition has just appeared. The book covers every aspect of retirement, from managing money, making the most of your leisure to ensuring that (since no one is immortal) all practical arrangements that can be made are in place.

An Evening at Celtic Manor

Join us for an informal evening at The Celtic Manor, the home of the 2010 Ryder Cup in the luxurious surroundings of The Twenty Ten Clubhouse, purpose-built to host the world’s greatest golfers at this prestigious event.  Voted ‘Number 1 UK Conference Hotel’ 2005, 2007 & 2008, this world-class resort also features two hotels, three championship golf courses, two luxurious health spas and more. Delegates can look forward to:

- Complimentary drinks throughout the evening
- Spa taster treatments to include hand/arm massage
- Have fun in our Golf Wii Challenge and win prizes including an overnight stay with breakfast at the Resort hotel
- A light buffet will be served
- Gift bag for each guest attending 
Book at:
http://www.gwebusinesswest.co.uk/default.aspx?page=502&EventID=2770880

Sharon Stiles
Membership Manager (normal working hours Mon-Thu 9am-5pm)
T 01275 370845
M 07824 709019
E sharon.stiles@gwebusinesswest.co.uk

Kim O'Rourke - Just how amazing would you like 2010 to be?

If you would like an amazing 2010.if you'd like your business to be creating the kind of income and impact that you always thought it should...and if you want your life to give you the kind of happiness and fulfilment that you only thought was possible in the movies, then there is an answer.

And that is in learning how to set yourself goals.  However, most people don't do it properly and miss out on an amazing life just because they're missing a few skills and a bit of knowledge.

Don't be one of them!

Join me - Kim O'Rourke - on Thursday 10th December for an exclusive and comprehensive tele-workshop (which will be recorded if you can't make it) on this very subject. 

* You'll learn what to do and the pitfalls to avoid so you can guarantee that you'll have goals that excite you and that you WILL achieve;
* You'll find out the one thing that stops you from reaching your goals (so simple, yet so many people fall into this trap);
* The one thing that will make a MASSIVE difference to your goal setting - and very few people know about it.
* And discover an exciting goal setting tool that will make your goal setting a breeze;
* And much, much more.

For an amazing 2010, just go here for all the details and to book your place:

http://www.merriegroup.com/workshops/gsw/gsw9.html

October Meeting :-

10 steps to solving the business efficiency conundrum

How can you grow your business when it takes all your time just to keep it going as it is?  To tackle this eternal problem, you’ll need to spot the flaws in your current systems and develop a structured plan for a new approach.  It’s easier than you think using this ten step plan:

1.  Define your business growth strategy in terms of

1. direction
2. time scale
3. outcome

2.  Identify your personal strengths and weaknesses in a business context. Concentrate on your strengths and aim to reduce reliance on your lesser abilities.

3.  List those business tasks you do well and enjoy doing, and that produce income.  Identify the rest – then arrange to delegate or outsource them.

4.  Assess your business format: self-employed, employer or entrepreneur?
Which one are you?  Which one do you want to be?

5.  Identify the main obstacle to improving productivity in your business.  Is it your:

1. inexperience?
2. procrastination?
3. megalomania?

6.  Develop your delegation skills and remember to use them.

7.  Apply common sense to your admin burden – reject sentimentality.  This is business.

8.  Reassess your admin system regularly and streamline it as far as possible.

9.  Implement your new business growth strategy going forward.

10. Keep your business in perspective.  Remember – you work to live, not vice versa.

4Networking Business Breakfasts

For the opportunity to network with other businesses
and 3 guaranteed business appointments of your choice.

Join us from 8.00 – 10 a.m. at
The Belfry, Littledean
to see what it’s all about.

It’ll only cost you £10.00.
Visit:  http://www.4networking.biz/
or
Email:  teresa.owen@mintzone.com

4Networking is the simple, cost effective and friendly way to market your business.

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Exceptional Thinking - Workshops for 2009

May: HOW TO CREATE AN E-MAIL NEWSLETTER (On computers)
June: YOU’VE GOT THE IDEAS – NOW MAKE IT HAPPEN!
July: ADVERTS THAT WORK
August: COLD CALLING MADE EASY
September: IS YOUR WEBSITE BRINGING IN CUSTOMERS?
October: USING BLOGS, AUDIO & SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES TO PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS
November: SUSS OUT YOUR CUSTOMERS AND THE COMPETITION TO GET YOU BUSINESS
December: RUNNING YOUR OWN EVENTS & WORKSHOPS IN 2010

For more details about any of these click PDF Workshop Details

All workshops cost £40+VAT per person
All Teleseminars cost £25+VAT per person
To book, call 0845 644 9371 or email info@exceptionalthinking.co.uk
Details of each workshop on website: www.exceptionalthinking.co.uk

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Our June Meeting - Review

HITTING THE HEADLINES: DO’S AND DON’TS FROM THE TOP
by Anita Syvret www.syvretmedia.co.uk

Seminar notes:
DO:

1. Contact your local newspaper. They want to know your news.
2. Start with the Newsdesk and Picture Desk
3. Invest in your own PR
4. Think people: promotions, joiners, leavers, awards, activities outside work
5. Support charity
6. Promote the new: premises, contracts, orders, uniforms
7. Think out of the box
8. Jump on the news bandwagon
9. If you’ve got it, flaunt it!
10. Think pictures
11. Learn how to write a press release

1. Be afraid of the press
2. Think they make it up as they go along
3. Worry that they’ve got it in for you
4. Think they get it wrong on purpose
5. Expect a free advert
6. Be surprised by the amount of interest, or lack of it
7. Do competitions
8. Send free gifts
9. Do lunch
10. Give up

Director of SyvretMedia, Anita Syvret, will be holding a workshop on How to Write a Press Release in the near future. If you’re interested, please get in touch.

Anita Syvret    o   SyvretMedia    o    07718 152153   o   www.syvretmedia.co.uk