East Lothian Buzz
As part of my role in the East Lothian Council’s Economic Development team I’m on the editorial team for our quarterly Buzz magazine. The Spring/Summer issue came out today. You can read the pdf version by clicking the image below.
Young Enterprise
It’s not often I’m in the papers so I thought I would post a copy of this recent article in the East Lothian News about the Young Enterprise team from Preston Lodge High School I’m working with this year (as their Business Adviser). They recently held a successful Quiz Night to raise funds for their [...]
East Lothian Coffee Morning #2
Due to the Glasshouse going into liquidation we had to move the 2nd ELCM to Craigielaw Golf Club who made us very welcome – although they did have a rather relaxed attitude to taking payment for the coffees!
Anyway, we had a few less people than last time – perhaps due to the location? – but [...]
Wrath of an (ex) Dragon
Ex-Dragon Doug Richards has published a manifesto calling on entrepreneurs to lead the country out of recession. While I agree with a lot of what he says, I need to (perhaps with more than a little bias) take issue with some of what he says. In particular:
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“We must sweep clean the entire Government funded industry [...]
East Lothian Coffee Morning – Update
An update to my earlier post.
The first get-together of the East Lothian Coffee morning took place on Friday morning and seemed to be a great success. About 48 people turned up which was beyond my expectations but fantastic all the same. Still waiting to see the survey monkey feedback on the event but the anecdotal [...]
Trying out search engine optimisation – update
I recently wrote about my beginners attempt at search engine optimisation on my sister-in-laws website. It’s now been five weeks since I gave it a shot and needless to say it’s had varied success. Registering with Google Maps was great as her listing always comes up on a google search for ‘personal trainer aberdeen’ or [...]
New business ideas
One of my favourite websites is springwise an on-line database of the latest new business ideas from around the world. I don’t tend to visit the actual website because I’m registered for their fantastic weekly email which brings all the week’s latest ideas to my inbox. They source the ideas from a network of around 8,000 ’spotters’ from [...]
Five things you should do as soon as you start up in business
It’s often hard to know what to do first when you start up in business but if you’re starting up as a sole trader in the UK there are a number of things that you should do immediately.
Register as self employed with HMRC. You have 12 weeks from when you start to trade to do [...]
Trying out search engine optimisation
I’ve always shied away from search engine optimisation because I’ve never really understood it. I realise the benefits it can bring but it’s always seemed too complicated to be able to do myself. However a few weeks ago I decided to give it a shot and thanks to a few decent articles found through Google and attending an [...]
East Lothian Coffee Morning
Had the first meeting this morning to start arranging the new East Lothian Coffee Morning which we’re launching on 22nd January 2010 in Musselburgh.
The mission of the group is to help local businesses understand and use technology and social media to enhance their organisation and ultimately win more business. We’ve got a LinkedIn group page [...]