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Entrepreneurs Forum

Better Brand Agency — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:30:51 +0000

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Following on from the success of our student conferences over the last 4 years – which have attracted speakers including Bob Geldof, Tom Hunter, Tre Azam and Ian Livingstone, in February 2009 the Entrepreneurs’ Forum held its first Youth Conference, which attracted a staggering 1,300 budding young entrepreneurs.

Aimed at ambitious young people from the region’s schools and colleges Use Your Loaf will follow on from the success of the first Youth Conference, promoting enterprise by bringing students out of the classroom for a day of inspiration, opportunity, knowledge and sharing between young people and entrepreneurs.

The Use Your Loaf Youth Conference will combine an unrivalled speaker program alongside a number of interactive elements to develop the spirit of an entrepreneurial community.

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Enterprise star revealed this week

betteradmin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:50:32 +0000

Jun 8 2009 by Karen McLauchlan, Evening Gazette.

THE search to find Tees Valley’s next entrepreneurial star is just days away from revealing a winner. The nebusiness backed If We Can, You Can challenge recently named its two local finalists Louise Bell, a 36-year-old, from Stockton, who set up Healthy Glow, a home spray tanning business, and 31-year-old Mark Easby, from Middlesbrough, who runs Better – a creative brand agency.
The two finalists beat off stiff competition from four fellow entrepreneurs, who were given the chance to tap into the minds of the experienced opportunity panel during a 20-minute judging session.

Telephone and internet voting closed at midnight last night. This public vote will be combined with the judges’ scores to determine the overall winner who will be announced on Thursday.

As well as becoming a face of entrepreneurship, the winner will claim a unique prize package, including a ‘money can’t buy’ mentoring surgery, £5,000 worth of business services and a business gadget.

The second If We Can, You Can challenge campaign was launched in March this year.

Almost 100 entrants signed up to this year’s challenge – 20% of them were looking to turn an idea into reality; 50% had already launched a business and 30% were already established but looking to push their business forward.

Further information about the campaign can be found at www.ifwecanyoucan.co.uk

The Entrepreneurs Forum Annual Conference Experience

Mark Easby Managing Director - Better Brand Agency — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:56:54 +0000

From Mark’s IfWeCanYouCan Blog.

What a day. I’ve been lucky enough to attend a few Entrepreneurs Forum events before, including one annual conference but none have been as inspiring or interesting as this one.

The speakers were first class. As a young business, it was very interesting to listen to presentations from the likes of Matthew Riley (Daisy Communications), Martin Lightbody (Finsbury Foods) and Richard Farleigh (Dragon’s Den) covering their experiences, both good and bad. It was inspiring to hear about the challenges, issues, and opportunities that have moulded them and their businesses while trying to apply the lessons learnt to our context.

It was also really good to meet the other finalists for the first time. It certainly seems like a great bumch of people and we will certainly be maintaining contact with some of them once the campaign has reached its climax.

Both the main conference, and the following dinner were great experience especially as there were a number of activities lined up for the finalists throughout the day (and night). These included photo shoots, audio comments and video interviews as well as being asked to stand up in front of the conference audience to be highlighted as the ‘ones to watch in the North East’, and ofcourse the Better team got “punk’d” on the evening from Diva’s Incognito….so thanks to the EF team for making us feel a little like pop stars (we even had our own custome badges!).

Here’s looking forward to next year…

The end of a crazy week

betteradmin — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:49:52 +0000

From Mark’s IfWeCanYouCan Blog.

Well, its been a crazy week. Its now over a week since the finalists where announced and time has just flown by.

Not only have we been hectic in the business working on a few proposals and the studio has been working all hours on client projects, we’ve also been trying to embrace the increased profile and new experiences that have come from being part of the IWCYC Campaign.

After just getting used to being featured in the local paper, The Evening Gazette, a number of times over the past week I was also asked to do a interview on BBC Radio Tees early on Friday morning. Although this is very exciting, I must admit it was pretty nerve wracking. It is now available on listen again on the BBC iPlayer website if your interested. I thought we both did a sterling job considering it was our radio debut!

…and then came the Entrepreneurs Forum Annual Conference…as mentioned in the other post (see below) this was an experience and a half! Photo shoots, interviews, drunken ‘divas’ as well as a number of people we didn’t know congratulating us and wanting to speak to us. What an experience.

So I am now wondering that the next few weeks will hold for us. No doubt we will continue with our day jobs and our work in the studio and look forward to some more new experiences to come. I’ll keep you updated as and when they do…