10 ways to get your attendees on board with online booking

If you are an organiser who has recently switched your event booking and payment process from offline to online, then you’ll know that sometimes it takes a little getting used to – both for you and for your attendees. At first organisers can be a little tentative and reluctant to becoming exclusively online.

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The tortoise and the hare guide to online networking (for start-ups)

On social networks, it’s tempting to try and grow your network rapidly by accepting any friend requests that come your way and building a network of strangers. As Louis Gray explains, when thinking about business networking; revenue is only going to come from a small selection of your online community. For that reason, building a [...]

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A smart social strategy to get you up and running …

So you’re starting a business? There’s plenty to think about, and you’ll be spinning lots of plates all at once. But one thing you should really have lined up is a smart social strategy. What does that mean? Hear what Louis Gray had to say on a recent trip to London … Please share you [...]

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Starting a business? You should be tapping into social networks.

Penny Power, founder of Ecademy.com, explains why anyone starting up a new business should be active on social networks. Are you already using social networks to get your business off the ground?  Please share your story.

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Network constantly without being irritating

What’s the difference between networking and marketing? Not that much. As a start-up business, you are unlikely to have the funds to pay for an advertising campaign or other publicity. The main burden of letting people know that you are open for business falls on you. Thus, you need to overcome any shyness or reservations you may have about marketing your business.

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Be a ‘Twit’ and engage to start-up your networking engine.

Over on the Marketing Donut we are always keen to impress upon small business users to make the most of Twitter in their efforts to engage with their customer base. For a start-up or someone thinking of starting-up we would advise that you use Twitter to your great advantage also. Once you are established as [...]

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Effective contact with and between start-ups

A number of enterprise agencies are embracing Web 2.0. What is web 2.0? It is the online phenomenon with a shifting definition. Some of its ingredients are: web-based communities such as social-networking sites like myspace and facebook an open collaboration and sharing between users a collection of web tools, probably developed independently, which have come [...]

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