Raw Business School Guildford - 18th February 2010 - Marketing Your Business With Confidence, Little Miss Perfect Shows You How!
Thursday, February 18, 2010 from 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM (GMT)
Raw BusinessSchool is a face to face networking event that combines business networking with business education. So many businesses fail because many Entrepreneurs lack the necessary knowledge and business skills required to help them navigate, at times, perilous and unforgiving journey of being in business. If Entrepreneurs knew what they would have to give up in pursuing their dreams before they started, would they have actually started their business? Raw Business School can have an impact on business success rates by providing a unique opportunity for Entrepreneurs and business owners to build an extended support network of like-minded people whilst gaining valuable skills.
We already have a number of Network members who have put themselves forward to act as a Raw Business School Leader and during the next three months we plan to have up to 20 ES locations across the UK with Chelmsford being the ES HQ.
We welcome you to join us at the Raw Business School Guildford and experience something fresh and exciting which will add real value to your business.
A 'Little Miss Perfect' starts the new Raw Business School Year at Guildford
Verity Buchanan - Confidence Coach and 'Sales Superstar'
Verity Buchanan began her business career in sales, selling one of the most difficult products - double glazing ! Face to face and telesales soon taught her that objection handling, rapport building and excellent customer service were the only ways to survive and thrive in such a tough market place. Verity realised that honesty and integrity were the best approaches, which made her Top Salesperson in her area with “Coldseal Windows” and this approach became her style in her sales career.
Seeking a fresh challenge, Verity moved into the motor trade in the early 2000’s: this was not the easiest place for a small young lady who knew very little about cars. However, Verity gained sufficient technical knowledge to move into the customer service side of the Volvo business; she discovered that she had a photographic memory, a skill for up-selling and a passion for dealing with difficult clients. She loved the role as it combined the sales person and the counsellor in her, and she soon had a 100% customer satisfaction score as well as excellent commission sales.
As a part of this role Verity moved into selling warranties and so had to become FSA registered. Whilst studying for the certificate for insurance sales in the motor trade and training the rest of the staff, Verity discovered that she really enjoyed learning about different rules and regulations. She decided that being a “Sales Superstar” wasn’t enough - she also wanted to help other people achieve their hopes and dreams through sharing her confidence and sales techniques.
So, Verity decided to take yet another step towards her goal, and retrained as a mortgage advisor; she passed both Module 1 (UK Financial Regulation) for the Certificate in Mortgage Advice and Practice (CeMap) and also the Certificate for Financial Advisers (CeFa) with distinctions, and started working with Countrywide Mortgage Services, quickly becoming one of their highest earning advisors. She enjoyed that role as it pulled together the sales person, the counsellor, the coach and the accountant in her ! However, in order to be able to be an Independent Mortgage Advisor, she took and passed CeMap parts 2 and 3 (with distinctions) to enable her to progress further.
Leading up to the ‘credit crunch’, this afforded Verity a great lifestyle and enabled her to dedicate a lot of time to studying Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and coaching techniques which she knew were essential to achieve her ultimate goal ... her very own company, “Little Miss Perfect”! Verity set up her company in November 2009 - and her business has really has taken off. She ‘walks the walk’ and practises what she preaches - after all, if Clients are going to learn about confidence, it is important to them that they feel their Coach is a confident person and the knowledge the Coach imparts is not simply taken from a book but rather that it is based on tried and tested techniques.
“Little Miss Perfect” offers ‘Perfect Solutions’ for ANY business – ‘Perfect’ is a state of mind!
The Agenda for the Event
7:00pm - Registration and Meet & Greet Event Attendees
7:15pm - Welcome from School Leader, Peter Hartley
7:30pm - Guest Speaker – Verity Buchanan
8:15pm - Q & A
8:30pm - Coffee Break
8.45pm - “Marketing Skills” Workshop
9.15pm - Review of Workshop with Verity and Peter
9.30pm - Session Close
Entrepreneur School Leader
With a BSc in Physics from Imperial College, Peter started in Business as a Graduate Engineer, collecting various post-Graduate Certificates and an MSc in his spare time. Peter spent some 37 years in corporate business, spanning most roles from basic Design and Development through to Test, Production, etc, before moving into Systems and Programme Management. The opportunities to travel around the world, supporting Marketing and carrying out contract negotiations, were used to great advantage. Having reached Cabinet level and 4* level contacts, he finally left international corporate business and took the Independent route, achieving the success and the work/leisure balance he wanted, with a Science and Technology Consultancy company.
Separately, the growing Business Consultancy, which he offers in conjunction with Entrepreneur School, is intended to provide support to others, whether via Tuition, CVs, Documentation, ICT and Websites, Assistance to find Investors, Commercial Analysis, Business Planning and Reviews.
Peter is currently working with SMEs to achieve major contracts (in excess of GB£40M) with the Primes; he is also setting up a complete Internet based business package as a Turnkey system for a Farmer who wishes to sell meat products directly to the public, providing 'worthy individuals' with CVs and websites, and still carrying out some Tuition work (the future lies in the Education of the young).
Peter’s hobbies include most Countrysports, including fly-fishing (when he can catch the flies!) and breeding and working his gundogs. His garden is a place of continuous development, and he is now seeking a new house for a development project.
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About Raw Business School
If you have ever had a vision or a dream to start a business, then you will know only too well that when you first see the vision of what you want to create, you are compelled to act in making your project a reality. If you make mistakes during the research stages, get your company focus wrong or take the wrong advice, then it could seriously damage the chances of your business succeeding. Could there be something out there that might help you get it right from the outset? The answer is, yes, there is - it’s called Raw Business School.
Raw Business School is a series of face to face networking events held in different town locations across the UK, with the primary aim of helping to improve new business startup success rates as well as improving the ongoing success of existing UK businesses.
We can only get the network to reach a terminal velocity and have the high levels of activity that we require if people go out of their way and participate. Every fire starts with a small flame and this is where we are right now. What we need is a full scale bush fire and then, and only then, will we have achieved what we initially set out to do. We truly believe that the combination of online and face to face networking with Raw Business School and Raw Business Magazine will create one of the UK’s most versatile and much needed business support and business growth networks.
We all know that 17 out of 20 businesses fail within the first two years but with the combination that we offer our members, we may just help to change the odds of success.
If you have a dream of going into business and you would like to increase your odds of success then why not join thousands of other Entrepreneurs who are part of the Raw Business Network by registering with us free. You will not be disappointed and who knows together we just might become - United Entrepreneurs!
Previous Guest Speaker Information
Jeremy Webb - Raising The Right Type Of Finance
Yvonne & Rachel Morton - Creative Thinking & Team Building
Ron Mitchell - Protecting and Saving your Business
Emma Wimhurst - Seven Business Disciplines
Bradley Chapman - launch night thank you
Information about Bradley Chapman
Bradley's Blog - Read the heartfelt story of Bradley Chapman's Journey
Bradley speaking at the British Library "Inspiring Entrepreneurs"
Raw Business Magazine
Raw Business Magazine is a digital and printed business magazine which features high profile interviews with successful Entrepreneurs such as Doug Richard, Max Clifford, Imran Hakim, Levi Roots and Rachel Elnaugh.
The magazine is published bi-monthly and contains focused entrepreneurial and business based editorial content. The magazine is delivered free to fully subscribed Raw Businessmembers, key targeted marketing agencies and corporate sector companies.
All editions of the magazine can be viewed online at Raw Business Magazine. If you have a story about adversity or success then please email enquiries@rawbusiness.com or call 0845 468 5000.
To receive a printed copy of our magazine please click here and click subscribe to Raw Mag on our homepage. We hope that enjoy reading our magazine and we look forward to hearing from you.
Contact Details
Raw Business Publishing Ltd
Unit 6 Broomfield Businss Centre
Broomfield Road
Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1SS
Tel: 0845 468 5000 Fax: 0845 468 5001 Email: enquiries@rawbusiness.com
Raw Business School For Entrepreneurs
Raw Business School For Entrepreneurs is the Face To Face Networking and Business Education centre from Raw Business which includes and online network, offering free and life time memberships to Entrepreneurs, Business owners and aspiring Entrepreneurs as well as a monthly business publication.
Raw Business Network acts as a hub for exchanging information between members who use the Raw membership database, live chat and online seminars to expand their contact base and build lasting business relationships whilst offering general business support for Entrepreneurs and business owners, both established and aspiring. Members can use the Raw Business Network forums for ongoing business support and promote their services to other members.
Raw Business was the brain child of Bradley Chapman who has had many years of business experience and has enjoyed both the ups and downs of being in business. Like many business owners and entrepreneurs, Bradley has seen his fair share of adversity and continues to fight for UK Entrepreneurs and their businesses.
Raw Business now has thousands of members and has successfully launched Raw Business School from their Chelmsford Head Office.
Raw Business also has a business publishing arm and has now successfully publishes on line and printed editions of their business and entrepreneur magazine titled Raw Business Magazine which features interviews with high profile entrepreneurs such as Duncan Bannatyne, Rachel Elnaugh, Doug Richard, Max Clifford and Levi Roots whilst focusing on grass roots businesses and entrepreneurs through topical editorial and it’s regular columnists and contributors who are specialists in their field offering advise and support.
Raw Business have started designing their global website which should be ready for an early 2010 launch with the aim of positively bringing the Global Entrepreneurial Business Community together, engaging International Trading and encouraging World Wide Entrepreneurial Innovation.
The aim of Raw Business School is to combine face to face networking within a business education so that start-ups and established businesses can gain full and comprehensive knowledge about being in and running a business as well as what it takes to be successful, learning and meeting new contacts that they can utilise along their journey.
The lessons presented at each School are published on the Raw Business website and allow both Raw members and the wider business community access to a library of material, written by people in business, for people in business.
Our library of past speakers is sure to be of help when looking for the answers to those nagging questions!
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