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We continue our review of The Festival of Enterprise Part 2 which took place at the NEC. The Festival of Enterprise is a is the yearly show for SMEs, business startups, and entrepreneurs.

Business Connections Live TV and Racheal Taplins, Media March Maker Service presented the media hub at the show. Business Connections Live TV interviewed a number of businesses and business owners to produce there Business Showcase Videos. These Business Showcase videos are featured on today's programme so enjoy The Festival of Enterprise Part 2.

If you would like a similar Business showcase for your business then call the studio on 01784 256777 or follow this link to our Business Showcase Application Page.

The Festival of Enterprise is the fuel you need to get your business to where you want it to be. And sooner, rather than later Strategy can be sidetracked in the day to day running of a business, and scaling up takes the back seat as you end up dealing with piles of paperwork, projects going wrong, or dealing with your overflowing inbox.

This shows in the statistics – according to the ScaleUp Institute, scaleups bring in £1.3tn of the £1.9tn generated by all UK SMEs. The remainder is brought in by millions of companies not making anywhere near as much of an impact as they could.

There's clearly more than a few secrets business owners need to learn about when it comes to growth. Fortunately, the Festival of Enterprise will reveal them all.

Video can massively grow your business! it's a statement we often hear. Video is the key to unlocking the true potential of your website and raising your individual profile and industry influence. Steve Mills and Steve Hyland will be talking about how video can massively grow yow business by simply having a marketing strategy that includes strategic video content. We also look at how you should incorporate video into every aspect of your marketing from website design to email automation campaigns and social media.

• 82% of Twitter users watch video content on Twitter
• YouTube has over a billion users, almost one-third of total internet users
• 45% of people watch more than an hour of Facebook or YouTube videos a week.
• More than 500 million hours of videos are watched on YouTube each day.
• One-third of online activity is spent watching video.
• Over half a BILLION people are watching video on Facebook every day.

Steve Mills is an old friend to the programme. He helps companies to grow sales by making Sales and Marketing more effective. He does this by finding overlooked sales and marketing opportunities and customising the sales and marketing processes.

He's been featured on TV, Radio and throughout the media. and worked in the UK, USA, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Switzerland & Vietnam. He has over 300 published videos on YouTube and 1,000's of blog posts. He's an on-demand business speaker, trainer, and advisor, with a social media following of over 250,000 people, with over 10 years of content viewed and 50,000 page views every month.

LinkedIn Unlocking and how to have a magnetic Profile that attracts the best and repels the rest. Angus will talk us through the importance of Keywords, This is all about Brand You and the various sections of your LinkedIn Profile.

He will be discussing how problem solving and storytelling are key parts of your profile. Angus will also be looking at searching, how to get around the commercial limits and how to save searches.

Angus Grady LinkedIn Unlocker. Angus Grady is a well respected and internationally known LinkedIn expert who brings a different perspective to delivering training. He hates being called a trainer and prefers to see himself as an Unlocker of potential. Humorous delivery style with a slightly direct approach and has been called the Winston Wolf of LinkedIn.

His direct style rarely offends but often raises eyebrows. Mentioned in Forbes as a leading LinkedIn exponent and part of an international group of well respected LinkedIn experts that meet regularly in the UK to share expertise and learnings.

Online Brand Reputation Management is critical in today's online world. Many of us before we buy a product or a service will go online to qualify the purchase and its not just big brands that take their brand image seriously. With the influence of social media and in the B2B market an ill-conceived post on Linked\in or Facebook can spell ruin for a small business.

So what do we need to do to protect your online brand reputation and how do we manage it. On this programme, Relton Herron will be giving examples of what is needed for Online Brand Reputation Management

Monitoring, Managing and Influencing your brand image online. What you need to consider from a small business to a Global player and how to differentiate yourself from your competition and save yourself from a Public Relations disaster.

Relton Herron delivers strategy and implementation for Brands online. Enabling them to grow their bottom line and spheres of influence, by leveraging all appropriate Digital Marketing Channels for their Brand. He's currently acting Chief Digital Officer for a multi-million digital portfolio which he built up from £22k per annum. Also, He, assist other SME's in building their online presence and revenues.

Relton Associates specializes in Digital Marketing and Branding. Online Brand Reputation Management is where the two worlds naturally meet. With solid experience with the likes of: NATO, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sony Music, Tesco, Dr Gillian McKeith, OSCE and others

New Media Marketing is the new buzz word amongst internet marketers. On this programme legendary global speaker Frank Furness shares some of the secrets of successful online and offline marketing.

Connecting and communicating with existing and future clients is becoming increasingly more important. Social media platforms have developed and now should be used as part of any strategic marketing campaign. Marketing has changed dramatically and Frank will explore the science of using the internet to connect with existing & future clients, create brand awareness and use the latest tools, software and technology to put companies ahead of the competitors and be seen as leaders in their field.

Frank will share 'attraction marketing' strategies to build your company brand, drive traffic to your website, dominate Google, and share the strategies of successful companies that are using 'new media marketing' successfully.

Who is Frank Furness

Frank Furness is an international motivational speaker, trainer, and author. His credentials include 20 years of exceptional business success in sales, management, training and consulting and is a social media specialist. Frank has helped audiences around the world to shine with improved sales, leadership and communication skills.

Your content is your greatest asset. You may be a trainer, consultant or speaker who would like to develop an online course. What are the secrets to developing a successful course? Can you use existing material and repurpose it. How long should it be and most importantly how do you promote it?

Michael Brook from My Expertise on Line will show you how you could create passive income from an online training course.

Michael will also share with you the Total Online Course Blueprint… this is a tried and tested process that we use to create our own online courses and courses for our Done For You Clients.

Michael has been educating business people for over 30 years… In 1999 he left a senior position in the Pharmaceutical Industry to start his own training and development business… which he is still running. Professional Excellence specialises in Influence persuasion, behavioural change and communication applied to all aspects of business including sales. Marketing and leadership.

Michael is an NLP Master Business Practitioner, NLP Master Trainer and Qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist. Michael is an experienced business film/video creator having studied with Michael Rosenblum (the father of video journalism) and Den Lennie…For the past 4 years, Michael has specialised in helping people in the expert space or helping professions to take their experience, know-how and expertise and create their own online courses.

Should the UK leave the EU on 22nd May without a deal, businesses that import from and/or export to the EU will be faced with additional controls and requirements that they currently do no need to do when trading with the EU. In a no-deal scenario, businesses will be faced with making Customs Declarations for imports and exports, understanding commodity codes and the tariffs and duties attached to these codes, understanding Incoterm rules and the obligations, additional paperwork requirements, changes with rules of origin and possible implications to UK exemption from the EU trade agreements.

This programme will look at how UK importers and exporters trading with the EU and other overseas countries can prepare for these changes, in the event of a no-deal scenario, where they can find support and information and how to minimise the potential disruption.

Gary is the International Trade Manager at Surrey Chambers of Commerce where he has been since 2015. Along with his team, Gary has been providing International Trade services, including their successful export documentation service, to over 500 Surrey businesses.

Gary has been co-ordinating Surrey Chambers response to Brexit, providing useful information and guidance to their 1500 members. Gary sits on various Brexit Intelligence and Planning groups providing business feedback to the British Chambers of Commerce and working with Enterprise M3 in supporting the Brexit Clinics being held in Surrey and Hampshire.

On 12th March 2019 the Prime Minister Theresa May's deal was rejected again. She will ask the EU for a delay to Brexit. But if parliament reject her deal again then she says she will seek a longer extension from the EU – but any delay has to be agreed by the 27 other EU member states.

Extending our departure beyond three months would mean that the UK would have to take part in May's European Parliament elections.

As the law hasn't been changed, we could still technically leave the EU on 29th March 2019.

We discuss the effect on UK business and asking if the uncertainty is undermining our forward planning?

Linda Bazant is a Barrister and member of the Brexit Advisory Team.. She is a member of Gray's Inn and the Bar Association of Commerce and Finance in Industry. Specializing in corporate and media law with special emphasis on compliance and corporate governance, she advises major blue-chip companies on the implementation of legal process and procedures.

She continues to be a keynote speaker for the Data Protection World Forum and panel member on Brexit for Surrey Chambers of Commerce and Enterprise M3/LEP in addition to providing consultancy and bespoke training for her clients and regular webinars.

Engaging customers and prospects in the right way bring huge value to both parties. Helping business to find more opportunities and converting more enquiries into sales. Anthony doesn't teach people how to sell, but simply shows them how to help their customers to buy

Gordon Colquhoun is a co-director of the Brexit Advisory Team which is committed to supporting their clients successfully engage and navigate through the Brexit process. Our core expertise is based on a multi-disciplinary team with experience and knowledge across a range of environments.

The foundation of our consultancy is built on strong relationships with international law firms and academia, which enables us to underpin our service provision with relevant legal and regulatory knowledge.

The Telephone Assassin is on a mission to get businesses talking again and stopping people from hiding behind their emails and social media. Anthony will be explaining the importance of telephone etiquette and why bringing a service-lead twist to "telemarketing" is so important and impact your telesales success. On the programme we discuss how Anthony gives people the confidence to pick up the phone and the skills to Make Every Call Count.

Engaging customers and prospects in the right way bring huge value to both parties. Helping business to find more opportunities and converting more enquiries into sales. Anthony doesn't teach people how to sell, but simply shows them how to help their customers to buy

Anthony is an international keynote speaker better known as "The Telephone Assassin". He's an author and is he often uses training to accelerate the learning process. After making calls for a huge range of business Anthony found himself as the sales and marketing manager for 5 different companies all at the same time. Because of this he realised that his growing waiting list of clients needed to be serviced too.

After working closely with an NLP master trainer he was able to teach people to "fish for themselves", as he started to really understand the power of his communication style, and combined with the structure he had developed, Anthony began to run a Telemarketing Masterclass.

How to buy a business – buying another business is the fastest way to grow your company – and Jonathan Jay mentors business owners to do exactly that – without personal risk or using their savings.

Jonathan Jay and his team of business buying and selling experts will train you in the steps to buying a business, growth by acquisition, how to sell a company and business turnaround. If you want expert guidance on how to buy a business or how to sell your business effectively without business brokers – you're in the right place!

Maybe you want to understand the best way to borrow money to buy a company or how you go about buying a business with no money down. There are many no money down business opportunities, even when buying an established business When you see a small business for sale or any business for sale you might wonder how to buy a business and how to best go about valuing a business.

For over 20 years, Jonathan Jay has bought and sold companies, making millions along the way. He was Entrepreneur of the Week in the Financial Times and helped families move abroad and set up businesses in other countries for BBC's Get a New Life TV show