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Swindon Business Village
At the Campanile Hotel, Delta Business Park, Swindon
Business Village goes online
Our weekly meetings are now online via Zoom, and cost just £5 to attend.
We hold a virtual meeting every Thursday, 8-9am, where we network, get a chance to introduce our businesses, and forge great business relationships. So why not come along?
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Returning to the ‘new normal’ working environment
We had a presentation Rob Stokes of Optimum Professional Services this morning. COVID-19 has greatly influenced our lives both within the working environment and our home lives. For many working from home, and possibly home schooling, there has been a blurring of the...
Data Protection and the GDPR, two years on, and working from home
Cathy Brode presented ‘Data Protection and the GDPR, two years on and working from home’ at Swindon Business Village. Here are details, and the slides.
Staying safe in the digital age – know the risks
Hew Helps gave us a presentation entitled ‘Staying safe in the digital era – know the risks’. Read more about the presentation, and download the slides here.
10 spring cleaning treats to give your website
Martin Jarvis, of DMJ Computer Services Ltd, gave us a presentation this morning entitled ’10 spring cleaning treats to give your website’. In the presentation, Martin highlighted a number of actions that business owners could take to improve their websites.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail
Many businesses people, especially those in the early years of their business, will act first and think later. Many entrepreneurs will argue that doing something, learning by the experience and failing fast if you are going to fail is the right approach.
Stuart Ball, of Swindon-based Absolute Management and Marketing, spends time talking about the alternative approach; that is thinking about what we are going to do and why, validating that it will deliver the right results, then executing the plan.
His presentation helps business people work out where the business is heading, before jumping in.
What’s Business Village ever done for you?
That’s the question we posed – just for fun and not academic research – at our last meeting of 2018. A kind of end-of-term, let-your-hair-down, and have a chat session.
And what emerged is that Business Village excels as a networking group in Swindon because it is supportive, it’s welcoming, it’s not exclusive and – just as you would expect – we get clients, contacts, referrals and recommendations.
So, if you’re looking for a networking group which doesn’t charge an expensive annual membership fee – or any membership fee at all, for that matter – is pay-as-you-go, weekly and effective, why not try Business Village? You’ve nothing to lose (apart from the meeting fee – £9-£12, depending on when you book) and everything to gain.
In fact, the first meeting of the New Year, on January 10th , is a free presentation on Fit for Business for 2019. For more details, book here. We meet Thursdays, 7.30-9am at The Campanile for breakfast and great networking.
Continue reading to find out what we all thought…
Up next at Swindon Business Village : It’s Tri-Networking
This morning, after our usual round table intros (30-60 seconds each), we will split up into groups of 3 and work in a virtual room for 30 minutes. Each participant will have 10 minutes to explain their business to the other participants, along with what challenges they need to overcome and who they would like to connect with.
