Fresh Business Thinking One Day Events

Power packed with ideas, information and advice that you can implement in your business from day one.

The Fresh Business Thinking events are designed for successful businesses, who want to get access to the very best advice, from the very best in the industry but may not have the resources or the in-house expertise to achieve this.

In our business you are only as good as your last event and we are delighted to say that our last event received an average delegate rating of 8.3 out of 10 with 28% giving us a perfect 10!!

During the last two years, over 2000 owner managers and directors of growing companies from all over the UK have attended our events, prepared to invest a day in learning from the country's leading business thinkers and practitioners on topics of: Internet Marketing, Sales, HR, Technology, Online PR, Finance and many more...

Our experts and leading practitioners have included:

Julie Meyer

Julie Meyer is one of the leading champions for entrepreneurship in Europe. With over 20 years investment and advisory experience helping start-up businesses, she is the well known founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, founder of Entrepreneur Country, co-founder of First Tuesday, dragon on BBC's Online Dragons Den and weekly columnist in London's City A.M.

Kate Burns

First UK MD of search engine giant Google who has worked for numerous other web companies including Daily Motion UK, Altavista, Doubleclick.

John Straw

John Straw has 30 years commercial experience in the advertising and IT sectors. A serial entrepreneur, his past 12 years have been spent in the Internet sector.

Mike Butcher

Editor of TechCrunch Europe, Mike has been voted 'One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade' by GfK NOP, In July 2008 he was put at No. 47 out of the Top 100 people in London's creative industry by The Independent newspaper and The Hospital Club, In October 2009 he was named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. He has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman.

Current Event:

Social media marketing is a powerful strategy - there are few other such low-cost promotional methods out there that enable you to get links, attention and vast amounts of traffic to your website again and again...

But it takes time and serious dedication to get it 100% right.

To reach a wide potential of your target customers and clients, you must follow a truely integrated approach - when effectively blended with your SEO strategy, Social media becomes a powerful tool and a potent mechanism that will make your site more profitable.

Our experts and leading practitioners will cover topics such as;

-Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
-Pay Per Click (PPC)
-Social Networks
-Social Media Landscape
-Link Building

Over 85% of delegates would highly recommend the event to a colleague or business associate...but don't just take our word for it:

'Fresh Business Thinking is to be congratulated on a very successful event. I thought the structure of the day was just right, a good mix between speakers, interviews, panel discussions and networking.' Chris Ball, Private Banker with Coutts plc.

'It was inspiring, professional but also fun'

'Very good content and re-instilled the belief in entrepreneurism

'Good, uplifting, intelligent inspiring view on businesses and the market'

'9/10, for all the right reasons'

'Very well organised. All went flawlessly' Simon Darling, Founder, Quiet Riots

'Just to say thanks for organising today. It went very well & was a great way to start the Entrepreneurs Lunches off' Ian Downes, Managing Director, Start Licensing

'Lovely to meet you and really enjoyed the lunch' Glenn Watkins, Chief Executive, Ecademy.

Our events for 2009 have now ended, we are currently planning our events for 2010. Keep checking back for further updates.

If you have a question for the event team please call 0845 5000 328 or email events@freshbusinessthinking.com