Keith Grover, NiS Founder's Blog (179)

It’s 125ft long & 15ft high and viewed by 30,000 vehicles every day. What is it? John's Big Billboard, of course!

Long-time NiS Members will remember the story of this monster marketing tool as recounted in a blog post here last December. Frequent site Sponsor…

Business Link will soon only exist as an online resource.  Today I received their final Business Information Online locally-focused newsletter for us in the Business Link Surrey area...

Regional Business Link…

Winter draws on :o) as we expect the first frost overnight -  and in ten days time the clocks go back. 

The business exhibition season is in full flow, and tomorrow John Udal’s …

‘Don’t panic, Captain Mainwaring!”  This classic quote from Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army (whose brilliant co-writer David Croft died last month) is a timely piece of advice for all our businesses, as most Western economies slide inexorably towards the second dip in the ongoing recession.

Vince Cable…

Gosh - we’re having an Indian Summer! Perhaps because we didn’t get a proper one this year :o)  And this is the first newsmail for three weeks - partly because we snuck off to our favourite Greek Island, Skopelos, for a much-needed break, leaving Chris from…

The superfast broadband project seeks to ensure that all Surrey residents and businesses can access high speed broadband no matter whether they are located in the county. The Surrey Strategic Partnership has identified this work as a priority for Surrey.

By registering your interest in superfast broadband you will be helping us gain…

Latest update from BL on the demise of Business Link as we know it...

From 25 November 2011, the regional Business Link services will close and the national Business Link website www.businesslink.gov.uk will be…

OK, Folks! It’s time to roll up our sleeves and get back to work. School’s IN, the so-called Summer is over, and we’re starting the long run-up to the ‘c’ word – Xmas! Meanwhile, the economic situation is as dire as ever, and there is no sign of light at the end of the tunnel...

Only the strong will survive the coming recession (I use the word advisedly) so…

Chris over at Networking in Berkshire has been approached by Caroline Morris of Sky TV who is looking for contestants for a new show, and I thought the NiS crowd might be interested. There's nothing in it for us - just a bit of fun, as Rob Brydon would say!  Here's Caroline's  email and the application form - feel free to pass on the details:…

I've just received an email from Business Link with a link to a page on their website giving an overview of Social Media for business in the Q&A format...

1. Do you want to know what your customers are saying about you online?

2. Do you want to hold customer conversations online? 

3. Do you want to…

This is supposed to be the silly season! You know the routine – no real news as such, politicians on holiday, headlines about escaping pigs, celebrity divorces, and Branson up in a balloon somewhere. Instead, we have riots and looting on the streets of London, America heading for Skid Row, and famine in the Horn of Africa. The world’s all over the place, and listening to the news is a sobering…

The Great British Summer rolls on – England v India at Lords, and it’s raining cats and dogs. How reassuringly familiar! The ‘Networking in’ story rolls on too, with Berkshire hitting 700 Members yesterday – marvellous!  NiS is actually narrowing the gap at 637 Members (…

It seems ages since the last of these NiS newsmails back in June - although I did send a couple of Bulletins in the meantime. The first was about advertising on the site – thank you everybody who wanted the last slot for July, soz for not being able to fit you all in... but there’s always August (although that’s filling up fast).

The other Bulletin was offering free…

Grab a free ticket for Tuesday's Business Scene Surrey Connections in Guildford with Grant Leboff...

A last-minute opportunity to see Marketing expert Grant Leboff - for free!

I've just been offered ten free tickets (as you can see they normally cost £10 + VAT...) to the Business Scene Surrey Connections event at 18.30 this…

Thanks to Grace Park in our Linked In Digital Surrey Group for the heads-up on this new intiative from Google to challenge Facebook in the social / business networking space - interesting times!…

Ah, Summer is really here at last: Wimbledon in full flow (‘plucky’ Brits falling like flies!), sudden downpours, a draw at Lord’s, industrial unrest in the offing, a load of rubbish on the telly – all reassuringly familiar stuff!

Equally familiar is the sight of a Networking in Surrey site packed full of great events, starting with the…

Royal Ascot already (300th anniversary) – and Wimbledon next week (which includes the longest day) – 2011 is rapidly approaching half time. Hope you’re having a good year. Most people out there in Networkland tell me they’re ‘doing OK’, which I interpret as not really growing their business as fast as they would like.

At least they’re out there actively networking, so…

Thanks to the guys at streetwisenews.com for sending me these Top 20 Peter Kay Quotes. Be warned: they're not always PC, but some are quite perceptive, others are witty, and I'd hazard a guess that more will appeal to men than to women...

1. Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.
2. At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.
3. One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when…

‘For sale – Networking in Surrey/Berkshire/Bucks. Offers in excess of $100,000’ 

OK, so the NetworkingIn sites are not really on the market – but if LinkedIn is worth $9bn with 100m Members, and our three sites now total well over 1200 Members, we might just be tempted should Google come knocking with a hundred grand to…