Networking in Surrey News – week beginning 18 July 2011

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 (meet our newest ones here), and both sites are getting serious traffic (over 2,500 unique visitors per month in all).

Search engines love all this activity, and adore those links to all your sites. I just googled  ‘4Networking’ (you know, the one with 300 groups across the UK?) which returned 913,000 results, and to my amazement, our Regular Group Meetings entry for 4N on NiS was on page one – magic!

Try googling yourself (and your NiS pals) to see if a Networking in Surrey entry is highly ranked in the results. Remember, this online visibility is yours for free, just for being an active Member of the NiS community. Who else do you know who’d like some of our 'Google juice'?

Lots happening out there in Networkland as usual, with over 200 networking events in Surrey on the site again this month....

many are free ones:
Tuesday 26 – Free Business Intros Guildford
Thursday 28 – Free Ladies Who Latte  Farnham
 

some are pay-as-you-go (no Membership fees):
Friday 22 – Peal Networking Haslemere
Monday 25 – Ecademy Weybridge (featuring David Shaw)
Friday 29 – Sutton Chamber Women’s Garden Party 

others are Member Promotions offering professional development and training (the organisers are NiS Members who pay a small fee - details here - to help sponsor the site):
Friday 22 - Video Marketing Masterclass, Hersham with Tessa Hood

Friday 29 - Mentori Mentoring Sessions, Pennyhill Park with Max Wright

Next month's Member Promos include a great Early Bird offer for Paulette Schwartz’s Business Acceleration Day in Woking on Monday 15 August, with expert speakers including NiS Members Sarah Martin, Garth Delikan, and Sheree Lowe among others, for just £30 including lunch – snap it up now!

Advertisers help to sponsor NiS too, and get huge visibility (and good karma!) for their great value ads. Here they are (with grovelling apologies to the lovely Nicola McDonnell for attributing the wrong business description to her in the last newsmail – soz!)  See their ads over here =>=>=>
 Jane Hardy One Stop Financial Security - helping individuals and businesses with their money worries
 John Udal  thebestof Camberley Expo - promoting and supporting local businesses, online and offline
 Nicola McDonnell Creative Dynamic Print - competitive prices on all your printing needs - digital, litho, stunning design and effective Direct Mail fulfillment
Veronica Pullen - Word of Mouth Local - making Social Media work for business owners
Sarah Martin Ladies At Eleven - networking for women who are serious about their business

Christine Baron Paperwork SOS - Chris does your secretarial and administrative work, allowing you to concentrate on your business

Graham 'Rob' Mead - Return My Phone: if you lost your iPhone, would you offer a reward to get it back? Find out how!

Diary of a Networker...

I’ve been out at the coalface getting lots of what Innocent smoothies co-founder Richard Reed referred to as ‘face time’ on The Apprentice final show – I’m lovin’ that expression! I got to Richmond 4N along with Prabha Shiyani, Dan Smale, Sally Burrough, Sheree Lowe, Bryan Butterworth, Max Wright, Mike Wylie, Tim Maycock, Nick Taimitarha, Ben Singer and of course, Hyperman! - 4N founder Brad ‘Marmite’ Burton (love ‘im or hate ‘im!) He said nice things about NiS, so we love ol' BB...

Next morning, before Angela and I took the train up to Yorkshire for a long, wet (in both ways) weekend with our old chum Kenny Custard and his lovely wife Susie, I made it to 4N Walton to see Gordon Hewett, as well as Charlotte Grant, John Edward, Manuel Boger, Mark Stevens, Rowan Johnson and Mike Loughton.  Monday evening was the monthly Trafford networking dinner at Woodlands Park with Jeremy Webb and David Shaw, and on Tuesday I was with Tessa Hood, Joanna Atkinson and Jane Hardy at the Business Biscotti Ambassadors meeting organised by Tina Williams, where Biscotti founder Sue Reeves revealed their plans for ‘world domination’ – 70 groups in a year and much more to come...  This morning I was at Biscotti Woking in the lovely country house setting of Gorse Hill, with Jane Hardy, Jo Underhill, Hannah Kirk, Annette Salmon, Sarah Martin, Antonio Falco and Martin Wallman.

(Sorry if I missed anybody out in that lot :o)

Happy Networking!