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Is this the end of the traditional sales person?

Is this the end of the traditional sales person?

Andrew Talbot from bNetCentric explores the changing role of the sales person in today’s internet dominated world. Do the new rules of marketing mean there is no longer a place for the traditional sales person? … Watch the Film

Kent 2020 Vision is a great success

Kent 2020 Vision is a great success

A record number of over 3,500 attendees and more than 350 exhibitors were up bright and early for this years’ Kent 2020 Vision. Held at the Kent Show Ground Detling, it is now the largest business conference in the South East.

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How to create your own marketing system

How to create your own marketing system

Andrew Talbot of bNetCentric talks about how to create your own marketing system. This video covers how to harness the power of modern marketing tools to help increase the volume of marketing whilst reducing your overall marketing costs. … Watch the Film

What should I think about before starting in business for myself? – Lord Sugar’s Business Basics

What should I think about before starting in business for myself? – Lord Sugar’s Business Basics

Running a small business can be demanding. In this clip Lord Sugar provides some advice on things to consider before you start. … Watch the Film

Global Expense gets animated!

Global Expense gets animated!

Global Expense is Europe’s leading end-to-end expense management solution. They are a specialist provider that will work with you to ensure process efficiency, legislative compliance and genuine cost reduction. … Watch the Film

Simon Middleton talks about the brand effect at TEDxKent

Simon Middleton talks about the brand effect at TEDxKent

Simon Middleton talks about the brand effect.
Simon has become one of the UK’s best known brand consultant. His work has included brand strategy and campaigns for companies that include: Barclays, Norwich Union, Denplan, pharmaceutical giant Merial, brewing and wine company Adnams, and Britain’s best known sandwich chain Pret A Manger. … Watch the Film

TED comes to Kent

TED comes to Kent

TED started in USA and is an annual event where some of the World’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design – three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. … Watch the Film

Swale Business Awards

Swale Business Awards

The top two prizes at the ‘2009 Swale Business Awards’ have been won by companies based at Kent Science Park.

GoResponse took the title ‘Swale Business of the Year’ with Global Associates named runner-up.

Organised by Thames Gateway Chamber of Commerce, the Awards recognised and rewarded the borough’s most forward-thinking companies. … Watch the Film

Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale hits the big screen

Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale hits the big screen

Cinema’s across the South East are hoping for a bumper Christmas this year with the launch of “Disney’s A Christmas Carol.”
Charles Dickens’ classic yuletide tale gets a stunning 3D animated makeover courtesy of Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis. … Watch the Film

Shepherd Neame Ale Wins medal at International Beer Festival

Shepherd Neame Ale Wins medal at International Beer Festival

A connoisseur ale from Kent brewer Shepherd Neame has been honoured with a European Star at one of the world’s biggest beer-tasting events.

1698 Bottle Conditioned Ale won a bronze medal in the English-Style Golden Bitter category in a blind tasting of hundreds of beers from all over the world.

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Google Adds A Social Element To Search Results

Google Adds A Social Element To Search Results

Google Social Search, an experimental feature announced today, enables you to discover publicly available web content from your social circle online. When using Social Search you will sometimes see a special set of “Results from people in your social circle” towards the bottom of the results page. These social results will include relevant websites, blogs, status updates, and other publicly-available content from your online friends and contacts. So if you’re planning a trip to Cairo, and a friend of yours happens to have listed great places to stay on his website, Google Social Search makes it much easier to find this kind of content.

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Oil Drum Expands into Europe

Oil Drum Expands into Europe

Oil Drum Expands into Europe 

A Kent-based company is continuing on the road to success after signing another licensing deal that will enable its Fuel-Saving technology to be manufactured, sold and installed in the Baltic States.

Oil Drum, based at the University of Kent in Canterbury, has awarded an exclusive licence to European renewable energy company UAB Hydro2. The deal will allow UAB Hydro2 to manufacture, sell and install the Save-Fuel On Demand Hydrogen Technology for the truck, bus and coach industries in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. … Watch the Film

Three Men In The Wrong Boat – Party Leaders Need Total Image Change

Three Men In The Wrong Boat – Party Leaders Need Total Image Change

Brown, Cameron and Clegg might as well be Compo, Foggy and Clegg with their lack of good communication skills says political communications specialist.

The top three political leaders are turning voters off with their poor communications skills and outdated images. 

By paying more attention to their tone of voice, speech delivery and working on their ‘You Brand’, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg could help win over the British public. But they are currently all at sea when it comes to their personal presentation. … Continue Reading

Green Light Granted for Growth

Green Light Granted for Growth

Swale Borough Council has given Kent Science Park the green light to go for growth after it granted permission to extend the Sittingbourne-based development and create room for a further 500 much-needed new jobs.

The investment, worth in the region of £15-20m over the next five years, will see the Park extended by four hectares (10 acres) from its current 22 to 26 hectares. The decision also gives LaSalle Investment Management, the Park’s managers, the green light to develop up to 12,000m2 (129,170ft2) of business floorspace, as well as a further two Technology Units. … Continue Reading

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Kent 2020 Vision is a great success

April 28, 2010

Kent 2020 Vision is a great success

A record number of over 3,500 attendees and more than 350 exhibitors were up bright and early for this years’ Kent 2020 Vision. Held at the Kent Show Ground Detling, it is now the largest business conference in the South East.

Should I prepare a business plan? – Lord Sugar’s Business Basics

March 18, 2010

Should I prepare a business plan? – Lord Sugar’s Business Basics

All businesses should have a business plan. Lord Sugar provides advice on keeping things simple and realistic.

Global Expense gets animated!

March 18, 2010

Global Expense gets animated!

Global Expense is Europe’s leading end-to-end expense management solution. They are a specialist provider that will work with you to ensure process efficiency, legislative compliance and genuine cost reduction.

Simon Middleton talks about the brand effect at TEDxKent

March 18, 2010

Simon Middleton talks about the brand effect at TEDxKent

Simon Middleton talks about the brand effect.
Simon has become one of the UK’s best known brand consultant. His work has included brand strategy and campaigns for companies that include: Barclays, Norwich Union, Denplan, pharmaceutical giant Merial, brewing and wine company Adnams, and Britain’s best known sandwich chain Pret A Manger.

Surf’s Up

February 11, 2010

Surf’s Up

The average silver surfer is now 100 per cent computer savvy – and spends 26 hours a week online.  Emailing, internet banking and shopping means the over 50s spend around 1,369 hours – or 57 days – a year logged on to the worldwide web.

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