Do you want to give up smoking, get a new job or eat better? Let’s face it, sticking to New Year resolutions is a nightmare at the best of times. In a recent Channel 4 poll, 95% of Brits make a New Year resolution; ‘getting fit’ and ‘saving money’ is the most popular resolution among Brits, and over half of those who make a resolution abandon them after a month.  More than half of those surveyed find having the same resolution as others motivating, so the 95% of Brits who …

Do you want to become a social media consultant or a professional blogger? If you’ve ever looked at freelancers who offer social media services and thought ‘those services would be a great addition to my business’ then read on:
 
During our live events this year we met some of you are already working flexibly and want to grow your businesses, and some that are keen to start earning their own flexible income in 2012.  So, we’ve put our heads together to see how we could help you.
 
Working as a ‘virtual assistant’ …

Are you using social media to its full effect to promote your VA business?
Or maybe you are wanting to create a social media campaign for your clients?
Well join Antonia Chitty and Erica Douglas in their free webinar to learn why social media skills are essential for virtual assistants. As part of the webinar you will learn how to find mew clients and develop new skills giving you a more valuable service to offer.
This free webinar takes place on Thursday 24th November at 8pm (GMT). To secure your place sign up …

Twitter can help you reach more people but it can be tricky to get a balance of interesting tweets to attract followers and messages that motivate them to buy. It is a great way to build relationships which helps people to trust you and buy from you.

If you’re using Facebook socially, it is easy to turn it into another way people can discover your business. Go to ‘groups’ and click the ‘set up a group’ button or click on the link at the bottom of any ‘page’ to set up a page. A group is ideal if you want to promote a membership organisation or club, while a page is more appropriate for most businesses.

The Innovate Her workshops will inspire you to unlock your creativity, spark new ideas, uncover and create new ways of doing business to change and accelerate your business.

I’ve been a work at home mum for four months, not very long. But I’m encouraged by how it’s going. Work is coming my way and the big challenge is fitting it around my three young children.
It took me a long time to decide what work I could do from home. I looked into lots of different opportunities. First of all I considered virtual assistant work, but I realised it was a competitive market. Many people already doing it had a stronger secretarial background than me, so instantly it seemed …

Due to popular demand why not come and join us on Tuesday 22nd June from 11.30am-2.00pm for our second Social Media Optimisation Coffee Morning.

Due to popular demand we are just ‘tweeting’ to let you know that Connection Events are teaming up once again with one of the UK’s foremost exponents of Social Media, Nick Tadd of Social Media Graffiti to bring you a:

‘Social Media Optimisation’ Coffee Morning

Now the economy is on the upturn and your business is starting to recover, perhaps it’s time you started challenging your own marketing strategy?