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Welcome to the Business & IP Centre Nottinghamshire’s mid-October newsletter.
We’ve a jampacked schedule of free online and in person events and bespoke advice for your business. Our support and resources are free to join and open to all. Take a look at our recent inspiring business story feature with Sam Fells, founder of Breaze Health, below.
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Wednesday 26 October, 10:00 - 11:00, online
Articulating a compelling brand story is incredibly valuable for your small business, helping you with:
- distinguishing yourself from your competitors,
- building long-standing stakeholder relationships,
- creating loyal customers,
- repeat sales to drive up profit.
Join Tina Brown from Summit Creative for her webinar over Zoom.
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From taking an idea and turning it into a business to digital marketing and sales, business experts from Smorgasbord are hosting a range of webinars to help you consider starting or growing your business.
Join Mark, Patrick and Tony for a new season of webinars in our Fit for Business programme:
- Marketing Strategy, 27 October
- Intro to Digital Marketing, 10 November
- Paid Digital Advertising on a Budget, 24 November
- How to Stand Out with Sales and Selling, 8 December
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Join us at Mansfield Central Library to meet a range of business support providers who can tell you about services and funding to help your business.
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Do you have a great idea and want to know how to protect it? Get bespoke, one-to-one advice from intellectual property experts online from Potter Clarkson.
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 Accountancy Clinic
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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Black Entrepreneurs – Building the Black Economy
Tuesday 18 October, 18:00 – 21:00, online
Join the British Library’s Business & IP Centre London’s live stream to hear from a panel of experts on how Black entrepreneurs are building empires online by using their influence and creativity. Following this will be an engaging and thought-provoking discussion on community building with Black Pound Day founder and So Solid Crew member, Swiss. This event is taking place at the British Library and will be live streamed so you can join online.
Friday 21 October, 16:30 – 18:00, Bulwell Riverside Library
On Friday 21 October, Business & IP Centre Nottinghamshire will also be showcasing local inspiring black entrepreneurs at Bulwell Riverside Library. Our local entrepreneurs will be sharing their own stories and remarks around topics from our National Network event.
Spaces are limited and booking is required.
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Euromonitor is a leading independent provider of strategic market research. Get data and analysis on thousands of products and services globally.
- Explore more than 115 million demographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle statistics
- Review historical and forecast data for a range of categories
- Use interactive dashboards to visually explore category, company and channel data for an industry, as well as analysis on consumer trends
Euromonitor can be accessed for free through our BIPCs locals in Bulwell Riverside, Beeston, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield Central libraries.
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Business Story: Breaze Health accessed market research worth up to £50,000 with Euromonitor
Often business ideas start close to home. An allergy problem affecting her son sparked Sam to explore and experiment with natural antihistamine and anti-inflammatory products to find a solution that worked.
“I make and sell a range of natural healthcare products to support people with hay fever and allergies. The Breaze range of products was created when my son was doing his GCSEs. His hay fever was awful, antihistamine tablets were making him drowsy and groggy all day and his hay fever was keeping him awake at night too. […] When I looked for an effective, fast-acting drug free alternative to help him I couldn’t find anything. After a 12-year career with Boots I began experimenting with essential oils and botanicals. Breaze is based on the natural antihistamine and anti-inflammatory properties of essential oils.”
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How was BIPC Nottinghamshire able to help?
"We have reached a point where we need to secure investment to grow and scale our operation. In order to attract the right level of investment we need access to reliable market data to assess market value, size and growth both in the UK and internationally
“The Euromonitor reports we needed are not freely available and the circa £50,000 cost to buy them was out of reach for a small start up.
“The BIPC Advisor was able to access and share all the market data I needed free of charge allowing me to build a robust business investment case which will be essential as I begin to build relationships with investors. Without this data I would simply not be in a position to take my business to the next level of growth.”
Sam's best piece of business advice?
"Make lots of small decisions every day. Even if they’re the wrong decisions you’re learning. And – don’t wait for perfect information – 85% is still an A*
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Starting Up? Start Here!
Business & IP Centre is a free, accessible programme of business support which you can tap into wherever you are in Nottinghamshire or neighbouring East-Midland areas, whatever your size or stage of business.
Find out more about our services, databases and other topics from our partners by reviewing our On Demand webinars.
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