Welcome to eBusiness Champions
EChampions has been created to help company owners, managers and other key staff at East Midlands SMEs. It’s a programme of face-to-face events, an online community and opportunities to learn, network, gain support and share knowledge with like-minded business owners and eBusiness specialists.
"giving you the tools and skills to grow your business online."
eChampions is part-funded by European Social Fund and is a partnership between
Can you really run a business without picking up the phone?
Written by Dorte Knights-BranchHere is thought for everyone out there working hard to build successful business online and off line… is it becoming acceptable not to pick up your business phone, can you really keep customers happy and deliver good service that way?
"Technology for Marketing" Earls Court London 2010
Written by Dorte Knights-BranchThis annual show is a great place for any business wishing to keep up-to-date with what it new for the year ahead. 60 FREE seminars and 8 key note speakers over 2 days, covering everything from Digital marketing, CRM, Data analytics, eCommerce, Social media and online advertisement. These are our highlights...
The great thing about this show is that is puts the web site in context to the rest of your business. It is abut the web, but actually the web is just one part of your overall business strategy.
The very reassuring thing was that the show focused on areas that we are already covering on the eBusiness Champions programme and confirmed lots of the things we are currently speaking to all of you about!
Maybe this is wrong to admit, but actually I didn’t think social media was for every one at all! I thought there was a lot of weight behind the often posed question “how will this really benefit a corporate business?” but, cheesy as it may sound, after doing a one day taster course with Caron Lyon from CRM Creative I was actually converted!
The magic words
I fact, I suppose Sue Hallam had done a bit of the ground work for my conversion at the Online Marketing Conference in December by the words “think about what you currently do and then use Social Media to do it better” (or something along those lines).
Slightly following on to a “side-topic” from the recent Nott Tuesday event where Christian Payne from Documentally was the excellent guest speaker on the topic of “Social media”.
The conversation touched on the question of weather you should use a personal photo or your company logo on things like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook etc? Is it all about being personal and people talking to people? Do you create one account for your self and another for your business, and do you still have your own smiling face on the company account? So I fact, should lots of people within a company have a “company profile” specific for their group of customers?
