Interesting and Valuable Day

So today I went to http://www.theenterpriseshows.com/ which are being run by Business Link Yorkshire and help entrepreneurs interesting in receiving help and guidance when starting their business.  I learnt some valuable tips and got some great advice.

At these shows they have various stands from different companies ranging from Banks and Solicitors to local organisations looking at helping you through the stages of your start up business.  I am now expecting a call from a Rotherham Based company that looks to advise startup companies and also a business link advisor who will hopefully help me with my business plan.  I have also emailed a company there who specialise in web design for a quote on the different sites that I am looking to operate.

I went to visit a couple of seminars and while there I bumped into Michael Ord and Gemma Baldan of www.frooly.com which is a start up business which received £1m in start up investment.  They were both doing a talk to local entrepreneurs which was quite interesting and very funny and gave me some good tips on how to get the best from what I want to do.  The business that they run is a Social Networking Site designed to promote the best independent local business, and I think Frooly has the potential and the idea to become huge.  You can follow them on twitter with @whatisfrooly

I also had a bit of a brainwave on the way home, and I need to research this a bit further but it basically a new way for small start up companies to get business.

Anyway, the heavens have opened and what was a lovely sunny day earlier looks quite mental and I may need to build an arc.