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28/01/2009
Networking Event Targets NI Businesses
An event that aims to shrug off the recession and help NI businesses to share knowledge, contacts and to hopefully create business opportunities as a result is to take place next week in Belfast.
The one-day networking conference in the Europa Hotel - run in conjunction with the major networking organisations - is scheduled for next Wednesday (4 February) and promises a full day agenda of networking supported by B4B (Business 4 Business Network), BNI (Business Networking International) and MLN (Management Leadership Network).
Event Organiser Kellie Shields, Director of Beanstalk Events, (pictured with one of the guest speakers Melanie Donnelly from Full Circle Life Coaching) said: "This is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland."
Coinciding with National Networking Week and marking the beginning of Management Month in NI the event, the event is entitled 'Changing how NI does Business' and is aimed at local business representatives who can hear expert speakers, join in workshops and visit the exhibition area.
Kellie continued: "Networking has become a core marketing strategy for business in Northern Ireland over the past few years with all of the networking organisations are reporting an explosion of interest in face-to-face marketing.
"This event brings together three of the Province's major networking organisations, enabling members of all three as well as the wider business community to share knowledge, contacts and hopefully to create business opportunity in the present recessive economy," she continued.
Confirmed speakers include inspiration entrepreneur Benny O'Hanlon from Toddsleap.com, Business Survival Expert Pat Nixon from Moore Stephens and Networking Skills specialist and Women in Business board member, Juliana Sloan. Among exhibitors will be The Prince’s Trust, Chartered Institute of Credit Management and Chartered Management Institute.
Contact: kellie.shields@beanstalk-events.com
(BMcC/JM)
The one-day networking conference in the Europa Hotel - run in conjunction with the major networking organisations - is scheduled for next Wednesday (4 February) and promises a full day agenda of networking supported by B4B (Business 4 Business Network), BNI (Business Networking International) and MLN (Management Leadership Network).
Event Organiser Kellie Shields, Director of Beanstalk Events, (pictured with one of the guest speakers Melanie Donnelly from Full Circle Life Coaching) said: "This is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland."
Coinciding with National Networking Week and marking the beginning of Management Month in NI the event, the event is entitled 'Changing how NI does Business' and is aimed at local business representatives who can hear expert speakers, join in workshops and visit the exhibition area.
Kellie continued: "Networking has become a core marketing strategy for business in Northern Ireland over the past few years with all of the networking organisations are reporting an explosion of interest in face-to-face marketing.
"This event brings together three of the Province's major networking organisations, enabling members of all three as well as the wider business community to share knowledge, contacts and hopefully to create business opportunity in the present recessive economy," she continued.
Confirmed speakers include inspiration entrepreneur Benny O'Hanlon from Toddsleap.com, Business Survival Expert Pat Nixon from Moore Stephens and Networking Skills specialist and Women in Business board member, Juliana Sloan. Among exhibitors will be The Prince’s Trust, Chartered Institute of Credit Management and Chartered Management Institute.
Contact: kellie.shields@beanstalk-events.com
(BMcC/JM)
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