Newcastle Business Mums are pleased to announce the next networking event ‘Love your business’ on 28th February 2012, with guest speaker Nicola Cook, some speed networking, light refreshments and 60 second spotlight rounds.

The event will be held at Great Coffee, 81 Quayside, Newcastle at 7.30pm and tickets are £10 which can be booked below.

Nicola Cook is renowned for her engaging, energetic and passionate delivery style which inspires audiences all around the world. And she will be sharing her business story with Newcastle Business Mums at this event.

Nicola Cook the founder and Managing Director of Aurora Consulting has over 20 years experience at the cutting edge of Sales and Human Development. She is a professional speaker, trainer, consultant, business coach and international best selling author (and a mum to two sons!)

An international best selling author Nicola’s first book A New You: The Small Changes That Make the Biggest Difference to Your Life is available in eleven countries around the world. Her second book The Secrets of Success in Selling: 12 Ways to Achieve Exceptional Results currently available in English and Spanish reached the No1 position on Amazon for it’s category on the day of release and has continued to receive rave reviews ever since.

We have 5 x 60 second spotlights available so if you have any news or offers you want to share with the group please contact vicki@vickistonemarketing.co.uk with the details – the first 5 will get a spotlight!

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Here’s our Vicki with a big cheesy grin at this years NE Women Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2011.

Vicki won ‘The Best Women’s Network’ category for Newcastle Business Mums, which she set up in November 2008.

Newcastle Business Mums is the first business network specifically set up to support and encourage business between mums/mams with their own businesses in the North East. There’s no annual membership fee, you pay as you go to regular evening networking events (without children),  which makes it ideal for ‘mums on the go’.

Following a successful career in advertising, Vicki set up her own marketing and digital design company (Vicki Stone Marketing), which she runs with her husband and business partner Richard Stone.

Back in 2008 Vicki tried some local business networks, but felt a bit ‘rusty’ and decided that she hated networking.

Vicki says ” I was creeping around to get dressed before the kids were up to be at a breakfast meeting for 7am for a Full English and she thought, this isn’t for me, so had an idea to set up a mums network.”

After organising and running the first Gosforth Baby show in 2008, Vicki talked to many of the exhibitors (most of which were business mums) and felt inspired by others to go ahead and set it up. Then Newcastle Business Mums was born. 

“I’m really pleased to have come away with such a prestigious award and would like to thank my husband Richard Stone for all the support. We’ve always had a great ‘behind the scenes’ team with inspiring members like Dona Skaife from WBS Accountants, Debbie Donaldson from Pushy Mothers, Catherine Eve from Butterfly training and Sarah Parkin from Kids Deserve the best.”

We’re not part of a franchise. Vicki has created this network from scratch, with no outside funding which has meant lots of hard work and it’s certainly paid off.

In November 2011, Newcastle Business Mums will be 3 years old and to celebrate we’re holding an event on Wednesday 30th November 2011, 7.30pm at The Settle down cafe, Newcastle.

In celebration of our 3rd birthday Kate Emmett from Cake Poppins will be demonstrating the art of making cake pops and mums can even have a go themselves!

As always there will be lots of networking and a charity raffle.

We’d like Newcastle Business Mums to vote for the charity they’d like us to donate the money to, which will be drawn at random on the evening of the event.

When’s the event? Wednesday 30th November 2011, 7.30pm-10pm.

Where? Settledown Cafe,  62 Thornton Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4AW.

How much? £12 per ticket & includes light refreshments (and cake pops). Online payments can no longer be taken, so if you’d like to come to the event please email vicki@vickistonemarketing.co.uk and you will need to bring cash on the evening. Thanks.

Looking forward to seeing you on 30th November!

Vicki Stone Marketing are holding another popular BUSINESS BLOGGING FOR BEGINNERS workshop on:

Dates :

Wednesday 23rd November 2011

Friday 9th December 2011

Friday 13th January 2012

Time : 10am- 1pm

Venue:  Newcastle Business Village, 33 Bellingham Drive, Benton, Tyne And Wear NE12 9SZ

We’ll be  tapping into Richard Stone’s knowledge and blogging experience and he will be focusing on:

• Blogging – how to get started
• Driving traffic to your blog
• I don’t know what to write about!
• Blogging best practice
• Blogging Q&A
• Thrown in with a bit of networking with other wannabe bloggers / new bloggers

Visit Vicki Stone Marketing website to book

Here’s just some of the feedback:

“Great networking opportunities”   “The people were very welcoming”  “great choice of speaker” “very inspirational story” “So nice to have someone outside the area, but sharing the same experiences” “Well attended with lots of businesses” “Cosy venue and loved speed networking element too” “This was by far the best networking event I’ve ever attended. Thanks”.

Remember, Newcastle Business Mums is ‘pay as you go’ to events, which makes it convenient, flexible and affordable.

Make sure you keep in touch by registering for our e-news. Our next event is on 30th November where we’ll be celebrating the network’s 3rd birthday.

Newcastle Business Mums are pleased to announce that we have a truly inspirational mum in business, Shazia Mustafa as guest speaker at our 20th October 2011 event.

Mum-of-two, Shazia is originally from the North East. She will be sharing her secrets about work-life balance and her ‘eureka’ moment which led her to set up her business Third Door Workhub & Nursery, based in Putney, London www.third-door.com

Third Door is the UK’s first coworking space with a flexible onsite Ofsted registered Nursery.

Shazia says “ I’m really excited that I have been invited to be a guest speaker in my home town, I can’t wait to meet all the business ladies in the North East and know that I won’t be the only one in the room with a Geordie accent!.”

Shazia’s previous careers have been with Nokia as a global brand research manager and as an audience research manager for the BBC (Radio 5 Live, Asian Network and online).

We’ll also be doing our popular 60 second spotlight round, so the first 5 women to book a spotlight can let the others know about new products, news, events or even to introduce you and your company. To book a spotlight please email vicki@vickistonemarketing.co.uk

When’s the event? Thursday 20th October 2011, 7.30pm-10pm.

Where? Great Coffee, 81 Quayside, Newcastle Upon Tyne (on the corner opposite the Law courts).

How much? £10 per ticket & includes light refreshments. Numbers are limited and tickets are already selling fast, so please Book below early to avoid disappointment.

 

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Company

Looking forward to seeing you on 20th October!

For more info on the awards and to book tickets for the ceremony in November visit http://www.womenintothenetwork.co.uk/awards/2011/best-womens-network/

Fingers and toes crossed x

Vicki and team

Hyena Cafe, Leazes Lane, Newcastle

Comedy + music =a great night out – and all in a good cause!

An evening of fun to help raise funds for Breast Cancer Care at the
Hyena Cafe in Newcastle on Sunday 25th September.

Comedy legend Dave Johns returns to his native north east to host the evening and will be accompanied by fellow funny men Gavin Webster and John Scott. As well as music from gorgeous girl group the La De Das.

Tickets are just £10 (with every penny going to BCC)
You can get tickets online at www.thehyena.com, or ring the box office 0191 232 6030, or you can buy on the door on the night.

We’re having Japanese food and karaoke in Newcastle City Centre if you’d like to join us. Promise there’s no pressure to sing!

It should be a fun night out, without the office politics the day after

Please email vicki@vickistonemarketing for more info.

Vicki

One of our business mums, Anna Dorward is hosting a workshop -

Presentation skills development – 22nd September 2011 (10am – 1pm)

Effective presentation skills are more than just having the confidence to speak in public. The ability to develop and prepare for a presentation is also essential.

This training session will enable you to prepare for successful presentations. By the end of the event you will be able to:

• Identify and use techniques for effective planning and preparation of presentations
• Establish methods to ensure you can confidently handle questions from the audience
• Develop a personal action plan so you can apply the learning to the next stage of the presentation process – the delivery!

This event represents great value for money – only £30 per person.

Who should attend? Anyone with no or little experience in developing presentations Anyone who would like to brush up their knowledge in this area and receive some feedback from a supportive facilitator Anyone with little time available for training but who recognises this is an area they would like to develop further Structure of the event and next steps.

We appreciate that your time is precious. This event will be focused in terms of content to cover the key things to be aware of. We also believe training should be practical and you will be required to bring a short presentation you have developed or ideas for a presentation, so you can work on it throughout the session.

The next stage of your development may be to focus on the delivery of a presentation – this can be achieved through one to one coaching or in a group session to enable you to practice the skills – a group session will be held on 25th October (£30 per person). For more details on this stage and associated costs for one to one support please get in touch.

How do I reserve my place?  Please get in touch via the contact us page www.annadorward.co.uk

Where is the event going to be held? Newcastle Business Village, Benton.