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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.

ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE NOW CLOSED. We have a few last spaces which are available by contacting vicki@vickistonemarketing.co.uk

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Newcastle Business Mums may also be interested in coming along to the new women’s network launch:

‘Ladies that network’ on 8th March 2012 in Newcastle at 10am (finishes at 12pm).

We’re going to get together once every month to do serious business together (we’re not ladies that lunch, although we might do the occasional lunch once in a while). It’s £10 per event and you will need to book online in advance.

If you’d like us to add you to the e-invite list for ‘Ladies that network’ please contact vicki@vickistonemarketing.co.uk – for this network you don’t have to be a mum – it’s open to all women in business.

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.