A warm summer welcome to our headline event celebrating young business owners in Kent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVnpw-BqnPg Coachworks in Ashford was once again turned into a celebration for young entrepreneurs and business owners in Kent. The Kent Foundation hosted KentBizFest for the second time, and wanting to follow the huge success of the first back in October last year, and it didn't disappoint. The evening was compared by Kent Foundation Business Mentors Liz Jenkins and Julie Flower on the main stage welcoming some of The Kent Foundation’s inspirational young business owners and their mentors to speak on how they get through the…
In Person Networking is Back and Greener than ever! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQYpkpvmuBY People. Planet. Profit. The three pillars of sustainability, all of which were celebrated at the recent Kent Foundations showcase event KentBizFest! Over one hundred established business owners and young entrepreneurs descended on the Coachworks in Ashford on the 12th October for a night of inspiration, opportunity, and good old-fashioned face to face networking! “…an insightful event offering inspiring advice and business opportunities for young entrepreneurs…” The evening was compared by young entrepreneurs Carleigh-Ann Portelli and Claire Louise Portelli founders of Naked Frank Theatre and the main stage welcomed some of…
Right now the market is seeing a huge decrease in value with many businesses already going under due to COVID-19. There are many businesses who have concerns as to whether they can keep their staff through no fault of their own, and therefore many employees will have concerns for their jobs, perhaps just hoping it will all blow over and we will get back to where we were before lockdown. So is now a good time to start a business? Times are tough for everyone right now without the added pressure of not being able to do our usual daily…
With Hope Marshall – Support Local As part of our series of specialist workshops during lock-down Hope Marshall joined us to talk about SEO to support local businesses improve their digital presence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_aBkTmivDM&t=19s No 1 Top Tip…..Name your images. Depending on your website provider this can be done via the alt tag or on your desktop before you upload to your website by renaming the image name. It normally defaults to something like JPEG-0099. This is the bit you need to change.
James Burgess, Kent based business owner of City Health Solutions has produced a free guide to help everyone working from home during this period of lock-down. With many of us all now working from the kitchen table, or a make shift office in the spare room, have we really thought about our health and the impact this way of working could have on us. FREE Guide Here James BurgessDC, MSc, LRCC, ICCSP James Burgess "My intention is simple, to help people working from home keep a healthy body, and healthy mind, throughout these uncertain times!" To find out more about City…
JK Online, Clockwork Moggy and Dragon Co-Working, all based in Medway, set up Together Self Isolated Business Networking on Facebook. In just under three weeks, the community has gathered more than 1,000 followers. One of those behind the network, Karl Cowell, set up his business JK Online, which offers digital marketing solutions, with best friend Joe Bennett two years ago….. Read more about what they have been doing HERE…..
