Go for Growth Community

Entrepreneurs and small business owners are used to “Pitching for money” from investors while at the same time often looking for a set of complementary skills to help grow the business.
Modwenna Rees-Mogg, CEO of AngelNews has been connecting entrepreneurs and investors for many years and recognised the need that growing businesses also need complementary business skills to take them to the next level and so ‘Pitching for Management, Not Money' was born.
Modwenna will share how the idea came about and the experiences and feedback from small business owners to date.

Please note that this is a recording and will be available to view from this date. Questions, and voting are unavailable during the recorded webcast.

1.Case study: Integrating Virtual Communities into Reputation Management Programs
2.Community Building through networking of channels
3.Building Community Engagement: Social Channels Drive Interaction Where The Users Are

All companies have some form of Intellectual Property, but awareness of what IP consists of, how you can protect it and how you can gain from investing in IP is very limited. This Webcast will help business leaders understand their own IP position better, and hopefully provide ideas on how to protect and monetise that IP. We will include the findings from a number of business case studies that Knowledge Peers have researched, together with the chance to ask an expert live and online about your own IP position".

Topics covered:
Better understanding of your IP position
Ideas for protecting and monetising your IP more effectively
Present your questions live to an IP expert

Adrian worked in private practice for several years before moving into the corporate patent department of a multinational pharmaceutical company, where he was employed as Senior Patent Counsel. In this role, he was responsible for providing IP support to five research and development facilities across Europe and in doing so, gained wide experience in managing all IP-related aspects of product development, from the initiation of development to launch. He joined W.P. Thompson & Co. in 2009, becoming a Partner in the same year. He is qualified as both a Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney. Adrian read Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Warwick, graduating with a BSc (Hons) and has lived and worked in Japan.

Now is the time for companies to asses and understand how to strategically plan their capacity and their growth over a hesitant and uneasy economic recovery.
Are you able to control your growth and manage your costs and profits as well as your competitors?
Do you have processes in place that will support your next level of growth through perhaps, international expansion or a merger?

SAP and Shirlaws Business Coaching have specifically designed this presentation to gain access to tremendous insight and assets to help growing companies through their current phase of growth and prepare for the next. SAP and Shirlaws will discuss:
•How to understand your businesses Capacity
•How you are performing against your peers
•How to put in place a business platform to support your next phase of growth

Fintricity was the winner of the Go for Growth excellence awards for professional services for 2010.
During this interview Alpesh Doshi will introduce Fintricity to the Go for Growth community, outline some the growth plans which attracted the judges attention and explain how the grand prize is further supporting Fintricity's growth plans.

Meet the great companies that were selected as finalists as well as the overall winner of the Excellence Awards program for 2010.

Announcing the top 10 finalists for the Go for Growth Awards

Finding new clients

Attend this complimentary webcast as Fash Darabi of Knowledge Peers shares his conclusions from interviewing the managing partners of a number of successful professional services firms who are particularly good at finding and converting new clients.

Topics covered:
-Identifying your target pool and sharpening your USPs for your target clients
-Improving your ability to convert referrals
-Sales expectations from the different roles in your firm: finders vs minders vs grinders
-Supporting your rain-makers and improving their networking skills
-Useful marketing activities which generate leads (and the ones which are a waste of money).

Engage with Nigel Bacon, CEO of Secantor as they discuss the factors that are impacting business growth for professional services companies in the UK.

Topics Covered:

Market Trends
Differentiation
Planning & Preparation
Investment

In this current economic climate, what are the implications of new technologies such as cloud computing and virtulization for ITSM companies in the UK? Learn where to look for the top opportunities in the ITSM industry in the UK.

This webcast is part of the Go for Growth Awards 2010, searching for UK growing service companies with the best growth plans. Enter directly by clicking on "apply" on the competition website here: www.go-for-growth.co.uk.