What's the state of hospitality lending?

As the editor and publisher of Enterprising Women, Monica Smiley has spent the last decade building the national and now global magazine she leads into a strong voice for women entrepreneurs. Founded as the only national magazine published exclusively for women business owners, the print and digital editions of the magazine now reach a million women entrepreneurs in 185 countries around the globe. The company also hosts the annual Enterprising Women of the Year Awards, considered the most prestigious awards program for outstanding women business owners from around the globe. While Enterprising Women began its tenth year in May 2009 serving the women business owner community, Monica has been the president of a magazine publishing and marketing communication business for nearly 30 years, publishing both consumer and trade magazine titles.

Considered a national thought leader on women’s entrepreneurship, Monica serves on the National Association of Women Business Owners National Advisory Council and is a member of the Women Presidents’ Organization. EW is a founding coalition partner of Women Impacting Public Policy, and she has represented the United States six times as a delegate to the Global Summit of Women (in Morocco, Germany, Chile, China, Turkey, and Greece), a gathering of nearly a thousand women entrepreneurs, women business leaders, and women Cabinet or Ministerial level government leaders from more than 90 countries actively involved in the Peace Through Business program, sponsored by the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women (IEEW), Monica has served as a mentor in the program for the past four years, hosting women business owners from Afghanistan and Rwanda in her North Carolina home. She founded the Enterprising Women Foundation in March 2011 to benefit the growth of women’s entrepreneurship here and around the world. A recipient of numerous awards, she is a native of Bay City, Michigan.

There are always new threats in Social Media out there. What are the newest social media platforms and threats associated with them?

Getting to grips with expenses

Every business incurs expenses. So how do the opinions differ between those making business expense claims and those that have to deal with the processes behind the scenes?

Join Clive Longbottom of QuoCirca research, as he discusses the research findings of 400 individuals interviewed across a range of organisations in the UK with Concur

On the webinar, Clive will talk about:
•The pain points for both claimants and claims processors
•Where technology helps and hinders
•Where technology is not being used where it could be

All attendees will receive a free copy of the QuoCirca Research Report.

For more information about Concur visit www.concur.co.uk, read our Blog or call 00800 4551 6697.

Regulations requiring employers to automatically enrol the vast majority of their employees into a pension scheme and contribute towards it are now in place. With these new regulations come new challenges for employers and trustees, with lessons already being learnt, and the Pensions Regulator receiving thousands of enquiries from confused businesses and individuals.

To help employers (and pension scheme trustees) prepare for these changes and avoid the pitfalls, this webinar will take a practical look at:

- Popular misconceptions and pitfalls to be avoided.

- Experiences of the various commercial pension providers (including NEST), and what you should be looking out for.

- Case studies of large employers that are already auto-enrolling, including early analysis of opt-out and leaver rates.

You've no doubt heard a lot about Windows 8 over the last few months; it’s all over the web, TV, new tablets, smartphones, etc. You may be wondering if it has something new and compelling that you may want or need at your business. Would it be worth upgrading your operating system?

Upgrading your business to a new operating system is no small decisions and the switch to Windows 8 is one that is particularly challenging due to the totally re-designed interface.

To help you learn about the pros and cons of this upgrade, attend this FREE informational webinar in which you’ll learn:

• Why you should – or shouldn't - upgrade to Windows 8

• New and innovative features of Windows 8

• Everything you need to know BEFORE upgrading your system

• What operating systems are upgradable…and which ones are not

• What will it cost in hardware, software, and time?

• Pros and cons of upgrading now versus waiting... And much more!

Your business needs security solutions that are easy to live with and run on a daily basis. This webcast will highlight 5 specific atributes and focus the ease of management and implementation for SMB's.

Since 2006, the P2P & online lending industry has been experiencing rapid proliferation. Lending Club and Prosper, America’s two largest P2P lenders have now surpassed $2B in loan origination. And the industry continues to garner immense attention from Wall Street veterans, technology giants as well as the financial media.

This is a must-attend webinar for wealth managers, financial advisors and both institutional & retail investors looking for portfolio yield as well as investment bankers, individuals and business owners looking to raise debt financing in a hostile bank lending environment.

This timely & informative webinar will cover:
•Overview of the P2P & Online Lending Industry
•The rapid growth of P2P & Online Lending
•Capitalizing on the industry’s expansion
•Interpreting Google’s recent investments into Lending Club & OnDeck

As founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, Keith Ferrazzi works to transform old behaviors that block businesses from reaching strategic goals into new behaviors that increase value. Ferrazzi has perfected techniques of collaborative coaching and motivation of key constituencies that positively transform behavior.

The second LIVE RTI Q&A with Rebecca Benneyworth, this session will focus on the non standard situations and how to handle them. Rebecca Benneyworth MBE trained in London with Kidsons and was chief accountant of a manufacturing company. She has her own small practice and lectures extensively for a range of professional bodies, accountancy firms. & HMRC. Robert Lovell is deputy editor on AccountingWEB and has several years’ online editorial experience working across a variety of sectors in business and finance B2B publishing. Grounded in project finance, PPP/PFI and transport, in recent years he has built up specialist knowledge in accounting, tax and writing for online communities . Alison Ball is Head of Accountant Programmes at Intuit UK. A former accountant herself, Alison understands the issues and challenges that practicing accountants and bookkeepers face daily. She works hard to create solutions and programmes that help practitioners save time and grow their practices.

Most SMB's use a single point product for each of the different perceived security threats. This has worked in the past, but a far better approach is layering multiple products in a stouter defense.