Women In Business Network - Womens Business Networking

Submitted: June 18th 2009
Deadline: June 24th 2009

This month a top women's glossy magazine is looking at the trend to get experts to come to your house to teach you and your friends something new. It could be floristry, sewing, jewellery-making, cookery, anything!

If you've held some kind of class in your home or you happen to teach one, do please drop me an email as soon as you can with a few details (and your tel no) and we may be able to plug your business in our next issue.

My email is emmaelms@fastmail.fm

Are you using the internet in Business?

I'm a journalist for Solutions, a small business magazine produced for Sage, and I'm looking for some real life examples of companies who use the internet in their business. It could be Twitter, blogging, regular email updates to clients, LinkedIn, Facebook, Ryze or online forums.

Have they worked for your business? What has been the best thing about them? Or do you think they're totally overhyped and only appropriate for PR agencies?

I'm interested in real-life examples of using Web 2.0 in business, so please be honest.

Please reply by email to me: laurajaynedixon@gmail.com with a brief note saying what your company does, how it uses Web 2.0 and whether it has been successful or not.

Does your business use Sage software? Sage Magazine

I'm looking for a business woman who would like to be interviewed for a feature about inspiring businesspeople.

You would need to be in business for under 2 years for this particular piece, fairly new to business, and have some interesting things to tell me about your business, your greatest decisions and worst mistakes, big breaks and big disappointments. You would also need to be available for a half hour phone interview/chat before Friday this week.

Please contact me on laurajaynedixon@gmail.com if you can do it.

Laura Dixon
Freelance journalist
07799 626335/ 01179 248143

Are you working but also caring for an elderly relative? Are you juggling work with bringing up children (over the age of ten)?

Submitted: 15th May 2009
Deadline: Weds 20th May (but please contact me asap!)

If you'd like some free expert advice from a leading life coach in return for appearing in a top women's magazine (with just a small photo) please contact me with your name/age/tel no and a few brief details of your situation. We can give your business a little plug too.

The National Lottery `Who Dares Wins` returns to BBC One on Saturday Nights

This is your chance to be a contestant!

If you think you can list answers to questions like these, then you could be in with a chance
How many European capital cities could you name? Or how about Julia Roberts films?

Contact us today for an application form.
Email: applications@12yard.com
or write to : Who Dares Wins Applications, 12 Yard Productions, The Hub, Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DY

Did your business almost fail? Woman & Home Magazine

We are looking for a woman aged 40+ who started her own business which almost failed, but then managed to turn into a success. If this sounds like you and you'd like to share your story with our readers and get some good publicity for your company too, please get in touch with full details and attach a photo of yourself to your response.

Have you set up a company or started a new job in your 60s? Woman & Home Magazine.

I'm looking for a lady in her 60s who has recently (ideally in the last few years) either set up their own company or landed a new job. If this sounds like you, or anyone you know, and you'd be interested in sharing your experiences in an inspirational reader feature, please get in touch with full details and attach a colour photo of yourself to your response.

Does the way you dress affect your success? Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Cosmopolitan would like to speak to women about their working wardrobe. Does your company have a dress code? Have you ever worked somewhere where the dress code made you angry?

Do you think women are smartening up now, in the competitive recession? Do you like dress-down Fridays?

We would like to hear all your thoughts on getting dressed for work.

Please contact Lindsay Calder on lindsaycalder@blueyonder.co.uk (Freelance writer and editor)

Ricochet TV, makers of Channel 4 series Risking it All

We are currently looking for people who, having been laid off, are using their redundancy money to fund their own business venture. In particular we want to hear from couples who have decided to go into business together - preferably with a venture that is new territory to both of them. We'd like to hear from couples who are planning a new business, just about to launch or are in the early stages of trading.

Ideally the kind of businesses we'd be interested in featuring would be service or product based, rather than IT or finance driven.

Have you set up a new business during the Recession?

Submitted: 13.03.09
Deadline: ASAP

I am a freelance journalist and I am working on a story about women who have recently set up a new business as a result of the recession. Perhaps they lost their job or were struggling to make ends meet following the market downturn.

The feature hasn't been commissioned yet but I have two case studies already and am looking for a third.

There is no deadline but it would be great to hear from people ASAP as it's very much a current issue.

Danielle Wrate

Would you like a life-changing experience?

Submitted: 6th March 2009

Diverse TV is making a second series of Tribal Wives for BBC2. Tribal Wives is an award nominated documentary series which sends six British women to live with different tribes around the world for around a month, to explore women’s lives there and to experience what it’s like to be a tribal woman. It’s a unique opportunity to find out about some of the oldest and most unknown communities and to experience a completely different way of living.

We are particularly interested in women from high flying career backgrounds who may wish to reassess their lives.

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