A CopyCat Affair

Congratulations to CopyCat client The Wedding Affair, a new business going from strength to strength. Lisa and Allison are the experts in all things wedding-related and organise beautiful events at fabulous venues around North Yorkshire. Extra points to them for starting a new business during the recession and making it work! Read about their ongoing success in the York Press.

Designs on Radio

CopyCat client Owen Turner of United By Design was on Elly Fiorentini's Radio York show yesterday to talk about his involvement with the Graduate Internship Programme at York St John University - he's the first employer to take part in the scheme. Owen's a great designer and a really forward-thinking business owner, doing lots to educate young people about the importance of good design. You can listen again here - Owen is on 26th January at about 1 hour 11 minutes.

WiRE's Big Boost

February's York WiRE meeting is going to be on the second Tuesday of the month rather than the first, because the big WiRE Boost 2010 conference in Pontefract is on 2nd February. Details as follows:

Tuesday 9th February
7.00 - 9.00 pm (registration from 6.45)
Quaker Meeting Hall, Friargate, York YO1 9RL
Cost: £5 for members and visitors

Our main presenter this time is Mark Bates of Whitewall Services, who will be giving an interactive presentation on giving good customer service, which is a really important element of any business. The ten minute member slot will be given by Sally Hanley of Clearly Confident Image. Kirsty Harvey's goal-setting presentation (from the cancelled January meeting) has been rescheduled for March.

Please email me if you'd like to attend. As usual, please bring along a guest if you can - the more the merrier! We hope lots of women business owners will be able to make Boost 2010 - you don't have to be a WiRE member to attend, but WiRE conferences are always really informative and inspiring. The programme looks really good - details on the WiRE website.

Farm Shop Video Star

My client Ann Brown's business, The Internet Farm Shop, has become one of only five small businesses in the UK to be filmed by Microsoft for their series of short films called Do What You Love. What a great accolade! The video will be on the Microsoft site for a whole year and you can see it here. Ann's had quite a bit of coverage in the media about this, including a piece in the Hull Daily Mail, with the result that her website traffic is up by 400%!

CopyCat on Facebook

Happy new year to all friends and clients of CopyCat.

A busy start to 2010 - but the only trouble with working from home is that you have no excuse not to turn up when it snows!

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