Business networking event in Liverpool

Don’t miss the startupslive Liverpool business event. Come and be inspired by how Romy Fraser, founder of Neal’s Yard Remedies, created a highly successful herbal remedies business that now operates from 300 outlets in the UK. Discover how Dr Moneeb Awan started eSay Solutions, a business that provides IT, consulting, marketing and health solutions to businesses, is on target to generate revenues in excess of £2m this year. Discover how to use the internet to reach your customers. Interact with our guest entrepreneurs and advisers during the lively panel debate. And meet, mingle, have a drink and enjoy networking with 120 like-minded business start-ups. Join us at the startupslive business seminar in Liverpool and be inspired.

Matt Thomas, Editor of startups.co.uk

The Inspirational Programme

6.30pm	Event registration opens



6.30 - 7.30pm	Networking
	Your chance to network with 120 business start-ups and make new contacts



7.30 - 7.35pm	Welcome
	Matt Thomas, editor of www.startups.co.uk opens the event



7.35 - 8.05pm	Romy Fraser - Discover how Romy founded and built Neal’s Yard Remedies into the UK’s best known herbal remedies retailer. Hear how with a loan of just £18,000, guaranteed by a friend, she opened her first store in 1981. Hear how she almost went out of business early. Be inspired by how she persevered and turned the business into a multi-million pound success story that now operates from 300 outlets in the UK.



8.05 - 8.25pm	Marketing and Selling: Using Online to Reach Your Customers
	A senior Microsoft director provides insight into how to best use the internet to gain new customers



8.25 - 9.00pm	Lively Panel debate
	Topic - Starting and running a successful business Local entrepreneur, Dr Moneeb Awan, talks to Matt Thomas about how he started eSay Solutions Followed by panel Q&A session on topics ranging from how do you raise finance, increase sales and know if your product is right for the market? Listen and question the entrepreneurs and the advisers on the panel.

	Chaired by: Matt Thomas, editor of www.startups.co.uk

	Speakers: Romy Fraser, Founder, Neal’s Yard Remedies Dr Moneeb Awan, Founder, eSay Solutions Others - TBC



9.00 - 10.00pm	Networking
	More opportunities to make new contacts



10.00pm	Event closes