Date : February 16, 2008 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Hosted by : Jasmine Birtles and David Thomas

Event price per attendee : £95.00 + VAT

Location : Central London, SW7 5NB

Event Details

A one-day seminar for new and young businesses and freelancers

Takeaway bonus materials worth more than the cost of the seminar

This heavily subsidised seminar is for people who:

• Are keen to make some extra money but daunted by the prospect of running a business
• Have a great idea or a special skill but don’t know how to get the business off the ground
• Are terrified by the prospect of having to sell their product or service
• Dread the idea of dealing with the bookkeeping, marketing, sales, health and safety and more

If you fit any of the above then don’t panic! Help is at hand and it is being provided by people who really know what they are talking about from their own personal experience and financial success.

Getting good, reliable business advice from people who are financially successful can be pretty difficult or very, very expensive. Jasmine Birtles and David Thomas are determined to help people who want to earn some extra money.

Who are Jasmine and David?

• Jasmine is commissioned by the BBC to train their staff on how to become freelance or self-employed.
• Jasmine is regularly asked to share her business and financial knowledge on The Wright Stuff, GMTV, BBC News, You and Yours, Chris Evans on Radio 2, in articles for The Independent on Sunday, The Mirror, Essentials and AOL.

• Jasmine has delivered corporate speeches for British Telecom, HBOS, Ernst & Young.
• Jasmine has written 36 books including several on business and personal finance.
• Jasmine is a successful business woman in her own right. She runs two businesses and is debt free – even her mortgage has long since been cleared!

• In the last three years alone David has helped around 400 people who are starting out in business.
• He focuses on what he calls “the unfortunate essentials” such as keeping track of finances without going mad, unravelling the mysteries (and joys) of VAT.
• David is particularly expert at explaining how to set up an office at home when the kids, the cat or the pub are competing for your attention.
• David’s clients for business skills training include the BBC, ITV and BECTU, the broadcast and theatre union.
• David has been in charge of areas of the BBC including the World Service production department BBC English.

What will be covered?

Sales and marketing

Selling your product or service to people can be one of the most daunting things a new business person has to face. You have to overcome a whole new fear of the telephone and face to face meetings.

It’s a whole new skill that you have probably never needed before and suddenly you have to become an expert.

Jasmine and David will equip you with some simple techniques to overcome the fear and challenges when marketing yourself and your business. They will show you how to do your own sales and marketing on a shoestring budget. How to create and run an email campaign. How to create a marketing pack. How to get meetings. How to network successfully.

It’s all very well wanting to build a business or go freelance, but where do you start? What do you do first? What are your goals? How do you decide what actions to take and how to prioritize them?

Nobody explains to the potential business person or freelancer how to plan their business and create a strategy that they can follow in order to make sure that all their hard work is focused and worthwhile.

It’s all too easy to work really hard only to find that you have been doing the wrong things and have missed out on some fantastic opportunity.

David and Jasmine will run through how to decide what your priorities should be, how to pursue them and how to construct your business plan as a result.

Making bookkeeping easy

This is something that everyone has to take care of but nobody wants to do.

This is one of David’s areas of particular expertise. David will show you how to simplify and control your finances. You will be shown the simple steps to making your own cash flow forecast and how to make your bookkeeping work for you – cutting down on your tax and your accountancy bills by £100s. This could quickly add up to thousands of pounds in savings.

And loads of other essential secrets including:

• How to create work for yourself.
• Demystifying the dry boring stuff such as tax and insurance.
• How to structure your working day.
• How to set up an office at home, work around the family and keep a good work/life balance.
• How to save £100s a year.

20 places will be allocated on a strictly first-come-first-served basis

A small number of attendees makes it much easier to communicate with people and offer them the opportunity to feel that they can ask questions and participate.

That’s great news if you get a place – but it does mean you will have to get your skates on.

Incredible value

Jasmine and David each charge £1,000s for one evening’s worth of presentation for corporate clients. But they champion the little person who wants to work hard and get ahead but lacks knowledge or experience.

Therefore they have decided to pack as much value as possible into this seminar. Not only will you receive all the fantastic information outlined above on the day. You will also be given tons of tremendous information to take home with you.

 

Takeaways to the value of £140+

(This is more than the cost to attend the seminar itself – so you can’t lose).

Tax calculation software tool (worth £100+)

David Thomas has been helping professionals with their business finances for years. He has developed and carefully honed a great software tool that calculates your tax for you.

You can pay tens, even hundreds of pounds for software like this. But David is giving this software away for FREE to seminar attendees.

Networking tuition CD (worth £15)

Networking is free to do and there are opportunities presenting themselves to you almost every day – but you have to know how to spot them and how to exploit them.

If done properly, networking is one of the business person’s most powerful tools. But it can also be terrifying. Jasmine will run through some typical scenarios in which networking can be applied.

Simple scripts that anyone can apply will be provided in roleplay examples that you can start using straight away.

What’s more Jasmine will also go through some of the less obvious opportunities you have for networking so that you don’t miss a trick!

Case study interviews CD (worth £25)

Where better to get the inside track than from other people like you who are achieving the extra income they want?

This CD will carry interviews with people who are freelance or self employed and facing exactly the same challenges and problems that you do. They talk about how they have learnt to be self reliant, creative and hard working.

Free lunch

How much?!?

The materials you will receive are worth even more than this so it’s a Brucey Bargain!

Only 20 people will be able to attend so don’t miss out – register and complete your application here.

 

Apply now to guarantee your place and £140+ worth of freebies

"Jasmine and David manage to combine facts, enthusiasm and fun in their training.  Using a range of training styles, they give confidence and direction to the delegates, and develop their creative ideas to enable them to achieve the best possible outcomes.  An essential course for anyone setting up on their own!"
Caroline Roberts, BBC Training and Development

"An astounding seminar.... awesome.. I was extremely impressed with your presentation skills. I learned so much today and it gave me a boost morally"
Oliver

"I loved the day Jasmine - you are very positive and have a constructive manner. Great stuff and very inspiring,"
Mark

"Just wanted to thank you for the workshop on Wednesday. I found it incredibly useful and quite inspiring! Your advice and encouragement was very much appreciated,"
Saira

"... Your course gave me the umph to get out there and market my services in a more saleable way and not be afraid of saying what I'm worth,"
Laura

"David was an absolute star. The entire course was extremely informative and was presented in a very entertaining manner. Absolutely worth his weight in gold."
Claire

"... A terrific session and having done others I felt this to be a gem,"
Terry