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Hard Love @ The Foundling Museum: A Breakfast Briefing

In Art, Business on January 26, 2010 at 12:01 pm

“Hard Love @ The Foundling Museum or How to Love Your Business Through Good & Bad Times”

Thursday 11th February, 8am to 10am, The Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square, WC1 (nearest tube King’s Cross and Russell Square)

IN the lead-up to the celebration of love, Valentine’s Day, we look at the inspirational story of businessman, David White of Weboptimiser who went from full speed growth in the high tech arena to the edge of bankruptcy in 24 hours and how – by making some very hard decisions about his life and his business – he managed to create a life raft not just for his business, but for many other small businesses in the UK and Europe

They say necessity is the mother of invention.  In David’s case his tough decisions led to creative solutions that have been a lifeline to many others since.

David gives a 5-point change plan to take you from inertia in your business, through the process of hard decision making, to restructure and the light at the end of the tunnel

Inspired by ‘Lovemarks’ by Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, with a delicious breakfast and chocolates by Thornton’s Chocolates, and the chance to have a private tour of the museum, currently showing three international artists – Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego – whose work focus on childhood themes of motherhood, pain, childbirth and loss, the breakfast briefing will be an insightful, entertaining and calorific event for anyone who wants to love their business through good times and bad!

Hard Love – £10 per person:  BOOK HERE!
The event:

  • 8am to 8.30am: registration and breakfast
  • 8.30am: welcome from KXBF
  • 8.40am: David White of Weboptimiser
  • 9.30am to 10am: questions and networking
  • 10am: close

Search Engine Marketing Specialists

Weboptimiser was founded in 1996 when the company introduced search engine marketing to the world. Back then it was Altavista and Hotmail, Google was known as backrub.com and most people surmised that search would never make it…

Today, search engine marketing is widely agreed to be an essential part of a company’s Internet marketing strategy.  Weboptimiser has become one of the Internet marketing sector’s best-known and most respected optimisation companies.

www.weboptimiser.com

Foundling Museum Tour
The award winning Foundling Museum is an inspiring testimony to philanthropy, creativity and the human spirit and is the beautiful, historic and inspiring venue for our business event.  Following the breakfast, members of the Foundling Museum events team will be offering a guided tour of the museum

Currently showing: Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego at The Foundling.

Hoots! Burns Night Special for KXBF members

In Food and drink on January 19, 2010 at 2:59 pm

COME and address the Haggis with a 6′6″ piper and great food and company!

When: Monday 25th January, from 6.45pm

Where: at the St Pancras Grand, Upper Concourse, St Pancras International, London NW1 2QP

Cost:  £40 per person including a welcome drink and a 3-course dinner.  Guests wearing kilts will be offered a complimentary glass of champagne!

KXBF members can book and get a stomping 10% off…

To book call 020 7923 5454 or email stpg@searcys.co.uk

Eurostar Winter Drama: “We can’t promise it won’t happen again…”

In Business, Travel on January 19, 2010 at 2:46 pm

In an open letter to customers, Richard Brown, Chief Executive Officer gives the latest on the measures that Eurostar are taking to investigate not just the causes of the 2 week chaos on the UK/Europe rail link service but also the break down in communications that exasperated the whole affair.  The whole King’s Cross area was effected by the interruption in services and the company and the local community are now working extra hard to win back business and tourist confidence

But he doesn’t promise it won’t happen again…

“We can’t guarantee that Eurostar will never again be subject to extreme weather disruption, but we will do everything in our power to ensure that the chances of disruption are minimised. When disruption does occur we will provide our customers with the care that you rightly expect. Our commitment to you now is to provide a reliable and high quality service, and to win back your trust, good-will and support.” – Richard Brown Chief Executive Officer

For the full text of Brown’s letter and Eurostar’s latest travel and offers information visit www.Eurostar.co.uk