The Business Show Guide November

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
LARA MORGAN
PayPal Here TM - Enabling
Businesses To Take Card
Payments Anywhere
SALES
GURU
In this cutting edge seminar, Bas will explain that
PayPal Here TM , the highly anticipated Chip and PIN
solution for small and medium-sized businesses, is
now available to all businesses in the UK. Bas will
talk about the opportunity PayPal Here TM presents to
businesses, what it means for your start-up or SME
and how you can maximise the opportunity. Make
sure your company doesn’t get left behind!
He introduced the Business Development role into UK
banking, and facilitated RBS becoming the first commercial
bank patron of NACFB. Jason also held the position of
Chief Executive at Hanco ATM Systems, the UK’s largest
independent ATM deployer. Jason is a lifelong supporter
of lowly Walsall FC and provides a taxi service for his two
teenage children.
Banking For Entrepreneurs
Hear the fascinating story behind the launch of
the UK high street’s only new bank in over a
century and what it means for business customers.
Jason will look at some of the issues facing small
businesses today and explain how Metro Bank’s
customer focused model and community banking
ethos aims to support its SME account holders. He’ll
also explain how the bank intends to grow, while
never losing sight of its motto of ‘Local Bankers
Making Local Loans.’
Would you like to start a business that you could
sell for £20 million? That’s what Lara Morgan did –
and now she’s willing to share her insights with you
in this high impact, practical seminar.
Lara Morgan is most widely
known for building her own
international business, Pacific
Direct, over the course of 17
years before selling a majority
share 99% holding of the
company for £20 million. She is
the proud mother of three and
determined to be a voice for
growth enterprise support as well
as driving sales pride in Britain.
Lara is a world class, high
impact, memorable and much
liked speaker with a practical,
open approach. She doesn’t
buy companies, but prefers to
drive start-up investments and
great innovations like Company
Shortcut, GATE8-luggage.com,
ACTIVBOD and The Luxury
Slipper Company.
Company Shortcuts offers unique
training in sales momentum, a
source of practical advice and
frameworks to enable mid-size
ambitious business leaders to
achieve accelerated growth. Lara
is particularly interested in the
Build On Your Disciplines
Of Sales Growth Acceleration
accelerated growth market and
motivating fast-growth business
owners. Lara is an ambassador
for UKTI, an active mentor in a
number of social enterprises,
including READ International
and the leading ethical cotton
underwear company, Pants
To Poverty. She’s a regular
commentator on current affairs
and business issues with Sky and
BBC News.
Lara has been a finalist in Ernst
and Young’s Entrepreneur Of
The Year awards three times
and was a finalist in the Veuve
Clicquot Businesswoman of the
Year Award. She is the author
of the recently published
Amazon bestselling business
book, ‘More Balls Than Most’
and is a co-founder of Start Up
Britain. Taking it all in her stride,
Lara also manages to train for
British Triathlon, coming 10th in
the 2011 World
Championships.
KEYNOTE
HALL 1
Thursday
10.30 - 11.30
Harness the power of sales and marketing. In this fantastic seminar,
Lara explains the importance of both processes working together and
evolving to provide successful business growth. This enlightening seminar
covers the essential skills required, from golden rules to creating sales,
as well as maximizing your process and conversion rates, and managing
business demands and stress based on accelerated growth success.
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