Nov 21, 2007

So I went to the startupslive Liverpool business event on the 20th November. I was inspired by what I saw and learnt from the people there. Romy Fraser, founder of Neal’s Yard Remedies, was good to listen to during the event and to speak with afer the event. There where a lot of similarities between myself and her. With our teaching/educational posts in the past. Dr Moneeb Awan was also there from eSay Solutions, a business that provides IT, consulting, marketing and health solutions to businesses very motivational and made me feel like I was doing the right thing by starting up Schools Tube. The sponsors of the evening Microsoft, Vodafone and Natwest gave away some worthy prizes to those that left their "how did we perform tonigh" forms. Schools Tube was not lucky this time, but there will always be another :) Microsofts former Wirral "old boy" Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise was on hand informing us about the new ways to use the internet to reach your customers, start blogs and advertise more virally. It was refreshing to see that most of what was being said, was what I have been doing! After the event there was a chance to meet and mingle which I did do! Meeting PR guru Suki Pardesi. Emploment Agents, Microsoft employees and learning from them all that Schools Tube is a fantastic idea, one that I am very passionate about and one that hopefully should work in the marketpalce!
On that note I did learn from experienced entrepreneiurs that what we need next, along with being published in 60,000 AVP educational catalogues, is to be launched into schools and colleges, by direct selling agents, either through partnering with a stategic sales partner, or through direct sales lead by the team. Schools Tube is now in its soft launch phase, so "FREE" trial accounts are available to those that would like to help.

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