Top Tips for good networking (or Grigle) GENEROSITY – networking is more give than take. If you can’t help, find somebody who can. Recommend and promote others – good business is good for everybody. RESPECT – integrity and authenticity are…

So, you’ve seen them – those tweets and ads and posts and emails which promise you can make a 7 figure salary or you can be more fulfilled or you can sell enough widgets to buy a yacht or you can find the perfect work/life balance. They offer just…

As a quick follow up to the last blog on confidence (it comes in cans!) here are a few quick tips to look and feel the part Invest in a key piece of clothing or accessory that gives you confidence and identifies you (in a sea of suits, the bold stands out!)…

When the creative juices don’t flow: Write about your business background; why you do what you do, why did you start What do small businesses need to know – content from other business news articles Statistics about your customer base (run a…

Our strapline at WiRE is that the countryside is alive with business –a rich tapestry of small and tiny businesses woven through the villages, farms and market towns which give jobs to local people, sustain farms with an additional inflow of cash, and…

How to Thrive and Survive as a Working Woman, Fiona Elsa Dent and Viki Holton I have raced through life without taking breath. It has worked out OK so far. But perhaps a more considered, strategic approach would have taken me further, yielded more success or…

We all know the feeling; you’re the next one to speak (or you walk into the room, onto the stage, into the meeting) and your heart is racing, your mouth is dry and you fear your deodorant will fail you – what confidence you had has seeped through…

Love it or hate it, content marketing is absolutely part of today’s business; with blogging being content marketing’s right hand (wo)man. To quote Wikipedia: Content marketing is a form of marketing focused on creating, publishing and…

Rewind back to 1999, when the millennium bug was a thing, Ricky Martin was Livin’ La Vida Loca and most of Europe was handing over its currency and embracing the Euro. A time when people hardly used email or surfed the internet and for anything immediate we…

The WiRE Website has zillions of words. It features knowledge from the network, information for and by women in business to help your business grow. There is news from the network; successes, stories and activities along with events from the 50 Local WiRE…