Running Your Business in the Cloud

An evening of workshops, presentations and networking focused on helping businesses understand the potential of cloud-based services 

When

October 10th, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM BST including networking


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Where

Central Working logo

Central Working 
13 Bayley St
Bloomsbury
London WC1B 3HD
United Kingdom
 

 
Driving Directions  Nearest tubes: Tottenham Court Road or Goodge Street

 

Contact  

Bailey Kursar 

Funding Options 
 
bailey.kursar@fundingoptions.com 
Run Your Business in the Cloud
  • Are you interested in hearing what the cloud can do for your business?
  • Want to explore ways of saving time and money?
  • Looking at getting a loan or other finance?
  • Interested in taking card payments from customers?

At this free event in central London we're bringing together some of the biggest, best and most innovative cloud service solutions. Learn all about:

  1. The essentials of business accounts with FreeAgent, the UK's biggest cloud accounting platform
  2. How to grow your business with email and social media with Constant Contact's online products
  3. Get the finance your business needs with Funding Options, whose tools FundingLive and LedgerLive now integrate with FreeAgent
  4. Start taking card payments quickly and easily with iZettle

Programme


6.00pm

 

Doors open

6.15pm 

 

Introduction from Funding Options

6.30pm

 

iZettle: take card payments, wherever you are

7.00pm

 

Constant Contact: Grow your business with email and social media

7.30pm

 

FreeAgent: The essentials of business accounts

8.00pm

 

Networking!

8.45pm

 

Last drinks

About your presenters


FreeAgent is an award-winning online accounting system specifically designed to meet the needs of small businesses and freelancers around the world.

FreeAgent Logo With customers in over 80 countries, FreeAgent puts you in control by taking the jargon out of accounting and giving you real-time visibility of how your business is performing. Thousands of small businesses and freelancers are discovering an easy way to manage their books and invoicing. Say hello to FreeAgent...

You can learn more at www.freeagent.com

Whether you're set for world domination or happy to create the perfect lifestyle venture, all business owners face the same dilemma - the dreaded 'a' word (accounting!). However, it doesn't have to be this way! The sooner you stop thinking of accounting as a compliance issue and separate, scary function of your business and start to embrace it as the key to growth, life will be good!

Matt Perkins - Round In this presentation, Matt will take you through your order to payment cycle and show you how FreeAgent not only takes the pain out of accounting by making the mundane simple and actually exciting, but is also an invaluable tool to power your business to success.

Matt has a sound background in sales and marketing developed over 18 years in both retail and manufacturing sectors and has a wealth of practical experience through running his own distribution business.  

 

Constant Contact's leading email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, local deals, digital storefronts, and online surveys 

Constant Contact logo This is all supported by free KnowHow, personalized coaching, and award-winning product support — help all types of small businesses and organizations find new customers, drive repeat business, and generate referrals. Today, more than half a million customers worldwide trust Constant Contact to help them drive success.

Learn more at www.constantcontact.com

Tamsin Fox-Davies - Round Tamsin's highly informative workshop will take you from marketing novice to socially savvy in one go!

You’ll learn the best approach to marketing in today’s economy, and how to create real campaigns that will get you results. You will also gain an understanding of how social media, including email, can be best used to promote your business.

Tamsin Fox-Davies is Constant Contact’s educational marketing expert in the UK. Prior to Constant Contact Tamsin ran her own business, supporting, mentoring, and training other small businesses in practical marketing that works. She built her business using face-to-face networking, and online marketing, and now shares that experience with other business owners.

 

iZettle gives you the tools you need to start and run your retail business.You can start taking cash or card payments quickly and easily, store cash in a secure way and offer receipts to customers (both in print and via email).

iZettle logo The iZettle app also gives you detailed reports on sales and allows you to control access to important information for staff.

Not only that but if you’re developing a business online or building an app, iZettle now offers an integrated online payment solution via their API.

We’ll be hearing about the iZettle solution and how it can help revolutionize the way you do business.

 

Funding Options is an award-winning service that helps UK businesses access finance.

Funding Options logo Their online application tool, FundingLive, connects with FreeAgent, Xero and SageOne in order to build the most comprehensive finance application for your business. Their team of trained advisors can then find you the most competitive rates and terms by searching the market on your behalf.

Learn more at www.fundingoptions.com