Tete-a-Tete Jan ’12

The Last Hurdle
Welcome to our  tete-a-tete, designed to keep you up to date with all our latest news, views and advice.Personal message from Jules Thomas Well now where did January go? It certainly didn’t take us long to get back into the swing of things after the Christmas break and it looks like a fair number of people have had the same thoughts as us. 2012 – let’s crack on! We had a record number of enquiries this month and subsequently a nice increase in our client base.

Those who follow me on Facebook Linkedin and Twitter have seen some of the great announcements we have made already this year, one in particular bears repeating:

I am extremely proud to announce that Sarah Hodgkins has joined The Last Hurdle team. I am sure you will join me in welcoming Sarah. I for one am very excited to have her with us!

Bio

‘Sarah Hodgkins is a well respected entrepreneur     and business woman with a strong background in the    service sector. For the last seven years, Sarah has run her own interior design and mural company Charlotte Designs and a successful franchise in the highly competitive field of business networking. She understands first hand, the pressures and pitfalls of running your own company and has helped many of her fellow networkers to grow and develop a diverse range of businesses.’
Read Sarah’s whole bio on our Business Development Associates page

Spotlight – Time For You – Northants

The Last Hurdle spotlights are here to highlight local businesses that are closely connected with or are clients of ours.

We are proud to be the Northamptonshire branch for the UK’s premier domestic cleaning franchise operation, Time For You. The Time For You Domestic Cleaning Company has over 165 local franchised business owners, currently cleaning over 12,000 homes across the UK on a weekly basis.

We provide honest, reliable and affordable domestic cleaners to clean and care for your home. Our excellent, professional home cleaning service is confidently offered at highly competitive rates. We offer you the same dedicated home cleaner each visit and all cleaners are referenced and insured. We visit and vet all our cleaners in their own homes before introducing them to our clients. We believe life is too short to spend it cleaning, so let us take the strain from you.

Let Time For You home cleaning give you that most precious commodity: TIME! After all time is finite, isn’t it?

Ann Brebner & Claire Elliott, Franchisees

Our weekly, fortnightly or monthly home cleaning service is provided by fully-vetted, fully-insured cleaners at very competitive rates.

You will receive the same cleaner each visit and Time For You will always find an immediate temporary replacement if your cleaner cannot be with you for any reason, guaranteeing that you will never be without a cleaning service.
“Time For You was recommended to me by Age UK (formerly Age Concern) as I was struggling to cope after an operation. Time For You was quick to respond by sending a lovely cleaner to my house. ”

You can visit the Time For You Northants website here.

Sage, How To Make It Work For You, by Alison Mead…

In this post we welcome the Sage Lady, Alison Mead from Silicon Bullet. When developing your business it is most important to realise what activities net you the most ROI, or the most gross profit. Sometimes this isn’t the product or service you may think! As a guest blogger, Alison gives a few highlights and hints to show how you can make more of your business tools and make them work for you. In this instance SAGE. Are you getting the most out of it?

Sage How To Make It Work For You.Read more…

Workshop!
Building a Successful Referral  Network

Do you spend a lot of time networking and not yet the results you expect?

Are you unsure of who you should be building relationships with and how to best develop them?

Are you lacking a proper networking strategy?

If the answer to any of these questions is ‘YES!’ then you should attend our Building a Successful Referral Network Workshop, run by Sarah Hodgkins of The Last Hurdle. Together we will help you to get more from your networking with less effort!

Agenda:

  • Formulating a networking strategy
  • Who to network with, where and why
  • People by from people, the first impression
  • The elevator pitch
  • Standing out from the crowd
  • Following up
  • Monitoring effectiveness

Book your place here… ONLY!

£45

Contact

T: 01327 359908
M: 07709 124847
E: sales@thelasthurdle.co.uk
W: www.thelasthurdle.co.u