If you were at the January meeting of London Women Mean Business, you may have noticed a photographer in the room clicking away unobtrusively so that we could have a reminder of the evening. Thank you to Claire Swindale for agreeing to be our "official" photographer for the evening, we really appreciated it. Here's a little more info about Claire, and details of a special offer for LWMB.
Claire started her career in advertising as an Account Handler and Creative, her ultimate achievement being the design, implementation and launch of the first 5 years of Happy Meals and merchandising for McDonald's UK. Thereafter, whilst still in the world of advertising and media, for 8 years she concentrated on travelling the world with her backpack and camera. There was never a lightbulb moment, she always had a camera: Her talent and interest in photography simply grew.
Her decision to brave it into the freelance world was encouraged when she was part of the first wave of redundences at The Independent Newspaper nearly 3 years ago. She never looked back.
Claire currently has an exhibition at Tentazioni Restaurant in Shad Thames showcasing a selection of personal favourites and demonstrates her ease at capturing both beauty and finite details of her subjects and locations.
Claire's portfolio includes stills from the last 3 Rimmel London commercials, with a fourth pending ... an extensive library ... obviously travel (which expands from Europe, Africa, through to Asia, particularly her favourite, Nepal!) The place of smiley places and smiley faces! She also attends casual family gatherings and childrens parties, anniversaries, 'big' birthdays where clients can relax, have fun and laugh, whilst Claire captures the moment. Her studio work is really evolving and is shown off in her Beauty and The Basque category showing at Tentazioni.
From portraits, weddings, film commercials ... through to her art and her recently launched bespoke luxury wooden puzzles (view and purchase these via her website)... she is equally inspired!
Claire's ambition is to continue to enjoy the expansion of her business, which, she says does not feel like business at all but pure joy to be doing something that she loves so much. Visit her current portfolio on www.claireswindale.com and facebook 'Claire Swindale Photography' and become her friend ....... and see for yourself.
Claire’s offer to you is a studio session for headshots for your marketing material, whether it be for your website, Linked-In, Facebook etc .. she will supply you with a disc holding a variety of images in colour and black & white, for just £85.
info@claireswindale.com
http://www.claireswindale.com/
07747 567 732
Facebook: Claire Swindale Photography
Claire's exhibition can be viewed at :
Tentazioni Restaurant
2 Mill St
Lloyds Wharf
SE1 2BD
Claire is having a 'meet the artist' event on 11 MARCH 2011, 3-7pm. Everyone is invited to have a Prosecco, view the artwork, meet the artist. Spread the word and bring your friends.
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Friday, 7 January 2011
CHALLENGES - ARE YOU PREPARED FOR 2011?
New Direction Partnership, a networking group based in East London, are hosting some workshops over the coming months to help small business owners to achieve their goals for 2011 and beyond. It could be that you need additional knowledge to help you grow your business but can't afford the time away from your business or are finding that many courses and workshops just cost too much.
NDP are therefore running a series of short seminars, outside of "normal" working hours (if there is such a thing when you run your own business!) at a really cost effective price. You can pick & choose which workshops appeal to you, or book the complete series for a discounted price.
Do you need some help with marketing your business, or perhaps you need to gain a better understanding of finance? Do you shy away from social media, in spite of knowing what a great marketing tool it can be? Or perhaps you feel that you need to understand how to promote yourself and your business as a "brand".
Some of the workshops on offer are :
Marketing & Selling - looking at the "6Ps" - Planning, Purpose, Promotion, Place, Product & Price............read more
Social Media - what is social media marketing and how do you measure its value to your business? How is social media changing the way small businesses promote themselves on the web? Read on to learn more & book this course.
Effective Networking - we only do business with people we like, know and trust. Come and learn how to build networks to generate referrals and lead to profitable long-term relationships. For further details click here.
That's just a taster of 3 of the 9 workshops which are being held on a rolling basis.. To read further details about each one, plus dates & details of how to book, take a look at the NDP website.
NDP are therefore running a series of short seminars, outside of "normal" working hours (if there is such a thing when you run your own business!) at a really cost effective price. You can pick & choose which workshops appeal to you, or book the complete series for a discounted price.
Do you need some help with marketing your business, or perhaps you need to gain a better understanding of finance? Do you shy away from social media, in spite of knowing what a great marketing tool it can be? Or perhaps you feel that you need to understand how to promote yourself and your business as a "brand".
Some of the workshops on offer are :
Marketing & Selling - looking at the "6Ps" - Planning, Purpose, Promotion, Place, Product & Price............read more
Social Media - what is social media marketing and how do you measure its value to your business? How is social media changing the way small businesses promote themselves on the web? Read on to learn more & book this course.
Effective Networking - we only do business with people we like, know and trust. Come and learn how to build networks to generate referrals and lead to profitable long-term relationships. For further details click here.
That's just a taster of 3 of the 9 workshops which are being held on a rolling basis.. To read further details about each one, plus dates & details of how to book, take a look at the NDP website.
SPARKLE AT SWAROVSKI WITH LWMB IN JANUARY
Happy New Year!
Are you ready to make this the year when your business goes through the roof!
Come & connect with some wonderful women on Thursday 20th January at the first London Women Mean Business networking event of 2011. Take advantage of our special early bird discount and book your ticket now - the early bird price is only available until Monday 10th January so be quick! Click here to book.
Start off the new year of networking in style in the beautiful surroundings of the Swarovski store right in the heart of central London. Enjoy a glass of bubbly, delicious canapes, interesting conversation and hear from our guest speaker. We're delighted to have Julia Macmillan joining us this month to talk about her experience of setting up an internet business.
Julia is the founder of toyboywarehouse.com, now the top UK dating community for women and younger men. Having had absolutely no experience in the internet but in 2006 having found the mainstream dating sites lacking, and having had a few good art commissions that year (she was an artist) decided to set up the kind of dating community she would like. She wasn't aware of problems such as 'how do you start a dating site with only your 10 best friends on it?' There have been ups and down since it went live in Jan 2007 but now she is set for international expansion and will talk about how she got the company to this stage.
And if that's not enough, we also have some fabulous raffle prizes, with all proceeds going to Childreach International.
We hope to see you there. In the meantime, happy networking!!
Are you ready to make this the year when your business goes through the roof!
Come & connect with some wonderful women on Thursday 20th January at the first London Women Mean Business networking event of 2011. Take advantage of our special early bird discount and book your ticket now - the early bird price is only available until Monday 10th January so be quick! Click here to book.
Julia is the founder of toyboywarehouse.com, now the top UK dating community for women and younger men. Having had absolutely no experience in the internet but in 2006 having found the mainstream dating sites lacking, and having had a few good art commissions that year (she was an artist) decided to set up the kind of dating community she would like. She wasn't aware of problems such as 'how do you start a dating site with only your 10 best friends on it?' There have been ups and down since it went live in Jan 2007 but now she is set for international expansion and will talk about how she got the company to this stage.
And if that's not enough, we also have some fabulous raffle prizes, with all proceeds going to Childreach International.
We hope to see you there. In the meantime, happy networking!!
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