To put the trip and show into perspective: the Business Startup (or “BStartup”) show is (as the name suggests!) primarily for entrepreneurs and want-to-be-entrepreneurs to get help and advice on starting or expanding their business.
The show itself features the trade show area alongside various seminar speaker sessions and networking events. The show attracts many well known and experienced business leaders; this shows speakers include James Caan (Dragons Den), Rachel Elnaugh (founder Red Letter Days) and David Gold (Gold Group). With over 100 speakers across 8 halls offering seminar sessions, there is a lot to learn about: from website optimisation to financial planning, environmental policies to building a lingerie empire!
Hilltops IT will be exhibiting in the trade show area alongside Link47 (UK QuoteWerks distributor) to promote QuoteWerks (quotation, sales order processing, purchase order processing and invoicing tool) and QWP (QuoteWerks to PayPal integration). After all – what better piece of back office software could a new business want to manage and organise their sales than QuoteWerks!? It is incredibly easy to pick up “out the box”, has a fantastic price point to get started and has the depth and flexibility to see your business well into being a multi-million pound operation!
Sorry… enough of the sales pitch… I am just getting warmed up for tomorrow! Let’s get back to the blog!
The Business Startup show is over two days – tomorrow (Friday 28th November 2008) and Saturday (29th November 2008). Link47 has organised two different QuoteWerks partners each day to help out alongside Link47 themselves and Quintadena (authors of QWP). Tomorrow Wayne Lockey (Red Foot Solutions) and Richard Dodds (RD Associates) will be on the stand. On Saturday Vivienne and I (Hilltops IT) and Tim Wilmot (Wizard Systems) will be working the stand.
Vivienne and I are planning to get down to the show mid-afternoon to check out the show and the setup and to meet Wayne and Richard whom, while we have done business together when they have resold our ConnectIT software, have never actually met face-to-face.
For more information on QuoteWerks, QWP and our various other boxed software and software development services, please see www.hilltopsit.co.uk
For more information on the Business Startup show, please see www.bstartup.com
