The first ‘proper’ meeting of the year this week, with two guests – in accountancy & telecoms – joining us this week. The meeting started with a history of the world, concisely presented within Francis Tresham’s (of Tresham Games) allotted 5 minutes. Stepping into the breach created by the movement...

After two weeks where the weather on a Wednesday morning prevented the group’s attendance, we finally made it to the first meeting of 2009. The LBBC’s charter sets aside this meeting for our Annual General Meeting, where a major theme of discussion was getting new members, visitors & guest speakers...

A change to the usual format of speakers this morning, with Pauline Roby of the GoCycle initiative in Leighton Linslade telling the group about her organisation. Usually, one member gives a 5 minute business-related talk, and another a 10 minute talk on their own business. We all learn more, and...

On Wednesday Dec 2, we had another lively and interesting meeting with banter as well as business – and a good number of referrals and testimonials 5 minutes: I talked about a book I had recently read: Twitter Means Business: How microblogging can help or hurt your company, Julio Ojeda-Zapata,...

You never know what little gems of wisdom that you will get from a LBBC meeting and with so many experts in one room no meeting is ever boring! Matt Willson, our web ‘magician’, illustrated how an extra letter in a word can make the difference between web traffic that...

The meeting of the 28th started with the usual open networking followed by the usually high standard Barrington breakfast. Steve Baker (IFA) gave the 5 minute education slot and talked about how to prepare your business as we emerge from the credit crunch, covering a wide range of subjects such...

Must remind my colleagues to blog – had some good meetings recently and we seem to have not captured them! Warm wishes this morning for Matt & Tammy. They have a little one! Congratulations. The 5 minute presentation today was from me: going over a simple business model I have...

Keith Rawlings did the 5 minute slot on Wednesday 16th about service organizations, such as Lions, Rotary, Round Table etc. Each rural exception club in each organization seems to follow a set pattern, in that there must be folk who fulfil a particular role. For instance, each club has to...

Another lively meeting with good banter. The 5 minutes ‘more lighthearted’ presentation was given by myself. When managing teams of people or when operating in a group it is essential that leadership, teamwork and communication are strong. As a thought provoking exercise I explained how nature has evolved a strong...

It was a very lively meeting this morning, with lots of friendly banter and a number of good referrals. Even the one minute updates by each member sparked lively debate! In his five minutes presentation, David Harrison of Sunrise Solutions spoke about the need to communicate with others in business...