Northern Lights

How to grow your business – top tips from 400 entrepreneurs

Looking back on his time as Insider’s deputy editor, Northern Lights communications director Ben Pindar shares the secrets of business success from the hundreds of top entrepreneurs he interviewed over the years. This blog first appeared on Insider Media. Over the past few years I’ve been in a privileged position that many would pay a How to grow your business – top tips from 400 entrepreneurs

Social media audits for corporates and universities: Part one

The B2B and academic worlds have been slower, on the whole, than B2C to see the potential of social media for driving brand engagement, building strategic relationships and establishing influence and thought leadership – both online and offline. However, some have seen the potential, invested, and are now reaping the rewards. Sheffield Business School are Social media audits for corporates and universities: Part one

Pioneering Bradford student to get top insurance honour

A Bradford University School of Management student who is on course to complete the country’s first sector specific financial planning degree will be honoured tonight with a special award from the Bradford Insurance Institute after coming top of the class in her exams. 24-year-old Jelena Savonina, from Bradford, is being presented with the Colin Dallas Pioneering Bradford student to get top insurance honour

Personal branding in social media – what should tweets (and LinkedIn/blogs) say about you?

This week Simon Cowell has been tweeting pictures of himself with his new baby.  Are these tweets changing his personal brand? What have you tweeted in the last few weeks – and what is your twitter profile saying about you?  Have you thought about your online ‘brand’ and how you reflect this across all social Personal branding in social media – what should tweets (and LinkedIn/blogs) say about you?