Club President Caroline Rochford chaired the event with the help of Vice-President, Marie Paterson.
Members, Guests and visitor enjoyed an evening of Structured Networking at the Old Course Hotel, St Andrews.
Each month from September to June, we organise an event where speakers present on useful topics, with networkingbefore and after.
This time, as a result of demand from our Members in our Annual Survey, held a ‘networking-only’ event for Members, guests and visitors.
The evening began with structured networking organised by Vice-President Marie Paterson.
The evening was organised so everyone present could get to know each other better, raise their company profile, gain new contacts and learn from each other. Thanks to our Vice-President, Marie Paterson, for leading the structured networking to fulfil this goal.
Afterwards, everyone got the chance to informally interactover a buffet and refreshments.
Members, Guests and visitors enjoyed an evening of networking at the @Old Course Hotel Golf Resort and Spa.
Diane Helbigsays:“Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.” We hope this night did that for all present.
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NEXT EVENT : The Club’s Next Event is November 13: Work/life balance – success without sacrifice, where the speaker, Sam Forsberg, will give practical advice on organising yourself and looking after your physical health so you can set and achieve realistic business and personal goals.
People struggling to achieve their desired work-life balance can get expert tips on business success without sacrificing family goals at St Andrews Business Club’s November 13 event.
In the event, to be held at the Old Course Hotel from 5.30pm, Fife business coach Sam Forsberg will tell attendees about the big work-life balance myth, the key to success and the perspective shift you need to make to avoid succeeding in business but doing it at the cost of family, health and sanity.
Sam Forsberg is a business coach and business growth specialist at ActionCOACH Scotland, based in Dunfermline. A graduate of the University of Newcastle in her native Australia, she has qualifications in IT, Business Systems, Management Accounting, Psychology/Behavioural Analysis and Coaching.
Sam grew up in a small business and, despite seeing the many challenges firsthand, has been a business owner herself for 13 years. She helps other business owners get their businesses running more effectively, profitably and sustainably so they can take a step back and focus on growing and running the business, rather than feeling like it runs them.
Anyone wanting to learn as well as network is asked to book via Eventbrite. A list of this season’s events can be found the club’s website at www.standrewsbusinessclub.co.uk.
At the University of St Andrews Enterprise Week 2019 – Keynote Event, Dr Tanya Ewing, Owner of Glaze & Save, Daniel Malikzade-Afshar, Founder of Yes!Cab, Graeme Carling of Carling Property Group, PRS Group, United Capital, Infinitas Investments & CEO, McGill, Juno Lee, Co-Founder of CombiniCo & Sagar Kuma Sharma, Founder of the Angel Group, shared their entrepreneurial journeys, lessons learned and advice for anyone considering their own venture.
Dr Tanya Ewing, Entrepreneur & Owner of Glaze and Save Ltd, shares her story.
The evening began with a candid account from Dr Tanya, who shared the troubles she faced in her early life and how she overcame these challenges to develop her highly successful career with Ewgeco, the first smart real-time utility meter in the UK, and her new business Glaze & Save – insulating products for doors and windows, mainly focused on improving energy efficiency in listed and conservation properties.
Graeme Carling, Founder & CEO – Carling Property Group, PRS Group, United Capital, Infinitas Investments and Chief Executive of McGill, tells his entrepreneurial story.
Graeme Carling was just as candid about his business journey – admitted to making mistakes in early businesses before going on to build his large and successful portfolio of businesses. A key message was the need to adapt to changing markets – a very important lesson in today’s economic and political climate.
Juno Lee, Co-Founder, CombiniCo, shares his journey.
Journey
Juno Lee gave a very interesting and enlightening description of his journey to creating the iconic CombiniCo food brand and his future plans for the business. The audience enjoyed hearing his stories and challenges he faced.
Daniel Malikzade-Afshar, Founder., YesCab, gave a very candid talk!
Daniel Malikzade-Afshar gave a comic yet educational talk in a laidback style with insights into the challenges and surprises he came across when establishing the Yes!Cab taxi app. It was very interesting learning about his unique business model and his plans to grow the brand while diversifying against his major competitor, Uber.
4th Year Management student Sagar Kumar Sharma talked about his experiences.
The evening concluded with Sagar Kumar Sharma, a student entrepreneur with a colourful career already including investments, property and music. Sagar took a different approach to the others – taking of the importance of pursuing a career you enjoy, which develops you as a person and philanthropy.
Thanks to them, the Enterprise Week Committee and everyone who attended for making this such a great event at the Byre Theatre.
Student Club
Stanley Parker, one of the club’s marketing communications interns, took the opportunity of this event to announce the launch of the new student business club – St Andrews Business Club Students!
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Award-winning entrepreneurs will share their inspiring success stories with students and business people at the annual University of St Andrews Enterprise Week Keynote event on October 7.
The free event, open to all, to be held at The Byre Theatre from 5.30pm, will hear Dr Tanya Ewing, Graeme Carling, Daniel Malikzade-Afshar and Juno Lee speak about their experiences, approach and success. It will also begin with 90 minutes of networking.
Tanya Ewing is the multiple award-winning tech entrepreneur, inventor, consultant and mentor who invented the Ewgeco smart real-time utility meter so people could more easily see, understand, and control their costs. She continues to champion energy efficiency with her latest venture at Glaze & Save, which focuses on insulating doors and windows in the listed and historic property sector.
Graeme Carling is the founder and CEO of Carling Property Group, one of the largest private residential landlords in Scotland, and Infinitas Investment as well as Chief Executive of McGill, which he brought back from the brink after buying it out of administration, creating 50 jobs within five months.
Current 3rd Year St Andrews Physics student Daniel Malikzade-Afshar is the founder of local taxi booking platform Yes!Cab, which he created to allow long-established local firms to compete with the giant ride-sharing apps.
Juno Lee, is the co-founder of Combini Co a St Andrews-based fast-casual food and beverage company which combines authentic Korean and Japanese flavours with local Scottish produce.
St Andrews Business Club has partnered with the Enterprise Week student committee for the third year to help organise the event as part of its commitment to nurturing entrepreneurship.
Networking Opportunities
The event will begin at 5.30pm with networking with students and university staff over drinks, before the presentations begin at 7pm. After each of the presenters has spoken, the audience will get a chance to ask them questions.
Speaking about the event, St Andrews Business Club President, Caroline Rochford, said: “We’re delighted to have been asked to contribute to this event for a third year to help inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs and business people. The Club welcomes them to any of our own events and we look forward to hearing stories which will doubtless inspire our members too.”
Bonnie Hacking, Enterprise & Employability Adviser at the University of St Andrews, says: “We’d like to thank St Andrews Business Club for its continued contribution to this event to promote entrepreneurship in our students and in the local community.”
Free tickets for business people should be booked via Eventbrite – for the link go to the Business Club website at www.standrewsbusinessclub.co.uk or the St Andrews Enterprise Week Facebook page, where you can read full details of this event and the rest of the Enterprise week. Students should book via The Byre website.
Eileen Cooper, the award-winning owner of Limetree Marketing & Business Consultancy, used examples of how brands have adapted their message to the modern world to stimulate thought on marketing in today’s society at the event held by St Andrews Business Club at The Old Course Hotel.
In the first event of the 2019-20 season, Eileen Cooper, the award-winning marketing consultant and owner of Limetree Marketing & Business Consultancy, shared examples of how brands have adapted their message to the modern world to stimulate thought on marketing in today’s society.
Eileen has been working in marketing for more than 23 years and has a degree in Business Administration with Marketing, a Diploma in Digital Marketing and is a Fellow of The Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing (The IDM).
Among the key points Eileen made were:
Be clear on your objectives
Identify customer segments and personas
Get customers into your Loyalty Loop including reviews
Develop a range of content for different tasks
Tap into the emotions of your audiences
Integrate digital with your other marketing channels
Monitor the ROI of all your marketing spend
Thanks to Eileen for sharing her knowledge and experience with us.
An award-winning businesswoman will tell attendees about marketing in today’s society at the first event of St Andrews Business Club’s new season on September 4 at the Old Course Hotel.
In the event, starting 5.30pm, Eileen Cooper, owner of Limetree Consultancy, will use examples to stimulate thought on marketing in today’s society and how brands have had to
Eileen Cooper
adapt their message to a modern world. Topics will include personalisation, automation and channel selection.
Vast Experience
Eileen Cooper has been working in marketing for more than 23 years and has a degree in Business Administration with Marketing, a Diploma in Digital Marketing and is both a Fellow of The Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing (The IDM) and a Member of The Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Award Winner
Eileen launched Limetree, her award-winning marketing & business consultancy, in Aberdeen in 2009. It’s now based in Perth, where she lives.
She helps businesses from a range of sectors with marketing by providing support, consultancy, design and training through mixing theory with practical experience to develop marketing strategies that drive results.
Anyone wanting to learn about this important topic for business, as well as network, is asked to book via Eventbrite.
Full details of all the club’s events, most of which are open to non-members, and how to join are available on its website at www.standrewsbusinessclub.co.uk and Eventbrite.
Members and Guests enjoyed the Club’s 2019 Summer Social and Business Visit at the Forgan House base of The R&A.
The R&A group of companies was formed in 2004 to take on The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews’ responsibilities for governing the Rules of Golf, staging The Open, golf’s original championship, and developing the sport. The British Golf Museum in St Andrews is part of the R&A group.
Together The R&A and the USGA govern the sport of golf worldwide, operating in separate jurisdictions with a commitment to a single code for the Rules of Golf, Rules of Amateur Status and Equipment Standards. The R&A, through R&A Rules Ltd, governs the sport worldwide, outside of the United States and Mexico, on behalf of over 36 million golfers in 143 countries and with the consent of 156 organisations from amateur and professional golf.
The R&A merged with the Ladies’ Golf Union in 2017 and now has responsibility for running a series of world class amateur events and international matches in women’s and girls’ as well as men’s and boy’s golf. The R&A works with IMG to stage the Women’s British Open and with the European Tour to stage the Senior Open.
The R&A Executive Director – Governance & Chief of Staff, David Rickman, gave attendees an insight into the workings of one of the world’s leading sporting organisations
R&A Executive Director – Governance & Chief of Staff, David Rickman, gave attendees an insight into the workings of one of the world’s leading sporting organisations before explaining how it is aiming to invest £200 million in developing golf over the next decade and further support the growth of the sport internationally, including the development and management of sustainable golf facilities.
Members and their Guests then enjoyed networking over canapes and refreshments.
Thanks to the R&A for kindly hosting this event.
For more information about the R&A, go to its website.
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In oursecond annual Members’ Success Stories event, Members shared their favourite business success story in a five-minute presentation.
Since the 10 x 30 Members’ Presentation Night last season turned out to be such a success, we decided to bring it back with a new element. Members talked about their experience, knowledge and their favourite business success story!
The event demonstrated energy in the form of passion, dedication and perseverance our members have devoted to reach the level of success they have achieved.
North-East Fife business people can learn from others’ success stories at the next event being held by St Andrews Business Club on June 5.
Members of the club, drawn at random on the night, will share their favourite business success story at the event, which non-members are encouraged to attend.
“Given the broad range of sectors and expertise of our members, this will be a great chance to learn useful business tips for the area you work in from other SME business owners and managers, as well as the opportunity to network with members and non-members,” said new club President, Caroline Rochford.
Anyone wanting to attend should book via Eventbrite.
Full details of all the club’s events are available on our Events page.
Club President Alan S. Morrison reported a second successive record year. Pic: Douglas Glen.
In the Club’s 2019 AGM, outgoing President Alan S. Morrison reported Club membership was now 120 members (17 ahead of this time last season) and still growing and that so far this season the average event attendance is 11.5% higher at 31.1.
The Club’s finances are also in a much healthier state, allowing the new Committee to consider more new initiatives next season.
Speaking about the Club year, Alan said that, despite following on from the record-breaking success of the previous year, it had not been one without challenges for the Committee, but they had rigorously tackled and resolved each issue in the best interests of members with determination and excellent teamwork.
Rather than rest on its laurels, the Committee continued the pace of progress set in the past two years through various initiatives, including:
Introducing card payments and a partially-automated invoicing system
A new events selection process
Secure Cloud storage for Club documents
Revising the Club’s membership offer
Introducing a Continuous Improvement System
Improving the SEO of the Club’s website
Adding a Member Directory and webform application process
Revising the Club’s Constitution to make it fit for purpose for this century.
On the latter, he said: “That included adding Mission and Vision Statements, revising our Financial Year, adding necessary flexibility to the Committee’s powers, allowing non-business people to be Members and formalising Honorariums so as to help recruit Committee members by allowing those who give exceptional service to gain some financial recompense at the end of the year.
“These were all measures designed to improve the Club’s resilience – to ensure it can continue to be run by volunteer Committee members despite our work lives getting busier by the year and make certain they can use the resources available to continue to deliver on the Club’s Mission.
“I see these measures as steps along the road to a future long-term sustainable and more resilient business model for the Club which includes it having its Secretary as a part-time paid official responsible for the day-to-day running of the Club. I hope one day to see that vision realised to ensure the Club’s long-term future.”
“This has been a Club year of which we can be very proud indeed,” he said, before thanking this season’s Committee members – Vice-President Caroline Rochford, Secretary Emma-Jane Kerr, Treasurer Michael Stephenson, Past President Alistair Morris and Douglas Glen, Marie Paterson, Catherine Maciocia, Alasdair Kyle, Steve Smith, Dawn MacPherson and Graeme Dickson for their hard work, support and friendship.
He also thanked departing Marketing Communications Intern, Comora Love-Mitchell, who graduates next month, for her work and her successors, Sanaa Sachdev and Stanley Parker, as well as Marketing Assistant Louise Cree, for excellent work so far.
The new club Committee: (from left) Alasdair Kyle, Past President – Alan S. Morrison; Secretary – Emma-Jane Kerr; President – Caroline Rochford; Vice-President – Marie Paterson; Catherine Maciocia; Treasurer – Michael Stephenson. Reseda Muir and Jonathan Gibson were unable to attend.
The 2019-20 Committee elected are:
President – Caroline Rochford
Vice-President – Marie Paterson
Secretary – Emma-Jane Kerr
Treasurer – Michael Stephenson
Immediate Past President – Alan S. Morrison
Committee members – Catherine Maciocia, Alasdair Kyle, Jonathan Gibson, Reseda Muir.
Women’s Enterprise Scotland Chief Executive, Carolyn Currie, was guest speaker.
Equality in the workplace is an increasingly important matter for business.
St Andrews Business Club was delighted to have Carolyn Currie, Chief Executive of Women’s Enterprise Scotland, as Guest Speaker for the 2019 AGM Evening.
Carolyn talked about her extensive career at a senior level in financial services, including being a member of the T20 – the think tank of the G20 – and the work of Women’s Enterprise Scotland, women’s leadership and the boardroom and her ambition for women-owned businesses in Scotland – a huge contributor to the Scottish economy and faster-growing sector than most normally highlighted.
At the University of St Andrews Enterprise Week 2019 – Keynote Event, Dr Tanya Ewing, Owner of Glaze & Save, Daniel Malikzade-Afshar, Founder of Yes!Cab, Graeme Carling of Carling Property Group, PRS Group, United Capital, Infinitas Investments & CEO, McGill, Juno Lee, Co-Founder of CombiniCo & Sagar Kuma Sharma, Founder of the Angel Group, shared their entrepreneurial journeys, lessons learned and advice for anyone considering their own venture.
