No-One's Talking Of The "R" Word "Ooop North"

Well I spent the day yesterday on a client's stand at the North West Business Conference talking to various people about content and links for them - yes doing link building properly and not sending out ill-targeted emails, but actually talking to people. The up-shot of this is that The North West Regional Development Agency, The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, various management consultants and commercial lawyers are all very keen to add content to the site and link in.

The interesting thing, however, was that out of my 60,70 or so conversations I had with these business associations, people thinking about starting up companies, business owners and angel investors; I can't think of one that either mentioned the "R" word or not even uttered the phrase "credit crunch".

Are people just fed up of the phrases, or is it not affecting everyone - in contradiction to what the mass-media is making out? My view is that you'll never dampen entrepreneurial spirit. There was many fantastic business ideas there, one actually appeared on Dragons Den and "failed", and now she's seeking angel investment for another business. There's people like Ben, AKA the Can Can Man, that always makes me smile when ever I meet him - if you're business is flagging, then give him a call! (p.s. Matt, I think he'd be great for the Expo!)



There were many people clambering over themselves to pitch their business ideas in the speed pitching event - in fact it was more than twice over-subscribed!!

I'm back for another day today (it was just so damn good for business - both mine and there's!) and I'll see if anyone mentions the "R" word again today!