Enterprise Nation

It’s a day to celebrate anyone and everyone who is starting and growing a business from home and there’s plenty of ways to get involved...

Friday 20th November is the UK’s first ever Home Enterprise Day!

It’s a day to celebrate anyone and everyone who is starting and growing a business from home

And there’s plenty of ways to get involved:

• Join us on the home business roadtrip
• Enter the Home Business Awards
• Attend the Enterprise Nation Conference
• Run your own event

Here are the details …

Home Business Roadtrip

In the week of 14th September, the Enterprise Nation team is hitting the road and going on tour!

Four home business owners will spend a week travelling from north to south, entering working homes, visiting home business hotspots and recording all they see (well, almost all!) The crew will be:

• Emma Jones, Founder, Enterprise Nation (interviewer & presenter)
• Tim Sargent, MD, Mint Video (cameraman, director, producer)
• Nick Clark & Mrs Clark, 1st Class Travel (driver and PR agent)

 

 

 

 

 

Video footage will be uploaded to the site each day and at the end of the week, there’ll be a documentary looking at the rise of home business in the UK.

Every night of the trip we’ll be hosting meet-ups for Enterprise Nation members. Here are the route locations …

• Monday 14th September  -Scotland
• Tuesday15th September – North East (Newcastle) 
• Wednesday 16th September – London
• Thursday 17th September – South West (probably Bristol & surrounds)
• Friday 18th September – West Midlands (Herefordshire & Shropshire) 
   

… it would be great to see you along the way!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 More detailed plans will be uploaded to this page, as they emerge.

The trip is being sponsored by Orange

 

 

 

 

 Thanks to Malmaison for being our accommodation sponsor as we travel the nation! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enter the Home Business Awards

Win profile and prizes by entering the 2009 Home Business Awards. We’ll have the same categories this year, as we did last, which are:

• Home Business of the Year
• Home Business Couple of the Year
• Young Home Business of the Year (under the age of 30)
• Home Office of the Year

 The Awards will be open from early September and the winners announced at the Enterprise Nation Conference on Home Enterprise Day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaking of which …

 

Register for the Enterprise Nation Conference

Join us on the BIG day itself for an event that has a top line-up of speakers who will inform and inspire. Come listen to them, meet your peers and be the first to congratulate winners of the 2009 Home Business Awards.

There are only 150 seats available so register your place soon by clicking here. And take a look at who’ll be speaking right here:

9.00am:
Registration & meet fellow Enterprise Nation members 

9.30am:
Welcome to BT Centre – Bill Murphy (Managing Director, BT Business)

9.40am:
Welcome to Home Enterprise Day and launch of 2009 Home Business Report – Emma Jones

10.10 am
Keynote on sales & marketing - Doug Richard (former Dragon & CEO, School for Startups)

11.00am:
Coffee and Cake break

11.20am:
Sites that changed the home business world – panel chaired by Dan Wagner (Founder, Venda.com) with eBay (Mark Lewis, head of eBay UK) and Ehive.com (Louise Campbell, Founder) 

11.50am:
Building a global business from my home – Christian Arno, Founder, lingo24.com and Karen Hollands, Founder, Toniks and 2008 Home Business of the Year winner

12.20pm:
Make Me Famous! - media panel chaired by David Parsley with Daryl Willcox (DW Publishing), Paula Williams (Sky News), Jenny Culshaw (Working Lunch) Lisa Sykes (Features Editor, Country Living) and Jimmy Leach (Head of Digital, Independent)   

1pm:
Lunch

1.40pm:
Interview with Mark Dixon (CEO, Regus)

2.20pm:
Panel – the future of business support – panellists Bill Murphy (Managing Director, BT Business), Patrick Elliott (CEO, Business Link for London) and Dawn Whiteley (Chair, National Federation of Enterprise Agencies)

3.00pm:
Keynote from Mike Finnigan, Mr Motivator

3.40pm:
Announce winners of 2009 Home Business Awards

4.00pm:
Conference close with champagne reception

The cost to attend is just £50 which we hope you’ll agree represents pretty good value!

Register your place here http://enterprisenation.eventbrite.com/?ref=ebtn

Click here to download a conference flyer, with full schedule

The Enterprise Nation conference will be filmed so if you’re not able to be with us ‘in person’ you’ll still be able to enjoy watching it!

Run your own event

Want to do your own thing on the day?

Click here to download a PDF for ideas of activities.

Remember to register your event at www.gew.org.uk so it can be promoted as part of the entire Global Entrepreneurship Week.

If you do meet up with fellow Enterprise Nation members on Home Enterprise Day, why not keep meeting and form an Enterprise Nation Club. There’s a guide on how to do that as part of the downloadable PDF.

Thanks to our supporters

Thanks to the team at Enterprise Insight who have made all this possible by scheduling Home Enterprise Day in to Global Entrepreneurship Week.

 

 

 

 

 Thanks also to our corporate partners who are supporting us along the way:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 And thanks to the enterprise agencies and Business Links who are showing their support for home business too