How & when to pitch a journalist with your products & why you need a strong brand

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 on 14 November with a panel of reporters and PR experts sharing advice on how to get coverage, these two videos from 

Meet journalists from the Sunday Times, Financial Times and two PR professionals in Sheffield on 14 November. 

&lt;p&gt;Hello, I'm Amanda, Enterprise Nation's&amp;nbsp;adviser community manager. I oversee communications, content and events for our active and collaborative adviser community. I'm here to help our members make the most of opportunities and ensure we're constantly improving what we offer.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Previously, I've worked across a range of professional services industries specialising in diversity and inclusion and&amp;nbsp;corporate culture. I founded&amp;nbsp;an award-winning corporate&amp;nbsp;D&amp;amp;I&amp;nbsp;initiative&amp;nbsp;and led community strategies for a global board-level women’s network.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;An aspiring writer and storyteller. My&amp;nbsp;roots are from Wisconsin but I have lived in the UK for over 11 years. I enjoy&amp;nbsp;going to gigs, fitness, camping, and&amp;nbsp;far away places.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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Adviser Community Manager

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As Enterprise Nation's small business community manager, my role is to guide our members through every stage of their user journey, developing and improving their experience within the Enterprise Nation community, and arming them with the knowledge and resources they need to start and grow their business.&nbsp;&nbsp;

I have over 20 years of experience working in customer and B2B support. Having also managed a small business for many years, I understand the struggles that they face am passionate about helping them grow. I love to hear member success stories, particularly those in the food and drink sector.&nbsp;

Small Business Community Manager

New to the Enterprise Nation community

This is a group for new members of the Enterprise Nation community to connect with likeminded businesses and the Enterprise Nation team. Use this space to meet other businesses who might be on a similar journey or looking to grow their network. Join and introduce yourself! Welcome to the community.

&lt;p&gt;Hey there!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am a fashion business strategy consultant, coach and mentor. I help entrepreneurs looking to change career and enter the fashion industry to develop their idea into a solid product or service.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I also assist and work with&amp;nbsp;fashion entrepreneurs who already have a business but feel like something is missing, that the brand/business&amp;nbsp;is not growing the way they thought it would, making the money and profits they should or wondering how to scale it bigger.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After graduating with a Fashion degree many moons ago, I worked for some 15years within British&amp;nbsp;luxury brands small and large (you can see my resume on Linked In here:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dessytsolova/"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/in/dessytsolova/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;) across apparel and&amp;nbsp;accessories. There isn&amp;#39;t much as a product that I haven&amp;#39;t at some point worked on.&amp;nbsp; For most of this time, I managed the creative teams and oversaw the process from Idea to Finished product and more often than not I then took that knowledge to the PR, marketing and retail shop floor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After leaving the last company I was employed by, I set up an online fashion manufacturing portal with the mission to demystify and simplify the fashion manufacturing process. Whilst growing the platform and working on the development of software to automate a largely hands-on process I came to the realisation that while so many competitors were jumping on this &amp;quot;trend&amp;quot; to create what they saw as just a &amp;quot;directory&amp;quot; the industry was not getting any more transparent or functional. The problem I saw&amp;nbsp;was hiding in&amp;nbsp;the lack of proper practical and honest educational support to the new influx of entrepreneurs in the industry AND support for independent brand overlooked by the governmental trade bodies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This determination to share my experience and knowledge with fashion entrepreneurs worldwide led me to exit the platform I spent over 6 years creating and launch Fashion Insiders &amp;amp; Co. An online education and support platform and community for fashion entrepreneurs looking to launch, grow or scale their businesses.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Through our platform, we offer many FREE resources as well as online courses, in-person (via the magic of online meetings) consulting and coaching packages and soon to launch community coaching and accountability incubator.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://fashioninsi&lt;p&gt;Online fashion educational and mentoring platform helping&amp;nbsp;fashion entrepreneurs build and grow profitable fashion brands.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We specialise in helping entrepreneurs:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;- strategise how to launch new product or service based fashion business;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;- idea development from initial development and sourcing&amp;nbsp;stages to bulk manufacturing;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;- business strategy, pricing and target setting&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;- growth mindset&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Support is offered via 1:1 work, tailored to your project needs as well as offering online courses and masterclasses to consume at your own pace and time.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

Fashion insiders - masterclass: fashion discover your perfect client & target market

Masterclass: Discover Your Perfect Client &amp; Target Market.&nbsp; 
Successful&nbsp;businesses are built on the right foundations.&nbsp; 
What you'll get in this masterclass training:&nbsp; 
Learn why it is important to know who your ideal client is;&nbsp; 
Discover&nbsp;the need to knowing and validating your target market;&nbsp; 
Step-by-step tips on how to define your&nbsp; perfect customer and target market.&nbsp; 
Examples of Perfect Customer Profile&nbsp; 
...and muc

Paula Bellamy grew up in Felixstowe, left school at 16 and started her career in H M Customs &amp;amp; Excise, then moved into logistics learning accounting, imports, exports, road haulage and also trying a shipping Line, finally choosing freight forwarding as her career of choice. She was employed as General Manager by an American firm to run their UK office and warehouse, a position she held for 10 years, 2001 - 2011.In 2011, her husband and family moved to Dubai in order to explore other opportunities and further their careers. To this end, she was able to set-up a freight forwarding company from zero, creating a very successful office from 2011 through 2016. In 2016, Paula set up OL Dubai again from zero, the team followed her leadership and together they created a very nice successful freight forwarding office in Dubai with many good relationships such as 3rd party warehousing, good sea-freight and airfreight carrier contracts and in-house customs clearance processing. The knowledge combined in this office ensures the clients receive everything they need for local Middle East end of end logistics with their freight forwarding movements Internationally.This bring us upto date for 2020 'The year of change' and like many others Paula's personal situation changed, her husband was made redundant, children had moved onto University and work based placements and therefore they chose to re-locate back to the UK.So in March 2021, Paula decided to use the relocation to her own and OL's advantage. Together with the support of the president of OL USA Alan Baer, it was decided that Paula would strengthen OL relationships in the UK &amp;amp; Europe for commercial shipments to the UAE the USA and beyond, Paula also continues to be Remote Managing Director for the UAE and travels between the UK &amp;amp; Dubai every quarter. For the UK development, Paula will work to build a recognized OL office for clients and partners alike to again ensure local knowledge is readily accessible for any Client that requires more in-depth information, or just a seamless logistics end to end move which can only serve to strengthen the Global network of OL own offices.Relationship building and networking is a strength and passion for Paula so she will continue to help clients, partners and friends across the world to connect in a stronger and more enjoyable way.

managing Director

paula Bellamy

Paula Bellamy grew up in Felixstowe, left school at 16 and started her career in H M Customs &amp;amp; Excise, then moved into logistics learning accounting, imports, exports, road haulage and also trying a shipping Line, finally choosing freight forwarding as her career of choice. She was employed as General Manager by an American firm to run their UK office and warehouse, a position she held for 10 years, 2001 - 2011.In 2011, her husband and family moved to Dubai in order to explore other oppo

How & when to pitch a journalist with your products & why you need a strong brand

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