Our own Emma Jones is on the judging panel for the awards, which will reward businesses in eight categories:

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HP launches inaugural Smart Business Awards for small enterprises

Enterprise Nation partner HP has launched its inaugural Smart Business Awards, offering small enterprises the chance to win a range of HP products and a 

Winners in each of the categories will receive an individual award trophy and logo, an HP product bundle (laptop, printer and relevant software) and a LinkedIn Pro account. The Smart Business Award winner will receive receive business mentoring from HP advisors and a branding consultant, as well as a place on a Santander Breakthrough Trade Mission to help them develop a strategy for international trade. Announcing the new awards, HP's UK&I director of strategy said: "HP is keen to promote all the fantastic work small and medium-sized businesses have been doing in the UK, especially during these tough economic times. Small enterprises are the engine of growth and innovation for UK economy and we will be rewarding the best in the sector every year and we will be there to support them every step of the way."

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, select a category and explain in 250 words why your business should win. To help put a good entry together, visit HP's 

The closing date for entries is 29th June

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The Queen of Enterprise Nation in Scotland&amp;quot; is how Emma Jones, CEO of Enterprise Nation describes me!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She may very well say so. But I couldn&amp;#39;t possibly comment, he he!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hi, I&amp;#39;m Fin and I work with my&lt;a href="https://supersizemedia.co.uk/"&gt; Supersize Media&lt;/a&gt; team and Enterprise Nation on campaigns and events in Scotland such as:&lt;/p&gt;

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	&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/blog/tsb-s-small-business-customers-take-digital-mot-test-with-enterprise-nation-and-get-set-for-the-digital-revolution/?returnurl=%2Fcontent-search%2F"&gt;TSB Business&lt;/a&gt; Digital Advisor, from April 2018&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/blog/five-reasons-to-attend-amazon-academy-glasgow/?returnurl=%2Fcontent-search%2F"&gt;Amazon Academy&lt;/a&gt; Digital Advisor, Glasgow April 2018&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.enterprisenation.com/campaigns/she-means-business/"&gt;She Means Business&lt;/a&gt; in collaboration with Facebook (&amp;quot;a series of events to inspire creativity, empower confidence and educate on how to best utilise Facebook and Instagram to grow women&amp;#39;s business)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Free Networking Events around Scotland in 2018&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Go and Grow Online &amp;quot;Encouraging more businesses to get online and support existing internet traders to grow)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I was awarded the Association of Scottish Women in Business&lt;a href="http://www.asb-scotland.org/news-and-events/2018-asb-women-of-inspiration-awards"&gt; &amp;quot;Woman of Inspiration 2018&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; in recognition of my services to women, enterprise, digital literacy and social media and a finalist in Outstanding Contribution by the ASB.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;With a background in law, journalism, direct marketing, copywriting and speech writing, plus 18 years experience in marketing and digital, I like to think I walk the walk of small business growth and development online.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Clients include State Street Bank, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, ScottishPower, McEwan Fraser Legal, Edinburgh College and Business Women Scotland, as well as many startup companies and entrepreneurs.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Plus I have a healthy following online - unlike many wannabes in the digital sector!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As a regular contributor to BBC programmes on the digital and social media economy as well as publications such as The Guardian, Women in Trade, BQ Scotland, SBBN, Scottish Entrepreneur and Richard Branson&amp;#39;s Entrepreneur Blog.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My boutique digital marketing agency,&lt;a href="https://supersizemedia.co.uk/"&gt; Supersize Media&lt;/a&gt;, works with clients to produce outstanding digital and social media branding and websites as part of an overall marketing strategy that includes highly targeted video, email, podcasting, social sales, PR, Google / social media ads and re-marketing.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These strategies are then rolled out and optimised on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin etc to grow the brand&amp;rsquo;s profile, authority and sales growth.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, we work with most budgets, either in a coaching capacity, or training or actually taking over and running the campaigns for clients to deliver the most effective results, reports and profits.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am mad for the bants, love a good laff, adore my Supersize Media team of full-timers and freelancers and get off on inspirational people, ideas, strategies and plans.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;17 Facts About Me that Not a Lot of People Know ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have:&lt;/p&gt;

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	&lt;p&gt;Black belt in Tae Kwon Do&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Grade 8 Piano and Flute&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Used to play the organ at weddings&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Used to play and sing jazz and blues in bars around Paris and Edinburgh&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Lived in Paris for 5 years&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Top 10 record in the French charts in the 80s&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Was married to a Zulu for 17 years&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Lived in Soweto, South Africa with my in-laws&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Speak French, Spanish and Zulu&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Five children (four Home Births)&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;My eldest daughter &amp;#39;Free Birthed&amp;#39; in 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Co-owned an RnB and Hip Hop Club in Edinburgh in the 90s&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Honours degree in Law (Edinburgh Uni)&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;My second choice at uni was Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;Post-grads in Journalism, Direct Marketing and Usability&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;When I was kid, I wanted to be a beautician&lt;/p&gt;
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	&lt;p&gt;These days, I am mad for beauty bloggers on Youtube ... maybe one day, lmao ... for auld wifies!&lt;/p&gt;
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<p>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;</p>

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&lt;p&gt;I started my career in journalism and was lucky that the content marketing revolution meant my particular skills - storytelling, audience engagement, creative idea generation&amp;nbsp;and so on - were soon in demand in the business world.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From drawing out the heart of a brand&amp;#39;s message to creating powerful headlines and calls to action that drive... well, action... I help businesses stand back and ask the question, &amp;quot;So what?&amp;quot; It&amp;#39;s what separates indulgent copy from copy that hits the mark with target customers / clients and actually achieves a business goal.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Quality and precision are central to everything I do and&amp;nbsp;I have brought together a team of skilled professionals who have the same&amp;nbsp;level of commitment to doing their jobs to the best of their ability every day.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m also passionate about flexible working and wellbeing in the workplace and am 100% committed to making sure that I do everything in my power to ensure that Rin Hamburgh &amp;amp; Co is a great company to work for as well as with.&lt;/p&gt;

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