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Enterprise Nation has helped thousands of people start and grow their businesses. Led by founder, Emma Jones CBE, Enterprise Nation connects you to the resources and expertise to help you succeed.

The new Enterprise Nation: Members get a sneak peak and this is what they think

. Ahead of the launch, head of membership, Sophie Arnold, reports from a user testing session with Enterprise Nation members.

We were excited to welcome a group of members to our London office on Tuesday for a user testing session of the new platform going live on 3 April.

It was a really exciting day for me especially as I got to share something I've been working on for five months and see members using the tech for the first time.

As part of the session, we asked the business owners to try out some of the new features such as the discovery tool, which provides personalised content recommendations based on your business needs, and the content search which includes all of the many Enterprise Nation resources such as webinars, blog posts and videos.

We were really pleased with the feedback and are confident that the features will provide a great resource for members.

"I found the content tool really useful. I'm discovering lots I've never come across."

We also asked some of the adviser members who attended to add services to their profiles and shared this with small business members to get their feedback on how the new profile layouts helped them to understand what the advisers offer.

"Having a breakdown of the adviser services and price range is really useful. I can see straight away if it's a good fit for what I'm looking for."

, one of our longest standing adviser members, felt that the new profile layouts mean:

"small businesses really feel like they know you".

We were also really pleased with how easy to use members found the platform with it being described as intuitive, professional, clean and members felt "the user navigation really works".

And our favourite feedback of the day? From one of the ICAEW accountants who attended:

"It's user friendly, easy to manage and I look forward to using it!"

I look forward to you all using it too! Only a couple of weeks to go.

We're continuing the user testing with another session for members in Bristol today and then we'll be knuckling down to make sure we're ready for launch!

Members, do keep an eye on your inboxes on the morning of 3 April for an email giving you all the details of how to access this amazing new membership benefit.

&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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