Name: Three top tips for securing funding
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Description: Entrepreneur Jonathan Grubin has raised more than Â£350,000 for his company which helps consumer brands run sampling campaigns on social media. The founder...

Entrepreneur Jonathan Grubin has raised more than Â£350,000 for his company which helps consumer brands run sampling campaigns on social media. The founder...

Three top tips for securing funding

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Entrepreneur Jonathan Grubin has raised more than Â£350,000 for his company which helps consumer brands run sampling campaigns on social media. The founder of 

 shares his tips for securing finance on 

&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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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;

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Cerub PR provides insight-driven PR and communication solutions to ambitious businesses and entrepreneurs who want to be seen and make a difference in their industry.

As our client, you will benefit from strategic and creative campaigns which help you stand out from the competition, manage your profile and engage with your audience. We are focused on developing effective PR strategies and implementing tactics which deliver real results that can be measured and evaluated.

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