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Investment Opportunities in Birmingham for Global Investors! Hey there, international investors! If you're considering Birmingham for your next investment move, you're onto something big. Sure, London's got its spotlight, but Birmingham? It's quickly becoming a world-class city in its own right. Join our Free Masterclass to uncover why Birmingham is the next big thing for property investors. Learn how to navigate the market, spot prime opportunities, and make smart investments, even from afar. Don't miss out on your chance to be part of Birmingham's growth story – secure your spot now and let's make your investment dreams a reality! 👉 Secure your slots here https://lnkd.in/ge2pai4s #gladfish #tipsinpropertyinvesting #ukproperty #solidfundamentals #propertyinvesting #propertyinvestmentUK #buytolet #propertyinvestmentcompany #offeringaproperty #retirementplan #stagflation #whyinvestinbirmingham #investinbirmingham

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"Overall, the brand management module was an excellent way to round up my learning within the business school as it bridged the gap between knowing the concepts we had studied for the past four years and understanding how to use them effectively." Marketing students recently took part in a brand management exercise with industry partner C&C Group. Amy Sills, whose plan was judged best in class, says this practical learning was a great experience - today's blog, "Practical learning: staying on brand": https://lnkd.in/e92tDVnW #Marketing #BrandManagement #Business #BusinessSchools #UsefulLearning

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So, how are UK elections shaping up? Labour's popularity soared after the UK's September 2022 mini-financial crisis. Surely by now, the Conservative government's downside is in? As our guest economist James Bennett explores in our most recent analysis, sadly for PM Rishi Sunak, voters continue to turn against his party, with the latest popularity polls suggesting that the Tories are haemorrhaging vote share on the right. Sunak's strategy heading into the election is eye-opening. A pivot back to the party's fiscally conservative roots looks set to alienate many voters, especially those who supported the party for the first time in 2019. Public demands for public spending are likely to increase, for instance as health remains a top 3 issue for voters (with the NHS requiring serious financing commitments) and several local authorities going bankrupt in recent years after cut backs in central government funding. On the flip side, remaining socially fairly right-wing on issues such as environment and immigration has turned a decent chunk of the previously Tory base against the party. Want to read the full report? Check out the link in the comments. 🔗 #politics #economy #finance

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The summer holidays are approaching and it's time for a lot of students to start thinking about what their next steps are beyond their GCSE's... If you or someone you know is thinking about starting or even wanting to find out more about an Apprenticeship, read the article below and please reach out if you would like to discuss a potential apprenticeship opportunity. https://lnkd.in/eTx6zzPe

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Don't forget! The open night is taking place this Wednesday evening (11th June) with Maynooth University MU Postgraduate Studies ⏰ Click the link in the post below to find out more and to secure your spot. #SustainableFinance #Fintech #Innovation #Postgraduate #Sustainability #Tech #Finance

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Is the UK economy set for a Euro 2024 spending boost? With England and Scotland qualifying for the forthcoming Euro 2024 football tournament, the UK economy is expected to benefit from a £2.75 billion spending spree. This comes at a time when the UK economy is showing surprising growth even if the short to medium-term outlook is still uncertain. Favourable kick-off times As the tournament is being held in Germany, the kick-off times are favourable for England and Scotland fans. An extra 20 million pints are expected to be sold over the four-week tournament, boosting the total number to around 300 million and bringing in an extra £94 million for underpressure publicans. The hospitality sector is expected to receive a boost of around £610 million, while the broader retail sector is in line for a £2.1 billion windfall. This will include the sale of televisions and sportswear, with several offers already emerging. Long-awaited tournament This is the first major tournament since the pandemic, and comparisons to the 2022 World Cup are interesting. Marketing experts believe:- ·       There will be a 115% increase in those attending their local pub, bar or restaurant ·       Fans are expected to spend an additional £172 million on hospitality If any of the home nations were to progress to the later stages, there would be an additional financial boost for many areas of the economy. Success in such events can also bring back, albeit sometimes short-term, a "feel-good" factor. Summary Even some of the more modest Euro 2024 revenue expectations will have a marked impact on the UK economy over the next couple of months. As we have seen in years gone by, if any of the home nations were to progress to the later stages, the financial benefits would be even more significant. This boost could not have come at a better time amid uncertainty regarding the UK and global interest rates

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How the FIXR Rep Platform helped INVADES become one of the UK's biggest student event brands, according to their founder Dominic Matcham: 🗣 "The rep platform is absolutely vital for the way we market. Peer-to-peer marketing is a core part of our business." 📨 "We're seeing a shift from traditional social media to dark social media; people are buying things in closed social groups. FIXR's rep platform allows us to work in those channels." 💸 "We get all the benefits but we don't need to manage it - it's all self-managed. Reps are able to access and withdraw their money on their terms." Read the full interview for more (link in comments).

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TikTok accounts to help with your revision (because scrolling can count as studying) 🧑🏻‍💻📚📲 @jakeh4rper Day in the life of a UoL student Dissertation Diaries  All the final year feels and making the most of your time in Liverpool @izzydrake01 Daily, content about her dissertation journey Realistic content - no magic filters here! Helpful budgeting advice @studymatic Medical student POV Productivity tips and general student advice 'revision methods for lazy students' is a personal fave @hype_collective Funny and relateable uni content Advice for first years, final years and everyone in between @legallylucy Law student advice Tips on writing essays, revision schedules and how to actually be productive Job advice like cover letter tips, interview points and how to get work experience @excelcamp Your Excel best friend

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Ready to internationalise to UK! 🚀 Next question; Where to start in the UK to grow internationally: London or Birmingham? 🌍 London 👯 Market: 9 million population, with Canary Wharf the Financial centre of Europe. 💼 Professionals: Top universities such as UCL and LSE, attract diverse international professionals. 🏙️ Global status: A global reputation as a leading city for business due to which large multinationals have established their headquarters here. 🛩 Infrastructure: Airports, international train connections, international ports and motorways. Birmingham 👯 Market: 2.8 million population, focus on industrial and manufacturing centre. 📍 Central to UK: With its location in the middle of the country and well-connected motorways, you are close to Manchester, Bristol, Leeds, Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool.  🎭 Diversity: A diverse population of different cultures and also regional culture, to build local brand loyalty. 🙌 Local networks: Strong supportive business network to establish partnerships and collaborations. Depending on where your product and market fit best, what image you want to present and what budget you have will determine the first location in the UK. Where do you prefer? #Internationalisation #boostbusiness #growth #London #Birmingham

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Who says dragon-slaying, negotiating with aliens, and time-hopping across multiple universes can’t teach us anything about entrepreneurship? We say it can! 🙌 For the last few months, it’s been our absolute pleasure to work alongside the amazing team at the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre. They were after a series of interactive microlearning modules that would bring something new to the table and get their students excited about entrepreneurship. We took their brief to deliver something innovative and sprinted with it 😅 Each module in the Key 5 offers learners with the opportunity to explore a key topic in the world of entrepreneurship and develop their skills through games-based learning. 👽Want to learn about communication? As Earth’s ambassador, you’ll be thrown into the deep end when a group of alien spaceships are found hovering around inside our atmosphere ⚔️Fearful at the thought of networking? When a dragon threatens your town, you’ll be forced to rise to the challenge and exercise your skills to rally a top-level dragon-slaying party 🌐Unsure about market awareness? The only way to save your future is by developing an innovative product that answers the needs of the community. And to do that, you’ll need to learn all you can to bring down your biggest competitor The first three modules in the Key 5 have now launched! Head to https://lnkd.in/e75BUqSW to check them out and lose yourself in immersive games-based learning! 

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📢 Ahead of the upcoming General Election, the Directors' Briefing Podcast discusses the "Manifesto for Business: A Policy Roadmap for the Next UK Government." Speakers include: 🎙Hugo Legh, IoD Head of Marketing and Communications 🎙Dr. Roger Barker, IoD Director of Policy & Corporate Governance 🎙Alex Hall-Chen, Principal Policy Advisor for Sustainability, Skills, & Employment 🎙Emma Rowland, Trade Policy Advisor The manifesto outlines key policy recommendations to address critical issues affecting IoD members, including growth and productivity, skills shortages, the net zero transition, exporting challenges, and corporate governance. 📰 Key proposals include: ✔An industrial strategy for stable business investment. ✔An independent skills shortages agency. ✔Incentives for companies to invest in skills and net zero. ✔Reforming the Companies Act. ✔Enhanced training for new directors. ➡Listen to the podcast here: https://lnkd.in/dKU6KyRW #BusinessPolicy #UKEconomy #Leadership #IoD #CorporateGovernance #SkillsShortage #NetZero

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📊💡 Check out our latest blog analysing each party's policies on VC for the upcoming 🇬🇧 general election. Labour aims to boost VC investment and support start-ups, while Conservatives focus on creating investment zones and tackling late payments. Liberal Democrats, Greens, and Reform UK also have brought forth some interesting proposals. We will be updating this blog throughout the run up to July 4. Stay informed and stay ahead in the game! 🌟 #VentureCapital #UK Election2024 #StartUpSupport

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Do you consider academics to be an extension of your university's marketing team? Nottingham Trent University do. We partnered with NTU and Nicola Vassallo to offer academics social media training that elevates research reputation. The results speak for themselves, as post workshops we received: 💡67% uplift in mentions of NTU research ✨+ 1.96 million reach of research led posts 💡128% uplift in authors of research focussed content Read the full article on why training academics in social media is so important: https://lnkd.in/eR6z-rhv

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As general elections approach, economic uncertainty looms. Proposed policies could transform the UK venture capital landscape, but their real impact is yet to be seen. Read our blog to understand what the different parties promise to the startup world ! #VentureCapital #Investing #UKEconomy #Startups #ElectionImpact

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One of our directors Wendy Furness recently presented to MBA VC and PE students on M and A: A sell side perspective Nottingham University Business School. Exit strategy needs to be considered long before a sales process starts in order to maximise potential returns. Wendy discussed what needs to be planned in the years prior to the sale, making decisions about advisors for the sale and what happens during and after the process. Many of our angels have brought businesses to this point and can support and offer helpful advice to founders considering this for the first time.

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Latest data from the start of 2024 shows that London companies collectively raised over £10.14bn in VC investment in 2023 – marking a return to pre-pandemic levels of investment, following a global pullback in VC after a spike in 2021 and 2022, with the Climate Tech sector showing a clear lead (an area that Bootstrap is very passionate about). London continues to lead as Europe’s number one tech hub with London’s startups having raised almost as much investment in 2023 as the next three European cities combined; Paris, Stockholm, and Berlin. There’s a positive sentiment in the air that investment levels are on the upswing. The question remains how London can continue to stay top of the charts, and scale its maturing tech sector that we’ve built in the last decade. Today, Stephanie Heller (Galantine) will be speaking at Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates Future Frontier's event, alongside Adam French, in a fireside chat on investors and their role in the future of tech.

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The University of Birmingham recently released its latest economic and social impact report, developed with analysis from London Economics Ltd. The report highlights the significant impact the University makes to the West Midlands and UK economies – totalling £4.4bn and supporting nearly 20,000 jobs. David Coleman, CEO at University of Birmingham Enterprise said, “It’s great to see the University’s impact quantified in this way. It is particularly striking to see that the University’s research and knowledge exchange activities generated around £1.4bn of its total economic impact in 2021-22. This report also highlights the incredible value generated from investments from organisations such as Research England.” To find out more about the University of Birmingham’s economic and social impact, visit: https://lnkd.in/ew9nTuCN #economicimpact #socialimpact #knowledgeexchange #globalinnovation #KE #techtransfer #ukeconomy

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Number of triple jumpers continues to decline, according to 2023 jobs report, down for a third straight year from a high of 45% in 2020. Read More: https://bit.ly/4adcNWQ #mba #mbajobs #mbanews #mbadegree #mbastudent #mbaprogram #mbaranking #businessethics #mbaadmissions #businessschool #businesseducation #hecparis

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✨ AAPS Spotlight Series: Today we’re thrilled to highlight Isaac Flower from Cohort 2! ✨ 👉 What were you doing before joining AAPS? 🙋‍♂️ Before joining AAPS, I was finishing a BSc in Natural Sciences at the University of Bath. During my degree, I undertook a placement year at Shell as an e-mobility intern where I predominantly worked on projects related to electric vehicle charging infrastructure. It was this placement year that sparked my interest in electric vehicle charging research and led me to apply to the AAPS CDT. 👉 What is your PhD focussed on? 🙋‍♂️ My PhD, supervised by Furong Li, proposes a new way of combining openly available datasets to make high-spatial-resolution forecasts for future electric vehicle adoption and their charging demand on the electrical distribution network. These forecasts can be used by distribution network operators like national grid to perform targeted and timely network investments to ensure the grid can support the growing number of electric vehicles. 👉 What do you like to do when you aren’t working 🙋‍♂️ Outside of work, my life mainly consists of running, working out and playing the drums. 👉 What does Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems mean to you? 🙋‍♂️ Multidisciplinary research towards more sustainable automotive and mobility solutions. 👉 What is the highlight of being in AAPS for you? 🙋‍♂️ Being part of a diverse community of PhD researchers. 👉 What are your future career aspirations? 🙋‍♂️ After my PhD, I'd like to pursue a career in the energy sector, working in the intersection of energy systems and data science to assist the energy transition. 👉 Finally, given where you are in the programme now, what is your overall reflection of your time in AAPS so far? 🙋‍♂️ AAPS has equipped me with a broad understanding of the automotive sector and has allowed me to develop my skills in team working and communication. It's also introduced me to a rich community of researchers who are all working on interesting projects. 💥 Find out more about Isaac and his research here: https://lnkd.in/ez7HMKqN and if you have any questions comment below! 👇 #PhD #PhDstudent #phdresearch #research #electricvehicle #vehicle #charging #nationalgrid #sustainability University of Bath Faculty of Engineering & Design, IAAPS

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