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15th November 2016 TheBizTeam

Experiences, Challenges and Marketing Solutions with: Reza Soheily, Founder and CEO, London Entrepreneurs Network

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Reza Bio

Tell us about your entrepreneurial journey: from the start up to now

In 2009, I moved to the UK, speaking no English, and came to study at university. After much hard work and dedication, I almost got a degree. “Almost? What do you mean almost, why didn’t you get a degree?” is probably what you are thinking right now. See, the reason is because I didn’t attend my final exam due to the fact that I had already started my events business. I started running events in 2012 and formed the company in 2013. In the three years since, we have gone from having 1200 members to over 30,000 members become a part of the London Entrepreneurs Network (LEN). What many people do not know, is that prior to LEN, I started a business doing voucher codes, and before I even moved to the UK I ran a jewellery business in Iran.

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3 Benefits of MBJ’s Website as a Service (WaaS)

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Creating and running a website yourself is a lot of work. First, there’s hosting. You are going to also need a designer and a copywriter. An SEO expert is crucial if you want to get ranked high in search results. Occasionally, you will need to perform website maintenance. And if you want to learn from your web traffic, hiring someone to make sense of web analytics is just as important. No wonder most companies have dedicated personnel and entire departments for all this.

But, in addition to lengthy development times, a website can be a substantial investment. Agencies charge thousands for even simple websites and freelancers are often unreliable and not transparent about pricing. And both, after handing over the keys, leave clients to fare for themselves. As a consequence, maintaining a website can be a tall order for many companies who have neither the staff nor the budget to do it properly. Yet, going without one and missing out on the thriving online market is not an option. So, what are businesses to do?

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7 Things To Do When Planning A Simpler Site.

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We all want an effective website that makes the users lives easy right? Easy to understand and easy and obvious for the user to take the next steps to the conversion you want.

In reality, as business owners we never know what that one thing is we want the user to do.

We throw in all the services we offer, add jazzy over complex images, multiple fonts “Because they look nice” and then wonder why nothing’s happening on our site.

Simple design works every time. No matter if you’re working on your website, email newsletter or print media, simple design is proven to be more visually appealing and creates a better first impression. As you should know by now, first impressions are everything.

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6 reasons why free article submission is worthy

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After all changes that search engines have gone through over the past few years, you might think that article submission websites and article marketing are no longer of use. Actually, Google’s Hummingbird algorithm, along with other major search engines, still reward links gained from article directories. Submitting articles to directories has many other benefits as well. Article submission can help you to:

Showcase your expertise. Articles that share valuable information about your industry will help you gain trust from future clients and build your brand. By sharing expertise and publishing to article directories, you will begin to be seen as a resource and a go-to person/company in your field.

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5 Reasons Your Competitors SMASH Their B2B Sales Targets While You Struggle

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Five Ways To Smash YOUR B2B Sales Targets And Beat Your Competitors

Increasing sales is the holy grail for many companies worldwide. However, where B2B sales are concerned it can present a considerable challenge to business owners and their salespeople.

In an industry as old as the sales industry, you would expect that most company owners would have the keys to increasing their sales numbers but the reality is different.

With the advent of technology, has come a huge influx of new ways in which sales should be handled. Some may say that this influx has caused the industry to become more fragmented. Others say it makes the industry more competitive. We say, “maybe we need to go back to basics!”