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Manchester entrepreneurs give advice to budding businesspeople

Two entrepreneurial businesswomen from Manchester are sharing the secrets of their success at a major national business event, taking place at Manchester Central on 8 and 9 June.

Sissy Rooney and Sarah Cross are delivering keynote addresses at the Growing Your Own Business Conference taking place at The British Franchise Exhibition.

Sissy, who is behind one of the leading providers of creative workshops in the UK, is delivering a talk entitled: Hard graft and Eureka moments - how I built my business from the street up.

Sissy is founder of the Street Style Surgery, an award-winning social enterprise organisation that provides workshops teaching new skills and boosting the confidence of young people. These range from body popping to fashion design, music production to film-making, business and enterprise workshops. Together with her team, Sissy has worked with over 1,000 young people to date, as well as organisations including Manchester City Council, Barnardos and Lancashire County Council.

Sarah Cross, Managing Director of Uber and North West Business Woman of the Year 2011, will explain why the customer is the most precious asset of any business in her talk: The holy grail of customer engagement - how to win the hearts minds and wallets of your customers.

Sarah will detail why winning customers has never been harder and how engaging with customers and staff is key to growing a business. Her valuable advice includes creating virtual communities and tapping into customers’ social circles to maximise engagement, awareness and revenue.

Sarah set up Uber in 2008 as she spotted a gap in the market for a specialist loyalty consultancy that is independent of technology and combines technical expertise with creative knowledge. Her clients include Diesel, ghd, Mersey Travel and The Children’s Mutual.

The Growing Your Own Business seminars are located within The British Franchise Exhibition at Manchester Central on 8 & 9 June. To register for The British Franchise Exhibition, call +44 (0)844 257 8668 or visit www.franchiseinfo.co.uk. Callers can purchase tickets by credit card for £8 each or £7 each for two or more. Admission on the door is £10. Visitors can, however gain FREE admission by using the promotional codeMGYOBwhen they register on the website.

The British Franchise Exhibition is open from 10am each day, closing at 5pm on Friday 8 June and 4pm on Saturday 9 June 2012.

For the latest news and updates about the British Franchise Exhibition, follow the exhibition on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ukfranchising, join The Franchise Exhibitions Group on Linked In or become a fan of the FranchiseInfo group on Facebook.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Emma Ward .