Here are some of the testimonials from 2009's Business Yorkshire event.
“Business Yorkshire is a must attend event for us, the quality of people through the door, the quantity of people through the door is unrivaled by other events. We return every year as it has been a proven method of getting new members for our organisation. Well done Business Yorkshire, see you in 2010!”
Warren Cass, Founder and Managing Director, Business Scene
“Just to say we have had a wonderful two days at Business Yorkshire, we’ve done very well, lots of appointments, lots of new contacts, really enjoyed it. Well done Business Yorkshire!”
Anjla Sansoa-Twell, Sales and Marketing, Pinders
“I think Business Yorkshire is a cracking exhibition, its well organised, well put together, well supported and we’ve done very well out of it both years we’ve attended.”
Nigel Green, Project Manager, Hudson’s Office Furniture Ltd
“This is our first time exhibiting at Business Yorkshire and its been surprisingly good, it’s beaten our expectations and so will definitely be booking again next year.”
Hugh Jackson, Director, MediaCo
“We’re delighted to get involved with Business Yorkshire for a second year, the importance, certainly in the current economic climate, of face to face networking and new business opportunities is very important for the region. I think the organisers have done a fantastic job to get this amount of sponsorship involved and also the footfall for the two days is an absolute credit to the team that’s organised the event.”
Paul Reeves, Director of Business Development, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and Industry
“We keep coming back to Business Yorkshire because we meet all the right people in the region and we have proven results of winning business due to the event.”
Richard Holmes, Operations Director, Liquid Accounts
“We’ve not exhibited at Business Yorkshire previously so this is our first year, we’ve had some really good leads from both individuals as well as large opportunities running into the millions of pounds, so really good leads. Also some really good contacts made and conversations I’ve had with people. All in all, extremely pleased with the show and looking forward to exhibiting next year, and getting more real business from it.”
Steven Walker, Head of Local Business, Kinnarps
“The reason that Barnsley and Rotherham Chamber wanted to be at the Business Yorkshire exhibition was to really build relationships with organistions in the area and to come face to face with a lot more of the businesses that we don’t know and to really increase awareness of what the Chamber is all about. It’s been absolutely superb over the two days, certainly yesterday was fantastic, we generated a lot more interest than I could have ever dreamed of and I’ve been at a lot of exhibitions over the years. I was blown away.”
Michele Taylor, Memberships Services Manager, Barnsley and Rotherham Chamber of Commerce
“This is the second time we’ve attended the Business Yorkshire exhibition, I would recommend that everybody that’s in business should be exhibiting and promoting their services, and if they are not doing that then they should attend and network and get some learning.”
Tim Roberts, Managing Director, I-Com
“This has been a brilliant two day event, there have been plenty of people exhibiting, networking has been absolutely fantastic and all in all we feel that it’s been so successful that we are already making plans to come back next year.”
Tom Dawson, Training Services Manager, St John Ambulance
“If you look around you will see that Business Yorkshire actually brings together all of the necessary kinds of information and support that a business would need.”
Mark Bamforth, Local Adviser Manager, Business Link Yorkshire
Below are a selection of the fantastic testimonials from 2008's Business Yorkshire event.
"During the event we had 120 visitors to our stand - that's 10 new people every hour! There is no way you can meet that many people in such a small space of time any other way. Of those visitors, we made firm bookings with 20 possible clients. Within a short space of time we were able to convert some of those contacts to sales. Now our pipeline is still full of the people that we met at the show and when they're ready, they'll come on board. The Expo has delivered us around £16k worth of business so far and we are expecting still more new clients as a result of Business Yorkshire.
Business Yorkshire is the best "buzz" we had 2 great days, meeting loads of new contacts and we generated a volume of new business that we would never be able to get from any other marketing opportunity. We've already booked our stand for next year!"
Lisa Smedley, Business Development Manager, Business Pathfinders
"This was the first exhibition arranged by our new marketing team. It was comforting to know that we could contact you in the event of a problem or query. We achieved our objectives in that the profile of the firm has been raised as a result of the event and we were able to follow up numerous good quality leads. In our view the event was a definite success and the "icing on the cake" was to see a picture of our stand printed in the Yorkshire Post."
Charlotte Bradbury, Partner, Atteys Solicitors
"I was extremely happy with the Business Yorkshire Event. The event was in my opinion extremely well run, well attended and produced a high quality of leads for us to follow up. Once again you've all exceeded our expectations. I hope that our positive feelings are echoed by other exhibitors as this was without a doubt one of the best first year shows we've ever attended.
We're confident with the right mix of hard work, marketing and dedication to continually producing results each of your events will go from strength to strength for the foreseeable future."
Ian Creek, NewZapp, Marketing Manager
"I was impressed with organisation, professionalism and turnout. I received a lot of positive feedback from exhibitors and attendees that I met."
Tim Roberts, I-Com, Managing Director
"It exceeded my expectations. I developed several good leads and the quality of the visitors was very high. There was good attention to detail and the quality of support and vendors attending were high."
Marcus Eden-Ellis, Bid Perfect, Managing Director
"Business Yorkshire is a breath of fresh air in the Exhibition circuit."
Derek Long, Marketing Consultant, The P & A Partnership
"Thanks for all your support with Business Yorkshire, it was a good show and we learnt a lot. I've never seen a team of event managers so calm and appearing to enjoy themselves!"
Lois Cook, Angels Den Founder
"We were amazed by the quality of people who came to our stand and who were very serious about business. We had people drive up from Fulham and Portsmouth as well as lots of local business people, we certainly hadn't anticipated the draw of the event would be so widespread and will definitely be exhibiting again!"
Bill Morrow, Angels Den Founder
"It was a pleasure working with you and your team. I look forward to next year as the event was a great success for the IOD."
Richard Wagstaff, Chairman, IOD
"It was an excellent show with a superb quantity of contacts. Looking forward to doing it again next year."
Ben Kench