Status Social director shortlisted for IoD East Midlands Directors awards
Status Social director Mark Saxby has reached the final of a prestigious regional business competition.
Mark is up for two East Midlands’ Institute of Directors’ Director of the Year awards – in the Young and SME categories.
He is one of only three Derbyshire directors to be shortlisted.
Below is a news release issued by the Institute of Directors:
Twenty of the region’s business leaders have been named in a shortlist for the Institute of Directors’ (IoD) East Midlands Director of the Year awards.
The winners will be announced at a presentation lunch on Thursday 16 May.
Ron Lynch, IoD East Midlands Regional Director, said: “We are always impressed by the standard of applications for these awards but this year’s entries have identified some particularly interesting stories of entrepreneurial success, achieved in a challenging economic environment.”
Nottingham Trent University are the main sponsors of the awards lunch which will be held at the Nottingham Conference Centre and. It will be compered by BBC East Midlands Today co-presenter Dominic Heale. The overall winner will be named East Midlands Director of the Year. All category winners will be submitted to the IoD’s UK Director awards later in the year.
The regional shortlist – selected by a panel of regional judges following interview – includes eight Leicestershire entries, six from Nottinghamshire, four from Northamptonshire, three from Derbyshire and two from Lincolnshire. Some are shortlisted in two different categories.
The categories are:
Young Director (sponsored by Lloyds TSB Corporate).
Director of the Year (small and medium company) ( sponsored by Duncan and Toplis).
Director of the Year (large company) (sponsored by Lloyds TSB Commercial).
Family Business Director of the Year (sponsored by Nelsons ).
International Director of the Year ( sponsored by The Phoenix Partners).
Director of the Year (Public /Third Sector) (sponsored by Ruddocks).
Status Social praised by Prime Minister
The Prime Minister has congratulated Status Social amongst others for winning a prestigious business competition.
David Cameron praised the companies who had won through the regional finals of the Local Business Accelerator competition, which was organised by local newspapers and chambers of commerce.
Status Social, along with the Derby Brewing Company and cosmetics business Eve of St Agnes, won Derbyshire’s competition in January 2013 and could now go through to the national final where the winners receive mentoring from Dragons’ Den star Deborah Meaden.
The Prime Minister said: “Last year’s national winner, Ilkley Brewery, has gone from strength to strength, growing its sales by 140 per cent and I hope this year’s winners will go on to enjoy similar success. I would like to congratulate all the local winners and wish them all the best for the national final.”
Status Social won a year’s mentoring, free advertising in the Derby Telegraph and membership of the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce. The judges of the Dragons’ Den-style competition said they were impressed by Status Social’s knowledge of its target audience, that they had all the figures at their fingertips and the ambition of the owners.
Status Social director Mark Saxby has also recently been shortlisted for two prestigious Institute of Directors awards.
Read MoreIs Fernando Alonso your fantasy?
Is this going to be the most open season in Formula 1 ever? With Ferrari, Red Bull, McLaren and even Mercedes showing signs of great speed in testing, it’s anyone’s guess who’s going to be setting the pace in the first race of the season next weekend.
The uncertainty makes it harder than ever before to choose your drivers for this year’s Status Social Fantasy F1 League. Picking two drivers (who can’t be from the same team) from a group made up of the Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren drivers is the first dilemma. Is it best to play it safe and go for Sebastian Vettel? Could this be the year that Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa get it together? And is Sergio Perez worth a punt? Could he be more consistent than teammate Jenson Button?
Group 2 contains Lotus, Mercedes and Sauber. Perhaps this selection is more obvious – a Mercedes driver should surely be in your Fantasy F1 team. But which one? Then there’s the consistent Kimi Raikonnen or can Nico Hulkenburg surprise us in his Sauber?
Williams has been showing great form – their drivers Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas are in group 3 – but what about Force India? Do you go for the ever-popular Paul di Resta or the prodigal son, Adrian Sutil? And don’t forget the Toro Rossos – after the jitters of last season, will this be the season that Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne get it together?
And finally, group 4. Only two teams, Caterham and Marussia, in this group this year since the demise of HRT. But which two drivers to choose?
Have you chosen your Fantasy F1 League team yet? It’s free to enter, and there’s a prize to be won this year thanks to GrandPrixMerchandise.co.uk. The deadline is midnight on Thursday so don’t leave it too late!
Enter your Status Social Fantasy Formula One team today!
Read MoreLinkedIn and Twitter workshops launching in Nottingham
Demand for our social media workshops has been so great, we are now launching them in Nottingham.
On Tuesday 23 April, we will be hosting LinkedIn and Twitter workshops in a city centre venue.
How to get customers on LinkedIn runs from 9.30am-12.30pm while Twitter for business (advanced) takes place between 2-5pm, at 20 Fletcher Gate.
The workshops, which are often fully-booked well in advance, cost just £65+VAT each if booked before April 9, or £115+VAT if a place on both workshops is required.
Status Social has trained around 800 business people in how to effectively use social media since its formation in January 2011.
To find out more about our Nottingham workshops, or for our full list of workshops carried out across the East Midlands, click here.
Read MoreMore LinkedIn and Twitter workshops scheduled for Derby
Demand for Status Social’s social media workshops has been so great in Derby that we are putting on more.
Following the popularity of the training events in Derby, of which all but one place was booked up a month in advance, we are putting on additional workshops in Pride Park.
The Alternative Board headquarters on Mallard Way will be the venue for the Twitter and LinkedIn events on March 6. Both workshops will show attendees how to attract more customers for their business.
The cost to attend the workshops is £60+VAT each if booked before February 20, £70+VAT after that. If both events are booked at the same time, the cost drops to £100+VAT. More details can be found here with a list of our other workshops in Derby and Burton Upon Trent.
Read MoreHappy birthday Status Social!
Happy birthday Status Social! Two years ago we launched our website, Facebook page and Twitter account to an unsuspecting world. We were one of the first specialist social media marketing consultancies in the United Kingdom and despite the recession, two years on we are thriving. So to celebrate, we thought we would use numbers to tell the story of our 731 days in existence…
94,224: Hits on our blogs
49,479: Approximate number of tweets tweeted
750: Business people trained in social media
198: Bananas eaten in the Status Social office
53.9910° N, 1.5390° W: Most northern client (Harrogate, UK).
52.3700° N, 4.8900° E: Most eastern client (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
51.5171° N, 0.1062° W: Most southern client (London, UK).
40.7142° N, 74.0064° W: Most western client (New York, USA).
27: Social media strategy workshops.
9: Minutes spent lying under a table in networking meetings after feeling faint.
3: BTEC Award in Social Media for Business courses.
2: Sports Personality of the Year winners seen during the annual Status Social Team Day Out (Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish).
1: Awards won (Derby Telegraph Local Growth Accelerator 2013)
Want to be more than a number in 2013? Then call us on 01332 776910 or email us to find out how we can help you reach customers through social media.
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