Just like buses, off we go on our travels then two of them turn up at once. No not buses… keep up in the back.
I am talking about female friendly businesses I know and like who are both celebrating their 15th birthdays in 2009 - in today’s economy, getting to any business birthday is really something special.
Business number one is female friendly garage car repairer ooops.net in Poole, Dorset. I’ve mentioned them before because they do creative things like invite female motorists and their family to drive-in movies and summer fetes. This time business founder Paul Booker is starting his own ooops blog so I wanted to give him a foxy plug on behalf of the many women drivers in Poole who know they can trust their car to this business.
The second business is actually related to business number one in that they specialise in designing social networking solutions like the ones ooops.net offers their customers – they are creative agency Preview based in Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex and their design work is some of the best I’ve seen – and I’ve seen a lot, trust me 
. This agency was founded by Nick Broom FCIM who I know from my CIM Sussex committee work.
I’d also add that both Paul and Nick recognise that social networking needs to add value and provide advice and information to become regarded and trusted by women in particular, in their different fields.
Here’s to the next 15 years guys… and let’s all look forward to meeting the 25% of our customers we don’t know yet as we travel the next 15 years in business!
FOXY Steph
www.ooops.net/blog
