| Issue 03 | April 2008 |
| Latest WIBSpain News |
Dear Ladies
Our 3rd issue of the newsletter, and so much has happened in the passed months. The team have worked hard in improving our content of luncheons with more topical speakers. New members are able to give a short talk on their businesses. More and more ladies are discovering WIB´s and the benefits of becoming a member
WIB´s in the media | We have been featured in Hi Magazine, Cool News. Finest Magazine.
Important News | Women in Business have now the full support of Marbella Town Council, which is excellent news. This support will assist all our members by higher awareness of our businesses. Further information will be sent out to our member’s shortly.
We need your feedback ladies. How can we further improve the Women in Business meetings?
Our next luncheon is on 2nd May at the Magna Café. See you there
Regards,
Caroline Bowley
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| Team News |
| We're very pleased to introduce some new WIBSpain team members, Susan Hunter, Secretary, Susan Lynch, Membership Co-ordinator and Natalia Serrano, Treasurer. View their profile and contact details by reading our Team Member's Profiles. |
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Join the team! We are also looking for ladies who wish to assist the team in all areas, monthly help, luncheons, workshops and other tasks. Please contact Caroline at enquiries@wibspain.com |
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| Letters |
Follow up and Letter from recent luncheon speaker
Susan Hunter |
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| The Importance of Training in Business |
Some of you will remember that I spoke last week at the WIB lunch on the subject of the Importance of Training in Business and I hope that you enjoyed it! I, however, must apologise to those of you who attended … because I had a really bad migraine which stopped me from coming round to talk to you all at your tables afterwards, so I wanted to email you with some ideas (and also email those of you who couldn’t be there!).
In the coming week we will be emailing out to you an outline of the Taster WIB Workshops and hopefully some of your needs will be met by them to assess the success of your own business. For more detailed training needs I would be happy to discuss a personalised plan for you and/or your organisation. Indeed, if you would like me to carry out a training audit of your business looking at both functional and personal development training needs email me at susan@susan-hunter.com. |
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| Email | Susan Hunter | Telephone TBC |
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| Diary Dates and Events |
Friday 2 May 2008 | Arrivals 1:00pm
WIB Spain Monthly Luncheon Meeting
Magna Café, Nueva Andalucia, Marbella
Speaker | Steve Cameron, Advent Communications
Subject | Setting Up Business in Spain
The Education Slot 5 Minute Talk
with Susana Serrano-Davy, Rose & Clavel Accountants
More details available on WIBSpain Website |
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Showing until 25th April 2008
New art exhibition featuring the flamboyant world of Guy Olivier, Carlos Mata's unique sculptures and Chachi Machuca, whose visual poetry will surprise you.
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Wednesday 23 April 4:00 to 6:00pm
KSI Costa Consulting Group
Master Class Series: 3 Keys to Business Success in Spain
An Overview to Successfully Employing Staff in Spain
This seminar will cover topics such as what is a Convenio Collectivo and how this applies to your business; why you pay Social Security and what you get for your bucks; how to employ new staff and what to do if you need to dismiss staff.
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Saturday 26th April 2008 8:00pm
Ogilvy & Mailer Restaurante has great delight in presenting, for her debut performance in Spain, Miss Julie-Anne Hunter
Formal Dinner and Performance. Reservations essential
Read full details |
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Saturday 26th April 2008 10:30 to 1:00pm
How healthy are you? Nicola Drabble's Diet and Lifestyle Workshop
Read more details |
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Saturday 3 May 2008
Invitation to FISCHER Open Golf Series
La Reserva Club de Golf, Sotogrande
Fischer Mercedes and Fischer 2 Selected Cars are happy to invite you to the forthcoming Fischer Open Golf tournament on Saturday,
3rd of May at the magnificent La Reserva Golf Club, Sotogrande.
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Tuesday 8 May for 6 days
Foundation to Success Coaching Program by Masha Malka
This is a unique opportunity to be a part of a special group of people who will actively help each other while working on their own growth and development.
Read more details |
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Wednesday 14 May 4:00 to 6:00pm
KSI Costa Consulting Group
Master Class Series: 3 Keys to Business Success in Spain
A Year in the Life of an Accountant & How to Benefit from Your Profits.
This seminar will examine the the accounting calendar and explain what a business is required to do and when. We will also cover how to raise an invoice and what is acceptable as a deductable expenses. Also, we will discuss what is the best way for an owner of the business to financially benefit from his profits.
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Friday 23 May to Monday 26th May 2008
Long Weekend Coaching Adventure
An adventure to rivitalise all of you - your mind, body and spirit.
10% Discount for WIB
Read more details |
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Sunday 1 June 2008
20th Anniversary Summer Ball at Villa Tiberio, Marbella
– Supporting Children with Leukaemia
Read more details |
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Saturday 7 June 2008
Butterfly Ball, Hotel Puente Romano, Marbella
for the Ryhs Daniels Trust
Visit website |
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Saturday 7 June 2008
Murder Mystery Evening at El Castillo de Monda
Reservations on first come basis and
50% payment needed by 2 May
Read full details |
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Wednesday 18 June 10:00 to 12:00pm
KSI Costa Consulting Group
Master Class Series: 3 Keys to Business Success in Spain
Debt Collection and How to Keep Your Cash Flow Positive
Are you tired of chasing your clients for payment? We will discuss the importance of good contracts; payment terms; and the legal process for debt collection and debt factoring.
Read more details |
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Saturday 21 to Saturday 28 June 2008
Long Weekend Coaching Adventure in the Andalucia Mountains
Read more details including 10% discount for WIBSpain |
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Saturday/Sunday 25 to 26 October 2008
Style N' Beauty Show Estepona
Visit website | Further details |
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| General News |
| New Rules for Health Insurance Abroad |
The Department of Health in the UK has announced that from 1st April 2008, British nationals who permanently reside in Spain will have to present the Spanish equivalent of a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) if they need medical treatment whilst visiting the UK or any other EU member state. The new rule applies to UK nationals who live in Spain and make Spanish Social Security contributions or live in Spain while receiving a state pension or long term incapacity benefit from the UK through the registration of an E121. The lack of a Spanish EHIC could result in people being considered as a private patient. The Spanish equivalent of the EHIC can be applied for at a Spanish social security office (INSS). . |
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| Nutrion News by Nicola Drabble, Registered Dietician |
| Great News about Avocados |
This great tasting fruit has always got bad press due to its fat content and any dieter will tell you to cut it out of your diet. But results from studies show us differently. It was found that including avo’s in an energy restricted eating plan does not compromise weight loss or negatively affect lipid profiles – In fact it aided compliance and increased the participants’ enjoyment of the weight loss diet. In recent years scientists have also found that due to its high content of mono-unsaturated fatty acids, avocados help with glycaemic control (controlling your sugar levels). This is good news for diabetics as well as dieters. |
| What else does the fruit offer? |
| Email Nicola Drabble | Telephone +34 677 111 513 |
| Website | www.nicoladrabble.com |
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| Welcome to our New WIBSpain Members |
| Name | Ludmilla Fowler |
| Business | Vida Interiors |
Ludmila worked for many different international organisations including the United Nations. Due to the nature of her Engineering job she travelled around the world, but 9 years ago her family decided to settle down in sunny Spain. She then decided to go for a career change & successfully obtained a Diploma in Interior Design from London. After working with a UK home furnishing’s Interior Design company, Ludmila set up her own Interior Design studio which provides a personable Interior Design services: from colour, style & lighting advice, to a comprehensive Interior Design of the entire property. If you have so many great ideas, but don’t know where to start, then she will help you with her professional guidance that will lead you to those stylish Interiors that are beautiful as well as good for the environment. In her free time she enjoys outdoor activities such as golf & gardening.
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| Website | www.vidainteriors.com |
| email | ludmila@vidainteriors.com |
| M | 600 008 005 |
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| Name | Antonia Behan |
| Business | Professional Writer and Lifestyle Design Consultant |
An entrepreneur...
; as a writer, Antonia researches the latest in holistic health and natural living to create features for international magazines as well as offering select private clients her writing services to further promote their brands.
; as a lifestyle consultant, Antonia focuses very much on empowering people to be the best they can be and this begins in the mind. Antonia combines her own techniques, gained from addressing and working through intense personal issues, as well as her life coaching training, to help her clients better understand their mind. When you know mind, you are better able to select you thoughts, overcome negative thinking, manage emotions and thus tackle addictions, bad habits and self esteem issues. Clients gain further insight to the life they really want to live and the tools to create it.
Coming soon - Antonia is bringing together a team of experts in their field to offer a new and bespoke lifestyle programme where each client is assigned their own personal life coach, personal trainer and dietician, who work together as a team to ensure you become the best you can be. This programme ensures optimal health, fitness and mindset to allow you to live a healthy, balanced and highly successful life. Please call for details. More information available soon.
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| Website | www.divineliving.eu |
| email | antoniabehan@aol.com |
| M | +34 620 741 361 |
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| Name | Inez Rix |
| Business | Direct Auctions, Herbal Life Marbella, Wellness Club |
Inez Rix, British, 41 years young. Lived in Spain for 13 years. Married, 2 teenage children, both is Spanish schools. I have 24 years of experience mainly in all aspects of property such as rentals, sales, development, finance etc. In 2004 I set up a property auction house, Direct Auctions based in Marbella. Now due to a couple of health issues I am looking to reduce stress and increase wealth through the Wellness Industry. I'm not one to let an opportunity pass me by and see the bigger picture and a bright future in Wellness! |
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| Websites | www.direct-auctions.com www.herbalifemarbella.com www.workless-earnmorenow.com and www.wellness-clubs.com |
| email | Inez Rix |
| Telephone | 952 859 913 / 661 390 750 |
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| Name | Leslie Weber |
| Business | Amanhavis Hotel & Restaurante |
Tucked away in the Moorish mountain village of Benahavis is the Hotel Amanhavis. A small rustic, yet elegant world of great smiles, warm welcomes, refined service and a true andalucian feel awaits you at Amanhavis. The true feeling of being far away, yet you are at home away from home.
With a climate of nearly 320 sunny days in a year, visitors can enjoy the beautiful countryside of small a Andalucean villages nestled on green mountain slopes. Only a few kilometers away, you reach the world class resorts of Marbella and Puerto Banus, which are only minutes away from Amanhavis’ doorstep. Enjoy and relax at the mountain jewel of Amanhavis.
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| Website | www.amanhavis.com |
| email | info@amanhavis.com |
| Telephone | 952856026 and/or 629568213 |
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| Name | Emmie Cross |
| Business | The Body Works Clinic |
Bodyworks Health Clinic or Bodyworks Physio Clinic as it has come to be known, is a unique concept for physiotherapy care in the Marbella area of Andalucia, Spain where the main focus is on accurate diagnosis, injury management, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, biomechanical foot care, orthotics, general improvement in fitness levels and nutritional advice.
The 230 square metre building housing the clinic near Marbella, Andalucia, Costa del Sol, Spain has been totally renovated and custom designed by a Chartered Physiotherapist giving a modern twist to the exterior whilst the interior provides for a cool and calming experience in all of the 5 spacious treatment rooms. The large and bright exercise studio has again been carefully designed with its floor to ceiling mirrors, "ballet" style exercise bars and a
Whether you are or aspire to be an elite athlete or professional golfer, whether you are a mum-to-be, a grandfather or the ordinary person in the street, if you have an injury be it a simple strain or pain, bad back or fracture, Bodyworks can help.
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| Website | www.thebodyworksclinic.com |
| email | emmie@bodyworksclinic.com |
| M | 952 883 151 |
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| Members Noticeboard |
| Do you have a business, event, activity, special offer you would like to promote to your fellow WIBSpain members? Then send us your details and we'll insert into this eNewsletter. |
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| If you would like to include an event in this newsletter please send your addition by the 10th of each month for insertion into the next newsletter (due for circulation around the 15th of each month). |
| Don't forget to upload your event on the WIBSpain calendar |
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| Mothers Help Required |
Needed English/Spanish speaking Mother´s help for June July and August who must be able to drive and provide reference. Not live in. €1000 pm. |
| Email | susanannmarshall@yahoo.co.uk |
| Contact | 607 876 702 |
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| Business | Andalucia.com |
Special Offer | Special offer for Women in Business members ends 30th of May 2008 |
Promote your business 24 hours 365 days a year with Andalucia.com for less than one euro per day! Just 295 euros will buy a link for one year to Andalucia.com, the world's premier ranked website for tourism and business in Andalucia, established in 1996.
Buy two text links and we give you a further 65 euros discount, plus a FREE Search Optimization online visibility check of your website. In today's online world the most important element of web promotion is your ranking and visibility.
Our Free website “health check” will explain how your site is currently ranked and offer advice for improvements. All that and two links for only 525 euros a year! Offer ends 30th of May, 2008.
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| Visit Website | www.andalucia.com |
| Contact | Emma Woods or Michelle Chaplow |
| Telephone | 952 897 865 |
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| Business | Rose & Clavel Chartered Accountants |
Rose & Clavel is a bilingual firm of Chartered Accountants based in Marbella. We provide traditional accountancy services as well as innovative business solutions in a new kind of way.
We are a member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). We offer a variety of services to both individuals and companies. Our services include:
- Business start-up
- Grant applications
- Bookkeeping and accounting
- Non-resident compliance
- Corporate tax planning and compliance
- Corporate finance
- Pre-acquisition financial reviews
- Finance department support
- Personal tax planning and compliance
- VAT registration and compliance
- Personal financing arrangements
- Translations
Our team is made up of people who come from different backgrounds and have lived and worked both in Spain and the UK. The diversity of our people allows us to understand our clients, their business and their expectations regardless of whether they are Spanish or British.
We aim to provide our clients with awesome service; produce work which is high in quality; work proactively and not reactively; and provide good value for money |
| Read our guide to the Spanish Tax Collection System |
| Visit Website | www.roseandclavel.com |
| Email | info@roseandclavel.com |
| Telephone | +34 952 81 53 65 +34 639 07 51 61 |
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| Business | Easy Cooking |
Special Offer | Discount of 20% for WIB members - Gift vouchers available |
Spring Menu with Flowers: Form a group, choose the date, your favourite menu and come to relax, socialize and enjoy cooking and eating in front of the sea. Read dates and menus. |
| Contact | rashida@easydishes.com |
| Telephone | 654 931 208 |
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| Business | Fotografa Gabi Bernhardt |
Special Offer | WIB Ladies 10% discount on all photo sesions |
I would like to give a discount of 10% for all PHOTO-SESSIONS (starting from 220 Euro for 1-2 persons, approx. the best 15 + photos, enhanced, with special effects … in SHQ on a CD! |
| Visit Website | www.gabi-bernhardt.com |
| Contact | Gabi Bernhardt |
| Telephone | +34 952 90 6221 or 616 90 5383 |
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| Business | Art Classes in Marbella with Pixie Glore |
| Beginners to Advanced, Thursday 10:00am |
| Visit Website | www.pixiesart.com |
| Contact | Pixie Glore |
Telephone | 655 626 602
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| Business | Finest Magazines |
| Message | Advertise your business |
FINEST addresses MARBELLA / Costa del Sol is an independent local high-gloss guide to luxury and lifestyle. It has been published for over 8 years by Ewald Schwarzer Verlag, who has published luxury magazines and travel guides for 27 years. At present, there are twenty-five different editions published in Europe, with a total of 120.000 distributed copies at over 5.400 sites, and over 450.000 readers. Read more details. |
| Visit Website | www.finestworldwide.com |
| Contact | Gudula Freytag |
| Telephone | +34-952 765 553, M: +34-619-461 445 |
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| Business | Tiger Tours |
You may have seen the first two parts of the three-part series on the BBC – ‘Tiger-spy in the Jungle’, with David Attenborough. The BBC tracked tigers using secret cameras hidden in elephants' trunks. David Attenborough says, 'The tiger is not only the world's favourite wild animal but also one of the rarest'. I am delighted to bring you a new tour which includes two key national parks for tigers in India: Pench and Kanha. Read more details. |
| Visit Website | www.travelcounsellors.co.uk/helen.wheatley |
| Contact | Helen Wheatley |
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| Business | HomeCareontheWeb | management | rentals | sales |
Message | Earn yourself extra income now with HomeCareontheWeb’s Associate Referral Scheme |
As the Coast’s leading property management, rentals and sales company we are inviting WIB members to join our successful Associate Referral Scheme, where you can earn money through recommending our premium services to your clients. You qualify for a referral commission the moment someone you recommend contracts for a property management package, signs a long-term rental agreement, books and pays for their holiday accommodation, or completes on the purchase of a property. If you have your own website, you can even generate extra revenue 'while you sleep' by placing a weblink from your site to our HomeCareontheWeb.com site.
Visitors to your site who click through to our site will be registered as having been sent by you, and once they contract one of our company’s services, you’ll automatically qualify for your commission. Because of the quality of the services we provide, you know that whomever you refer will receive the best possible service and be well looked after by our team of friendly professionals. Our Associate Referral Scheme is already proving to be lucrative for a number of well-known local companies, and more are joining our Scheme daily. So don’t miss out on this opportunity of earning yourself some genuine extra revenue for your business. Talk to us today!
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| Visit Website | www.homecareontheweb.com or for specific details on the Associate Referral Scheme visit www.homecareontheweb.com/associate |
| Contact | MD Tony Sidebottom on +34 952 83 95 95 or email him at tony@homecareontheweb.com |
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| Business | Herbal Life Marbella |
I am both delighted and excited to announce the launch of my seminars to inform interested and enthusiastic people how to make money in the area of wellness. Wellness is the next trillion dollar industry and we can see evidence of this all over the coast.
Backed by a huge existing company, the idea itself is both unique and proven. I am also looking for key people to help me expand the business with the same vision and drive - sorry no salary as we are all self employed - but with full support and training.
If you are interested or you know anyone else who may be interested, please let them know and call me of |
| Editors Note | Inez's seminar started on 16th April so too late for listing in this eNewsletter. Please contact Inez directly to discuss any further seminars. |
| Contact | Inez Rix |
| Telephone | 952 859 913 / 661 390 750 |
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| Business | Es-preso Websites |
Special Offer | Refer a friend who orders a website and pays a deposit by 31 May 2008 and you both earn a £10.00 or EUR 15.00 credit. Offer ends 31 May 2008 |
We're offering you the chance to build up credits worth £10.00/ EUR 15.00 each which you can use towards building your own website, or other items such as an eNewsletter or other
e-oriented promos such as e-invitations, the setup and styling of a blog, an A5-flyer ready for professional printing, logo design or business cards. |
| Visit Website | Click here to read more details |
| Contact | Kerry Havenhand email info@es-preso.com |
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| About this eNewsletter |
| This newsletter is published once a month and circulated to the Women in Business Spain members around the 15th day of each month. All members can contribute items to the newsletter. The deadline for submissions is the 10th of each month. Please send submissions to enquiries@wibspain.com |
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| We'd love to hear your views about Women in Business, our lunches, eNewsletter or about living and running a business here in Marbella. |
| Send your comments to enquiries@wibspain.com |
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