Press release

GlosBiz celebrates five years of connecting business owners in Gloucestershire

GlosBiz is celebrating connecting businesses and business owners across Gloucestershire with the six year anniversary of the #GlosBiz hashtag and five years of networking breakfasts and lunches.

Adrian Malpass, a business coach sent out the #GlosBiz hashtag for the first time six years ago. The hashtag took off and resulted in the successful meet ups that happen on a monthly basis throughout the Cotswolds. Adrian tells the GlosBiz story: ‘One day in 2010 I simply typed the hashtag #GlosBiz in a tweet. It was hardly likely to be ground-breaking in the slightest; the term had just come about in my mind as a straightforward way of highlighting local business. My tweet went something like this, "If we all spend just £1 per week with a local #GlosBiz instead of a supermarket, imagine the difference it would make".'

Adrian then followed it with "Use the #GlosBiz tag to raise awareness of local business. Pls RT" and was surprised and delighted by the response: ‘What happened next was, in my view, just one of those ‘right place, right time' moments.'

Within hours the tag had spread across Gloucestershire and was being used by businesses of all sizes, customers of businesses, fans, even potential customers. Within 24 hours it had reached New York and was indexing on Google, and within 48 hours local PR people were picking it up, other Biz tags had been created for other areas across the UK, and the whole idea of a Biz tag to highlight local businesses had taken on a life of its own.

GlosBiz now reaches over 1.3million unique users every week, and is the leading local business tag in the region. The GlosBiz® entity connects over 9,000 businesses in the county, and reaches over 20,000 Gloucestershire business people. Adrian says it has become the best way to connect to/find other local businesses of all sizes.

With sold out breakfasts at Ellenborough Park and lunches at The Mayflower Restaurant, Adrian is continuing to move GlosBiz forward. He adds: ‘Having been up and running and connecting people for five years, GlosBiz is the go-to networking arena for many businesses in Gloucestershire. Friendships have been forged and business relationships have been made because of GlosBiz.'

More information about GlosBiz can be found here: http://adrianmalpass.com/home1/?page_id=65

Adrian's business coaching service can be found at:http://adrianmalpass.com/

Tel: 01242-672440

Email:insight@adrianmalpass.com

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For more information, or an interview with Adrian, please contactclaire@garfunkelcommunications.co.uk

Photo credit: Andy Hockridge