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I’m a runner up!
Cornish Woman in Freelancer Award
 and Teresa Klasener (middle) are congratulated by Iain McIlwee (right) from PCG.jpg)
Dawn, from Liskeard, narrowly missed winning the PCG Freelancer Award at The Remote Worker Awards, in association with BT Business, at London's Grand Connaught Rooms.
In 2006, Dawn was employed by the South West Peninsula Strategic Health Authority, working with an associate director who was often on the road, providing her with remote secretarial services when she was out of the office.
When the SHA restructured that year, Dawn saw a gap in the market for businesses who were constantly out of the office but needed secretarial support, and created Your Office Online.
Known as a virtual assistant (VA), Dawn works as PA to several clients nationwide, including a locum GP provider for the Armed Forces, and a masseuse who works in the UK and Dubai.
Dawn said: "As VAs are self-employed business people in their own right, they have an understanding of the pressures businesses are under and are able to help businesses with their admin requirements in many ways, not just typing reports and memos."
Dawn is now setting up a new venture which has grown from her freelance work: Virtual Business in a Box, a product aimed at fledgling small businesses and sole traders.
It is literally a box, containing administrative items a new business needs to set up — such as website design, logos, templates and guides.
Dawn is hoping to launch the product later this year.
I’ve Been Shortlisted
The PCG Freelance Consultant Award Finalists Announced
Award winning website, Remote Employment, has just released a press release announcing the ten finalists for the above award, and I am one of them! Having entered the 2009 competition but not being shortlisted, I wasn't going to bother with this year's award as I was quite busy and didn't think I would have time to write an entry. Good job I did.
The following is the press release sent out today.
PCG Freelance Award Finalists Announced
Ten Freelancers, consultants and contractors who work flexibly, remotely or work from home have been selected as Finalists in The Remote Worker Awards, in association with BT Business.
The PCG Freelance Consultant Award has raised awareness for freelancing as a lucrative and rewarding career. There has been a range of skills with enterprising individuals, who have forged a career for themselves using their expertise in consultation to help other businesses grow. They have shown the judges reasons to choose them as the most engaging freelance consultancy.
The Finalists Are:
Howard Taylor, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Teresa Klasener, Streatham, London
Dawn Lane, Liskeard, Cornwall
Emma Cossey, Reading, Berkshire
Jane Rimmer, Binfield, Berkshire
Mary Thomas, Faringdon, Oxon
Rahel Takle-Peirce, London
Elizabeth Harrin, London
Kirsty Mussett, Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Billie Wootton, Bracknell Berkshire
They all now compete against other finalists at the winning ceremony, which will be held at The Grand Connaught Rooms in London.
Award winning website, Remote Employment, Google’s No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life.
Shortlist Summary
Teresa Klasener enables businesses to provide visual digital solutions for their customers. Typically video production but she also visualises with words, through journalistic articles or twitter and facebook campaigns. She portfolio manages several accounts across several disciplines and her work has enabled her clients to win awards, get noticed by TV, and to inspire change.
Dawn Lane gives clients back their time and frees them from paperwork and other administration worries. Your Office Online provides extremely high levels of secretarial services to other freelancers and sole traders allowing them to concentrate on growing their business and increase their profits.
Emma Cossey became a freelancer in April 2009, and has since managed to take on a variety of roles simultaneously, including social media consultant for Chocolates for Chocoholics, production assistant for Miramus (dealing with clients like AOL and Aigua Media) and writer for an assortment of popular blogs and websites.
Mary Thomas is passionate about empowering people to use technology for the benefit of their business. She offers tailored training to clients to use their office applications more effectively or to make sense of Social Media. Delivery is either face to face or using an online classroom over the internet.
Rahel Takle-Peirce has been creating specific abstract designs over 20 years to bring inspiration and beauty spontaneously using her historical culture of Ethiopia. Her unique intricate art reflects years of international influence including work in psychiatry. She is able to capture the spirit of the individual using inherent emotional colours.
Elizabeth Harrin’s Otobos Group provides tailored business writing with flair for corporate and trade blogs, newsletters, websites and magazines. The Otobos Group does business journalism with personality, enabling its customers to connect with their customers in a professional but accessible way.
Kirsty Mussett plans events – from assisting couples in planning their perfect wedding day to planning an international conference for a large corporate company. Your Wedding & Events Consultant saves time and money for corporate companies and allows couples to enjoy the build up to their special day.
More information can be found at www.remoteworkerawards.com
The final is to be held at The Grand Connaught Rooms in London on 1st September and will be judged by, amongst others, Claire Young (of 'The Apprentice' fame), Richard Alvin, Business Matters Magazine and Mike Hegarty, Strategy & Commercial Director, BT Business.
Wish me luck!