Get your business on the TV

We had a call from Optomen Television at the end of last week (they make Mary Queen of Shops, The F Word etc). They are producing a new series for Channel 5 looking at the major issues that small businesses face. Working with one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs, they will be investigating everything from controlling cash flow to time management. 

The series will feature 8 small businesses and Optomen are on the lookout for those businesses now. So if you fancy the idea of getting your business on TV they would love to hear from you.

Gemma Yardley, Casting Producer at Optomen told me “We can see that some small businesses are feeling that they’re stuck in a rut and should be taking an informed risk to grow – just how they do this is often enough to stop people in their tracks, but we’d like to change this. We all know that Britain is alive with creativity – we have more passionate entrepreneurs than any other country in Europe – but when it comes to the practical business skills we often fall down.  With 30,000 independent businesses estimated to go bust this year we all acknowledge that it couldn’t be a tougher time to run a small business in Britain and any bit of help should be a good thing.   The series will purposefully air just before the election as most people believe that small businesses will be a very hot topic and what will really get the economy moving again.  We all know that it’s the small businesses not the banks who are actually funding the country and it’s about time that this became our main focus!”

If you are interested in taking part, you should get in touch with Gemma as soon as possible at smallbusiness@optomen.com or by telephone 020 3227 5900.