Sara Tye, founder and managing director of redheadPR, will be a panellist at the O2 Smarta 100 ‘Startup Secrets: How to Launch a Profitable Business’ event in Bristol, on Wednesday 11 June 2014.

Sara will discuss her experiences of building redheadPR and other previous companies. She will give advice to new business owners and people who plan to launch a new enterprise.

Sara Tye has nearly 30 years’ experience of managing the reputations of start-ups, corporates, not for profits and individuals. redheadPR, a dynamic independent public relations consultancy, uses cutting-edge online PR and marketing techniques as well as tried and tested traditional methods. Sara’s clients have included Green & Black’s, Frangi Tie Rack, Blue Dragon, Nokia, Belu Mineral Water, Centrepoint, Raleigh International, Cardiac Risk in the Young and crocus.co.uk. She was a finalist in the first Cosmopolitan Women of the Year Awards in 1999.

Sara is the chair of the women-exclusive business club; I AM WOMAN, patron for Christ Church in Swindon, a Virgin and Smarta mentor and director consultant at the global networking group, BNI. She has run a Mexican food business, a hotel in St Ives and a residential home for the elderly.

Looking forward to the event, Sara said:

“Smarta is a terrific organisation to be involved with. It’ll be great to share my knowledge, help promising entrepreneurs build thriving businesses and network with interesting people.”

Startup Secrets

Also speaking are Ed Brown, co-founder of Friska, the quality, value led food outlet, and Esther McMorris, founder and director of business transformation experts, Nine Feet Tall. Smarta COO, Matt Thomas, will host the event.

‘Startup Secrets: How to Launch a Profitable Business’ Takes place at the Watershed, Harbourside, Bristol, on Wednesday 11 June from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Tickets are free, yet spaces are limited. To secure your place, click here.

For more information on Sara Tye and redheadPR, visit www.redheadpr.co.uk.

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