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Event ticket giveaway - Becoming your own boss

Feb 26 2008

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This offer has now ended, but keep an eye out for upcoming giveaways on SmallBusiness.co.uk.

SmallBusiness.co.uk has teamed up with BT Business to offer 15 pairs of free tickets to our readers for the One Life Live 2008 event, taking place from 29 Feb to 2 March, at London’s Olympia.

The event will feature the ‘Be Your Own Boss Zone’ sponsored by BT Business, offering the opportunity to win £2,000 cash.

Aspiring entrepreneurs will be given the chance to discuss their start-up challenges with a panel of leading business experts, who’ll offer one-to-one advice on their specific issue.

The entrepreneur that most impresses the panel will win £2,000 cash to help get their business idea off the ground, along with a laptop, BT Business Total Broadband for a year, and a host of BT Business support services worth more than £2,500.

For the opportunity to discuss your business start-up challenge with the panel of business experts, you must submit your business problem via the One Life Live website www.onelifelive.co.uk by midnight on Wednesday 27 February 2008.

The 15 pairs of tickets are available to SmallBusiness.co.uk readers, free of charge. All you have to do is send an email to our editor at adam.wayland@vitessemedia.co.uk telling us your name, the name of one person you would like to take along.

Winners will be selected at random and informed on Thursday 28 February by return of email with details of how to claim your free tickets.

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