The prizes: Girls! Make Your Mark Awards

Are you a woman in business? Enter Make Your Mark and handbag.com's Girls! Make Your Mark Awards and you could win some fantastic prizes!

  A La Diosa necklaceThe Sponsors
Award winning jewellery company, La Diosa, is one of the proud sponsors of the Girls! Make Your Mark Awards. To help show its support the company will be donating exclusively designed necklaces for the winners of each category. Each of the bespoke creations will be handmade and meticulously designed with semi precious stones, 18ct gold vermeil findings and La Diosa's signature Moon Clasps.

To see the beautiful quality of La Diosa's designs then please visit www.ladiosa.co.uk

The Prizes
The winner of The Pioneer category will receive a fabulous prize of a £3,000 bursary from Make Your Mark to help make their business idea become a reality!

The winners of Entrepreneur of the Year, Entrepreneur with a Conscience, Handbags & Gladrags and Pioneer categories will not only receive some great exposure on the handbag.com website but will also benefit from a personal mentoring session from one of the successful entrepreneurs below. The mentors will be matched up with the relevant winners, giving them invaluable business advice based on their own experiences, business connections and areas of expertise. Mentors include:

Sam Conniff and Michelle Clothier
The co-founders of Livity, a socially responsible youth marketing agency, that works with big brands to deliver social marketing messages. Sam also co-founded Don't Panic, a thriving flyer distribution service, and is a Social Enterprise Ambassador promoting responsible business practices around the world. Michelle's previous successes include helping J & J to win Skincare brand of the year and stimulating the first significant uplift of sales for Heat magazine, leading to its transformation into a market-leader. It is this varied experience which will enable them to provide sound and helpful advice to the winner.

Margaret Heffernan
Well-established chief executive, entrepreneur and author, Margaret has had an extensive career and has set up several successful businesses in a variety of sectors. Through her work she has subsequently been named one of the "Internet's Top 100" by Silicon Alley Reporter in 1999, one of the "Top 25" by Streaming Media magazine and one of the "Top 100 Media Executives" by The Hollywood Reporter in 2000. Margaret has gone on to write business books, her most recent being How She Does It about the rise and rise of female business owners. She was recently featured on Channel 4's The Secret Millionaire and presented Radio 4's Changing Rules.

Emma Jones
Highly regarded businesswoman and author, Emma started her first business at the age of 27 and successfully sold it just 15 months after launch. Her second venture, Enterprise Nation, was launched in January 2006 from her spare room. The website, designed to offer advice on running your business from home, is the largest of its kind in the UK with a monthly readership of more than 40,000. Emma is regularly called upon by the Government to speak on the subject of home business and she advises Regional Development Agencies on how to encourage and support homeworking.  The winner will also receive a signed copy of Emma's new book Spare Room Start Up, an inspiring book which offers practical advice for budding entrepreneurs wishing to start a business from home.  

Steve Parks
Steve is an ex-BBC journalist who founded his own company at the age of 25, publishing audio programmes worldwide. He also writes books for entrepreneurs, including Start Your Business Week By Week and How To Be An Entrepreneur, and runs the website flyingstartups.com. Steve is one of the founding team for the upcoming Institute Of Entrepreneurs. The winner will also receive a selection of Steve's books and audio CDs.

The winner of the People's Choice award will receive promotion on handbag.com, in addition to the bespoke jewellery from La Diosa.

 There's still time to enter this fabulous competition, enter now!

 

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