Ecademy Belgium - Forum

Three fellow ecademists -- Christian De Neef, Luc Geukens, and Filip Hamerlinck -- are just starting up a new venture: RomAdvice. As you probably know, Romania is accessing the EC as a full member on January 1st, 2007, and RomAdvice is all about ensuring Romanian companies' success in the European marketplace...

We're new, we're young, and we didn't know each other until very recently. Nevertheless, we're confident, we know we have the capability, and initial reactions are very encouraging! How come? It's partly because we are seasoned consultants -- we combine 45 years of consulting & management experience! -- but it's mostly thanks to Social Networking. That's where ecademy comes in: without the power of networking, the capability to accelerate relationship-building, the opportunity to find -> connect -> meet with new people very fast & efficiently, RomAdvice would not have happened. Certainly, it would not have launched within such a short timeframe!

So, What does RomAdvice have to offer? We aim to be a Full Service Provider: from high-level strategic thinking to delivery of actual (measurable) results! We're a Pure Play Consultancy: independent (and proud to be), we will only work with the best (both in Business and IT), relying on our network (ecademy and beyond). We will be based in Bucharest, but with a strong foothold in Brussels, capital of the EC.

Back to the networking... Would you know of any Romanian business needing to gear up for success in the European marketplace, or otherwise any business wanting to establish base in Romania, please let us know! Would you have ideas as how to best organize & present our activity in support of Romanian companies gaining access to the European marketplace, or should you be aware of the cultural issues that we will face when dealing with Romanian companies, please let us know! Would you be willing to join the network, offer your services, be part of the story, please let us know! Replies in this thread or e-mails to RomAdvice.

Thank you,


Filip, Luc, Christian.

All the best with the start of your new venture !

Cheers, Hendrik.

Filip, Christian & Luc - This is Ecademy at its best. Way to go!

Pierre


Pierre LEONARD
Virtual Words
International Sales & Development
Virtual Words - 1500 Translators at Your Service Worldwide

A perfect example of what Ecademy can do for you ... the perfect answer to those who keep asking "What's in it for me ?"

Congratulations and keep spreading the vibes

Best regards,

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Geert CONARD

Business : IT Consult Services - Norman/IBAS - United Partners Services - Synergy Global
Ecademy Clubs : Geert CONARD's Network - Ecademy Belgium - The Whisky Lounge - The Cigar Lounge
Social Networking clubs : Ecademy - OpenBC - LinkedIn - Tribe - M4M - CIOnet - Totalprestige
Book : A Girlfriend in Every City

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Hi all,
That's great news! Congratulations! This is a true ecademy deal. I wish you all the very best!

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Norman (computer protection): antivirus/firewall/parental control/encryption/antispam/antispyware/biometrical devices
IBAS (worldwide special data services): Data Recovery, Data Erasure, Computer Forensics
Connect with me on these social business networking clubs: Ecademy - OpenBC - LinkedIn - M4M

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Congratulations ... good luck !!!

Filip,

Congratulations and thanks for sharing your success story with us.

You have proved that Networking and working hard at building up and sustaining the relationships developed during networking delivers success stories such as yours.

PS: To clarify story and stories are not to be confused with fairy tales.

to all of you. I will keep your questions in mind.
Rob

With an exclamation mark, this time!

No question at all that this was a tremendous success. Apart from the obvious advantage of spending a week in Filip's company (and learning to build, deal, share, drink, eat, live together), it was mostly like a week-long advertisement for social networking!

Hard to believe, but we were picked up at the airport on Saturday by someone we had never even seen before. He did drive 2.5 hours to come and pick us up (!), and then drop us off at our hotel in town... Adrian came back later in the evening to have dinner and show us around.

Hard to believe, but by Sunday evening we had met with half a dozen people (oh my god, what did we eat a lot -- up to three Sunday brunches in a row, we have been sitting at the same table for nearly 5 hours!) and had follow-on appointments with business people and administrations during the week. All this from people we had never met before.

Hard to believe, but on Wednesday we were invited to present to the Director General of a State Administration, and subsequently to introduce two value management proposals for state-owned companies to be privatized. And this from people that never even heard of us until last week.

Hard to believe, but one of our new and precious contacts found us a room in paradise at a moment that all hotel rooms in and around town were fully booked by the Summit of Francophone countries. Dominic, who arranged this for us, is a topnetworker, of course.

We came home with plenty of images of a country with incredible potential, great people, and a grand future. We came home with plans already to go back, to visit and revisit, meet even more people, truly start exploring the business perspectives, go to the countryside (not for leisure), nurture our new network.

We came home with loads of enthusiasm (although very tired, I have to admit), a warm feeling in our hearts, the energy to work our way into this promising country & business opportunity, ...


Christian.

Op een heel korte periode hebben jullie veel in beweging gekregen en dan ook nog kleppers van bedrijven, naar ik verneem. Ik ben zelf bezig met een sourcing / outsourcing opdracht in centraal Europa en de bereidheid van de bedrijven is erg groot. They are eager to do business, iets wat ik hier niet in dezelfde mate voel. Hou ons of de hoogte en indien jullie iets specifiek nodig hebben in aankoo of ERP selectieinfo, laat maar horen. Toi Toi !
Lucienne Saesen,
Saesen Aankoop Consultancy
Advice in Purchasing matters

De website is er nu ook !
www.romadvice.com

Groetjes,
Filip

Lijkt wel of jullie nooit iets anders gedaan hebben...

... het zat in onze genen, Florence!

Na de website, een blog om ons verhaal te vertellen!


Christian.