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The Numbers behind the story
    Year 1995 - The first issue of Berbiz.

    Year 1996 - Readership of 4,000.

    38 - The number of countries that BerBiz reached every week.

    15 - The number of years that BerBiz has been published.

    17,500 - at its highest point, the worldwide readership of BerBiz.

    5 - the Five "C's" of BerBiz :

      Core - The primary magnet of BerBiz is information and news about the business community in Bermuda.

      Content - Reliable and relevant information to the readership.

      Customisation - BerBiz gives you selected information which I think you want (I hope so, anyway !!)

      Contacts - The "boiler room" of BerBiz is its readership.

      Culture - The culture of BerBiz has been as a trusted source of information, with minimum intrusion - that will not change.

    4 - the Four pillars of BerBiz

      Information (about Bermuda).

      Connectivity (with Bermuda).

      Delivery (from Bermuda direct to your screen).

      Residence (I live in Bermuda and have done so for 35 years).

    3 - the three media platforms that make up the BerBiz Offshore Network : E-mail + Website + BerBiz at LinkedIn.

    2 - the "secret" of the weekly BerBiz e-mail newsletter is "me and you" - just the two us ... a one-to-one connection.

    1 - the ONE HUB for information and news about business in and through Bermuda.

The Storie behind the Numbers
    Born in Stirling, Scotland, Bill received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a Chartered Accountant (Scotland) by profession. He moved to Bermuda in 1975.

    Bill created and published the BerBiz electronic newsletter in 1995. It soon became the leading information newsletter about the international business of Bermuda. His corporate website was the first commercial website in Bermuda.

    In 1996, Bill created the first global risk website in London - The Global Risk Management Network ("GRMN"), which set the benchmark for insurance and reinsurance knowledge sites on the Web. GRMN was the first online industry network which actually had a revenue stream. See the original GRMN poster from 1996.

    Bill has spoken about the business use of the internet to many industry groups in Bermuda, North America, the UK and Europe. He was invited to sit on the first Ecommerce Advisory Board of the Bermuda Government in 1998. Bill created, produced and co-hosted (with Roger Crombie) a TV series called "ECommerce in today's world" - a six-part live TV series on ZBM TV (Bermuda). He also assisted the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce with its Internet strategic plan and its first website. Bill became an ecommerce advisor to the International Chambers of Commerce, at its headquarters in Paris.

E-mail address : berbiz@logic.bm

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