I was invited to a breakfast meeting by Nordea to listen to the forner currency exchange broker Villhelm Jensen. He told us that if we spend 5 minutes using Nordea e-Markets every week we could minimize the currency risks quite a lot. I’ve been using e-Markets now for a couple of years and I’m very pleased with it, but I guess I’m only using a fragment of the potential in the program. I will sheduele some more time to learn more but I strongly recommend it for those who trade foreign money frequently.

Villhelm told us e-Market is a great way for small companies to start doing advance currency business without having a personal currency exchange broker.

Villhelm Jensen

A couple weeks ago I was attending a discussion about the subject: How can we take care of the potential in the new generation.

The conlusion was to teach young students in a new way, try to implement entrepreneurship in an early stage. The debate was one of many actions from the initiative Släpp in framtiden.

Magnus Andersson, Viktor Nord, Mai-Li Hammargren, Carsten Greiff

First out was a two side article about 17 of may (national day in Norway) and Sverige-Norge.se. It was printed in the newspaper but you can read a copy of the article on Sverige-Norge.se website.

Then the online magazine, DI.se, did another interview about the differences between Norway and Sweden concerning salaries.

First out was Entreprenörsskapsjakten, by Gustaf Josefsson, where I together with KVD.se (Kvarndammen) was judging a section when the competitors tried to come up with creative solutions to use social media for attracting new customers. The results were in great variety but overall very good and creative! The winners were Entreprenörspartiet with Lisa Lindgren, Ludwig Jonsson & Adrian Swartz.

Later at the night it was time for celebration with Idéfestivalen and Idégalan.

The day after I was spontaneously invited by my friend Johannes Hansen to attend and coach competitors in Hjärna, Hjärta, Cash, a competition that last for 48 hours and was about creating social entrepreneurship. The ideas were great and I’m looking forward to follow them to real business ideas.

After that it was time for Stockholm and SM in Ung Företagsamhet. A two day long event with incredible ideas and energy that refreshed your whole body. One of the days was meant for a national board meeting which I was attending. The winner was Bolsa UF.

One of the speakers for the opening ceremony was the Swedish prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, which I, Viktor Nord, offcourse had to say a few words to.

Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden was represented by former UF-students Joakim Bank, Emma Knaggård Wendt, Erik Fjellborg and Per Anderberg Almhorn. Unfortunately I, Viktor Nord, am not a former UF student.

After that I went to Örebro to my friends Mikael Blix and Johan Berglund at Sportion to attend their yearly office party with a lot of familiar faces.

Then it was time for the 17 of may celebration in Oslo which last for a couple of days. I envy the Norwegian passion for the national day!

Here is my partner and better half Christian Josefsson and me Viktor Nord in the middle of Oslo. Take care so long!

Right now we have a lot of things going on with Sverige-Norge.se. We are closing some big new clients, upgrading our system and making our existing customers pleased. One new method to attract a certain group of people is by using social media. Instead of putting out money to ordinary commercial we made a new campaign webpage that we called “Jobba som sjuksköterska i Norge“.

Then we were asking our network on Facebook, Twitter, Ning, LinkedIN and so on to do us a favor by posting up a link to their networks. This worked out quite well for us. In a couple of days we got around 10 qualified nurses and a lot of tips. That is more than you will get from traditional marketing, we tried that to. Hopefully this campaign site will reach a good place in Google search results as well. Here is a snapshot of the site. If you like to please share the link www.sverige-norge.se/ssk