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Follow on Google News |  European business owners and managers build economy stimulation programmeUnique economic development programme from a private initiative - planning to create 2 Million jobs. Private economic initiative aims to help 100,000 European companies to expand across Europe.
This newly formed group has done extensive research via crowdsourcing and created what they call an "alternative growth strategy", designed to help companies grow revenue by expanding their business across Europe. While low-cost producers from Asia and tech-savvy businesses from the US are expanding into Europe, the European midmarket, which is key to a stable economy, is not ready to withstand global competition. The group announced today the formation of "Digital Sunrise Europe", which will start offering mostly free education and support services to businesses across Europe from the beginning of October 2012. What started with a keynote presentation by Axel Schultze to the European Commission during the Digital Agenda Assembly conference in June 2012 has now taken on a life of its own. In preparation for the EC presentation, Schultze assembled a team of over 100 social media savvy volunteers to conduct research about the prevalence of social media in Europe. The result was a surprise for the entire team. "We were looking for the status of social media in Europe and its potential to create additional jobs", stated William Stewart, one of the founding Members of Digital Sunrise Europe and a young entrepreneur from the UK. He continued "What we found however was a surprising pattern: most European businesses produce excellent products of high quality and unique design, but the vast majority still cover only their very regional market. Despite competition from overseas, most companies don't know how to successfully compete in foreign markets". Instead of presenting a status report about social media in Europe, Schultze created a strategy model that will leverage social media and allow businesses to grow across Europe with very little or almost no investment. "We were all extremely excited and started to talk about the project on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media platforms. The response was overwhelming. In just a few weeks, we found over 1,000 people regularly supporting the idea and sharing the news with their colleagues and friends" said Berrie Pelser, another founding member of the group. Berrie continued "We made so much noise that our topic was even trending on Twitter in several countries, which means it was one of the hottest topics around at the time". Due to the major success of this awareness campaign, the Digital Sunrise team and its many supporters have opted to give Berrie Pelser the nickname “The Buzz Master”. Axel Schultze, the founder and leader of the DSEU initiative is planning to create 2 Million new jobs by 2016. He is preparing the organisation to support approximately 100,000 of the nearly 20 Million businesses registered in Europe. The focus is on providing free education, strategy development materials, information events and limited free consulting through a group of over 1,000 professional social media business consultants over the next four years. The majority of the funding for this project is coming from larger enterprises, like technology and communication companies, who want to enter the European midmarket. Cees Grootes, another founding member from the Netherlands and experienced business manager in the government sector added "I guess it is important to note that we will also be working with local governments, unions and chambers of commerce, as well as local businesses and industry networks. Our modern business society has reached a level of complexity that suggests that we can't any longer exclusively depend on government support - collaboration is the order of this decade". Businesses interested in getting inspired by the Digital Sunrise team can register on their website at http://digitalsunrise.eu/ More information can be found on http://DigitalSunrise.eu Hashtag #DSEU More corresponding links: Digital Sunrise Europe http://digitalsunrise.eu All social media presences Digital Sunrise http://xeeme.com/ Social presences from team members mentioned in this press release: Axel Schultze http://xeeme.com/ Berrie Pelser http://xeeme.com/ Cees Grootes http://xeeme.com/ William Stewart http://xeeme.com/ Country Team Leader Digital Sunrise Europe Austria | Roger Koplenig http://xeeme.com/ Germany | Florian Gottschall http://xeeme.com/ Hungaria | Attila Herczeg http://xeeme.com/ Italy | Marco Fabbri http://xeeme.com// Netherlands | Cees Grootes http://xeeme.com/ Malta | Irene Kimmel http://xeeme.com/ Sweden | Mette Rehnstrom http://xeeme.com/ Spain | Josep Claret http://xeeme.com/ United Kingdome | William Stewart http://xeeme.com/ International | Marita Roebkes http://xeeme.com/ Awareness program Berrie Pelser http://xeeme.com/ Olaf Kracht http://xeeme.com/ Social Media Monitoring Program Marita Roebkes http://xeeme.com/ Team & country recruitment program Jorgen Poulsen http://xeeme.com/ Sponsor recruiting program Axel Schultze http://xeeme.com/ Expert recruiting program William Steward http://xeeme.com/ Public sector recruiting program Cees Grootes http://xeeme.com/ Business recruiting program Florian Gottschall http://xeeme.com/ Michele Cimmino http://xeeme.com/ Guidance & Documentation program Detlev Artelt http://xeeme.com/ Service delivery program & Starter Pack Axel Schultze http://xeeme.com/ Business reward platform & program Attila Herczeg http://xeeme.com/ End
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