This workshop has been designed for SME’s who want to expand in to new markets using their website. The session is designed for businesses who have a website and want it to expand their target audience and be found internationally. You will learn the key components to a successful international website strategy and share the easy to understand process you can use to successfully generate enquiries and sales online.
This session is run by Tom Fleetwood from Socialb.
Top tips you’ll walk away with:
How to start your international website strategy
International website optimisation
Measuring the results of your efforts
About Tom:
Tom has a number of years’ experience working client-side on website management, e-commerce, email marketing and SEO. As a Digital Marketing Executive, he works on a diverse range of client’s digital marketing requirements. With his experience client-side, Tom recognises the expectations of clients and strives to meet them.
Location: Carrowbreck House, 7 Carrowbreck Road, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 5FA. It’s never been more important to get your message out there, but how do cut through the noise and tell your story so that people will listen and act? The tutor for this new workshop is Shaun Lowthorpe. Shaun is a former EDP business editor with 16 years’ experience in regional journalism. In 2016 he set up Content Connective specialising in business journalism, content marketing and communications. Duration:Half-day course (9:30am – 12:30pm approximately) Equipment: No equipment is necessary for you to bring to the course. Pens and note paper will be available. Lunch provided: Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this half-day course. Course Content This half day course shows you how to use journalistic techniques to tell your story and reach your customers and prospects whether it’s through your website, social media, and of course the press. We’ll help you decide the basic building blocks of your story to determine what to write and when. We’ll also look at what channels you should be using, how to use simple SEO techniques to come up with story ideas, and how to pitch a press release to the local media. By the end of the session you will be able to set out what you want to say, how you should say it, and who you should say it to. Course Price: From £37.00 – £48.00pp For more details or any enquiries, please do contact us on 01603 788950, or email [email protected]
Join us and our partners, Norfolk County Council, the Growth Hub, and Vattenfall at this free workshop in Swaffham focusing on encouraging innovation and collaboration when bidding for supply chain work.
How well is your company geared up to be part of a major supply chain? Do you have the neccessary skilled staff or do you need to upskill/recruit? Do you understand the key tendering requirements and processes? If neccessary do you understand how collaborating with other companies could enable you to deliver the work as a group?
There will be a number of experts delivering sessions on how to be part of a major supply chain, this session will predominantly focus on the construction sector, including a perspective from a Tier 1 and the support that’s available to help your business be ready.
You will leave the session with the confidence to bid on large-scale projects and an understanding of how to work with other businesses to innovate and collaborate!
Parking is limited to 2 hours in the Market Place so please park at Theatre Street Car Park, a 5 minute walk away.
This course has been designed to ensure that supervisors, owners, team leaders and managers are aware of their health and safety responsibilities in improving the Health and Safety Culture or that of their organisations. It provides an opportunity to look more deeply into general health and safety from a supervisory perspective. At the end of this course, delegates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the main concepts of health and safety, show awareness of the benefits of a positive health and safety culture, explain the roles and responsibilities of individuals, supervisors and management in health and safety and demonstrate an understanding of health and safety control and improvement strategies available to supervisors.
Duration: Three-day course (9:00am – 5:00pm approximately each day)
Equipment: No equipment is necessary for you to bring to the course. Pens and note paper will be available.
Lunch provided: For full day training courses a lunch with sandwich or salad, crisps and cake or fruit will be provided. Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this course.
Please note that it is a requirement of the HABC, the awarding body, that we need to see photographic proof of identity of each candidate before they can be entered into the exam, for example, passport, driving licence, student union card or work pass. Course Content Legislation (UK only) Concept of health and safety Accidents in the workplace Ill health in the workplace Health and safety organisation and management Supervising health and safety There will be a gap between days 2 and 3 of the course for delegates to revise from the book given during the course. Subject to passing a 60 question multiple choice exam paper delegates will be awarded the Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance Level 3 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace.
Course price: From £290.00 – £325.00 For more details or any enquiries, please do contact us on 01603 788950, or email [email protected]
Michelle Gant, The Engaging People Co & Cédric Anselin, Ex-Norwich City & Mental Health Ambassador
What are the signs that someone might be struggling? What is the impact of poor mental health? What can we do to support someone who is struggling? What practical steps can businesses take to break the stigma and support mental health in the workplace? And, how we can promote and support our own resilience and wellbeing? This interactive, practical workshop will provide ideas and steps to help to break the stigma of mental health in business, and promote our individual wellbeing.
Michelle Gant, The Engaging People Company (A Mindful Employer Partner)
An experienced and trained coach and facilitator, Michelle is director of The Engaging People Company. She delivers training for managers and employees, and supports and empowers individuals to find ways to manage and maintain their own mental wellbeing. Michelle helps companies to embed wellbeing within their organisational culture. She delivers employee engagement activities and helps companies to create great workplaces.
Celebrate Burns Night at the Maids Head, gather your family and friends to celebrate the Scottish traditions and renowned Poet Robert Burns. Our Maids Head Burns Night Dinner will include a 4-course menu with a Dram of whisky, and of course a traditional piper to pipe in the Haggis!
Don’t want to drive home, why not book a night’s stay with us. Accommodation available from £160.00 per couple bed & breakfast.
To book please contact us on 01603 272008 or email us at [email protected].
Bookings for this event have now closed, why not take a look at some of our other events?
Join the Norfolk Chamber for an afternoon of accessing specialist knowledge from Birketts essential for any HR Professional or business owner. Open to all businesses, everyone is welcome.
Our sponsor for the afternoon is Birketts LLP, a full service top 100 UK law firm with offices across East Anglia. Our speakers are Laura Brown, Associate, and Jennifer Leeder, Senior Associate, both of whom come from the Birketts employment team.
Laura and Jennifer will be covering Technology and the Workplace by tackling the current issues that HR and managers are facing as a result of the increased use of technology in our daily lives.
Laura advises on all areas of employment law including guiding clients through complex processes, restructure and redundancy, and dealing with issues on termination of employment. She recognises that the efficiency and success of a business can largely depend upon the staff it employs and holds Shaping Excellent training courses for manager and stafff on topics including equality and diversity, the Modern Slavery Act 2010, and employment law essentials.
Jennifer is an employment law specialist with over 15 years’ post-qualification experience. She is a Senior Associate in our Employment Team and qualified as a Solicitor in September 2001. Shehas advised on the full spectrum of employment law issues, both in private practice and whilst working in-house. Prior to joining Birketts, Jennifer was Head of HR within a commercial property business and most recently a member of the Operations Board, at a local manufacturing company. In these roles, she developed the HR functions in order to support the evolution and growth of the businesses
Location: Carrowbreck House, 7 Carrowbreck Road, Norwich, NR6 5FA This course is designed for users to enable them to become competent database-developers. As a result of this course, users can expect to be able to design and create tables to store their data and to specify what data is appropriate, as well as choosing how each table should be linked to the others in the database. As well as the basics, it will look in more depth at relationships, and focus on more advanced queries, allowing the user to create a more complete business or personal database. Additionally, they will have learnt how to extract the required data using a combination of queries and filtering. We will also look at Access Forms and Reports to enable users to print, read and enter their data in a user-friendly format. Delegates should have sufficient Windows experience beforehand and by the end of the course you will be more comfortable in designing and implementing a finished relational database. Duration: One-day course (9:30am – 4:00pm approximately) Equipment: No equipment is necessary for you to bring to the course. Pens and note paper will be available. Lunch provided: For full day training courses a lunch with sandwich or salad, crisps and cake or fruit will be provided. Refreshments will be available throughout the duration of this course. Course Content Introduction to database concepts Tables Forms Querying data Relationships overviews Creating reports Course price: From £74.00 – £96.00 For more details or any enquiries, please do contact us on 01603 788950, or email [email protected]
It’s not all about early mornings – come and join us for lunch in West Norfolk! You’ll still get to enjoy plenty of networking including one of our classic ice-breaker activities to help break down the barriers and spark conversation. Enjoy a delicious lunch and hear from our guest speaker; Lucy Mowatt director of Method Marketing. There will also be time for you to ask your burning questions. Lucy’s talk will be on “What is content marketing?” She will be exploring what it is, what’s it’s not, how it fits with other marketing activity, the benefits and the opportunities for businesses of all kinds. Lucy Mowatt is a content marketing consultant and the founder of Method Marketing. She has produced content for a wide variety of channels, including magazines, brochures, websites, social media and PR, with a specialism in long-form articles.
Alternative title: What are financial ratios and why should I care?!
Our new series of short Procurement webinars will each focus on a key topic and review it in depth.
This webinar will review a set of financial accounts and discuss what aspects of them are important for Procurement professionals. This will include:
How to calculate liquidity and gearing ratios
The difference between gross and net profit
What the different parts of financial accounts are
The key points that matter in suppliers’ accounts
This webinar will be useful for students studying their CIPS L4M4, L4M8 and L5M4 modules, however, it is aimed at all Procurement professionals who conduct due diligence on their suppliers.
Early morning networking means hot coffee, pastries and an exciting way to start the day. Norfolk Chambers of Commerce, Swarm Apprenticeships and Solace Coaching are working together to deliver King’s Lynn’s friendliest, most rewarding and enjoyable networking.
Set your alarm and bring your business cards, we welcome all business types and sizes!
What’s the format?
Arrive at the King’s Lynn Town Hall foraround 07:30 and network with some coffee for 20-25 minutes, we will then listen to fifteen-minute talk and have some Q+A’s. We welcome everyone to stay for more coffee and conversations to develope new contacts.
Who’s it for?
Business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, start-ups, young businesses and anyone who wants to connect and engage with other businesses in King’s Lynn and West Norfolk. Newbies are always welcome, whether it’s to our group or to networking in general.
Who’s behind it?
Harry Harris from Swarm Apprenticeships, Paul Ward from Solace Coaching and Nicole Risby from Norfolk Chambers of Commerce work collaboratively to bring this event to King’s Lynn.
Can I find out more?
If you’d like to talk at one of our events, please get in touch with Nicole Risby we are always looking for new speakers.
The Speaker:
Kieren Buxton is an Enterprise Coordinator for New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) who works with secondary schools, short stay schools and SEND schools to support them with their careers strategy. He works with them to measure their activities against the 8 Gatsby Benchmarks and the new Ofsted Framework, which includes careers.
Alongside this, he is the Norfolk Lead for the Young Apprenticeships Ambassador Network (YAAN). The aim of the Enterprise Adviser Network is to improve the quality and consistency of careers, work related & enterprise education delivered to students and to broker activities with businesses and enterprise providers. He will be talking about what this looks like across New Anglia (Norfolk and Suffolk), with a particular focus on West Norfolk, highlighting the different ways that businesses can support the project and the benefits to getting involved.
Early morning networking means hot coffee, pastries and an exciting way to start the day. Norfolk Chambers of Commerce, Swarm Apprenticeships and Solace Coaching are working together to deliver King’s Lynn’s friendliest, most rewarding and enjoyable networking.
Set your alarm and bring your business cards, we welcome all business types and sizes!
What’s the format?
Arrive at the King’s Lynn Town Hall foraround 07:30 and network with some coffee for 20-25 minutes, we will then listen to fifteen-minute talk and have some Q+A’s. We welcome everyone to stay for more coffee and conversations to develope new contacts.
Who’s it for?
Business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, start-ups, young businesses and anyone who wants to connect and engage with other businesses in King’s Lynn and West Norfolk. Newbies are always welcome, whether it’s to our group or to networking in general.
Who’s behind it?
Harry Harris from Swarm Apprenticeships, Paul Ward from Solace Coaching and Nicole Risby from Norfolk Chambers of Commerce work collaboratively to bring this event to King’s Lynn.
Can I find out more?
If you’d like to talk at one of our events, please get in touch with Nicole Risby we are always looking for new speakers.
The Speaker:
Jason Fuller Started designing for clients aged just 14 from his bedroom, now 10 years later he runs a successful Creative & Digital Marketing Agency, This is Fuller from King’s Lynn serving clients locally and internationally. Jason and his team offer the highest levels of detail and are dedicated to creating the highest quality work possible for their clients.
He will be giving his talk on Branding in 300 Seconds. A fast paced and entertaining talk as to the dos and don’ts of branding for businesses to ensure that you stand out in an ever crowded market place.