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Norfolk Developers Business Dinners Return

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We are pleased to announce that Norfolk Developers Business (NorDevBiz!) is making a return. NorDevBiz is aiming is to increase awareness of Norfolk Developers member’s businesses and stimulate internal and external referrals. Our second evening meeting will be on Monday 3rd of July 2017 at the Library Restaurant in Norwich at 7.30pm. Arrive is for 7pm for informal networking and a 7.30pm sharp start. The evening will (provisionally) be as follows:
  • Informat networking (from 7pm)
  • Introductions  – an introduction to the group from Dom Davis followed by a one minute introduction from each attendee (7.30pm)
  • Main Course
  • Spotlight –  Sean Billings will give a 10 to 15 minute introduction to his business and take questions
  • Pudding
  • Close – Dom Davis
This is a business focussed event where we will learn more about each other’s businesses with the aim of generating both internal and external referrals. Most content will not be of a technical nature. Dress code is comfortable. Please get in touch if you are interested in attending our business dinner. Please also note that places are limited.  Paul & Dom [email protected]

Digital Decoded – Ipswich

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Join Archant for Digital Decoded – a FREE marketing seminar aimed specifically at small businesses. No nerds. Plenty of knowhow. Don’t put up with technobabble in your business…We understand digital marketing can be confusing, so our experts are here to make it simple. Each one hour session commences at 8.15am / 11.30am (includes free refreshments): Thu 13th July – Great Yarmouth Racecourse, Gt Yarmouth Tue 11th July – Dunston Hall Hotel, Norwich Wed 12th July – Wherstead Park, Ipswich Give us an hour of your time, and we’ll give you a tonne of practical info to help you make more of the internet.
  • Understand how to connect with more customers online
  • Become more search engine friendly
  • Get ahead of your competitors
  • Don’t pay through the nose for digital advice

Secure your place now.

Call Tracy O’Hara on 01603 772212 email: [email protected]   Or discover more at: www.archanthub.co.uk/digitaldecoded 

How to Create Profitable Google AdWords Advertising Campaigns

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An active half-day workshop to show businesses how to maximise the return on their advertising spend on Google AdWords and how to stop wasted budget.This is a non-technical course intended for people with limited experience of Google AdWords, who wish to understand how to create and run their own successful online advertising campaigns and/or improve the performance of their existing Google AdWords advertising campaigns.

Location: NorwichDate: Jan 21, 2016Time: Registration from 8.30 am, workshop from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm, followed by buffet lunch – not just sandwiches!).

£147 (ex VAT, £176.40 incl VAT) per delegate for the half day workshop, including buffet lunch.

Bookings at:www.onevision.co.uk/google-adwords-workshop

Who Should Attend? This is a practicalworkshop aimed at people who areresponsible for ensuring that their Google AdWords advertising is targeted and achieving its objectives for the business. Delivered in an easy-to-grasp andnon-technicalformat,delegates will be given a briefing before the day, to ensure that they receive maximum benefit from the workshop.

Trainers The workshop is led by Matt and Steph Brown, certified Google Partners who have been creating and managing successful Google AdWords campaigns for 15 years. The focus is on keeping the workshop as jargon-free as possible and providing practical help, tips and advice that will allow you to get the maximum out of your Google advertising.

Workshop content

1. How Google Search Advertising Works – Why Google? -What are the options? – How do you get to number 1 on Google? – The importance of mobile

2. The Foundation – Setting goals – why and how – Budgets – setting and controlling – Return-on-Investment (ROI) and measurement

3. Google Account Set-up – Account structure best practice – Account options for razor sharp targeting

4. Keywords – Types of keywords – Keyword choice – Quality score

5. Adverts – Anatomy of an advert – Top tips for writing compelling adverts – Supercharge your ads with ‘ad extensions’

6. Landing Pages – Relevance and targeting – Navigation – Call-to-actions

7. Campaign Optimisation – What everyone else is doing wrong – Testing and what to focus on – Frequency of optimisation -Remarketing strategies – Resources and further help

8. Summary and next steps – Your next steps to getting the results that you need from your online advertising campaigns.

Location:Norwich Date:Jan 21, 2016 Time:Registration from 8.30 am, workshop from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm, followed by buffet lunch – not just sandwiches!).

£147 (ex VAT, £176.40 incl VAT) per delegate for the half day workshop, including buffet lunch.

Bookings at:www.onevision.co.uk/google-adwords-workshop

Advanced Enterprise Training for Trainees & Apprentices

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Swarm Advanced Enterprise Skills Course (Apprentices/Trainees)

Our mission is to make your graduate trainees & apprentices more innovative, commercially aware and effective. That grows your business and secures their future by giving them the attitude to stand out and measure the difference they make in your organisation.

Our innovative training system in Enterprise & Business allows apprentices and existing employees develop entrepreneurial attitudes, recognise and even measure the impact they can have. It’s all about people accepting responsibility for influencing business performance and delivering a return on investment.

Inspired, motivated and empowered to make decisions, work can become more enjoyable, rewarding and even fun. We even provide an experienced business mentor, able to nurture the success you are striving to achieve.

The Advanced Enterprise course is delivered in a classroom environment but delivered in ways that can make more sense than traditional ‘chalk and talk’ sessions. It’s as much about doing, as it is about knowing. Understanding why, as well as what.

Specifically designed to add value to existing training programs/apprenticeships, the commitment needed is one full day training a month over 10 months.

Full day workshops include:

  • Planning and prioritising work objectives
  • Developing an enterprising mindset
  • Using enterprise skills in the workplace
  • Developing commercial awareness, professional behaviour & business structure
  • The business environment and UK economy
  • Developing the innovative intrapreneur
  • Pitching a new business opportunity
  • Developing teamwork and leadership
  • Including Professional Mentor support & Visits

Swarm training can add relevance and meaning to any apprentice’s training, as well as for upskilling and inspiring your existing employees.

Swarm training is all about ‘can do; will do’. All you have to do is get in touch below. We can make it happen for you, your team and the future of you all.

Commitment needed: 1 full day a month over 10 months

When: First session starts December 10th

Where: Kings Centre, Norwich

Price: Full 10 day course:£1,500 + VAT or pay as you go- £200+ VAT (per person, per workshop)

Contact usfor more details or call 01953 713 059.

Engagement Focus Group – Norwich

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Join us at The Black Swan, Horsham St Faiths for the next Norwich North Focus Event. As well as having the opportunity to discuss key topics, you’ll also be able to network with fellow businesses.

Our aim is to have groups in many cities, towns, market towns, and villages across Norfolk, to connect, support, and give voice to every business in Norfolk. These groups are accessible to all businesses, whether you are a Chambers member or a non-member.

These groups will provide you with a platform to debate issues that are most important to you, and your business and the Chamber network will lobby and influence on your behalf, using our dedicated team, our website, social media channels, and our digital platform.

Your feedback will be used by our team and the Chamber’s Board to help shape the strategic direction of Norfolk Chambers to ensure we can truly be the voice of Norfolk businesses.

Whether the local challenge is skills, road, rail, digital infrastructure, recruitment, or the rising costs of doing business, we want to hear from you.

Agenda

  • 9am Arrival and networking
  • 9.15am Welcome from Norfolk Chambers Board member
  • 9.20am Introductions
  • 9.25am Upp to start conversations
  • 10am Event close

Read our review on our Diss Focus Group event which took place at Park Farm Hotel on Tuesday 7th March – https://www.norfolkchamber.co.uk/news/diss-focus-group-review/

Our 2023 Focus Groups are kindly sponsored by UPP

Be the first to hear about our upcoming events by signing up for our monthly event newsletter here.

Swarm Hive Network Launch- Kings Lynn

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Join us for the launch of a new opportunity in West Norfolk to meet new people and create a buzzing new learning and development network for leaders, business managers and entrepreneurs.

Pull up a pew for some coffee, cake and relaxed networking. Learn more about the Hive Network and help us make something innovative for the region. Plus you can find out about getting up to 90% Government Funding for accredited Leadership & Management Training!!

Bring your popups, bring your literature but most importantly -bring your creativity 

When: July 6th, 6pm – 8pm

Where:St Nicholas Chapel,St Ann’s Street,Kings Lynn

Ticket Cost: £10.00 + VAT (Profits go to the The “Friends of St Nicholas’ Chapel Trust)

18:00 Arrive, register,setup your stand and enjoy cake, coffee or tea

18:30 Introducing Swarm and the Hive Network 

18:40 Getting involved in creating your network –Your chance to have your say

19:40 Unlimited Networking

See You There

Enterprising Waste Summit

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Waste is an issue for all of us and a major cost for many businesses. Norfolk County Council is keen to encourage new ideas and thinking that may bring about innovative ways of dealing with waste in Norfolk.

We believe the encouragement of a more entrepreneurial approach with new technology will improve waste management and present Norfolk businesses with both major savings and a potential commercial opportunity.

We believe more of Norfolk’s local business community can help us achieve this. The waste market in Norfolk is estimated to be worth around £100 million a year, of which the council’s responsibility for dealing with household waste accounts for £30 million.

Norfolk County Council is organising the Enterprise in Waste Summit at Norwich City Football Clubto enable representatives of Norfolk businesses to discuss a wide range of these waste related issues including:

• How businesses can manage waste more efficiently and reduce overheads • Opportunities for increasing recycling in Norfolk • The potential for hosting recycling facilities in your communities

All Norfolk business – large or small are welcome – as well as entrepreneurs, community interest companies, charities, voluntary organisations, parish and town council.

Booking is essential. To reserve a free place please email [email protected] or call 0344 800 8020.

Visit www.norfolk.gov.uk/wastesummit for more information and to download the full event programme.

Venue: Norwich City Football Club – Top of the City Time: 8:45 – 12:30 (lunch provided)

The UN’s New Sustainable Development Agenda… and You

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Rob will have just stepped off the plane from New York, having attended the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Summit along with 150 world leaders. 

His talk will highlight how this launch pad for new global sustainability goals and the new political environment will impact on local business leaders. 

Rob has been Chief Executive at SustainAbility in London since April 2012 and has over 20 years’ experience working with the sustainability agenda in business. He is actively involved with a range of clients, working regularly with business leaders and board members across sectors including finance and banking, FMCG, retail and energy, leading a variety of stakeholder engagement assignments bringing together leaders from business and civil society including Nestlé’s international stakeholder convenings and RBS stakeholder dialogues. 

Rob was previously Chief Executive of Fairtrade International, the global umbrella organisation for Fairtrade.  He travelled extensively experiencing the realities of smallholder farms in countries such Brazil, Peru, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and India. A trustee of the Centre for Global Equality, Rob lives in Cambridge UK and, when not at home, can be found either out on his road bike or in a scull on the river Cam.

This event is the first of the Autumn Series of OPEN’s Business Leaders Forum with the next taking place on Monday 16th October with General the Lord Dannatt.

Occupational Health Breakfast Seminar – What is Occupational Health? Why is it important in business?

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Our experienced team would like to invite you to join us for a free Breakfast Seminar.

The seminars will be delivered by Dr Lindsey Wright and her team who will assist you in understanding how Occupational Health can help you to manage your staff’s wellbeing.

Breakfast is provided by our partnered charity About with Friends and will be held at our Gorleston Clinic where you can meet the rest of the team. Places are limited so book early to secure yours!

The Essentials of Email Marketing

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This is a non-technical course designed for people with limited experience in email marketing. It is well suited to people who wish to improve their knowledge and get better results.

How will I benefit? This course will arm you with the knowledge you need to create email campaigns that deliver measurable results.

Learn how to

  • Plan, develop and refine your email marketing strategy and evaluate ROI (Return on Investment)
  • How to get your emails open, read and acted upon

Course Content

1. Email Marketing and the law Understanding the basics of data protection law Who you can and can’t send email to Your obligation with unsubscribes Understanding the rights of consumers and businesses

2. Planning your email campaigns Setting objectives Targeting and segmenting your recipients Touch strategy considerations How to refine and improve performance

3. Get your audience to open your email Getting your email into the inbox, deliverability The essential elements, friendly from, subject line and more Timing is everything

4. Get your audience to react to your email Writing effectively for email The smart way to use links Prominent call to action

5. Evaluate your performance Understand campaign metrics Set realistic goals Understanding behaviour

6. Review of your campaigns Delegates are invited to send in their recent campaigns for review and comment during this part of the course. This is an excellent way to gather real feedback. Gain ideas from other people and their campaigns to apply to your own marketing.

View Course Dates and Delegate Feeson our website

https://www.smartmessenger.co.uk/courses

Comments from delegates

“The e-mail marketing course was a very good use of our time, a refresher to all the things we should be considering every time we plan, design and analyse a campaign. Delivered in the usual 101 style, friendly and jargon free! An approach that strikes all the right chords with us.” Ben Handford, Naked Marketing

“As a newbie to email marketing, I found the course most useful in many ways. Including how to run a campaign and to get it noticed, how to put together the email in a way that won’t be spammed and will be engaging to customers. Thank you 101!” Kate Duffield, Pink Lizard

CIEH Level 2 Award in Principles of HACCP

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This course introduces candidates to substances, the risks, the controls available and outlines what to expect from a control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH) assessment.

The course is designed for those who use substances hazardous to health at work and will prepare employees to contribute to the safer use of hazardous substances in their workplace.

This course is certified by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH).

This course is delivered at South Green Park, Mattishall and costs £55.00 +VAT per person.

For more information or to book a place, contact us on 01362 850983 or via our website atwww.poultec.co.uk

QA Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work (RQF) – 3 day

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Aims to provide delegates with the required level of training, skills and knowledge in First Aid, and comply with the requirements of the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981.

Suitable For

Successful delegates will be awarded a certificate of competence accredited by Qualsafe Awards who are recognised by Ofqual. It is valid for three years.

Course Venue

Open courses are held regularly at our training venues in Norwich, Norfolk and Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Alternatively, courses can be arranged at your own site anywhere in the UK (subject to suitability).

Syllabus

·         Introduction to first aid

·         Incident management and safety

·         The unconscious patient

·         Major illness: diabetes, heart attack, stroke

·         Fractures and dislocations

·         Head Injuries

·         Eye Injuries

·         Simple record keeping & first aid equipment

·         The legal framework for first and in the workplace

·         Basic life support

·         Use of AED

·         Control of bleeding and shock

·         Major Illness: epilepsy, allergic reactions

·         Burns and scolds

·         Poisons and harmful substances

·         Basic casualty handling

·         Knowledge and skills assessments

“Good course with refreshing content. Great value for money.”

“The use of video clips really helped. The course was a good pace and the content was made interesting. It’s the most enjoyable First Aid course I have attended in 20 years.”