Free local Marketing (SessionID: 60002)

Where and how do you get your message out to your audience especially if local?

How do you maintain a high level of visibility without annoying people?

How can we collaborate to provide a local directory of business people that go the extra mile?

Let's explore what is available (Free) to help local independents...

• SWHerts Business Development (Google resources)
• SWHerts Business Development (FB resources)
• SWHertsBDN Twitter / Instagram / Pinterest
• Projects - History channel / SWHertsPHS / Video
• Other tools - Newsletters, Blogs, Books

Covered : Although there are many resources available to support our efforts we tend to stick to a few we know which becomes a bit one dimensional.

With a bit more knowledge and by working together we can not only do much more to build our enterprise locally but at the same time help others too...

Includes :

• A new mindset for growing our businesses (helping others)
• Resources that are available to support ourselves
• What we can do to grow our local network of businesses working together
• Making it all easy through bookmarking

Duration : 90 minutes

Cost : Pay what you feel the value was to you

Why should you attend?

Running your own business doesn't mean you have to go it alone. If you would prefer to work with a team all looking out for each other, this 'Learning Session' will open the door to begin that journey... focusing on 4 types of growth...

1. Personal Growth (develop yourself)
2. Connections Growth (widening your personal network)
3. Business Growth (supporting and helping each other)
4. Community Growth (giving back to our local community)

Once seen as the 'bright new world' social media has now evolved. It is driving quickly towards 'people and relationships' rather than 'buy my stuff'. This requires us to have a 'strategy' for engagement rather than just post more stuff that progressively will be seen by fewer and fewer people.

By working together we can co-create new, cleaner, crisper ways of working together and providing information in a much more organised and varied way.

Who will benefit?

• If you are running a local business and want to grow it as part of a local business team
• If you are fed up with posting on social media and are looking for new ideas and inspiration for your business
• If you want to learn about marketing resources that are being put in place to help local independent businesses so you can tap into them