Seminars at The Best of Bristol Business Exhibition 28th February 2012...

Business Seminars at the Best of Bristol Exhibition - Feb 28th 2012

10:30am - Mobile Marketing - The future for business

11:30am - New Ways of Working with Vodafone

12:30pm - Low cost ways to win new customer

13:30pm - Health and Safety Legislation

14:30pm - The Bribery Act 2010 - Implementing procedures to minimise risk

 

Business Seminar 1 - 10:30am

Mike Bailey – www.theplatinummarketinggroup.com

Mobile Marketing - The future for business
  • Over 70% of all mobile searches are acted upon within one hour
  • Google suggests that if you do not have a mobile compliant website it will directly and negatively affect your search engine rankings 
  • The majority of people in the UK take their mobiles everywhere with them and they are not afraid to use them to search for things whilst on the move. 
  • If you are serious about your business, you have to embrace mobile marketing and you have to embrace it right now. Why wait for your competitors to gain the lead (again) and play catch up for the next few years? 
  • What have you got to lose? 50 minutes of your time. 
  • What have you got to gain? A massive business advantage
Speaker:
Mike Bailey of The Platinum Marketing Group specialises in Mobile marketing strategies.  He develops mobile compliant user friendly mobile websites,  hugely effective SMS text marketing campaigns, QR codes strategies, Mobile paid search, mobile paid ads, social media strategies, mbile coupons and discount vouchers for instant gratification, location based laser targeted marketing strategies and much more.
 

 

Business Seminar 2 - 11:30pm

Paul ffelan - www.amccomms.co.uk

New ways of working with Vodafone

As we develop more and more reliance on the internet,  have less and less space to work in,  it costs us more and more to travel – how can we use the technology we have at our fingertips now to make our working lives  - and indeed our work-life balance  much much better whilst preserving resources and keeps costs in check. With changes in the way,and where we work, we can  make vast steps forward in both reliability and security  - creating a business model that is both desirable and sustainable.

Speaker:

Paul ffelan is one of Vodafone UK’s  Cloud  specialists – he is responsible for the Office 365 suite and the empowerment of the partner channel to use, sell and enhance their cloud based practise.  Previously he has worked in the IT industry for nearly 20 years in all areas from support to distribution through to sales and training.  He was honoured to be named in the CRN magazine A-list for 2010 as one of the “Top 100”  influential people in the UK IT channel.  When his head isn’t in the cloud  Paul can be found polishing/fixing/breaking his classic (old banger) Mercedes or  fruitlessly supporting Newcastle United.

 

Business Seminar 3 - 12:30pm

Mick Merrick - www.precept.uk.com

Low cost ways to win new customers

Somewhere in our business lives we all need to find new customers:

  • You might be a relatively new company that has been able to rely on word of mouth until now
  • You might be an established company that has just lost a major customer
  • Or you might be in the type of business where you need to find new customers all the time.
Whatever your situation, there are many pitfalls that can cost you large amounts of money, and there are many shortcuts that can win you customers more easily than you ever imagined. In this seminar we will show you both, and help you to identify the quickest and easiest ways for you to win new customers, including:
  • How to get free advertising
  • The most effective and lowest cost sales strategy ever
  • How to identify the right prospects, and not waste effort
  • How to free up time and resources for new sales activities
Speaker:
Mick Merrick has over 30 years of sales experience in small owner managed businesses and is now working with Precept to help similar businesses to increase their sales. This is achieved by applying simple and repeatable sales processes to owner managed businesses with good products. Simple steps ensure that the mystery is taken out of the sales cycle.
 
 

 

Business Seminar 4 - 13.30pm

John Conrad - Enironmental Health Officer

Health and Safety Legislation
Primary Authority is a new government backed initiative which develops this relationship on a legal, formal footing, the thrust being to work with the business sector to enable them to get things right, give assistance and rely less on the more beaurocratic approach used previously. 
 
Bristol is a key UK city and the largest in the South West region. We are keen to embrace new ways of working and thinking which affects the way we do things and how our customers see us. Today’s session will be a breath of fresh air to those attendees who have found the subject of Health and Safety too much of a burden, or to use it as an excuse for not doing something because the regulations are too onerous.
 
Speaker:
With a long background in public health, first as a hospital mortuary technician and then via chiropody school to running a local authority mortuary, John has seen life from a different point from most of us, but has survived to study environmental health starting with the Btec course at Weston College and moving on to greater things, eventually gaining a second class higher degree from UWE Bristol in the bargain.
 
At this time, John is working with the business sector to develop and encourage a closer working arrangement with duty holders that relies less on enforcement and more on encouragement and assistance. Primary Authority is a new government backed initiative which develops this relationship on a legal, formal footing, the thrust being to work with the business sector to enable them to get things right, give assistance and rely less on the more beaurocratic approach used previously.
 

 

Business Seminar 5 - 14:30pm

Kathleen O'Reilly & Carol Prince - www.jordans.co.uk

The Bribery Act 2010 - Implementing procedures to minimise risk

If your thought that the Bribery Act 2010 which came into force in July 2011, only applied to large multi-national organisations, think again.

With the first prosecution under the Act resulting in a prison sentence for a public sector employee, taking no action is not an option for any incorporated business.  Commercial organisations, large and small, need to ensure that they adequate procedures, designed to prevent bribery, in place.  During this session, you’ll learn how the Act applies to you and gain real, practical guidance on what you need to do to minimise the risk to your business.

 
Speaker:
Kathleen O’Reilly, Head of Internal Legal Services and Carol Prince, Commercial Manager have many years experience with Jordans, the UK’s leading corporate services provider.  Jordans specialise in providing clients with corporate compliance solutions, most recently in relation to the Bribery Act.
 
  
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