Events in the North West 

• • Manchester social media surgery

  • Location: Innospace, Manchester | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 14 Sep 10 5:30PM - 7:30PM

  • Social media surgery events are free monthly events which help Manchester businesses embrace the social media revolution in order to grow and market their companies. Each social media surgery offers real life advice and case studies from an experienced panel of digital and social media marketers who discuss social media projects and issues presented by the audience. ...

• • Advanced web optimisation strategies: A masterclass for achieving online presence

  • Location: St Helens Chamber, St Helens | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 14 Sep 10 8:45AM - 12:30PM

  • This half day workshop is for those who already have a basic knowledge of search engine optimisation techniques and principles and wish to apply them in a more effective way. The session will cover:  advanced key phrase analysis - using online tools and techniques to identify the best key phrases for you understanding the competitive positioning approach to high...

• • Pennine Lancashire Festival of Food and Culture 2010

  • Location: The ACE Centre, Nelson | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 14 Sep 10 10:00AM - 1:00PM

  • Business Bites is a free business event held by the festival organisers to bring together venues, producers and supporters to develop beneficial working partnerships. This event will include an opportunity to meet, greet and eat. There will also be workshops offering tips to put into practice for developing tourism and hospitality business through marketing and partnership learning....

• • Marketing your business: Having an effective communications strategy

  • Location: Lime Bar and Grill, Prescot | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 14 Sep 10

  • The marketing opportunities available to businesses are immense, but can be very confusing. With the digital revolution it would be easy to believe print-based publications are now obsolete, and equally if a company is not social media savvy, they might find themselves out-of-touch with their customer base. If you find yourself facing an onslaught of conflicting opinions, jargon, ideas...

• • Advanced social media marketing

  • Location: Business Consort Offices, Wilmslow | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 15 Sep 10 9:30AM - 2:00PM

  • This course will provide you with an approach to developing an integrated social media marketing strategy. You will learn strategy development and advanced tactics for reaching influencers and building customer engagement using best practices in social media. The course will enable you to take social media beyond marketing and you will be introduced to techniques to develop customer...

• • Learning social media by doing

  • Location: One Central Park, Manchester | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 15 Sep 10 9:30AM - 12:30PM

  • Isn’t it time you learned how to grow and market your business on free social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn? Let social media training and implementation consultancy, Real Fresh TV show you how to engage with new customers, increase website traffic and reduce marketing costs by generating qualified leads using social media marketing.  In this...

• • Webinars made easy: Tips and tricks

  • Location: Online, Your Desk | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 16 Sep 10 3:00PM - 4:30PM

  • Creating effective business webinars takes planning, organisational skills, diplomacy and specialised expertise. Join Ken Molay, the president of Webinar Success, presents tips to help you plan, prepare and run web seminars as a part of your business outreach programme. Attend this one-hour, interactive webinar and learn: key tasks to concentrate on when putting together...

• • Introduction to social media for media professionals

  • Location: One Central Park, Manchester | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 16 Sep 10 9:30AM - 12:30PM

  • Isn’t it time you learned how to grow and market your business or organisation on free social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn? Let social media training and implementation consultancy Real Fresh TV show you how to engage with new customers, increase website traffic and reduce marketing costs by generating qualified leads using social media marketing.  ...

• • Is online everything?

  • Location: Warrington Campus, Warrington | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 16 Sep 10 6:00PM - 8:00PM

  • In this event which is jointly hosted by the DMA, two teams will debate the pros and cons of both on and off line direct marketing, leading to tips and reviews for successful direct marketing campaigns. A panel of end users, designers, print houses and online experts will discuss the tools available to direct marketers today to answer the following questions: is print dead? ...

• • Sixty really useful minutes on Foursquare location-based marketing

  • Location: Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool | Show on map

  • Date and Time: 17 Sep 10 9:00AM - 10:00AM

  • Foursquare is location-based social networking Location awareness is going to be big and for tourism and hospitality industries, it's going to be huge.   Foursquare is the current and very rapidly growing leader in this area and whether they go on to dominate or Facebook steals their thunder, any business with a venue needs to understand how location awareness works.   Phil...