march, 2024
01mar10:00 am12:30 pmBusiness Gateway Webinar - Presenting your Business with Confidence
Learn how to speak with confidence and conviction about your business. Establish your key messages, capture the attention of your audience and convert them to your point of view. This webinar
Learn how to speak with confidence and conviction about your business. Establish your key messages, capture the attention of your audience and convert them to your point of view.
This webinar will give you tips on how to present your business in the best light, whether in front of an audience, at an event, pitching for investment or fine-tuning for networking events.
Using various interactive techniques and examples, you will leave with confidence to represent your business vision, goals and ‘call to action’ in any environment to help promote your product or service.
To book a place, click here.
(Friday) 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Webinar
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
05mar9:30 am12:00 pmBusiness Gateway Workshop - Personifying your Brand on Social Media
During this workshop you will be taken through an easy to follow and fun process for personifying your brand using a practical exercise. During this workshop you will be taken through
During this workshop you will be taken through an easy to follow and fun process for personifying your brand using a practical exercise.
During this workshop you will be taken through an easy to follow and fun process for personifying your brand using a practical exercise.
To book a place, click here.
(Tuesday) 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Ingram Enterprise Centre - Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
30 John Finnie Street
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
12mar10:00 am12:30 pmBusiness Gateway Workshop - Mastering the Art of Mass Content Generation
This course is about generating lots of social marketing content in a short time. Master the art of putting together a month worth of content in only a few hours. We'll
This course is about generating lots of social marketing content in a short time.
Master the art of putting together a month worth of content in only a few hours. We’ll show you how to plan ahead, get organised and save time in content creation.
We’ll work using free (or very cheap) tools coaching you through the basics of mass content creation. We will consider
– creation
– content type
– content purpose
– repurposing existing content
– user generated content
Additionally we will show some of the basics behind using creation tools such as Canva to easily create high quality image and video template.
This course will leave you with more confidence in being able to create a lot of content quickly for your business, demystifying your ‘writers block’ on generating engaging social media.
Length: 2 hours, plus time at the end for questions
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(Tuesday) 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Ingram Enterprise Centre - Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
30 John Finnie Street
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
13mar10:00 am12:00 pmBusiness Gateway Webinar - Business Planning & Cash Flow
Both start up and growing business will require a business plan for getting a loan, grant or just to consider the direction they wish to go in. This webinar will: Provide
Both start up and growing business will require a business plan for getting a loan, grant or just to consider the direction they wish to go in.
This webinar will:
To book a place, click here.
(Wednesday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Webinar
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
14mar2:00 pm4:30 pmBusiness Gateway Webinar - Linkedin for Business
Want to boost your business with LinkedIn? We’ll take you beyond networking by showing you how it can market your products and promote your brand. No longer just an online CV,
Want to boost your business with LinkedIn? We’ll take you beyond networking by showing you how it can market your products and promote your brand.
No longer just an online CV, LinkedIn can be an incredibly powerful – and profitable – business tool. Like any tool, you must learn how to use it, and this webinar gives you expert guidance.
You will:
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(Thursday) 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Webinar
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
20mar10:00 am12:30 pmBusiness Gateway Webinar - How to Build Your Digital Marketing Plan
An effective digital marketing strategy is more vital than ever. Join us to cover the key factors you need to consider when planning and implementing one. Join us for this session
An effective digital marketing strategy is more vital than ever. Join us to cover the key factors you need to consider when planning and implementing one.
Join us for this session on Digital Marketing Planning looking at how you can take a logical approach to building your strategy and ultimately helping your online content be found by the people who are most likely to buy your products and services. We will cover:
– Goals and customers
– Platforms, Brand and Content
– Competitors, Planning and Measurement
To book a place, click here.
(Wednesday) 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Webinar
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
21mar1:00 pm3:30 pmBusiness Gateway Workshop - Photography for Business
With so much communication coming from and to us via social media, we need to be able to share our messages effectively and efficiently. Good photography is part of the solution.
With so much communication coming from and to us via social media, we need to be able to share our messages effectively and efficiently.
Good photography is part of the solution. Research at 3M Corporation concluded that we process visuals 60,000 times faster than text.
In this workshop we will discuss and demonstrate:
There will also be time for questions and answers.
To book a place, click here.
(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
26mar9:30 am12:30 pmBusiness Gateway Workshop - Maximising Sales at Larder of the Lowlands
This programme is a must for all food and drink businesses attending the Larder of the Lowlands event and other trade events. This event gives you around 5 hours to meet
This programme is a must for all food and drink businesses attending the Larder of the Lowlands event and other trade events.
This event gives you around 5 hours to meet trade buyers and so it is a short window of opportunity to speak with buyers at a time when they may be looking to new and different products and services. You need to be focussed and organised to sell with good techniques to get to the point quickly, deliver the right message and hopefully take some initial orders on the day!. This session will help you. What we cover;-
We know from working on many stands that the techniques learnt on this programme increase confidence and skill when having to deal with buyers at shows where there is little time to attract and engage.
To book a place, click here.
(Tuesday) 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Ayr College
Darn Park
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
27mar9:30 am12:00 pmBusiness Gateway Workshop - Marketing Campaigns to Drive Sales
Are you running a marketing campaign, or publishing unrelated and sometimes random content? A cohesive marketing campaign helps drive brand awareness, aids marketing memorability and ultimately drives sales. During this workshop we
Are you running a marketing campaign, or publishing unrelated and sometimes random content?
A cohesive marketing campaign helps drive brand awareness, aids marketing memorability and ultimately drives sales.
During this workshop we will help you:
As well as an appreciation of the benefit of this tactic, versus the use of daily social interaction on social media platforms.
To book a place, click here.
(Wednesday) 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Ingram Enterprise Centre - Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
30 John Finnie Street
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
28mar2:00 pm4:30 pmBusiness Gateway Webinar - Instagram for Business
It’s not all selfies and airbrushed influencers - find out how to use the world’s most popular image sharing app, Instagram, for your business benefit. Thinking about using Instagram to communicate
It’s not all selfies and airbrushed influencers – find out how to use the world’s most popular image sharing app, Instagram, for your business benefit.
Thinking about using Instagram to communicate with existing and potential customers? Want to showcase your products or services using it? During this webinar we will cover:
Please note: A link to access the webinar will be sent to you in your booking confirmation email. You may need to look in your ‘Clutter’ or ‘Spam’ folder to find it.
This is a ‘DigitalBoost’ event which is funded by Digital Scotland and delivered by Business Gateway.
To book a place, click here.
(Thursday) 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Webinar
Lynsey Garrick01563 576481 Ingram Enterprise Centre, 30 John Finnie Street Kilmarnock KA1 1DD
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