Date & Time: July 2010, exact date as confirmed between yourself and Claire

Venue:  As confirmed between yourself and Claire

Price:

£10 MEMBERS*

£25 NON MEMBERS

Details:

Are you busy all the time but not making enough money?  Are you getting lots of interest in what you offer but not making enough sales?  Are you struggling to generate interest in your product or service? 

In July meet! is offering a limited number of 1 to 1 Business Breakthrough sessions to help you make 2010 the year when your business really takes off! If the first half of 2010 hasn't delivered the results you were aiming for, don't despair, that can all change in the final 6 months.

Working with Claire Burcham of Thrive Coaching you will:

•  - clarify your vision for the next 6 months
•  - identify key strategic milestone objectives
•  - uncover hidden challenges and blind spots that could be sabotaging your success.

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*To count as a MEMBER you must have attended at least one previous Meet! networking meeting or workshop.

MEMBERS £10

NON MEMBERS £25

Workshop:

Louise Turner, an experienced teacher, performer and member of public speaking specialists Toastmasters International will gently lead delegates out of their comfort zone into their ‘stretch zone’. By the end of the workshop, through a combination of theory and practical exercises, Louise will show ladies how to present their businesses succinctly, professionally and with confidence.

Meet co-founder Claire Burcham said; “Louise delivered a talk at our last monthly meeting and it was so well received that we decided to offer it as a half day workshop. Confidence is an issue that many of our members face, especially when presenting or public speaking so we’re looking forward to picking up tips to hone our presenting skills.”

Workshop:

Tracey Baty, from Shiptonthorpe based rural business marketing and pr company three60 marketing will guide the delegates through the pr maze and encourage the ladies to write their own press releases during the three hour workshop. The session comprises a combination of case studies and practical exercises and includes:
An overview of the value of PR using both traditional and online media:
  - How to find newsworthy angles that get you noticed

  - How to write like an expert
  - How to reach the right person
.... and how to have fun doing it!

Workshop:

Aimed at women who are already running a business, or are thinking about starting one, Katrina Thompson, from Beverley based web design and social media company katproductions will help attendees to understand how beneficial blogging is to helping businesses to attract and engage with clients and customers. It is a must attend hands-on workshop for those women in business who want a business blog but are not quite sure how to go about it. Using the Wordpress blogging platform, this interactive session will show how a blog works, how to set up and manage their own blog, and how to make it successful. By the end of each half day session, attendees will have a Wordpress blog up and running and will fully understand how a well managed business blog can really add value to their businesses and website.

Workshop: Join Pauline Westrop of Ellerker Consulting for a sales masterclass with top tips for use throughout the process for best results. Pauline is also a certified business practitioner of NLP communication skills and will teach you how to improve your communication to grow your sales. For any one wanting better results or even as a confidence booster, this opportunity is for you!

Workshop: Improve your understanding of the World's largest search engine and learn how to stand a better chance of getting on Google's lucrative first page for your chosen keywords. Hosted by Paul Smith from GetExtra, the seminar is designed for people of all abilities and will include how to get started, selecting the right keywords, writing effective copy, measuring your results and unveiling some of the SEO industry's best kept secrets.

Workshop: During this half-day interactive workshop you will:    

  - learn how to distinguish between goals and wishes, a crucial distinction if you are to succeed.    

  - create compelling goals for your business that you will be inspired to achieve    

  - identify what stops you getting what you want and learn powerful strategies to overcome your perceived obstacles    

  - create a realistic plan to achieve your goals that you will be able to take away and action in the coming year.  

Workshop:

During the three hour PC based workshop, Rob Coates from Willerby Hill will teach you how to harness the potential of PowerPoint to build stimulating, attractive and relevant presentations and to identify alternative uses for PowerPoint including display aides, web content and sales leaflets. Designed for those of you that have a functional awareness of how to use a PC but who may be relatively new to PowerPoint.

Workshop:  Presented by Rikki Arundel, Director of GenderShift and past presidentof the Professional Speakers Association, these highly interactive half day workshops are designed to help you to become a confident speaker by overcoming your fear of speaking, helping make every speech captivating, improving yourbusiness networking skills and getting attention and developing interest with your udience/customers.  Rikki will also give tips about speaking with passion and purpose. Whether you are already running a business or thinking about starting one, this workshop will help you to present your business with confidence, in one-to-one meetings or in front of a room full of people.

Workshop: Sue Pell, Executive Sales Manager and National Sales Trainer from Virgin Vie at Home believes that we are all selling something whether it is a product or service. Sue will explain how she overcame her own feelings about the stigma attached to ‘party plan’ to become the Top Seller and Manager in the UK for Virgin Vie at Home as well as receiving recognition at the National Direct Selling Awards in London. The workshop will provide insight into the importance of building rapport with customers, listening rather than talking and how making sure aftercare/customer service is an essential part of your business.

Workshop: Nick Danby from Blue Skies PLC will help you to understand the sales process and how to apply it. Perhaps you need to be inspired to improve your results by closing more deals. Whatever the challenge, Nick will develop your skills so that you are able to increase margins, build order volumes, overcome rejection and objections and negotiate more effectively.

Workshop: Discover the steps of the pricing process. This workshop is designed to enable you to set and adapt pricing strategies to market conditions, respond to the competition and maximise the profit on new and existing products and services. If you would like to better understand the pricing process then you would benefit from attending this workshop.

Workshop: How to plan your marketing so that it suits your business and your budget. This workshop will equip attendees with the knowledge and motivation to use the right marketing techniques for their business. A three hour interactive and practical workshop where delegates are encouraged to start to write their own marketing plans with the aid of the workbook and examples supplied.

Workshop: This workshop will show how promotional literature is prepared, and gives participants the practical opportunity to apply basic techniques to their own promotional literature requirements. At the end of the training course participants are able to: prepare a market-orientated basis for literature structures; design literature to suit application needs; write copy and prepare design formats for promotional literature; and relate literature designs to economic printing methods.

Workshop: Katrina Thompson from katproductions, a local web design business will explain and illustrate how to approach setting up a website, how to manage the site once it's live and how to make sure it's search engine friendly (search engine optimised). More so, the workshop will uncover the myths and mystery surrounding websites and getting them noticed. It will be a practical and informative session, in a relaxed (and warm) environment. All participants are welcome to send questions and their own weblink prior to the workshop so information is relevant to you and we can use real-life examples - email katrina@katproductions.co.uk.