Just before Christmas we had an email pop into our Digital Birmingham inbox. It was from somebody who is setting up their own business in Birmingham. They asked us
“I was wondering if Birmingham City Council has a comprehensive list of the city centre postcodes so I could easily upload this to the admin area of my website, so when the customer places an order this will be accepted/rejected depending on the postcode.”
Clicking with Customers – Digital Marketing with Yell, Google and James Averdieck
Date: Thursday 3 March 2011
Time: 8.30 – 12.30pm
Cost: FREE!
Yell is launching a series of free digital marketing events across the UK, exclusively for small businesses. The next event is in Birmingham on 3rd March at The Centennial Centre.
For more information and how to book, please click here.
Invitation to Next Generation Business Event – Connected Companies Make Money
Date: Monday 22 November, 2010
Time: 9.30 – 13.30 – FREE to attend with lunch included
Venue: International Convention Centre, Hall 4
Technology is developing rapidly. Nearly half of our waking hours are spent using media and communications. Broadband is the fourth utility and users’ bandwidth demand grows by 50% each year (Nielsen’s Law). 61% of 15-24 year-olds use social networking…
What is your company doing about this?
If you are a business in Birmingham or the West Midlands conurbation already using email, web sites and the internet and want to find out more about the Government’s approach to Next Generation Access and what this means to your business, then come along to this free morning session and find out how you can:
1) Make better use of technology
2) Obtain the business advantage of fast access
3) Access a global market place
4) Afford the faster connections to enable you to be competitive in a digital age
This event is sponsored by Digital Birmingham, Birmingham & Black Country City Region, Business Birmingham, who are concerned about the area’s digital infrastructure (Digital Districts) and the take-up of broadband by businesses. They are convinced that future business growth will exploit technology and require increasing speed of connection.
To look at the programme and book online, please click here.
Officially launches on Thursday 13 May 2010!
It is a new Working Neighbourhood Fund/ Birmingham City Council project which aims to support the local small business community by making opportunities to supply the City Council, our suppliers and partner organisations more visibly.
When buying goods in future, Birmingham City Council Directorates will now be using this free web-based service to source goods and services that cannot be sourced from existing supplier contracts.
Businesses and suppliers can sign up and register for free for access to local contracts, support, networking events, seminars, and job opportunities, helping you to stay ahead, get noticed and more importantly win bigger and better contracts for your business.
Register at www.finditinbirmingham.com.
I recently went on SEO training, for those who are sick of acronyms or are just curious, this stands for Search Engine Optimisation. It is a way to improve the volume and quality of traffic on the internet to your website by learning how to present your pages, and supporting web accessibility as a whole. It has a lot of similarities with online marketing, and the training will usually include overviews of how to improve your online presentation and audience engagement.
More – SEO? Bless you!
I’m always looking for examples of how social media can support small businesses. I’ve raised the question before using the local builder as an example. Why on earth would the bloke who knocked a hole in my wall have a reason to use any kind of social media tool?
Well I found a partial answer to that in a video from Herefordshire firm, Wiggly Wigglers (amongst other things they sell worms for composting). Founder Heather Gorringe explains how a shift to social media over tradititional media helped cut her advertising costs without cutting her customer base.
Digital Birmingham is a Birmingham City Council initiative and part of a city wide strategic partnership of more than 40 public, private and voluntary organisations
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