Short, snappy, knowledge packed sessions to fill your business brain!
So what is Bitesize Business?
We think that one of the biggest pressure on businesses across Berwick Upon Tweed is time so we’ve come up with a simple solution that we hope will help your business grow. Bitesize Business.
We want to encourage Berwick Upon Tweed businesses to go their own way by encouraging imaginative thinking, independence and confidence in growth. And the best way to achieve this? By providing business owners with inspirational sessions to increase your creativity in business decisions.
We’ve created a range of short and snappy sessions that will help spark ideas on a range of business basics – allowing you access tips and tricks to easily implement that will make a difference to your day. With only 15 places available on each of these fully funded sessions – just click the links below to register on Eventbrite.
We've developed these sessions for small business owners to get the knowledge they need:
From customer experience; digital dialogue and time management through to finance and managing money, we’re launching our exclusive and free to attend Bitesize Business programme on 12 November with the main sessions starting on 19 November that you can pick n mix from – allowing you to choose the most appropriate sessions for you and your business.
| Session | Date & Time | Overview | Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting started on Instagram* | 30th January 2020 - 09:30 to 12:30 | This workshop is aimed at businesses new to Instagram who want to start to build their online profile - Create a professional social media profile to build networks, understand more about Instagram and how it can benefit your business and navigate your way around Instagram, leaving inspired about the future direction of your social media strategy. | Register with Business Northumberland |
| Advanced Instagram* | 6th February 2020 - 09:30 to 12:30 | This workshop will take an in-depth insight into Instagram - Generate engaging content, grow your network, understand Instagram analytics and the insights that can be taken from social media activity and look at organic and paid techniques to promote your profile. | Register with Business Northumberland |
| Business Planning Session | 12th February 2020 - 13:30 to 16:30 | Why do you need business planning? It gives your business direction, defines your objectives, maps out strategies to achieve your goals you want to achieve, and the strategies to achieve them, to remind yourself of your goals and priorities. |
Book on Eventbrite |
| Getting started on Twitter* | 25th February 2020 - 09:30 to 12:30 | This workshop is aimed at businesses new to Twitter who want to start to build their online profile - Create a professional social media profile to build networks, understand more about Twitter and how it can benefit your business and navigate your way around Twitter, leaving inspired about the future direction of your social media strategy. | Register with Business Northumberland |
| Sales – Forecasting & Strategy | 26th February 2020 - 09:30 to 12:30 | Understand the art of forecasting sales to drive your business forward. This session provides you with the tools to create accurate and robust forecasts and teaches you the 7 stages of creating a sales forecast. Mixing theory with practical activities you will begin to create your strategy and take away a suite of materials to support the completion and implementation of the strategy in your business. |
Book on Eventbrite |
| Managing Money & Making a Profit | 26th February 2020 - 13:30 to 16:30 | In the Managing Money and Making a Profit workshop we look at what it takes to ensure that your products are priced appropriately so that you sell in sufficient volume and that you trade profitably. | Book on Eventbrite |
| Advanced Twitter* | 3rd March 2020 - 09:30 to 12:30 | This workshop will take an in-depth insight into Twitter - Generate engaging content, grow your network, understand Twitter analytics and the insights that can be taken from social media activity. | Register with Business Northumberland |
| Being Your Own Boss | 5th March 2020 - 09:30 to 12:30 | This 3 hour session provides any budding business starter with the knowledge and tools needed to get started. The workshop will touch on ideas, marketing, the stages of start up, finance and legal. | Book on Eventbrite |
| Finding & Keeping Customers | 5th March 2020 - 13:30 to 16:30 | We explore how to position your business so that it creates a great first impression with customers and what you need to do keep them buying from you time & time again and recommending you to others. | Book on Eventbrite |
* Please note - for sessions marked with an asterisk, all attendees must be registered to the Business Northumberland programme and be eligible for support. Businesses who have not completed due diligence will not be permitted to attend the workshops. You can register your business by clicking here.
All sessions are held at Berwick Upon Tweed Workspace, Boarding School Yard, 90 Marygate, Berwick upon Tweed, TD15 1BN
Bitesize Business in Berwick Upon Tweed is a programme of short and snappy sessions designed for business owners to discover and imagine ways to successfully grow their own business. Our sessions will inspire a new confidence & independence allowing business owners to feel secure to go your own way. These sessions are supported by the Welcome Visitor Project, NBSL and Business Northumberland.
