Do you struggle to find the time and budget to outsource or hire marketing staff? In the midst of an economic crisis, how can you maximise your digital marketing potential with smaller and smarter budgets?
Join this workshop led by Discovry Co-founders, Morgan Edmondson and Luke Kellett, where they’ll explore how small businesses can use Generative AI & LLMs (large language models) to increase reach and optimise their digital marketing strategy.
Morgan and Luke discovered on their journey of co-founding a marketing agency that small teams needed an alternative that empowered them to drive marketing results without needing to outsource to a marketing agency or hire more staff. They experienced this challenge first-hand, leading them to start Discovry, an AI-powered platform that lets small teams automate their social media marketing workflow.
This session will be particularly useful for SMEs with little to no marketing teams and budgets, looking for new ways to grow their business and increase their presence online.
About Discovry
Morgan and Luke are co-founders of Discovry, an AI-powered platform that automates your marketing so that small teams can accomplish more with their digital marketing strategies. Over 5 years ago they started their entrepreneurship journey of exploring marketing and technology. By trying to grow companies with limited resources they explored different tools and ways of working until they realised there had to be a better solution. They merged their passion for marketing and new technologies to build something that turns those those daily ‘arghs’ into ‘done!’. Discovry has been recognised as ‘ones to watch’ and ‘changing how we do content’ by TechSPARK earlier this year.
These Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
Time to dust off your folio – we’re hosting a Portfolio Review evening. Come along and talk all things creative with Mr B’s & Future Kings!
For one night only on Wednesday 15th November, Mr B & Friends and FutureKings will be opening their shared studio to aspiring creatives who’d like a second (and third, and maybe even fourth) set of eyes on their creative tinkerings.
Join us at 6pm where you will be welcomed with a glass of bubbly, and a chance to meet like-minded people. Over the course of the evening you’ll get the opportunity to show your work to at least four agency creatives. There’ll be a mix of designers, art directors, animators and copywriters for you to chat to, ready to offer you their expertise, experience and knowledge. So come armed with questions!
Take a snoop at what we do over here at Mr B & Friends and FutureKings.
Following the huge success of the Neurodiversity Training for Employers workshop throughout this year, we are delighted to launch our second round of workshops; the Conscious Inclusion Workshop.
This training day will focus on exploring Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from a conscious inclusion perspective. Delivered by highly experienced and specialised staff with lived experience, this one-day training supports employers to listen to lesser-known as well as suggesting ways to create an improved culture of inclusion for marginalised groups in the workplace. A must attend for anyone looking to celebrate diversity in their organisation!
For a small investment of only £99 per participant, you will benefit from the 1-day workshop, as well as a follow up consultation with our experienced team.
AGENDA:
Welcome and Setting the Vision
LGBTQ+ Inclusive Language & Issues
How we have conversations about sexuality and gender
Anti-Racism
A closer look at unconscious bias and a celebration of diversity
LUNCH – feel free to bring your own or visit the Greenhouse Eatery next door
*TRIGGER WARNING* Trauma-Informed Approaches
An introduction to the different types of trauma and what is meant by a ‘trauma-informed approach’
Welcoming Sensory Differences
An insight into hearing and vision differences.
Closing Thoughts
These sessions are with Rebecca Steer, an award winning business lawyer, long-time advisor to tech and creative digital businesses and friend of BCI. Rebecca has a supportive and pragmatic style and these private sessions will enable you to ask any business or legal queries, which might relate to contracts, liability, data privacy, employment, IPR or anything in between.
These sessions are available to all BCI members FREE OF CHARGE, and are delivered in collaboration with Charles Russell Speechlys.
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only opportunity, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions are with Rebecca Steer, an award winning business lawyer, long-time advisor to tech and creative digital businesses and friend of BCI. Rebecca has a supportive and pragmatic style and these private sessions will enable you to ask any business or legal queries, which might relate to contracts, liability, data privacy, employment, IPR or anything in between.
These sessions are available to all BCI members FREE OF CHARGE, and are delivered in collaboration with Charles Russell Speechlys.
> Friday 8th December between 10:00 – 12:00
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only opportunity, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions are with Rebecca Steer, an award winning business lawyer, long-time advisor to tech and creative digital businesses and friend of BCI. Rebecca has a supportive and pragmatic style and these private sessions will enable you to ask any business or legal queries, which might relate to contracts, liability, data privacy, employment, IPR or anything in between.
These sessions are available to all BCI members FREE OF CHARGE, and are delivered in collaboration with Charles Russell Speechlys.
> Friday 10th November between 10:00 – 12:00
> Friday 8th December between 10:00 – 12:00
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only opportunity, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
Pete will share the story of adidas and the All Blacks and show how a simple shift in thinking can become your brand’s unfair competitive advantage.
You will learn simple lessons that can be applied to any business, big or small, to help deliver more effective communications. There will also be opportunity to ask questions towards the end of the talk.
We’re delighted to be welcoming Pete back after his previous talk back in February about ‘Fearless Girl’ was hugely popular! We jumped at the chance of inviting him back to deliver his newest talk to the BCI community. This keynote will be held at The Station (Creative Youth Network) on Silver Street in central Bristol. Join us from 12.30pm for lunch, with plenty of opportunity to catch up with old friends and make some new connections too. The talk will begin at 1pm.
Business owners, marketing leaders, and the agency teams who help them build their brand and deliver growth.
Pete is a Brand and Communications leader with over 30 years experience in the UK, US and NZ. He has led global and regional agency teams for some of the world’s most famous brands including Nike, Adidas, PlayStation,Twitter, Mars and Nissan. Along the way he has picked up a few awards including 7 Cannes Grand Prix, a Grand Effie, a Black Pencil and an Emmy nomination. He co-founded Creative Coalition in 2020 to offer businesses and NGOs big agency expertise without the big agency.
> Early bird BCI member tickets are available up until 25th Oct at £25 +VAT
> BCI member tickets from 26th Oct are priced at £35 +VAT.
> Non-member tickets are £60 +VAT.
All tickets include a buffet lunch and refreshments.
As part of our membership network, we have over 200 freelancers working within the creative industries. Life can sometimes feel a bit lonely as a freelancer so a networking event like this is an opportunity to meet others in the same position. This event has been very popular in the past so we decided to make it a permanent feature in our events programme. It’s the perfect chance to catch up with old friends and meet plenty of new faces too!
This event is open to freelancers as well as anyone who regularly engages with freelancers. It will allow you to widen networks, make new connections, discuss common problems, and discover potential opportunities for collaboration going forward. You’ll be sure to head home with a new contact.
The drinks will be held in the lower deck at The Square Club on Berkeley Square. We’ll have a private bar to purchase drinks, plus the food menu will be available if anyone fancies something to eat.
Tickets for BCI members are FREE and include a drinks token for the bar. Tickets for non-members are £5 +VAT.
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
Click below to register your place!
To keep our event and networking opportunities as varied as possible, we were keen to offer our members more creative ways of networking, so we teamed up with Outside to organise these networking sessions with groups of 12 people (similar to our members’ lunches) who are keen to don their walking boots and explore the stunning countryside around Bristol and Bath. A great opportunity for members to make some new connections within the industry whilst getting some much needed fresh air!
The meeting point for this walk will be The Compton Inn car park in Compton Dando, and we’ll be following this route.
During the walk, you’ll get to spend 10-15 minutes chatting to each of your fellow walkers. No agenda as such, just clear open space for thinking, connecting, sharing experiences about your businesses and exploring possibilities. The BCI team will be joining the group too so it’s a great chance to chat to them about getting the most out of your BCI membership.
This event is exclusively for BCI members and you can book through the button below. The ticket price is £10 +VAT.
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
From this session you will gain a comprehensive understanding of marketing procurement, from the agency marketplace to its pivotal role in the pitch process and beyond. These insights will hopefully empower you to navigate the complex world of marketing procurement more effectively, fostering better collaboration and achieving greater success in your marketing endeavours.
By the end of the session you will:
This talk is aimed at agency owners/founders/directors running agencies who are either just starting to work with client procurement teams and it all feels a bit new and process driven, and those that have experience in working with the client procurement teams and feel that they want to make the relationship stronger between both sides.
Tickets are priced at £25 +VAT for BCI members, and £40 +VAT for non-members. Book your place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership benefits here.
Tina has 30 years experience in working in marketing procurement. She was one of the first to work in this space and headed up teams at Cellent (VM02); SB (GSK/Haleon) and Orange (EE). She then spent a couple of years working for two London advertising agencies – Grey and Lowe, where it really helped her understand both sides of the commercial relationship.
She mainly works with clients on all areas of strategic marketing procurement (ecosystems; organisational structures, agency search and selection, agency management and mentoring and training). Recent clients have been Primark, innocent, Ferrero, Hovis and PepsiCo.
Website: www.tinafegent.com
LinkedIn: Tina Fegent (follow for #TinaTells every week)
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