How website optimisation and evolution helps organisations within the creative industries to get the most value out of their digital platforms…

An ambitious organisation should see its website as an investment rather than an expense.

Your website is a vital and fundamental asset in your business model. It’s the digital centre of your strategy, providing a hub for your lead generation, customer experience, sales, marketing, eCommerce, fundraising or onboarding activities to revolve around. And with the right strategic roadmap in place, your website can be continuously improved and evolved so that it brings more and more value to your organisation.

However, running a busy organisation can risk some areas of your digital strategy falling by the wayside. But there are serious and long-lasting consequences of not looking after your organisation’s website. If unresolved, this will block growth.

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In this webinar, Aidan Rumble, Tech Lead at Atomic Smash, will walk through 8 ways to boost conversions on your website, featuring a mixture of ideological, practical, DIY and specialist improvements. Putting a spotlight on several ways to optimise websites, Aidan will share practical steps for improving conversions that can be applied to lead generation, booking flows or checkouts, and long-term website evolution.

This session will be ideal for marketing leaders and anyone responsible for their company website. Expect to do some thinking of your own and leave with ideas you can implement yourself or by utilising the skills and expertise of a website agency.

About Aidan

As Technical Lead at Atomic Smash, Aidan is responsible for early-stage technical requirements gathering and ensuring projects and all our work is using the smartest tech available. Aidan oversees the development team from start to finish.

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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.

More about our ‘Wake Up Call’ webinar series

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.

 

Come along to meet the artist behind our current exhibition ‘Wild Escapes’.

Artist Karen George will talk you through her painting process from start to finish; inspiration, preparing surfaces, materials and tools used, editing and finally finishing her work.

Karen’s ‘Wild Escapes’ exhibition is on show now until the 26th July.

on: Friday 14th July 12 – 2pm

at: The Square Club, Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HB

www.karengeorgeart.co.uk

Government Funded Bootcamps now available – Limited availability

Develop your staff in project management, and drive your business forward!

This Project Management Skills Bootcamp is delivered in Bristol over 10 weeks, and will equip your staff with the skills needed to support and ultimately lead projects.

This course is suitable for people looking to upskill their staff and is under pinned by the Association for Project Management (APM), Project Management Qualification (PMQ) and will reference the APM Book of Knowledge (BoK) 7th Edition. For employers wishing to upskill their employees, this course will be discounted by 70% as part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee and Plan for Jobs. The course will be spread over 10 weeks, comprising a mixture of face-to-face/remote participation, requiring day-release one day each week. This is an ideal opportunity to upskill individuals in your team to drive your business forward.90% funded for SME employer or 70% funded for large employers

With live music and poetry from some fantastic talent from the South West, it’s shaping up to be a must-see event on the Music and Poetry calendar. Each performer will provide 4 or 5 minutes of their latest work.

Arrive at Square Works (17-18 Berkeley Square) for 19:30 for the event starting at 20:00. Drinks are available to purchase before the show at the Square Club next door to Square Works.

We have five free tickets available for our members. To book these, please contact Square Works reception via e-mail – [email protected] – phone – 0117 322 6635 – or drop by.

General tickets are £5, and this is to be paid on the door in cash.

Just finished university and looking for a new role?

Find out everything you need to know about the recruitment industry, what it’s like to work for mustard and meet some of the team.

It will be an open discussion on what we do here as recruitment specialists and who we look for in a consultant.

We’re looking to expand our team and train up a new cohort of recruitment consultants. We are currently recruiting for our September intake.

By attending you’ll get to know the team and have a chance to join mustard as a recruitment trainee.

Bring along your CV, your friends and any questions you may have. Please register every attendee through our website.

Soak up the atmosphere of the galleries with drinks, music and creative activities, and join us for a chance to enjoy the RWA after hours.

Thursday 10 August 2023, 6-9pm

Tickets £9 / £6 concessions (students, RWA, Friends & Academicians).

Ticket price includes a free drink on arrival. There will also be a pop up bar with drinks available to purchase on the night.

The RWA Shop will be open on the night, offering limited editions prints, books, artists’ materials, stationery and gifts for art lovers.

Please note this is an adult only event (18+).

Special live music performance by Olive Haigh. Olive is an artist, freak-folk singer-songwriter and autoharpist.

Explore our exhibitions
Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City, is a national touring exhibition curated for the Arts Council Collection by Turner Prize-winning artist and cultural activist Lubaina Himid CBE. This exhibition of over 60 works, including some by Bristol-based artists, presents a wide array of modern and contemporary art, including painting, sculpture, photography and film from both the Arts Council Collection and artists’ studios.

Street Life is an exhibition curated by Malcolm Ashman RWA and Stephen Jacobson RWA. Stephen and Malcolm first conceived of this urban-themed exhibition before the pandemic, and felt now was the perfect time to revive it to complement Found Cities Lost Objects in the main galleries. 20 Academicians were invited to display work and the show will include architecture, sculpture, printmaking and painting.

Are you looking to grow your live events, theatre or festival team? Weston College are launching a new Live Events Technician Apprenticeship to support the growing demand for the Arts Sector. Join our webinar on Wednesday 5th July at 2-3pm and learn more. We can support you and an employee to gain the skills and opportunities needed to kick-start a career in live events.

Competition is fierce and budgets are under pressure, but consumer appetite remains as high as ever through Black Friday, Bank Holidays and January Sales.

These recurring spikes offer ample opportunity – but how do you make sure you’re getting the very best results for your budget and resource during peak seasons?

We have experience guiding clients to success through these high-demand periods. For this event, we’ll be focusing on travel and ecommerce sectors, showing how you can maximise sales and impact with advertising, data and optimisation while interest is sky high.

Get learning | Get knowledge | Get inspired | Get ideas | Get talking | Get laughing | Get wowed

Get your tickets here – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/you-get-what-you-get-80-marketing-tech-creative-cool-stuff-tickets-623447025837

Welcome to YGWYG 8.0, the super-summer sunshine edition of our FUN-TURISM and CREATIVITY event where we bring together the best minds in marketing, technology and art to inspire you with their innovative ideas and insights. Think creative AI, digital strategy, genius campaigns, web 3 and more.

On July 18th, we have an awesome array of speakers who are sure to blow your mind:

Jim Bowes: TPXimpact

Andy Kitt: Co-Founder | Engineering Lead at OPENFORMAT

Jon Reay: CEO and Founder Rewrite Digital

As ever, Derek and Norts of The Peeps will host YGWYG. They promise to keep you entertained and engaged throughout the evening (and maybe into the following weeks, months, years, decades, yadda, yadda).

As always, YGWYG is a FREE EVENT, but with only 80 spaces available, demand is high. So, make sure you reserve your spot as soon as possible. And please, if you do reserve a ticket and can’t make it, please let us know as early as possible, so we can give the spot to someone else.

We look forward to welcoming you to YGWYG 8.0 on July 18th at The Square Club in Bristol. Get ready to be inspired, learn something new, and connect with like-minded people.

HUM4NS began life as a series of talks among entrepreneurs, providing them with a platform to step out from behind ‘what they do’ and venture into the ‘who I am, what holds me back and how I moved forward’.

HUM4NS provided a platform for ordinary people to share Honest, Uplifting, Motivational, Aspirational, Nourishment for the Soul, inspiring others to take action and build towards achieving their own dreams.

Stepping into a brave new world and opening ourselves up to a new audience, HUM4NS has a simple but important quest; to help the world be a happier, healthier, smarter and kinder place, by providing a place for people to learn, grow and develop.

On the night, you can expect:

– Celebrating HUM4NS

– HUM4NS talks

– Networking/drinks

– Awesome people!