Join local freelance journalist Dan Martin for the latest free Enterprise Nation online meet-up for small business owners in Bristol and nearby areas.
Come along to learn new skills, discover opportunities, discuss challenges, be inspired and make a group of local business friends.
Join the meet-up with a business challenge or need in mind and the always friendly group of fellow founders will help you solve it!
Also joining the event as a special guest is journalist Richard Tyler, editor of The Times Enterprise Network.
He is looking for insights from business owners on their experiences with high street business banks and to meet founders for potential coverage in the newspaper and online.
Join Inkwell founder Chris Goodfellow for advice on how to create your own high-quality video. It’s something you can do in your office for a relatively low cost that can have a transformational impact on your marketing.
The webinar will help people that aren’t using video in their marketing or have just started. Chris will share practical examples and explain how to develop a sustainable, impactful video strategy.
Key takeaways:
– Leveraging short-form video for social media
– Creating a DIY set-up that doesn’t break the bank
– Using video for SEO and to increase article dwell times
This session may be particularly useful for those in roles such as Head of Content, Head of Marketing, Marketing Director, or similar.
About Chris
Chris is the founder of Inkwell, which helps companies market to small business owners through content marketing. The agency works with clients like PwC, Innovate UK and Enterprise Nation. Chris believes great B2B content elevates everyday experiences. It doesn’t just look good – it’s practical, accessible and gets to the heart of what it means to run a business.
> See Inkwell’s member profile 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.
The 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.
ESTRELLAS
Estrellas is an alternative rock band, with a modern take on the genre; they’re inspired by artists such as Jeff Buckley and Wolf Alice, with densely textured arrangements and lyrics shrouded in metaphor. Fronted by Charlotte McPherson’s powerful vocals, and buoyed by Jake Wild’s idiosyncratic songwriting and guitar playing style, the band is filled out by the rock-solid rhythm section of Stuart Clark and Rob Lennox, who keep the groove going with a jazzy, improvisational flair.
HANNIGAN
Hannigan is a traveling singer-songwriter. Drawing from his English and Irish heritages, he has created a sound that can only be defined as his own. Settling into an acoustic soulful folk rock genre he writes honestly, inspired by the ever changing world around him.
OUTSIDER
Outsider is a Northern Soul/Indie artist, combining the pathos of Radiohead with the heart and gritty vocal stylings of Paolo Nutini.
£4(advance)/£5, over 18s only.
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. After the success of our October event we decided to repeat it again for everyone to get together – it’s the perfect chance to catch up with old friends and meet plenty of new faces too!
This event 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 of 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.
This is a FREE event for BCI members and includes a drinks token for the bar. Tickets are £5 +VAT for non-members.
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!
This talk is designed for those who work in a creative digital or tech business, or work with clients or customers in these sectors. It will also be useful for those who are responsible for compliance, cyber security and data protection.
Rebecca advises many businesses in the creative, digital and tech sectors and has a supportive and pragmatic style. There will be time after the talk for individual questions. The workshop will be held at the Watershed from 4-5.30pm on Tuesday 21st March.
The talk will cover:
Tickets
Tickets are priced at £30+VAT for BCI members and £45+VAT for non-members. Book your place below!
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 Steer & Co.
> Friday 27th January between 09:30 – 11:30 – click here to book
> Friday 24th February between 09:30 – 11:30 – click here to book
> Friday 31st March between 09:30 – 11:30 – book your place via the link below
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 Steer & Co.
> Friday 27th January between 09:30 – 11:30 – book your place via the link below
> Friday 24th February between 09:30 – 11:30 – click here to book
> Friday 31st March between 09:30 – 11:30 – click here to book
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 Steer & Co.
> Friday 27th January between 09:30 – 11:30 – click here to book
> Friday 24th February between 09:30 – 11:30 – book your place via the link below
> Friday 31st March between 09:30 – 11:30 – click here to book
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.
Join JX Branding founder Joanna Xenofontos to understand why most businesses fail, despite investing A LOT in marketing. The webinar will help you have a clearer idea on how a business can better relate to its target audience and increase sales.
Key takeaways:
1. Communicating your offer – Brand messaging
2. Be distinct – Brand identity
3. Evoke emotion – Brand activation
About Joanna
Joanna is the founder of JX Branding. Joanna is a brand specialist working across design and strategy. She helps businesses build bold brands that cut through the noise. She has worked for brands such as Paddington Bear, Booking Live, Novartis. Joanna believes that a great brand is a result of combining thorough strategy, business, psychology and design.
> See the JX Branding member profile
> Connect with Joanna on LinkedIn
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.
The 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.
Join us at The Square Club on Wednesday 28th June from 12.30-2pm. BCI’s members’ lunches are the perfect opportunity to catch up with fellow members and the BCI team and, as some of our lunches are now in person again, you can enjoy a delicious Mediterranean buffet lunch too!
There’ll be plenty of opportunities to catch up with old friends and meet some new faces too. Everyone will have a 3 min slot to introduce themselves and tell the others a little about who they are and what they do and share any news and/or challenges. You don’t need to fill the three minutes but Chris is a rigorous timekeeper! We usually find some common themes emerge which we can discuss over the course of the session. It’s all very informal with no need to stand up and present slides!
The members’ lunch is much more than just pitching; it’s a shared space for connecting with your peers to discuss challenges and opportunities: post-covid issues, maintaining company culture when working remotely, getting rid of office space, recruiting, new business pipeline and conversion, confidence, those on slowdown, those overstretched… the time flies by.
We see businesses of all shapes and sizes during the session. From the managing director of an established 50+ person agency to founders of innovative startups, each month we encourage a variety of members to attend. You’re more likely to meet potential partners or referrers than competitors.
If you’d like to attend email BCI’s membership manager Alli Nicholas at [email protected]. The members’ lunches tend to fill up quickly so if you miss out on this one, you’ll be top of the list for the next!
Going forward, our members’ lunches will be a mix of in person and online events so keep an eye on the calendar for details of future dates.
Not a member? Sign up today so you can join the lunch!
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