Join us on Thursday 29th September for our next Kerning the Gap coffee break. These sessions serve as a chance for our community to come together on an informal basis with some inspiration to set your day off on the right foot. They’re open to both mentors and mentees on our scheme, and anyone else who would like to join.
In this session we will be covering the topic of ‘Asking for a Raise’, learning from experts in the industry as they share their stories, together with the tips and tricks on how to effectively ask for a raise. Our talks will then be followed by a Q&A with our experts.
Where: On Zoom
Timings: Thursday 29th September – 8am until 9am
What do I need to bring? Yourself, a pen and paper
Please do let us know if you have any questions at all.
Your Zoom link will be sent 24 hours prior to the session. We look forward to seeing you on the 24th!
The South West KTG Team
We’re living through an interesting part of history. Advancements in technology are rapidly changing our lives and the way we work. We’re also more connected than ever before, allowing us to stay in touch and perform our duties from just about anywhere in the world. Yet this rate of change and development means that employers need new and evolving skill sets. As such, some fear a ‘skills gap’ is opening.
As an employment-focused further educational (FE) institute, we want to ensure that we are teaching our learners the skills Bristol’s employers need. How do we do this? Well, this is where you come in..
We’re hosting an afternoon of discussion at our flagship Bristol campus. The discussion will explore topics such as –
Furthermore, we’ll be giving an exciting tour of our £4.5m campus redevelopment, along with refreshments & networking opportunities. Plus, we’ll be letting employers know about our early careers offering.
Collaboration between educational institutions and local employers is essential to growing Bristol’s future workforce. Let’s start this conversation, together.
About Access Creative College
Access Creative College has been delivering creative education for over twenty-five years. Operating as England’s largest private training provider, the college delivers creative education at campuses in seven cities, from Bristol in the south-west to York in the north-east.
Now offering courses in Games, Media, Music and Events, the college started life as Access to Music. The decision to rebrand was taken in 2017, enabling the college to provide training for more sectors of the creative industries.
The college is dedicated to broadening its provision and scope of operations to become the number one choice for creative training in the UK.
In our Media Insights webinar, AMBITIOUS PR media relations specialist Rob Stewart talks to regional media legend and business champion Ian Mean. Ian was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Jubilee Honours for his services to the community in Gloucestershire.
One of the most respected voices in regional media, Ian has a wealth of newspaper experience which he is now putting to good use to support the South West business community as a director of Business West.
Ian will turn the spotlight on what it takes for businesses to make regional and national headlines in across the media spectrum. Find out how to ensure those print and broadcast opportunities count. This is not a webinar to miss!
Click here to listen in – https://bit.ly/3Evz462
This Masterclass is for you if you’re using Instagram to market your business but all the constant changes and new features on the platform along with the shift in focus to Reels has left you feeling like your Instagram strategy just no longer works.
Tickets are £199 but there is an Early Bird offer open until midnight Sunday October 2nd. Early Bird tickets are £175.
You’ll spend the day learning about how you can use Instagram to connect with your target audience, tell them about what you do, build an engaged community and sell your products and services.
This month’s free Enterprise Nation online meet-up for small businesses in Bristol and surrounding areas is on 29 September at 10am.
Come along ready to share a business challenge or need and the always friendly group of founders will help you come up with solutions!
The event is hosted by freelance journalist Dan Martin, Enterprise Nation’s local leader for Bristol.
Do you have a great tech business idea, but don’t know where to start? Or are you unsure what to do next in order to grow your technology company? Then sign up for Idea2Pitch hosted by SETsquared Bristol to help hone your ideas, and shape them into a pitch for gaining interest or support in your venture.
Tech founders or aspiring tech entrepreneurs of all levels and backgrounds are welcome to apply to attend. The event will take place at the Chessel Centre on Chessel Street.
Idea2Pitch includes an interactive workshop on what makes a good business idea, and how to pitch it for maximum effect, and an introduction to SETsquared.
Workshop leader: Rick Chapman, Entrepreneur in Residence at SETsquared.
#CRO #Experimentation #UserResearch #Analytics #ABTesting
💫 Sponsored by AB Tasty 💫
💥In association with Experimentation Elite 💥
📍Kindly hosted by Atomic Smash📍
OCTOBER’S TOPIC… A/B Testing Do’s & Don’ts.
Who doesn’t love an A/B test?! But with the tools making it so easy to get tests up and running, it’s common for teams to run before they can walk. In this session we’ll share experiences of things you should always try to do when running an A/B Test as well as those things you should try to avoid.
Come and join us to ask questions and share your own experiences.
5.00-5.30: ARRIVE
5.30: KICK OFF
5:40: TALK 1: Ellie Hughes, Managing Consultant at AND Digital will run through what she considers “the Fallacies of AB testing“. Ellie will share her top A/B Testing tips with us from over 10 years’ experience as an “Experimentation Ninja”.
6:00: TALK 2: Thomas Lawson, Head of Sales at AB Tasty will explain why you should balance risk and reward by testing bigger, bolder changes in your A/B tests: “Mitigating Risk with Digital Experimentation“. He’ll include some case studies and some surprising test results.
**Special thanks to Thomas and the AB tasty team for also sponsoring this Meetup**
6:20: DISCUSSION: Chance to ask Ellie & Thomas questions and share your own stories & tips for A/B Testing. Please come prepared to share.
6:30: 60 SECOND SHOUT OUTS: Your opportunity for an announcement. Recruiting? Event coming up? Help needed? Selling something? Shout about it.
6:30-7: DRINKS, PIZZA AND CONVERSION CHATS
7: Home? Wetherspoons? Turbo Island?…
INCLUSIVITY: If you’re passionate about Conversion Optimisation we really want you to feel welcome & able to attend. We’d love any feedback or questions to help make it as inclusive, welcoming and accessible an event as possible.
VOLUNTEERS: We have a very small group of volunteers helping to organise this first Meetup, but we welcome any new volunteers who’d like to join the CONVERT gang to support future Meetups. Have a “no obligation” chat with Ryan 😁.
CAR PARKING: There are some paid parking space available at Temple Studios. Spaces 1-20 are available to book through the Ringo app (ID: 38156).
£5 for a ticket*: AB Tasty are kindly paying for the food & drink, but we’re also asking for a small contribution. Any money left over after the event will be donated to a Bristol based charity.*
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. 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.
Click below to register your place!
Get inspired 
Turn your digital marketing strategy into a roaring success with inspiration from a bumper line-up of industry experts speaking on topics like SEO, social media, CRO, Analytics, UX, Strategy, Creative and more:
*Visual Search – Tools and Tactics | Crystal Carter, Head of SEO Communications at Wix
*The Mad Science of Data-Driven Creativity | Richard Cook, Social Media Manager at Monzo
*Get Paid To Do Nothing with Marketing Automation | Andy Thornton, Senior HubSpot Executive at Noisy Little Monkey
*Google Analytics 4 | Jill Quicks, Analytics Consultant and Trainer at The Colouring In Department
*How Not To Be A Git. Data Ethics In Digital Marketing | Rowenna Fielding, Professional Data Protection Nerd at Miss IG Geekd
Meet people 
If you’re an in-house marketer looking to meet new people in the industry, snag best practice advice, and get the creative juices flowing ahead of your next marketing campaign, Digital Gaggle is the event for you.
Proof is in the… testimonials 
Here’s what previous Gaggle attendees had to say about the day.
“Great energy. Lovely welcoming crowd of like minded souls. Interesting speakers”
“Different kind of vibe, expert speakers, talks not too long, great randomised networking”
“Genuinely interesting and interactive talks full of the latest trends and ideas to take home”
Don’t miss out 
A limited number of tickets are on sale with 30% off until Friday 30th September.
Bag your place before tickets sell out.
Letter Luvvers brings together everyone involved creatively with lettering in Bristol.
We encourage lettering artists, signpainters, typeface designers, letterpress printers, calligraphers, tattooists and more to come together for drinks and networking — every 2 months.
We have two short talks too. The evenings are open to all, free entry, an interest in lettering and fonts is all that we ask for! There is no profit motive, just bringing together people of related passions.
Speakers TBA.
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