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.
Join us for a month-long learning experience to demystify the crazy world of Web3. See past the nonsense to what Web3 really has to offer and learn some core skills in the process.
We’re bringing together developers to collaboratively learn, build and share curiosities, doubts, ideas, and knowledge.
We’re creating a supportive and comfortable environment to learn and grow together.
Throughout the festival developers will be participating in a hack of the Open Format SDK exploring the powerful functionality it has to offer. There will be multiple prizes up for grabs.
//WHY JOIN?
Open to developers at ANY level
-You’ll be part of a community of developers working towards the same goal
-We’ll introduce you to our open source Web3 tooling, and provide ongoing support in Discord
-You’ll learn new skills and gain access to resources to continue your Web3 journey after the festival
-You’ll receive an NFT Certificate of completion
-You’ll receive free tickets to future NFT:BRS events
-It’s completely FREE to participate
-There will be real-time collaborative support through our public Discord channels, where you will be matched with developer teams.
//GET INVOLVED
Sign up here today and we’ll follow up with details on each of the sessions, including how to access them and the support that will be available to you throughout the festival.
//FAQ
1. How do I attend the sessions? – The sessions and workshop are going to be on Zoom, while support/announcements etc will be in Discord.
2. Do I need to understand Web3 development? – The festival is to introduce more people to the world of Web3, so no prior Web3 knowledge is required.
3. Can non-developers participate in the event? – We strongly encourage people outside of the programming field to join the event for more diverse teams and input. If you’re concerned about a lack of experience, we’re happy to help.
4. Can I participate as a solo developer? – Yes, if you are eager to learn about web3 development but don’t belong to any agency, you can still sign up and learn together.
5. How much time do I need to spend on the project? – You can dip in and out of our learning sessions as you please however, it is important to agree on the development time with your team.
6. What is Open Format?- Open Format is an open-source protocol by Simpleweb Labs, enabling developers to build decentralized marketplaces and factories for digital assets. You will be introduced to its functionality during the event.
7. What are the winning categories? – Top 3 Projects;
• Most innovative concept;
• Most bugs found in our tooling;
• Best suggestion for feature improvement.
Join us at The Square Club on Thursday 10th November 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!
In conversation with Channel 5
Adrian Padmore and Denise Seneviratne, Commissioning Editors.
Channel 5 continues to show growth and the recent launch of Paramount+ , the latest streamer to land in the UK, means there are ongoing opportunities for producers. Adrian Padmore and Denise Seneviratne will share their vision and ambitions for Channel 5 and discuss how the channel likes to work with factual indies.
Find out about the style, tone and format of Channel 5’s factual slate. what has worked on the channel, Channel 5’s changing audience and the kind of content they are looking for.
Join RTS West of England for the inside track on Channel 5’s strategy to deliver reputational shows that rate.
20th September
Watershed Cinema 3
6.30-8pm
Followed by networking drinks in Watershed bar.
£10 for non RTS members (includes a complimentary drink after the session)
Free for RTS members
Hosted by Lynn Barlow, Chair of RTS West of England
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