Managing your finances can be complex and frustrating – made even worse by the state of the economy right now and all the unpredictability that comes with it. Jonathan will help you to identify the key things to focus on and how to go about creating a solid financial foundation for your business, whether you are looking to grow or just aiming to survive.
Whenever we’re faced with uncertainty, things can easily get overwhelming and confused about your next move. Are you overreacting and cutting back when you don’t need to, or underreacting which will land you in the red down the line? As a business owner, you need the right information so that you can make bold decisions with confidence. Understanding the story behind your numbers and using that information to move forward will help you make better decisions.
From this talk you will:
– Understand what stage of business you are currently at and why it matters
– Know what area you need to focus on to improve your finances
– Have a better idea of the factors that really matter to you within in each area of focus, from costs to customer acquisition
– Feel more confident about your decisions going forward and get some clarity about next steps
This session is well suited for small and medium creative businesses owners, at all stages. If you are someone worried about the current economic climate, looking to grow but lacking direction, or searching for a better understanding of the things that really matter when it comes to your finances then you will get something out of this talk.
About Jon:
Jonathan is the founder and MD of FD Works, an award winning accounting and business specialist firm based in Bristol, and co-founder of Dext Precision (previously Xavier Analytics).
With decades of experience in the corporate world of finance (including TSB, Arval PHH and Transco, now National Grid), Jonathan uses his commercial and strategic understanding of business and his passion for innovation to help clients see the true potential behind their numbers, and get back to the parts of their business they really love.
This proactive approach has helped many creative SMEs go from strength to strength with one core understanding at the heart of Jonathan’s work – good business is about getting the foundations right.
Tickets
This event is FREE for BCI members however registration is still required. Non-member tickets are £25+VAT.
If you’d like to access this talk for free, you can read all about becoming a BCI member here.
This live training session with BAFTA-winning John Yorke will give an understanding of how stories work and why they’re an essential tool to communicate more effectively, create messages with impact, pitch ideas, and ensure teams have a common language of story.
We’ll look at the essential ingredients all stories have in common and ways to identify them and put them together for practical effect. John will include practical exercises to enhance the learning.
Participants will emerge from the training day with:
● Greater awareness of what makes a successful story
● Working knowledge of the basic building blocks of story
● Understanding of the structural blueprint underlying all successful stories
● Practical tools with which to break a story into its component parts, diagnose why a story isn’t working plus simple ways to fix common problems
● How to apply the principles to their day job
This workshop is being held in collaboration with John Yorke Story, and will be held at the Watershed by the Harbourside from 11am – 2pm.
About John
John Yorke is one of the world’s leading experts in television drama and the winner of numerous awards, including two BAFTAs. He is former Controller of BBC Drama Production, Head of Channel Four Drama, and MD of Company Pictures.
John is founder of the BBC Writers’ Academy – which he set up to train a new generation of TV writing talent in the UK. He works with an expert team of narrative trainers who use John’s principles to teach practical ways to develop drama and learn screenwriting.
John has written and produced some of the world’s most lucrative, widely viewed and critically acclaimed TV drama, from EastEnders to Shameless, Life on Mars to Wolf Hall.
Tickets
Tickets are priced at £50+VAT for BCI members and £75+VAT for non-members. Book your place below!
Join Inkwell founder Chris Goodfellow to understand how to create content that demonstrates expertise and builds trust, and helps push people through the sales funnel. The webinar is a practical session that will help you get the most out of your investment in content marketing.
Key takeaways:
1. Developing your personas to make your content more engaging
2. Creating a word bank that supports your brand guidelines
3. Making your tone of voice guidelines accessible to your team
This session is open to all, but will be particularly useful for those in a senior marketing position.
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 interested in becoming a member with BCI, you can read about the membership perks here.
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.*
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