Diary for July 2010
29th The Essential Guide to...Business Planning & Business Management | DCCI
This workshop tackles the core skills needed to run a successful business. You’ll discover how to develop a practical and relevant business plan and link this to a successful business model. You’ll also gain a firm grasp of business and people management practices and take away practical ideas on how to plan for and manage your business and your team and the individuals in it. It will enable you to discover new ideas or validate the ways you currently work. Either way a usefu...
21st Documentary Letters of Credit | DCCI
This is an interactive course taking the delegates through the procedures from receipt of an enquiry through to presentation of documents. It deals with the problems of how to avoid unworkable credits, avoiding the necessity for amendments, and some basic errors. It looks at the new code of conduct UCP600 and some of the areas where it differs from the previous code UCP500. It also examines basic documentary collection methods using Bills of Exchange. It concludes with a practical exerc...
14th How to Manage Stress in the Workplace | DCCI
This three hour interactive seminar will help you identify warning signs that might be applicable to you or to members of a team you might be managing. Benefits include – increased productivity and creativity – less time off work – a greater sense of well being. The seminar will cover: A definition of stress. The difference between pressure and stress. How to spot the early warning signs of stress. Coping strategies. We live in stressful ...
8th Marketing Out of a Recession | DCCI
The course is designed for business owners looking at the best way to promote their business in these still difficult economic times. The business landscape has changed and marketing techniques are changing to adapt to this. During the day, we will discuss techniques which can really benefit your business and mistakes to avoid. The course is interactive and designed to relate to your business using methods you can take away and implement immediately. Please call or email to book. ...
1st Pulling Your Business Out Of Recession | DCCI
Free to Dorset Business members! Improving performance through employee engagement - How your managers can make the difference.As economic market conditions improve, a business's top performers are the ones most likely to be looking for their next job opportunity - and those not fully engaged in your business will be looking elsewhere. It is therefore crucial that your managers focus on those fundamental areas that ensure their people feel engaged and motivated. This 2 hour semi...
30th Another Ceramic Success at Dukes
Duke's have done it again with selling rare Chinese ceramics. This time it was a pair of Qianlong-inscribed vases which made £478,000. The sale has been featured on the BBC today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-10816360 and you can see more of the sale highlights on Dukes' site here: http://www.dukes-auctions.com/...
25th New Book Launch for John Wright
John Wright's new book "Hedgerow", in the River Cottage Handbook series has now been published and is now available for sale on Amazon. We've received a pre-publication copy here and it is BRILLIANT, just as good as his other books on Mushrooms and the "Edible Seashore". We're looking forward to launching John's new www.wild-food.net website this coming weekend, which will feature more wisdom from River Cottage's foraging guru, including new cha...
22nd Site Visitor Stats Rocket Following Redesign
The recent redesign of the Dorset County Show website has led to the site visitor stats rocketing by an amazing 500% since the site was launched three weeks ago. We've also seen an increase in visit duration and number of page views. This successful increase in traffic is due to a mixture of factors. In part it is the fruit of writing and developing of lots of new pages and page content. There's simply much, much more to see on the site. It's also helped by excellent search en...
20th Videos on the Dorset County Show Website
We have now added video to the Dorset County Show website. These were produced by SilverStream TV at last year's county show and feature a variety of aspects of the event; main ring attractions, horticultural and craft competitions, animals at the show, and trade stands and food vendors. Here you can see a screenshot from the main ring attractions video. You can view all the videos on the show website here: www.dorsetcountyshow.co.uk/page/dorset+county+show+videos There will&...
9th Breaking News about Dorset County Show
We have just added in a new "Breaking News" feature to the new Dorset County Show website. This allows the show organisers and PR company, WatershedPR, to upload news stories and for them to be shown on the home page in pride of place below the navigation. Titan the Robot's appearance on Big Brother was highlighted today. Check out the site here: www.dorsetcountyshow.co.uk...
6th Major Website Redesign for Farm Machinery Manufacturer
Today we launched a new site for Symms Fabrication, a farm machinery and storage bin fabrication company based on the Somerset/Dorset border. We worked closely with the business to understand their market, and the priorities for their business and created a design that reflected their aspirations and work as closely as possible. Their previous design was empty and lacking in any kind of atmosphere. We created a lively, welcoming and informative website that really captures the sp...
2nd A Helping Hand With SEO
We've been working with a luxury, fairtrade cotton nightdress retailer over the past few weeks to help sort out some search engine optimisation for them. Their site, which runs on a bespoke CMS that was built by a previous design company allows for some modest changes to the site's optimisation, but only up to a point. We've had to work creatively within the scope of the CMS to try and maximise the potential it offers. Initial results are promising with the new descriptive and...
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