Diary for October 2010
27th Marketing on a small budget | DCCI
Did you know that 50% of your marketing budget is wasted? It’s just knowing which half. Come along to learn how to create a marketing plan on a budget, and how to use the free and cost effective marketing tools out there. Aimed at Business owners or those in a marketing role, who need to work with a creative budget but still reach their target audience successfully. This is perfect for those struggling to market successfully on a low budget. Additional details Date: 2...
21st Protecting your Business from Organised Crime: Bournemouth | DCCI
Dorset Chamber of Commerce and Dorset Police are joining forces in running two seminars to raise awareness across the county of the threats facing businesses by organised crime groups and how you can protect your organisation by make some simple changes to business practise. We are hosting the same seminar at two different locations to ensure this information can be accessed by as many business as possible. You can either book online for the relevant location or download the booking form...
21st Team Development | DDCI
Managers and owners, who need to understand how best to develop and maintain trust at work, and how to build an effective team. What are the course objectives? Identify the difference between a group and a team Explain those behaviours which could develop and maintain trust at work, and those which have the opposite effect Briefly describe the stages of an established model of group formation Explain why confidentiality is important in building and maintaining trust in the tea...
20th PR Writing | DCCI
Want to get your business in the press? This 3 hour workshop is all about how to get press coverage for your company, you will learn how to write a press release and achieve press coverage. With tips to send your releases correctly, gather as much media coverage as possible and how to build journalist relationships for mutual benefit. Additional details Date: 20 October, 2010 09:30 AM Venue: Chamber House Acorn Office Park Ling Road Poole Dorset BH12 4NZ M...
19th Can we farm without the Common Agricultural Policy? | Business Link Conference
Making sure the farm runs efficiently and profitably is key to modern farm management. Modern farm management is about monitoring, analysis, planning and action. Cutting costs, increasing revenue and creating business efficiencies are just part of the huge role of the farm and estate manager and their advisors. Single Farm Payments are reducing, can your business survive if they disappeared altogether? Date: 19 Oct 2010 Location: ...
13th Health & Safety Review | DCCI
Following on from the success of the previous course, an additional date has been included in the course calendar for June. This half-day review will provide the opportunity to get up to date with current Health & Safety issues, consider your own position in relation to the issues raised and, uniquely, to bring specific issues from your workplace to discuss with the tutor and other delegates. Objectives At the end of the session you will be able to: Identify current H & S iss...
12th Working successfully with the Public Sector | Business Link
Meet the buyer: competing effectively for public sector contracts. Join Borough of Poole and Business Link at this free event. 09:30 - 15:15 Lighthouse, 21 Kingland Road, Poole BH15 1UG Access Borough of Poole's Strategic Procurement Team, key service units and meet the people in charge of the money. Business Advice Sessions How To Work with the Council The Tender Process Other Ways In... What's the day about? Owner/managers of small to me...
7th Driving Innovation, Cost Saving and Efficiency through Technology Seminar | DCCI
This is a unique opportunity for you to gain insight into how new technologies can help boost your productivity and save you money. Did you know that in any given year, 72% of companies have faced IT downtime, costing businesses millions of pounds. Did you know theat 51% of your energy bill can be reduced by choosing the right environmentally-friendly equipment. We are lucky enough to have Dell join us to hear how you can cut IT costs, protect your data and gain a business insi...
5th Selling Skills Seminar and Workshop | DCCI
Based on Andy's direct experience of the past two years, this seminar examines how to capitalise on the new attitude businesses have adopted during economic uncertainty. Andy looks at anew style of selling to businesses. 'Consultative Selling' is where the traditional sales approach is literally turned on its head and creates a new stream of success. Additional details Date: 05 October, 2010 09:00 AM Venue: Chamber House Acorn Office Park Ling Road,Tower Park Poole Dor...
28th New Marshwood Vale Photography and Stories by Robin Mills
This month we have updated the website for Dorset farmer and photographer, Robin Mills with a number of new stories and photographs from the Marshwood Vale magazine. Robin's stories are about local people from around West Dorset and amongst his collection is one featuring Peter Thomas a retired farmer and now a renowned wood turner and stick maker. It makes for a wonderful read and illustrates the challenges and changes faced by UK farmers over recent years. Robin describes ...
25th Full Range of Underwater ROVs now on Liquavision's Website
Last year we launched a new website for the sole UK distributor of Seabotix underwater ROVs (Remote Operated Vehicles): Liquavision. One year on their site is full of fantastic information about these extraordinary vehicles. Information about the full range of Seabotix ROVs is now complemented with a range of accessories that can be added to these craft; including sonar, radar, motorised wheels, grabs and cameras. These combinations mean that Liquavision can supply ROVs to almost eve...
18th BioSelector Website Redesign
We have just launched a redesigned website for biotech company, BioPure. Working closely with GetPixel we have updated the BioSelector site that we built last year to reflect their new corporate image and branding. The BioSelector site supports bespoke software for designing new disposable systems in the biotech industry. It features customer account management and product management functionality and links into the main sites for BioPure and their online shop which is under developm...
15th Web User Trends - Browsers, Search Engines and Screen Sizes
Keeping up to date with current usage trends on the internet is vital to our business. In order to continue to offer the best possible web services to our customers we need to know what is happening to the technology in this fast changing market. In particular it's important to know what the most popular internet browsers are and which versions people are running what the relative market share of the search engines is what the most popular screen sizes are pl...
11th New Projects for October
This autumn has seen a rapid growth in new clients. These new clients have brought us a variety of projects to work on in both web and print media. We'll publish more details of exactly who we're working with when we've got some more screenshots and images to show you, but the list includes companies in media, and social care, an international AIDS charity, a design business, several bed and breakfasts, and a software company. We're also teetering on the launch of ...
9th Alacrify Becomes SagePay Approved Partner
For ecommerce solutions including shopping carts or more sophisticated payment handling (like membership subscriptions) we are now able to offer SagePay payment solutions. SagePay provide the means to process online transactions and also offer the option to set up credit card merchant accounts that link in with your current bank. Full details of their services can be found on their website. www.sagepay.com This new partnership enriches our e-commerce capability. In addition t...
8th Magazine Style Home Page for BioPortfolio
Our ongoing development of lifescience and biotech website, BioPortfolio.com has seen us launch a new home page design for the site this week. The new home page design has a more magazine-style format, featuring images from many of the news stories, reports and videos that are available on the site. Instead of just using text to show content listings the design now uses a mixture of images from the stories with artwork from BioPortfolio's extensive database of corporate images; p...
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