TRAINING & EVENTS TRAINING COURSES


All Chamber training courses are currently delivered virtually in compliance with Covid-19 restrictions.


Call the Training department for more details on 01604 490490 or email training@northants-chamber.co.uk


LINKEDIN FOR BUSINESS Date: 22 April (half-day) Cost: Members £140 + VAT Non-members £180 + VAT


Utilise LinkedIn to grow your business by building deeper relationships with your current clients, get more referrals and connect with new potential clients. Learn how to search effectively, use the reminder feature, are you publishing on LinkedIn and so much more. This is an interactive workshop to learn how to use LinkedIn as a marketing and business development tool.


SEO – BE SEEN ONLINE POST COVID Date: 5 May (half-day) Cost: Members £140 + VAT Non-members £180 + VAT


By leveraging the fundamentals of search engine optimization (SEO), you can ensure that your business pops up in these all-important search results. This workshop is about mastering SEO fundamentals. How to make improvements that boost your website's visibility on search engines, attracting the right kind of traffic to the right pages on your site.


SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING Date: 13 May (one-day) Cost: Members £229 + VAT Non-members £299 + VAT


This practical session will show how social media feeds into your company’s business and communications objectives, and how to gain the most mileage out of the marketing budget! This is ideal for all personnel looking to develop an understanding of how social media can be utilised to its full potential as an essential marketing tool.


EFFECTIVE FACE TO FACE MEETINGS Date: 18 May (one-day) Cost: Members £229 + VAT Non-members £299 + VAT


Whether you are meeting your clients face to face or running sales meetings via zoom it’s important to get an understanding of their issues/problems, effectively demonstrating how you can help


them and ultimately close to win the business. How effective are yours? Are you winning business? If not, this is the workshop for you!


GOOGLE ANALYTICS BASICS Date: 25 May (half-day) Cost: Members £140 + VAT Non-members £180 + VAT


This workshop teaches you the essentials for monitoring your online marketing and improving your website, along with skills and analytics tips that you will be able to put into practice on a daily basis.


INTERNATIONAL TRADE POST BREXIT!


UNDERSTANDING EXPORT & EXPORT DOCUMENTATION, BCC ACCREDITED Date: 11 May (one-day) Cost: Members £299 + VAT Non-members £369 + VAT


Suitable for beginners & those working in an export environment that have never had any formal training. The course looks at the end-to-end export process providing an understanding of the export documentation requirements and shipping using freight forwarders and couriers.


CUSTOM PROCEDURES & INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTATION INCLUDING RULES OF ORIGIN, BCC ACCREDITED Date: 20 May (one-day) Cost: Members £299 + VAT Non-members £369 + VAT


This course is a follow on from Export and Export Documentation, suitable for those working in an export environment requiring further detailed export and customs procedures information or an experienced refresher course. The course provides further export procedure details whilst also looking at the Customs Procedures and Compliance requirements for successful international trade.


INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY


Microsoft Excel at all levels is also available. Call the Training Team on 01604 490490 for details.


The CHAMBER EVENTS TEAM has worked hard to adapt and deliver a new format of events, increasing the range and availability of our schedule. Look out for the following events in our events calendar:


EVENT IN FOCUS


Firms from across Milton Keynes will be given the opportunity to widen their network of business contacts at one of the Chamber’s forthcoming virtual events. Milton Keynes Chamber will


host an event designed to help attendees strengthen their relationships with fellow Chamber members and forge relationships with non-members across Milton Keynes and from further afield. All attendees will meet up in a Zoom Room before being given


three opportunities to go into breakout rooms. On each occasion they will have the chance to give a one-minute pitch about their organisation to the breakout room before taking part in general networking. Milton Keynes Chamber membership manager Sunny Singh said:


“We’ve been holding our virtual Milton Keynes Chamber and Non- Members Networking events every other month since last July and we’ve been thrilled by how popular they have proved to be. “Here, at Milton Keynes Chamber we work tirelessly to help our members thrive because we want them to be successful and to be part of a strong business community that supports one another.” The event will take place from 10am to 11.15am on Thursday 6


May and admission is free. Places are limited to one attendee per company and can be


booked at www.chambermk.co.uk/events


FORTHCOMING EVENTS


MK CHAMBER SPEED NETWORKING Date: Thursday 8 April Time: 10 – 11.15am


NEXT GENERATION SANDWICH SOCIAL Date: Tuesday 13 April Time: 12pm-1pm


MEET THE NEIGHBOURS Date: Thursday 15 April Time: 10 – 11.15am


NEXT GENERATION CPD: BEAT THE OFFICE OVERWHELM! Date: Wednesday 28 April Time: 3.30-4.30pm


FRIDAY WIND DOWN NETWORKING Date: Friday 30 April Time: 3-4pm


MK CHAMBER MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS NETWORKING Date: Thursday 6 May Time: 10 – 11.15am


NEXT GENERATION SANDWICH SOCIAL Date: Tuesday 11 May Time: 12pm-1pm


YOUTUBE CHANNEL Look out for our new YouTube channel entitled ‘NN & MK Chambers of Commerce’ which allows our subscribers to watch back ChamberLive events so you never have to miss out!


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