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A DIY GUIDE ON SALES AND SELLING
May
5
6:30 PM18:30
Dig Deep Industry Expert

A DIY GUIDE ON SALES AND SELLING

Do you struggle to know how to get paid for your creative work? Do you struggle to know how to pitch for new opportunities? Do you find it hard to talk about money with clients?

In this workshop, we are covering how to sell our services/products and learn how to get paid for creative work.

Whether you are just starting out, or already in your business journey, it can be hard to know how to sell your work and ask for payment. Women, in particular, can lack confidence in their abilities.

We want this workshop to help women who struggle with talking about money within business, that lack confidence in asking for money or pitching for work.

Talking about money in business is a hard thing to navigate, especially when you are starting out. It can be uncomfortable to know how to approach the subject. How do you approach people that you want to work with or sell to? How should you present yourself and your work? How do you bring up the subject of payment and money and actually close the deal and make sure you get the money you deserve?

It is important as women, that we continue to gain the confidence that we need to succeed in business. We want to empower women to be able to develop their own style of sales and selling their business products or services.

Within this module, we wanted to have a workshop with 2 women from different creative business backgrounds to share their story and offer advice and guidance on how they generate sales within their business followed by a Q&A session at the end.

What we will be covering:

  • Getting your business in front of potential customers

  • How to present yourself & business

  • How to sell your business products/services

  • Techniques on building confidence

  • Communication as a business

  • Navigating money & payment

  • Building relationships with clients

Our workshop will be facilitated by Emma Johnston of Hunter Paper Co and Lisa Smyth of Shesaid.Design.

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Emma Johnston is the designer and founder behind Hunter Paper Co, a luxury greetings card & stationery brand based in Belfast.

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Lisa Smyth is the co-founder of @shesaid_design which is a graphic design studio situated in the heart of Belfast near City Hall.

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A DIY GUIDE ON LINKEDIN WITH EMMA GRIBBEN
Apr
7
6:30 PM18:30
Dig Deep Industry Expert

A DIY GUIDE ON LINKEDIN WITH EMMA GRIBBEN

Are you a young professional or a creative business owner struggling to build your network?

We are excited to introduce our next event - ‘A DIY guide on LinkedIn’ with Emma Gribben. 

As creative business owners, it can be hard to know what platforms are important to use to build your network. As there are many platforms out there, Linkedin is often overlooked as a space to get opportunities. It is a great place to connect with businesses locally and internationally, a great way to connect with people, to get jobs and even promote your own business. 

AIMS

The aim of this event is to help educate you on the importance of using LinkedIn for yourself personally & professionally and to help you get the skills that you need to set up your own Linkedin profile that will help you build your network. 

OVERVIEW

In this workshop Emma Gribben will be covering the following topics: 

  • Overview of the LinkedIn platform on desktop and Mobile 

  • How the newsfeed works 

  • How to optimise your personal profile 

  • How to set up a Corporate Page 

  • LinkedIn Events 

  • LinkedIn Live Streaming 

  • LinkedIn Stories 

  • How to build and develop your network using LinkedIn

WHO THIS IS FOR

This event is for anyone that is looking to build their business networks. Whether you are just starting out, or already in business, this event is for you. 

Don’t miss the opportunity to learn how to build your skills, and be professional online. 

This event is funded by Ulster Bank.

This event will be recorded for learning purposes. 

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Emma is a digital marketing consultant, mentor and trainer working with start-ups, SMEs, brands and agencies across NI, ROI, UK and Europe. Emma offers solutions across digital strategy, website performance enhancement, social media, content marketing, SEO, email marketing, online PR and influencer marketing.

Emma has helped global businesses achieve impressive returns on digital marketing, including spectacular growth in website visitors (200%), in-unit sales (186%), revenue (97%) and e-commerce conversion (67%).

As a training partner to Google and Facebook across the Google Squared Online, Google Digital Academy and Google Digital Garage programmes as well as the Facebook Digital Skills Training programme, Emma has insights into the latest digital trends, platforms and activities to continually give businesses a competitive edge. 

Emma’s training clients include global brands Aer Lingus, Pandora, Vodafone and Electrolux as well as  Arts Council of Ireland, Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank, Belfast Telegraph and Monaghan Mushrooms closer to home.  

Websites:

www.digitalbyemma.com

www.alchemydigitaltraining.com

 Facebook:

@DigitalByEmma

@AlchemyDigitalTraining

 LinkedIn:

@DigitalByEmma

@AlchemyDigitalTraining

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The Time is Now // 6 Week Course
Apr
4
to May 9
womenfolk course

The Time is Now // 6 Week Course

We are excited to announce our second ‘The Time is Now’ 6 week course in collaboration with Womenfolk, Blick Studios & Creating A Space.

OVERVIEW
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This course is for creative women that want to take their dreams/ideas/concepts/current business/ideas to the next level. It is a creative approach to taking control and accountability for your life and going for your dreams.

This course will help you create space in your life to work out what you want. To take the time to establish your values, vision and goals. To work out what is holding you back and help you find the confidence to take small tangible steps to achieve your creative dreams and ambitions.

This course is about sharing experiences, hearing other people’s stories and collectively working to help each other to grow and build in a supportive and nurturing environment. This course offers a different perspective and most importantly space and time for you to focus on yourself your hopes and ambitions and how to manifest your dreams. Taking a creative approach and giving you practical tools to break down what you want to accomplish and how to start making it a reality.

WHY ARE WE OFFERING THIS COURSE?
We are providing this course because we feel that it is important to create space in your life to sit down and plan out what you want to do. To take the time to evaluate what is holding you back from manifesting the dreams & ambitions that you have always wanted. We know from our own experiences how hard it is to take the time out of busy lives to work on yourself and also how hard it is to work in isolation. This course will provide you with some much needed time and space to focus on yourself within a supportive shared environment of like-minded creative women. We want to emphasise that this is not a quick fix course, but to start the process of working towards your dreams.

We will provide :
- A welcoming space and supportive environment
-Refreshments
-Workshop tools including: – Post It Notes, Paper, Pens & Notebooks, an organisational guide of resources & Womenfolk manifestation Worksheets

WEEK 1 – AMBITION
Week 1 will be an introduction to the group, the 6 week course and highlighting our personal stories. We will be introducing ourselves, Esther Mogada from Creating A Space & Christine James from Blick Studios who will be leading the course. We will share our stories and journeys within the creative industries. Discuss why we wanted to create this course, why we think it’s important and what our intentions are going forward. We will be asking everyone what they hope to get out of the course, and tailor the 6 weeks to their desired outcomes.

We will then work as a group to define our individual goals and ambitions which will shape the progress of the course.

WEEK 2 -VALUES
Week 2 we will be focusing on establishing our personal values and ambitions. Your values are the things that you believe are important in the way you live and work. They (should) determine your priorities and will dictate how you choose to live your life and your plans and ambitions.

WEEK 3 – VISION – DEFINING AMBITIONS & INTENTIONS
Week 3 we will be working on defining our ambitions. Establishing our vision for the future and begin breaking down our big dream ambitions into realistic short, medium and long-term tangible goals and intentions.

WEEK 4 – CLAIMING YOUR STORY
Week 4 we will be asking questions about what is holding you back, challenging what narratives are getting in the way and how you can make steps to really claim who you are.

So often we hold ourselves back out of fear, or narratives that we tell ourselves without even realising that we are doing it. It will be a week of writing positive affirmations about ourselves.

Asking questions of what narrative we want to create, how do we put it in place and understand the person that we want to be.

We will be touching on how important it is to have people around you that believe in what you are doing, create a positive impact in your life and are able to celebrate you for standing in your truth. We will help you work out who these people are for you.

WEEK 5 – MINDSET & SYSTEMS
Week 5 we will be covering the importance of building a mindset for success and how important it is to create systems to achieve our goals. It’s easy to set goals and dream big, but without a practical working strategy and plan in place with systems that work for you and suit your lifestyle it can be hard to stay motivated and progress and make those dreams a reality.

We will talk about honestly examining our lives and lifestyles, roles and responsibilities and available time. Priming our environment for productivity, examining and re-framing our language and mind-set. Breaking down our goals and developing habits and systems that are sustainable and help us achieve our goals in a positive way that work for each of us as individuals.

WEEK 6 – DREAM BIG & START
Week 6 is the final week we will recap on everyone’s outcomes of what they have learnt, revisit everyone’s values, vision, goals and intentions and focus on everyone’s plans for the future.

DATES : 4th April, 11th April, 18th April, 25th April, 2nd May & 9th May.

PRICE : £150

TIME: 2.00 PM – 5.00 PM

VENUE: Blick Studios, 51 Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 6RY

Limited spaces available!

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