Next ICT/Digital Media meeting will be hosted at Edge Hill University on the 2nd December at 5.30pm onwards

Senior Common Room, Ground Floor,
St Helens Road
Ormskirk
L39 4QP
Tel: 01695 584661
website: www.edgehill.ac.uk
(Main Building on Ormskirk Campus. Security will be able to direct from the Lodge on entry from St Helens Road).
Key Speakers:

Dr Danny Connaughton – Winning Pitch
High Growth Companies Programme
This is a 3-year programme, funded by the NWDA and by ERDF monies, aimed specifically at high growth companies. It involves an intensive package of support targeted at budding entrepreneurs and existing SMEs who have both the desire and the potential to achieve high rates of growth.

“High growth companies are defined as either new businesses that have the scope to grow to £0.5m within three years or established SMEs that have the ambition and capability of achieving a minimum of 20 per cent per annum growth.

“The project aims to provide intense coaching and support to businesses in the Northwest that demonstrate this high growth potential.”

Winning Pitch, which floated on Plus Markets late last year, has won a three-year contract to run support programmes entitled “Starting a High Growth Business” and “Coaching for High Growth”.

Dr. Danny Connaughton is a highly motivated and well-qualified scientist and businessman with a wide range of experience in Science & Technology (S&T), Intellectual Property (IP) exploitation, business start-up and line management. Danny will give an overview of the programme and support that is available.

Ed Christiano – Director of Encore Advertising and Design
DIY Marketing Techniques to Help Grow Your Business
Is Marketing a Mystery To You?

Come to this exciting seminar and learn the secrets marketeers don’t want you to know. You’ll hear the inside stories about marketing in real businesses and get practical tips to make your own marketing more effective.

• Make your brochures stand out
• Make your website more user-friendly
• Use your corporate ID more effectively
• Make your packaging sell more
• Make the most of your mailshots
• Make your newspaper advertising
more effective
• Write press releases that have impact
• Maximise your unique selling points
• Gain a better understanding of
TV advertising
You will also have the chance to ask specific questions about your own business.

Getting it wrong is expensive, so why not learn from the successes (and failures) of other companies?

Encore Advertising & Design managing director Ed Christiano will share his insider’s knowledge from 25 years marketing in the Northwest and in the Hollywood film industry.