OUR BIG PROGRAMME OF EVENTS, NETWORKING & MASTERCLASSES FOR 2024
Our next DBN meeting is at Durham Cricket, Riverside Chester le Street
Building a Brand Strategy for a Digital World
Learn digital brand translation strategies and techniques for success.
Date & Time: Tuesday, 19th March 2024 - 08:30-12:30
Location: The Castle View Suite, Durham Cricket, Riverside Chester le Street, County Durham, DH3 3QR
Agenda:
08:30 - 09:30 - Networking with The ‘Do’ Business Network with beverages & breakfast Baps
09:30 - 09:35 - Welcome to The Building a Brand Strategy for a Digital World Workshop
09:35 - 12:15 - Workshop Delivery by Better
12:15 - 12:30 - Closing Remarks & Durham Growth Programme Grants Overview
12:30 - Event Close
RTC North are very pleased to work closely with The ‘Do’ Business Network and bring this exciting workshop to local Businesses.
The Building a Brand Strategy for a Digital World workshop aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the strategies and techniques involved in successfully translating brands to the digital realm. Participants will gain insights into leveraging digital platforms to maximize brand reach and impact in today's highly competitive and dynamic business landscape.
In Country Durham, Sectors such as Professional Services, Retail, Tourism & Hospitality, Arts & Entertainment count for a high percentage of the Business Enterprises registered in the region.
This means staying ahead of the game due to competition!
In this workshop spend some time looking at how you narrate your business online.
Does your messaging work?
Are you utilising the best social media channel for your key audience?
Do you clearly understand your brand proposition given post COVID, how we do business has changed?
Key Takeaways:
Understand your Brand & Its Visibility
Brand & Social Media Strategy development
How to track your business digital performance
Content Creation – Storytelling
By the end of the workshop, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and practical skills needed to translate their brands effectively especially within the digital space, maximizing reach and impact.
Delivered By:
Better:
Better is a strategic brand agency. Using brand strategy, language, design, and digital Better makes brands around the world more distinctive, meaningful and effective. From different industries to different parts of the world, Better's expertise and experience across categories and borders give them a unique perspective on delivering distinctive breakthrough brands wherever they live. By blending big thinking, meticulous craft and our straight-talking approach, Better creates brave brands that challenge the status quo and deliver on business goals, whether increasing ROI, revenue or recognition.
Reserve your FREE place here.
2024 Meetings
Dates booked for 2024 are as follows.
Please note that all meetings run from 8:30 (usually finishing around 10:30'ish).
All meetings are FREE to members and £10 to non members unless otherwise stated.
Date | Cost | Book Your Place |
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Tuesday, 19th March | FREE Joint Event with RTC North | |
Tuesday, 16th April | £10 non member | |
Tuesday, 21st May | £10 non member | |
Tuesday, 18th June | £10 non member | |
Tuesday, 16th July | £10 non member |
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BEAMISH MUSEUM SMALL NETWORKING SESSIONS
As we are Beamish Museum business members, we have a pass that allows up to 5 people entry into the Museum.
We thought it would be a great idea to offer this pass to DBN members who would like to network in a small group of 5 - this is a great opportunity to:
Find out more about each other's business
Tell each other what business opportunities you're looking for
Discuss collaboration
Get to know each other on a personal level
Enjoy the beautiful surroundings of Beamish Museum
Snap and share: take a pic of your unique networking morning / afternoon and tag each other into your social media.
You MUST be a DBN member to register.
Places are given on a first come first served basis.
If places are booked for your preferred date, you'll be given another date as an alternative.
Please register your interest via the form opposite.
Register your interest here:
WHAT OTHER MASTERCLASSES WOULD YOU LIKE DBN TO ORGANISE?
Feedback from our masterclasses has been brilliant and we'll be making previous ones available online to our members soon. In the meantime, we'd really appreciate your thoughts and ideas for future events. Please let us know by filling in this survey, it will only take a minute.
FREE EXPERT BUSINESS ADVICE, SUPPORT AND MENTORING FOR BUSINESSES IN CHESTER-LE-STREET
If you run a small business, it’s important to get some extra help, guidance and support from time to time. So, we are thrilled to announce that we have secured funding to offer hands-on mentoring support to businesses in the Chester-le-Street area.
We have experts waiting to give you the personalised, free advice you need covering the following topics:
- Planning your future business journey
- Better social media and digital marketing
- Successful sales techniques
- Getting your business online and selling online
- Using video and images to make your business stand out and look great
- Recruiting, managing your suppliers, talent and people
- Cashflow and raising funds
- Designing a new website and great marketing materials with real impact
- Looking after yourself and your customers at work
- Finding new customers and new markets
- Successfully launching new products and services
- Boosting your business self-confidence
To find out more about this programme, drop us an email to connect@dobusinessnetwork.com.
Melanie & David
CAN YOU GIVE YOUR CUSTOMERS A BETTER ONLINE EXPERIENCE?
Introducing a new service for DBN members
How easy is it for your customers to find the products and services they are looking for and how easy is it for them to buy from you?
Here's how it works. We invite a couple of our members to meet with you online to chat about what you want your website and social media to do for your business. Over a few days they will visit your website and media pages as "shoppers" and then give you constructive feedback about what works and what could be even better. We have a checklist of things to look for so it is consistent no matter who carries it out.
Please let us know if you would like us to check out your website or the social media pages you sell from and we'll set up an online meeting between you and your two "shoppers" so you can chat about what you need from your customer experience healthcheck. Drop us an email at connect@dobusinessnetwork.com.
And if you volunteer to give feedback to one of our members, you get a gift sourced from a fellow DBN member as a thank you! Another win-win.
WHAT DOES YOUR FUTURE BUSINESS LOOK LIKE?
Book a 1-1 confidential Zoom meeting with DBN and let's get planning!
We're here to help you to "get your head around" where your business is going. Simply drop us a line at connect@dobusinessnetwork.com to book your meeting with us on Zoom and we will take you through some future business planning and help to create an action plan for your business. It's completely confidential. And if you need extra support with a specific issue, we'll put you in touch with other DBN members for expert advice.