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Carefully created to help ambitious entrepreneurs and marketing teams take the next steps with their social media. The event will be packed full of helpful advice from our expert line-up of business leaders, industry experts and thought-leaders.
By attending you'll get all the latest tips, tricks and advice to make it easier for you to design and implement a winning social media strategy by helping you to: grow your following, social media tools and trends, brand recognition, smartphone video strategy, hints and tips on Facebook and Instagram and content creation.
This is also one of your biggest opportunities to meet face-to-face with your peers, to see old friends and to forge new valuable connections with fellow entrepreneurs and marketeers in County Durham.
Attend and you will:
Increase Engagement
by discovering the secrets to social media success
Plan for Success
by defining your Social Media Marketing Strategy
Drive Sales
by finding new and keep existing customers coming back for more
THE AGENDA

8.30am - 9.00am
Networking & Registration
Get to know each other and create new business opportunities.

9.00am - 9.05am
Welcome
Host: Pascal Fintoni
A warm welcome from Pascal setting out the agenda for the day.

9.05am - 11.00am
53 Brand Affirming Social Media Posts
Laura Pearman
This session will help you apply a practical approach to implementation by coming up with over a whole year of weekly social media post ideas that will affirm your brand.

11:00am - 11:30am
Break & Networking
Get to know each other and create new business opportunities.

11.30am - 13.30pm
DIY Video Marketing
Issy Roughan
Join Issy, Head of Production at Howell Media, who will equip you with the skills and techniques you can use to make your own content where you have the starring role.

13.30pm - 14.15pm
Lunch & Networking
Get to know each other and create new business opportunities.

14:15pm - 16.15pm
Building a Winning Facebook and Instagram Strategy
Natalie Eminae
In this interactive workshop, Natalie Eminae will explain the science of social media engagement, and how this can be applied to your content creation strategy to maximise your results on Facebook and Instagram.
