Motivation | Planning | Branding group business coaching sessions. This session enables you to understand how to facilitate planning for yourself and your team. You will get practical tools to understand how you can manage your strengths and focus, and how to make best use of your energy to initiate a compelling plan. - How to understand your planning strengths - How to design a plan that works for you and that you will use! - How to identify support processes To book: http://oguntecoaching2.eventbrite.com

Publicity and Promotion on a limited budget (afternoon seminar with refreshments) How to reach your clients and prospective clients with modest budgets. What promotion works and what does not. The importance of branding and sustained, consistent messages. Everyone on the team is an ambassador, but some need training. Looking at classic promotion such as advertising, leaflets, exhibitions, press contacts and giveaways. Investigating some different approaches that work such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, networking and business groups.

Everyone’s got an opinion on Big Brother. What’s yours? Evolving from a psychological experiment into the media frenzy seen today, Big Brother is a very different beast to the one back in 2000 when the show first aired. At this breakfast briefing, James Bryson and Ross Taylor will show how Qmedia Research has been at the heart of the evolution of the Big Brother brand. They will run through the challenges and methodological advances that have kept the company at the forefront of researching the king of all reality TV shows. With the current series of Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack just finished and the new series of Big Brother 9 around the corner, how can research continue to influence decision making across all strands of the production process? Qmedia is the fastest growing media research agency outside London and is a division of Quaestor Research, one of the top 20 market research agencies in the UK. James Bryson and Ross Taylor have over 12 years research experience between them, specialising in television, print, online and advertising evaluation. “We will be live on (behalf of) Channel 4. We promise not to swear…” Cost: Leeds Media members £25 + VAT; Non members …

Would you love to give your business the edge it needs to beat the competition? Our Speaker Meet and Mix Networking Lunch will give you an introduction to the tools to enable you to ‘Brand your Business to Stand out from the Crowd!’ Our speaker Susi White from The White Havens, a marketing coach and copywriter with extensive experience in corporate branding, communications, marketing and small business, will be giving an insightful talk on how to brand your business. This engaging session will cover: * What is a brand and why do you need one? * What is your brand? * Creating your brand * A 5 point plan to get you started The event is a great opportunity to meet liked minded women in a relaxed and friendly environment, share ideas, find inspiration, make contacts and come away energised and ready for the challenges ahead! Women who are employed and self employed, including those starting a new business take part, so there is ample opportunity to meet with women from varied backgrounds and sectors. All women are welcome to attend, we do not operate on a membership basis and you are welcome to only attend the lunches which are …