NEW April and May Tuesday Training courses are now available for booking

Are you a BID Business? Join Worcester BID for Tuesday Training and let’s make Worcester safer together.

Tuesday Training is a 2022 initiative aiming to bring useful and free training courses to Worcester BID members. We want Worcester to feel safe for everyone in both the day and night. We believe it is imperative that health-based training is offered to create a safer community, a safer city and to make your staff feel trained and ready.

We will be running training throughout 2022 for you and your staff to utilise. You may now sign up to the new following free training programmes for April/May:

  • [AED] Defibrillator Training
  • First Aid
  • Food Hygiene (Please register interest - dates to be released soon)
  • Conflict Management Training and Physical Intervention
  • Health and Safety With Risk Assessment

To find out more about how we can support your BID business press here to open the interactive .pdf and explore what we have on offer and what each course entails. Dates and times for each course may also be found in the document attached.

To book, please forward your chosen courses and dates to gloria.hawthorn@worcesterbid.com.


FREE Digital Marketing Training - Book Now!

Join Worcester BID and the Worcester City Council for FREE digital marketing training for all businesses

As part of the Welcome Back funding to support the recovery of the High Street and to future proof our businesses Worcester BID and Worcester City Council are pleased to announce a series of digital marketing training. Supporting businesses to develop skills, strengthen SEO, raise awareness and engage with larger audiences.

Training is available to any business member within the City Council district. This training is open to all businesses as part of the Welcome Back Fund.


What courses are available to your business? 

All training will run 9.30 AM - 12.30 PM (variations may occur depending on the course taken).


7th March - Social media that works for you / 1-2 hours

Social media, the importance and how to make it work for you. Creating content, building communities and making a plan.

8th March - Benchmarking your analysis / 1-2 hours

Why analytics are important, how to analyse them and why you need to understand your importance to improve your overall profile.

14th March - Digital advertising made easy. / 1-2 hours

Pay per click advertising, display advertising, social media advertising and paying to reach new audiences.

15th March - Creating a digital strategy / 2-3 hours

Digital marketing strategy involves an assessment of specific goals that are achievable through online channels, we will use the time to create one for your business.

21st March - Content planning and scheduling / 1-2 hours

How to plan your content, create calendars, using local events to your advantage and prepare for it.

22nd March - SEO and why websites work / 2-3 hours

Getting started with on-page SEO, application of technical SEO, keyword research and using Google business listing to be seen more.

28th March - How to rank for the web and secrets of growth / 1-2 hours 

How to write for the web, understanding landing pages, keyword application and the power of blogging, beating Google.. or at least getting close.

29th March - SEO strategies made easy / 1-2 hours

SEO strategy is a detailed plan to improve a website's search engine rankings in order to capture more organic traffic, we will use the course time to create one. 

4th April - Practical Marketing / 1-2 hours

Marketing strategies, trending techniques, measuring success and applying immediate marketing actions.

5th April - Everything web and your digital storefront / 2-3 hours

SEO content strategies, how to improve your digital storefront, optimisation for small businesses and creating a stronger website.

11th April - Digital marketing and PR let's break it down / 2-3 hours

Raising your overall PR perspective, utilising local channels, local events and utilising the community to raise your profile.

12th April - Tik Tok, new audiences and you / 1-2 hours 

Why TikTok is one of the most powerful social media platforms, how to utilise it and what the next steps are to reach new audiences.

18th April - Top-ups and deeper learning based on what people found difficult / 1-2 hours

We will use this time for extra learning, anything that course attendees struggled with or want more detail.

19th April - Wrap up questions and how to manage it / 1-2 hours

Within this course we will wrap up the entire course, what has been learnt and follow up questions and getting ready to keep growing your business.


To book onto any of the course options available please email our Business Administrator, Alice Ingleby-Faulkner, at: Alice.Ingleby-Faulkner@worcesterbid.com with the course dates, titles and times you would like to register for.


Tuesday Training for Worcester BID members

Are you a BID Business? Join Worcester BID for Tuesday Training and let's make Worcester safer together.

Tuesday Training is a 2022 initiative aiming to bring useful and free training courses to Worcester BID members. We want Worcester to feel safe for everyone in both the day and night. We believe it is imperative that health-based training is offered to create a safer community, a safer city and to make your staff feel trained and ready.

We will be running training throughout 2022 for you and your staff to utilise. You may currently sign up to attend the following free training programmes:

  • [AED] Defibrillator Training
  • First Aid
  • Catastrophic Bleed
  • Mental Health
  • Food Hygiene L2

You may also wish to register for the following training options:

  • Marketing Foundations
  • Website SEO Training
  • Conflict + Physical Intervention
  • Health + Safety with Risk Assessment

These can be found in our April-May date interactive .pdf. This can be found in a later news post.

To find out more about how we can support your BID business press here to open the interactive .pdf and explore what we have on offer and what each course entails. Dates and times for each course may also be found in the document attached.

To book, please forward your chosen courses and dates to gloria.hawthorn@worcesterbid.com.

Terms and Conditions:

All training is booked on a first-come, first-served basis. You may sign-up a maximum of two members of staff for each training course.


DON'T MISS THIS LIMITED OPPORTUNITY!

DON’T MISS THIS LIMITED OPPORTUNITY FOR FREE CITY & GUILDS ACCREDITED CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINING!

We’re delighted to be able to offer limited places on a FREE Level 3 Certificate in Customer Service City & Guilds accredited training course* to our BID businesses!

If you own or are employed with a BID business and would like to take advantage of this opportunity, you must be available to attend four full days of training spread across the 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd October (between 9am to 4.30pm).

This training will cover:

Day One
Principles of Customer Expectations
Impacts on Customer Expectations/Satisfaction

Day Two
Customer Service Problems/Complaints
Supporting Legislation

Day Three
Practising Effective Customer Service
Product Promotion and Services

Day Four
Effective Teamwork
Monitoring of Performance

* In order to benefit from this training, your business must meet the eligibility criteria.  Please contact Shelly on 01905 731612 or at shelly.simpson@worcesterbid.com for further details and to book your free place!

 

 

 

 


Get the most out of your Christmas audience with free Social Media Training!

More Free Social Media Training Dates Released!

We are delighted to be offering more free Social Media Training in time for Christmas!

The focus of the training will be ‘Getting the most out of your Christmas audience’ and will include some exciting hints and tips on things such as gifting ideas and producing digital Advent Calendars!

Course dates:

Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Wednesday 9th October 2019
Wednesday 23rd October 2019

Course times:

10.00am or 2.00pm

Contact Shelly on 01905 731612 or at shelly.simpson@worcesterbid.com to book your free place!