Sales & Marketing
Events
17th September 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🟢 LinkedIn Webinar: Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
The webinar will cover the importance of building an online presence on professional networking site LinkedIn.
18th September 202510:00 am - 1:00 pmFREE
🟡 LEAP into Digital Marketing: Next Step into Digital (Intermediate) - Easingwold
If you’ve already dipped your toe into the world of digital marketing and you're ready to dive deeper, Next Step into Digital is the course designed to take your skills from capable to campaign-ready.
19th September 202510:00 am - 1:00 pmFREE
🟢 SEO and website auditing fundamentals
This fully funded three-hour workshop will provide an interactive, face-to-face session for anybody who is new to search engine optimisation (SEO). Ideal for those looking to develop a website or improve on their existing site, this beginners’ course will give a broad overview of the three areas of SEO: onsite, offsite and technical.
25th September 202510:00 am - 4:00 pmFREE
Two-day e-commerce workshop - (Harrogate)
Ready to launch or elevate your online store? Join our comprehensive two-day course designed to give you the essential knowledge and advanced strategies you need to succeed! Day 1: The Essentials & Day 2: Advanced Strategies.
25th September 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🌎 Business Basics Webinar: Profitability
To truly understand profitability, we need to look at it more frequently and in more detail. Analysing which aspects of your business make what level of profit and understanding what drives profit allows business owners to make good strategic decisions to improve it.
26th September 202510:00 am - 1:00 pmFREE
🟡 Building your online reputation
This three-hour workshop will provide an interactive, face-to-face session for those who have attended Phase 1 of the Digital Marketing Mastery series or those who have intermediate search engine optimisation (SEO) knowledge. It will build upon the fundamentals of SEO, in particular, focusing on offsite SEO to enhance your online reputation.
03rd October 202510:00 am - 1:00 pmFREE
🟡 Creating a content strategy from scratch
This three-hour workshop will provide an interactive, face-to-face session for those who have attended Phase 1, 2 or both phases of the Digital Marketing Mastery series. Alternatively, those who have not attended but have intermediate search engine optimisation knowledge, and would now like to invest in content, will benefit most.
06th October 20251:30 pm - 2:30 pmFREE
Webinar: How to promote your destination
This practical online event is for anyone who would like to attract more visitors to their destination, whether it's a high street, village or market town. It's for you whether you have a local business, are a volunteer, or responsible for your local area marketing.
14th October 202510:00 am - 3:00 pmFREE
🟢 Steps into Digital: Instagram for Business, A Beginner's Guide (Ripon)
This introductory workshop is designed to help you demystify and gain confidence using the fundamental features of Instagram enabling you optimise and grow your account, business and your confidence at beginner level.
16th October 202510:00 am - 4:00 pmFREE
🟢 Ecommerce Launchpad: 2-Day Masterclass (York)
One of the biggest blocks to grassroots entrepreneurs when they first tackle building their website is the overload of simultaneously learning the website builder whilst also crafting content, descriptions, finding or producing digital media. Before we start building anything at the launchpad - we first gather and test all the essential parts of our rocket. Sounds simple, because we make sure it is.
22nd October 202510:00 am - 11:30 amFREE
🟡 LinkedIn Webinar: Elevate Your LinkedIn
The Webinar will cover the importance of building a strong online presence on LinkedIn and how to achieve it. It will also delve into expanding their network through direct messaging and relevant LinkedIn groups.
30th October 202510:00 am - 3:00 pmFREE
🟢 Steps into Digital: Instagram for Business, A Beginner’s Guide (Harrogate)
This introductory workshop is designed to help you demystify and gain confidence using the fundamental features of Instagram enabling you optimise and grow your account, business and your confidence at beginner level.
Webinar Recording: How to get higher in Google: The basics
Want your website to be seen by as many potential customers as possible? Get practical tips from an experienced Search Engine Optimisation professional on how to woo those elusive search engine robots and climb the rankings.
Featured Webinar Playlist: Getting Started with Social Media
Don't know where to start with social media? Feeling like you might be missing something? Get instant access to the six-part webinar series delivered by Caroline Wilson of Hot Toddi.
Fire up your Food and Drink business with Make it! toolkits
A free video toolkit to help growing food and drink businesses in York and North Yorkshire. Essential ingredients for food and drink business success.
Screen Tourism Toolkit
A free screen tourism toolkit exploring the opportunities, showing best practice and connecting business with resources and support.
2022 Seminar Recordings
We have recently hosted a programme of in-person seminars and other events, some of which were professionally recorded and can now be viewed on our website.
Seminar Recording : Access to finance: Funding growth
This workshop will provide guidance on cost based pricing, calculating your costs before deciding an appropriate margin, as well as covering market based pricing asking questions such as: What value do you add? What are you worth? How do you position yourself?
Growthbox marketing service
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub are working with Growthbox, who help small businesses work out what marketing to do and connect them with their growing army of marketing experts all across the UK who can help them get it done.
Webinar Recording: Cookies and privacy notices, do I need them on my website?
This webinar will cover what cookies are and what cookie law is, what a privacy notice is, the laws surrounding both, and how to ensure you are being transparent to your customers when creating a cookie policy and privacy notice.
Articles
How to keep your business pitch simple
Like most other communication, keep your business pitch simple, informative and fun.
Customer relationship management tools
There are lots of great customer relationship management (CRM) tools out there that you could use in your business.
Ten questions to ask a website designer
A high-quality website is a vital piece of your overall marketing puzzle.
Marketing tips for small business owners
Put simply, ‘marketing’ is the selling of a product or service to a target audience...
Customer loyalty and how do I build it?
Customer loyalty means getting your existing customers to make another purchase.
Writing a press release for your business
Writing a press release can be a great way to get free publicity for your business.
Marketing tools for your business
You have taken that leap, made lots of important decisions...