Retail Online Port Macquarie – Tuesday 5th April 2011
The next of the Retail Online Regional Seminars for 2011 will be held at Sails Resort, Port Macquarie on Tuesday 5th April, 2011.
This event is a must for anyone in and around the Port Macquarie region or Mid-North Coast to take advantage of two quality speakers delivering content that can help your business RIGHT NOW. The content will be easy to follow and given in the no-nonsense, simple way that these speakers specialise in.
The Speakers
Nick Bowditch
Nick Bowditch, from The Bowditch Group and Nick Bowditch Travel, Australia’s Family Travel Expert, is an Australian online success story.
Basically broke and with his young family expanding quickly, Nick took one of the bravest – and best – decisions of his life and chucked in his city job to start his own travel business, working from home.
He built up that business from a customer database of just four when he started, to more than 4,500 a year later to now more than 10,000 subscribers two years later – all without staff, a shop front, and without any mainstream advertising in print, radio or television – instead opting to promote his new business using Social Media Marketing.
In the last year, he has gone from having one online business to three, his e-books and electronic products have now been downloaded thousands of times, and he is now a sought-after keynote speaker, professional blogger and author.
Debra Templar
One of Australia’s leading retailing enthusiasts, Debra Templar, from The Templar Group, just hates bad customer service and stupid business practices. So… she’s on a mission to change them.
“I don’t just want to improve how we do business for the customer’s sake but also that we, as business owners, sell more stuff, make lots more profit, and love our businesses back to life!”
Debra’s tool for change are business coaching programs, business consulting, business seminars, training sessions for staff and/or business owners, keynote presentations, books, articles and CD’s. Her technique is to challenge, tease, cajole – in fact force – us to look at how we do business by asking us to jump the counter and view our systems, our processes, our policies and our beliefs from our customers’ point of view. She then applies her considerable skills and experience to show us ways to be better at what we do (often better than we thought we could be…).
She doesn’t pull any of this stuff out of academic tomes and university courses – she simply shows us how to apply theskills that she has applied to her own and her clients’ businesses over the years whilst actively sharing her passionately held opinions. And she shares her opinions an awful lot!
The Facilitator
The Secret Secretary
Shauna Upson is the owner of Secret Secretary, a Virtual Assistant business based in NSW. She prides herself on accuracy and making documents and the written word as short and succinct as possible – get to the point! She has 16 years of administration experience working in the Public Hospital system and most recently 8 years working in administration and Executive Assistant roles within a Government Agency, providing high level executive assistance to Directors, General Managers and the CEO.
She understands urgency, accuracy and confidentiality. Putting together conferences, including accommodation and travel requirements are easy with her expert eye for detail. Diary management is a specialty. Let her get you organised.
Who should attend?
Anyone who works in a small or medium-sized business in or around the Port Macquarie region, and who would like to see that business compete on a regional, national or international stage by improving their customer service and embracing more online marketing like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogging and others. Neither speaker believes in calling people out in the audience or making them participate in ‘role plays’, however the sessions will be fairly interactive, packed with valuable content, and a lot of fun.
The Format:
The day includes 4 great, informative and interactive sessions, as well as a full buffet lunch and afternoon tea.
9:45am – 10:15am
Arrive and Registration and Informal Networking
10:15am – 11:30am
Session One:
“How to make your small business big using Social Media Marketing”
Nick Bowditch
11:30am – 11:45am
Coffee Break and Informal Networking
11:45am – 1:00pm
Session Two:
“Let’s talk about online”
Debra Templar
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Session Three:
“How to create Facebook Pages and Facebook Ads that actually make money”
Nick Bowditch
3:00pm – 3:15pm
Coffee Break and Informal Networking
3:15pm – 4:15pm
Session Four:
“From Online to Shopping Cart”
Debra Templar
4:15pm – 4:45pm
Question Time and Closing
4:45pm
Day Concludes
Register Now!
Being from a regional area ourselves, we know how seldom quality seminars like this come along, and also how quickly they fill up!
So don’t delay. We will be capping the number of attendees so that everyone can enjoy a reasonable level of personal contact with the speakers as well as allowing everyone to participate as much as possible to get the most out of the day.
Early Bird Saving
If you register before close of business on Friday 25th March 2011, the cost of the day including the speakers, the great content, full cooked lunch and afternoon tea and all of the resources and other special offers on the day is just $128.70 (including GST).
Registrations taken after Friday 25th March will cost $161.70 (including GST).
You can either pay with PayPal or, if you would prefer to use a credit card to register, please look for the ‘Pay with a debit or credit card’ link on the page you are linked to when you click the orange button below.
For more information on Retail Online Port Macquarie, please call Shauna on 0401 234 435 or (02) 8006 0157 or you can email Shauna.
