WIN SALES AND BUILD CUSTOMERS!

Brighter Directions are looking forward to presenting ‘How to build customers and win sales’ at the joint DNCC event next week. As a joint development project to help local businesses around the region, we are working with other local experts in the area including, Julian Smith of Alternative Board, Mark of Vbook marketing and Paul…

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READY FOR ‘FIT NOTES’

Fit for work notes’ will save companies money, as long as everyone is aware of how they will work With election fever gripping everyone’s thoughts, and business news being full of the consequences of the result, you may be forgiven for not noticing a change to the ‘sick note’ regime that came into effect from…

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STRATEGIC SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP

Due to high demand, we will be running the last strategic social media workshop of the year on Tuesday 2nd November at our newly renovated offices in Chesterfield By the end of the workshop you will have created accounts for the three major social media applications including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and have the knowledge…

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DERBYSHIRE ONLINE PROJECT

The ‘Derbyshire Online Presence Project’ is an initiative managed and funded by Peak Support Services Ltd in order to help small businesses understand and utilise the benefits offered on the Internet and create brand awareness through online positions. To simplify the process of getting online with your first website we’ve put together a project that…

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STRUGGLING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA?

If you are struggling getting to grips with your social media then help is at hand… After running numerous workshops across the region on behalf of Business Link East Midlands, we have found a massive increase in enquiries from local businesses to help them develop their social media Brighter Directions have over fifteen years experience…

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MATLOCK LINKS BUSINESS EVENT

Last month finally came the business event we’ve been talking about for ages, the ALL IN business event held by local business networking group Matlock Links in Matlock, Derbyshire. As a non-profit organisation, the committee is made up of local businesses that run the group in their spare time to support other small local growing…

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SMALL BUSINESS LOANS

Small Loans for Business is a source of loan funding for business start-ups and existing businesses that have not been able to secure all of their finance from conventional high street lenders. Small Loans for Business provides loans to both existing entrepreneurs and people starting a business. Loans of £3,000 to £20,000 can be used…

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WERE MOVING!

As some of you are already aware, the Brighter team has been growing over the past few months, so much so that its getting alittle tight in the Brighter HQ offices, which means its time to pack our bags and move to bigger and brighter things.. Pinemonte Business Centre in Chesterfield is a new hub…

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STRATEGIC ONLINE MARKETING BOOTCAMP

Brighter Directions have joined forces with local innovative company TBAT to create a series of action workshops across the region in order to give you a commercial edge within the market place OverviewOnline marketing is growing rapidly and today’s businesses must embrace this change or simply get left behind! This Advanced Social Media & Online…

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WHAT NOT TO DO – MARKETING

Marketing can be damaging to a company: After speaking to a company recently I wanted to share our discussion as ‘what not to do’ when developing your marketing strategy: I wont name the company in question for obvious reasons, no-one is born with the knowledge to get everything right first time (me included) and were…

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