business & innovation

Cumbria Digital & Creative Network: Ulverston Wired Cumbria

Network Event for Digital, ICT and Creative businesses in Cumbria and Lancaster area to explore collaborative business and technology opportunities

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Date: 20 January 2014
Location: Ulverston Business Centre, UK

Digital Matters Event: Submitting that Winning Tender Proposal

Training / Briefing Event designed specifically at Digital, ICT & Creative businesses to enhance their skills and understanding of local tendering processes

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Date: 12 February 2014
Location: Clawthorpe Hall Business Centre, UK

Grow your Business with Help, Funding and Investment

With all of these government run initiatives, you as a business owner can take advantage to get the help you crave and get the help, funding and investment to grow your business, it's a simple at 1,2,3.

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Date: 9 January 2014
Location: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6963869400211838977, UK

Breakfast with EBAY - Advanced Techniques for User Acquisition

Have you ever wondered how did eBay become so popular and get so many users? Join our Breakfast Networking event and find it out!

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Date: 10 January 2014
Location: The Bakery (2nd floor), UK

3D Print get together - London

It will be an open meeting. Both for 3D-printer owners and anyone interested in 3D-printing. Whether you are a designer, student, developer, hacker, or business strategist up for some 3D-Printing experience, please feel free to join!

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Date: 18 December 2013
Location: Rainmaking Loft, UK

Apple iBeacons: what are they and what do they mean for retail?

Bye bye, Belisha. There’s a new beacon in town.

In The Guardian, Simon Baldwin blogs that iBeacon seeks to lead.

Apple’s proprietary challenger to Near Field Communication arrived with iOs7. It boasts a range of up to 50 metres and uses Bluetooth low energy (BLE) to pinpoint location.

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12 December 2013 by Vicky Laing

Investing in Nigeria - Diaspora Finance Symposium

The Diaspora has invested in excess of $10 billion according to the Nigerian Government. This placed Nigeria on a trajectory of growth that is unprecedented on the Continent. On March 7th, Homestrings and DMA will be bringing you the latest exciting investment opportunities from Nigeria

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Date: 7 March 2014
Location: Drapers Hall, UK

SMX London 2014

Search Marketing Expo is the only search marketing conference designed exclusively for experienced internet marketers

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Date: 13 May 2014
Location: Chelsea Football Club, UK

Chinwag Psych: February PsychUp

Whether you're in marketing, analytics, academia or just fancy learning from the experts about the power of psychology, neuroscience & behavioural economics within a business. This event is for you.

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Date: 4 February 2013
Location: The Bakery, UK

[video] SME Growth Hack Event - Raj Kotecha on Hacking Promotion

Raj Kotecha at SME Growth Hack

The Growth Hacking methodology uses technology to quickly build and develop a business, utilising digital tactics for market research and marketing purposes. Despite one wag describing 'growth hacking' as the Shoreditch term for 'marketing', last week's SME Growth Hack event explored how to hack rapid business growth.

Employing cloud-based tools for management, Growth Hackers make the most of current innovations to allow entrepreneurs to test their business and change it rapidly. Raj Kotecha, MD of Creative Content Agency sat down with Chinwag's Dylan Fuller to discuss how to 'Hack the Global Marketing Platforms'. Here's the video:

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2 December 2013 by Chinwag Team

Comment Spam, The Phantom Menace Slowing Your Website

Spammers are bad by Justin Levy

The speed of your website is critical. According to one report for every second that a page takes to load, wave goodbye to 7% of sales and who can afford that? Visa Europe estimating £450m will be spent on Cyber Monday alone.

There's all sorts of clever tech solutions: cloud-based servers, cacheing, content delivery networks to name but a few. Surely good old-fashioned comments don't represent a website glue trap?

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2 December 2013 by Sam Michel

Pocket Gamer Connects - East meets West

Brand new for 2014 comes Pocket Gamer Connects, a global mobile games conference from Steel Media, the publisher behind Pocket Gamer and PocketGamer.biz.

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Date: 20 January 2014
Location: Vinopolis, UK

How to Build the Most Successful Community - Breakfast Networking with GIFFGAFF

Next Friday +100 professionals will meet to learn growth strategies on how to build and a engage community. Our guest speaker, Kim Faura (Board Member and Head of Commerce at GiffGaff) will share his experience growing one of today's most successful communities. Don't miss this unique opportunity!

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Date: 6 December 2013
Location: The Bakery, UK

Watch Out London, Here Comes Gary Vaynerchuk's UK Book Launch (Free Preview Chapter)

Gary Vaynerchuk by Silicon Prairie News

Social media speaker, author, wine buff and generally excitable marketing man-about-town Gary Vaynerchuk hits London for VaynerWorld, to launch his new book, 'Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook', on 12th December (10% discount for Chinwaggers)

In typically understated fashion Gary said, "I'm basically going put on the greatest event in London history! I don't give a crap about The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Clash or Beckham or whoever, not the single best business book event, the single... greatest... event!"

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29 November 2013 by Chinwag Team

Performance Marketing Awards 2014

The 2014 Performance Marketing Awards is an exclusive black tie awards ceremony taking place on the 29th April, Grosvenor House Hotel, London.

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Date: 29 April 2014
Location: Grosvenor House Hotel, UK