Manufacturers Group Meeting
Monday 24th November 2014 5:30 - 7:30pm
Location: Indespension, Paragon Business Park, Chorley NewRoad, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 6HG
This Month's Guest Speakers:
Rachel Wilson – Marketing Director of KW Solutions and Founder of Process Industry Forum. KW Solutions are a dedicated digital marketing company for the engineering and manufacturing sector, with over 20 years’ of manufacturing and engineering experience. Rachel's presentation 'Practical tips to instantly increase the visibility of your website and increase your online enquiries' will begin with a quick synopsis of the importance of digital marketing within the current manufacturing landscape. After setting the scene for the importance of Digital marketing, Rachel will move on to offer some practical advice. Using real life examples, Rachel will outline some ‘danger traps’ to avoid when kick-starting your digital marketing. Rachel will also deliver her top 10 tips for increasing your visibility online; giving the audience something tangible that can be implemented immediately.
Rachel’s interests and expertise are in the world of Digital and Online Marketing. Her knowledge in the online world comes not only from her first-hand experience but also from her Masters’ degree in Business (MBA) where she specialised in Digital Marketing. Rachel has extensive SEO (search engine optimisation) knowledge, which is practical and grounded in the technical world.
Samantha Howard - Business Development Manager at Keytech Managed Solutions Ltd. Keytech have been providing enterprise IT managed services and technology solutions across the UK for over 25 years. They specialise in supporting the IT requirements of modern businesses which allows their clients to concentrate on what they do best, running their business. Samantha's presentation will discuss how virtualisation can improve performance, system resilience and availability, whilst reducing carbon footprint. She will further explain how virtualisation will also reduce costs of power, cooling and require less physical space.
Samantha has 18 years’ management experience in positions such as senior accounting manager and sales manager. Her current role at Keytech is in building customer relationships. Samantha is the bridge between Keytech's technical team and the customer, especially the non-technical customers they have. Whether that be jargon busting, project development or good old fashioned advice and consultancy.
The Manufacturers Group Meeting Format:
· We don’t follow the format of other networking groups with a 1 minute pitch or pressure people for referrals.
· We drink tea & coffee and eat good old Pie & Peas while chatting informally.
· We are very friendly and open about improvements we have implemented; funding we have utilized, new technologies, useful suppliers and other benefits, such as, referrals to new clients that will help other attendees increase their bottom line and grow their businesses.
· We make a difference by supporting local charities.
· We are currently a combination of 50 local manufacturing businesses, which is growing rapidly month on month.
There is a £15 entry fee which is donated to a local charity each month. This month we will be welcoming Zac’s, a charity that is striving to make a positive and lasting difference to the lives of young people, whatever their situation, circumstances, and need.
If you would like to come along to the Manufacturers Group please contact us to arrange a guest pass. Remember you need to be a manufacturer to attend and we do not allow people to turn up on the night without prior arrangement.
Rachel Wilson – Marketing Director of KW Solutions and Founder of Process Industry Forum. KW Solutions are a dedicated digital marketing company for the engineering and manufacturing sector, with over 20 years’ of manufacturing and engineering experience. Rachel's presentation 'Practical tips to instantly increase the visibility of your website and increase your online enquiries' will begin with a quick synopsis of the importance of digital marketing within the current manufacturing landscape. After setting the scene for the importance of Digital marketing, Rachel will move on to offer some practical advice. Using real life examples, Rachel will outline some ‘danger traps’ to avoid when kick-starting your digital marketing. Rachel will also deliver her top 10 tips for increasing your visibility online; giving the audience something tangible that can be implemented immediately.
Rachel’s interests and expertise are in the world of Digital and Online Marketing. Her knowledge in the online world comes not only from her first-hand experience but also from her Masters’ degree in Business (MBA) where she specialised in Digital Marketing. Rachel has extensive SEO (search engine optimisation) knowledge, which is practical and grounded in the technical world.
Samantha Howard - Business Development Manager at Keytech Managed Solutions Ltd. Keytech have been providing enterprise IT managed services and technology solutions across the UK for over 25 years. They specialise in supporting the IT requirements of modern businesses which allows their clients to concentrate on what they do best, running their business. Samantha's presentation will discuss how virtualisation can improve performance, system resilience and availability, whilst reducing carbon footprint. She will further explain how virtualisation will also reduce costs of power, cooling and require less physical space.
Samantha has 18 years’ management experience in positions such as senior accounting manager and sales manager. Her current role at Keytech is in building customer relationships. Samantha is the bridge between Keytech's technical team and the customer, especially the non-technical customers they have. Whether that be jargon busting, project development or good old fashioned advice and consultancy.
The Manufacturers Group Meeting Format:
· We don’t follow the format of other networking groups with a 1 minute pitch or pressure people for referrals.
· We drink tea & coffee and eat good old Pie & Peas while chatting informally.
· We are very friendly and open about improvements we have implemented; funding we have utilized, new technologies, useful suppliers and other benefits, such as, referrals to new clients that will help other attendees increase their bottom line and grow their businesses.
· We make a difference by supporting local charities.
· We are currently a combination of 50 local manufacturing businesses, which is growing rapidly month on month.
There is a £15 entry fee which is donated to a local charity each month. This month we will be welcoming Zac’s, a charity that is striving to make a positive and lasting difference to the lives of young people, whatever their situation, circumstances, and need.
If you would like to come along to the Manufacturers Group please contact us to arrange a guest pass. Remember you need to be a manufacturer to attend and we do not allow people to turn up on the night without prior arrangement.