eBusiness Champions
"eBusiness Champions – giving you the tools and skills to grow your business online" Jonny Green, Axis Centre
What is the eBusiness Champions project?
A programme of face-to-face events, an online community and opportunities to learn, network, gain support and share knowledge with like minded business owners and eBusiness specialists.
Engage as part of South Leicestershire College have created a partnership with eBusiness Champions to help grow our business online. Not in competition with our peers, but learning from each other.
Jan Meredith from South Leicestershire College said that eBusiness Champions is "a fun way to learn and progress your business online; be e-active not re-active!"
What's it for?
eBusiness Champions has been created to help company owners, managers and other key staff to exploit the true commercial potential of the web. It’s about you understanding the underlying trends and identifying new markets through search and via social media. It’s about making the right technical and commercial eBusiness decisions, and learning from other businesses already successfully turning the web into a commercial reality.
How does it work?
This programme offers you live learning and networking events, online interaction and expert support, allowing you to explore the issues your business faces in exploiting the true commercial potential of the web in terms of strategy, tactics and practicalities.
Key benefits:
- Make the right business and technology decisions to succeed online
- Identify new markets and defend existing territories
- Learn from others in the East Midlands & Dublin who are already succeeding online
- Gain the confidence to guide your business and go forward
- Monthly events planned for Leicester and Nottingham city centres
Who's involved?
eChampions is part-funded by European Social Fund and is a partnership of specialist providers, leading Colleges and Universities within the East Midlands including AxisCentre (Castle College Nottingham), De Montfort University, New College Nottingham, Loughborough College, South Leicestershire College, EMFEC and Hibernia College, Dublin.
What's the cost and criteria?
We are seeking 200 businesses across the East Midlands who are genuinely interested in exploiting the commercial potential of the web to grow online and in creating new markets in the UK and internationally. There is no cost for participating businesses provided they are based in the East Midlands and employ between 1 and 250 staff.
Places subject to availability, for more information please visit www.echampions.co.uk
Practical issues covered:
- How the web is affecting your business sector, customers and competitors?
- Decide your eBusiness goals, manage suppliers and create an eBusiness plan
- Improve your website’s profitability and effectiveness
- Exploit Facebook, Twitter and other online ‘Social Media’ opportunities
- Understand how to achieve top positions in Google and other search engines
- Understand and predict the true £ value of search to understand your business bottom line
- Increase enquires and orders from your website
"Introduces you to the key basics in developing a website that will persuade people to take the course of action you need."
