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SUMMARY:Digital Marketing Workshop - Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for: Early-stage businesses or businesses with basic digital knowledge\nThis workshop will cover all the essentials of Digital Marketing\, it is assumed that you have only basic knowledge of how to manage these: \n\n\n\nWebsites – how to go about creating one\, the costs of a website\, ongoing costs\, what you need to know to have a good website\nSocial media – an overview of the different platforms and whether you need a presence  as well as a run down of pages\, profiles\, groups\nSEO: how do people find your website once you have built it?\nPad Ads\, email\, and content – a brief introduction to other areas of marketing you may want to consider\n\n\n\nThis session includes a light lunch and refreshments. \nBook here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/digital-marketing-workshop-11/
LOCATION:Blackpool Enterprise Centre
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SUMMARY:Start-up Workshop with Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for: Pre Starts and Early Stage businesses (less than 12 months trading) \n10am until 1pm at Wyre Civic Centre \nThis workshop will cover all the essentials of starting a business – whether you’re planning to start a business\, or have already done so\, but now feel you skipped past some of the important stuff such as: \n\nBusiness structures (sole trader\, limited company\, CIC etc)\nLegalities (insurance\, licencing\, etc)\nFinancial compliance (tax returns\, self assessment\, book keeping)\nBusiness and budget planning\nPersonal survival – how will you afford to live before it makes money?\nFunding – do you need to borrow money?\nHow will you reach your market (sales / marketing etc)\n\nThis session includes a light lunch and refreshments. \nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/start-up-workshop-with-blackpool-growth-business-academy-11/
LOCATION:Wyre Civic Centre\, Poulton-le-Fylde\,\, FY6 7UP
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UID:13159-1794988800-1795041000@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Business Breakfast Networking Event - Centre for SME & Enterprise Development
DESCRIPTION:Join the University of Lancashire for an inspiring event and hear from entrepreneurs who have built successful businesses from the ground up. \n\nBeen There\, Done That \nHosted by Professor Rob Binns\, this informal panel discussion will bring together experienced business owners to share their journeys\, lessons learned and the challenges they’ve overcome along the way. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions\, gain practical insights and hear first-hand what it really takes to start\, grow and sustain a successful business. \nDiscover Our Podcast Studio \nDid you know that the University has a state-of-the-art podcast studio available for small businesses to hire? \nPodcasting is a powerful way to build trust and credibility by sharing your expertise\, customer stories and industry insights in an authentic and engaging format. It also creates valuable content that can be repurposed across your website\, social media channels and email marketing\, helping you reach new audiences and strengthen your brand. \nWe’ll be sharing more information about this facility during the event and inviting attendees to join an exclusive tour of the studio when networking concludes at 10.30am. \nContact us: sme@lancashire.ac.uk \nBook here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/business-breakfast-networking-event-centre-for-sme-and-enterprise-business-development/
LOCATION:University of Lancashire\, Media Factory\, Preston\, PR1 2HE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261120T100000
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UID:13335-1795168800-1795179600@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Sales and Account Management with Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for all established / trading businesses \n10am until 1pm at Wyre Civic Centre – lunch is provided \n\nHelping to determine the effort level required for each client\nShould some clients be ‘Key’ and some be ‘ House’ accounts\nWhat are your existing customers buying elsewhere\, and how can you leverage this?\nIncrease spend with existing customers in a proactive way\n\nThis is an interactive sales workshop delivered by Adam Botterill at Wyre Civic Centre \nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/sales-and-account-management-with-blackpool-growth-business-academy/
LOCATION:Wyre Civic Centre\, Poulton-le-Fylde\,\, FY6 7UP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261126T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261126T130000
DTSTAMP:20261014T104819Z
CREATED:20261014T104716Z
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UID:13337-1795687200-1795698000@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Systems for scaling masterclass with Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for: Growth or Scale up businesses\nThis session is designed for growing businesses\, who want to scale\, are demonstrating growth but feel that they are either: \n\n\n\nBusy fools: always busy but this isn’t reflecting in the profits / personal earnings\nAlways ‘in’ the business: you fear taking a holiday\, and when you do\, your phone is glued to your fingertips\nExhausted from firefighting: one problem after another\, unhappy clients\, projects derailed\, staff member issues\n\n\n\nIf one or more of the above applies to you\, this session is a must. It’s a practical\, no-nonsense attack on the biggest areas in your business relating to sales\, people and money. You will leave with a better grasp\, an understanding of how to create systems\, and a clear vision of how to get more personal benefit from your business. \nThis is not a ‘motivational’ session\, it’s about attacking common problems with real systems. \nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/systems-for-scaling-masterclass-with-nikki-hesford-11/
LOCATION:Peel House
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UID:13348-1796146200-1796153400@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Financial Workshop with the Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for: Pre-start or early-stage businesses\nThis workshop will cover all the financial management of your new business \n\n\n\nWhat accounts you need to file and when\nWhat taxes you need to pay and when\nHow you manage your basic bookkeeping\nCashflow planning and forecasting\nHow to pay yourself (legally)\nHow to make sure you don’t run out of money\n\n\n\nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/financial-workshop-with-the-blackpool-growth-business-academy-12/
LOCATION:Wyre Civic Centre\, Poulton-le-Fylde\,\, FY6 7UP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261208T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261208T120000
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UID:13349-1796724000-1796731200@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:How to use AI for productivity gains – Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for: Growth or scale up businesses \nThis online session is part of a 2-part series\, where the first session is designed to help you identify processes in your business that could use AI to be more productive. It will be covering a handful of the most common labour-intensive tasks you have in your business every day\, while they won’t all apply to each business\, it has been designed that each business should be able to identify at least 1-2 opportunities to save time\, and money. \nThis session will be followed by the practical\, in-person session on implementation and training Ai agents to execute the time savings you’ve identified. \nBook here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/how-to-use-ai-for-productivity-gains-part-1-12/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270105T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270105T130000
DTSTAMP:20261029T142417Z
CREATED:20261029T142340Z
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UID:13418-1799143200-1799154000@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Start-up Workshop with Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for: Pre Starts and Early Stage businesses (less than 12 months trading) \nThis workshop will cover all the essentials of starting a business – whether you’re planning to start a business\, or have already done so\, but now feel you skipped past some of the important stuff such as: \n\nBusiness structures (sole trader\, limited company\, CIC etc)\nLegalities (insurance\, licencing\, etc)\nFinancial compliance (tax returns\, self assessment\, book keeping)\nBusiness and budget planning\nPersonal survival – how will you afford to live before it makes money?\nFunding – do you need to borrow money?\nHow will you reach your market (sales / marketing etc)\n\nThis session includes a light lunch and refreshments. \nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/start-up-workshop-with-blackpool-growth-business-academy-01/
LOCATION:Blackpool Enterprise Centre
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270107T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270107T130000
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CREATED:20261016T132538Z
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UID:13354-1799316000-1799326800@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Advanced Social Media & Content Workshop - Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for: Growth and Scale Up businesses who are already managing social media pages competently\nThis workshop is for business owners and marketers wanting to take their skills to the next level beyond simply posting content to their pages: \n\nUnderstanding what the algorithm wants from you\nGrowing your audience and measuring impact\nMonetisation of your pages and audiences\nCreating scroll-stopping content and Reels\nWhat’s new in 2026\n\nThis session includes a light lunch and refreshments. \nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/advanced-social-media-content-workshop-01/
LOCATION:Wyre Civic Centre\, Poulton-le-Fylde\,\, FY6 7UP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270111T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270111T120000
DTSTAMP:20261016T134311Z
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UID:13357-1799661600-1799668800@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Tender Writing with Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for: Growth and Scale Up Businesses \n10am til 12pm held on Zoom \nThis workshop will cover: \n\nUnderstanding which organisations procure by tender and why\nWhat does a tender process look like\nHow are tenders evaluated / awarded\nNeed to knows around compliance and governance\nWhy your bids may have scored poorly\nWhy you should not use Ai to write your bid!\n\nThis session is ideal for any businesses thinking about tendering for work\, or have previously done so and want to understand how to improve their bid next time. \nThis is relatively entry level and designed for bid of up to £200k not millions \nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/tender-writing-with-blackpool-growth-business-academy-01/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270113T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270113T120000
DTSTAMP:20261029T145132Z
CREATED:20261029T145132Z
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UID:13417-1799834400-1799841600@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Financial Workshop with Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for: Pre Starts and Early Stage businesses (less than 12 months trading) \nThis workshop will cover all the essentials of starting a business – whether you’re planning to start a business\, or have already done so\, but now feel you skipped past some of the important stuff such as: \n\nBusiness structures (sole trader\, limited company\, CIC etc)\nLegalities (insurance\, licencing\, etc)\nFinancial compliance (tax returns\, self assessment\, book keeping)\nBusiness and budget planning\nPersonal survival – how will you afford to live before it makes money?\nFunding – do you need to borrow money?\nHow will you reach your market (sales / marketing etc)\n\nThis session includes a light lunch and refreshments. \nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/start-up-workshop-with-blackpool-growth-business-academy-01-2/
LOCATION:Blackpool Enterprise Centre
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270113T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270113T140000
DTSTAMP:20261016T134536Z
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UID:13359-1799834400-1799848800@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Leadership and People Management with Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Most training of this sort is several days / week / months – it’s not easy to find free\, 1 day\, interactive leadership training for growth and scale up businesses. \nIf you found yourself being a leader… managing people\, purely because its your own business and not because you qualified and then someone gave you the job – then this is for you. This session will understand the personality types within your organisation\, and look at how you communicate effectively\, avoid and resolve conflict and have difficult conversations with ease. \nThis session is in person at Peel House 10am until 2pm and is for scaling businesses with AT LEAST 2 employees.  \nDuring this session you will learn: \n\nThe different between a leader and a manager\nDifferent management styles and understanding what your own is (and how you can adapt it in different situations or for different personalities to get the best out of people)\nGetting the best performance out of your team and what attributes are important / less important\nHandling difficult conversations\, conflict and dispute resolution with employees and stakeholders\n\nThis is a collaborative\, hand on\, high level leadership coaching session delivered by John Woodruffe of Turnkey Solutions\, a highly sought after specialist in leadership\, lean and Six Sigma Blackbelt \nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/leadership-and-people-management-with-blackpool-growth-business-academy-01/
LOCATION:Peel House
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270120T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270120T130000
DTSTAMP:20261016T140422Z
CREATED:20261016T140422Z
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UID:13361-1800439200-1800450000@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Meta Ads with Nikki Hesford and the Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Pre Requisites for attendance:\n\n\n\nyou must either be running Facebook Ads or have a plausible intention of running them within the next 3 months\nYou must have an ads budget to run ads with (minimum £100 per month)\n\n\n\nThis session with Nikki is a practical and hands on\, immersive session that will show you how to run effective ads by yourself – even if you use an agency or a third party\, you will be better equipped to understand what you are outsourcing. \nWe will be covering: \n\n\n\nNavigating Business Suite\, including Ad account creation and onboarding clients if you are an agency\nCompliance and best practices to stay safe\nThe principles of ads and types of ads\nAudience types and retargeting (including Pixel use)\nCopywriting and why some ads perform badly\nLive step by step set up of a simple Lead Gen ad campaign\n\n\n\nBook here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/meta-ads-with-nikki-hesford-01/
LOCATION:Peel House
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270126T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270126T120000
DTSTAMP:20261029T145505Z
CREATED:20261029T145505Z
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UID:13422-1800957600-1800964800@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:Understanding SEO and it's role in 2027 with Blackpool Growth Business Academy
DESCRIPTION:Search is changing faster than ever and the rules that worked two years ago won’t get you found today. In this focused\, 2-hour online session\, you’ll get a clear\, practical roadmap for ranking in a landscape now shaped as much by AI as by traditional search engines. \nWhat we’ll cover: \n\nKeyword research that works today: how to uncover the terms your audience actually searches for\, focusing on intent over raw volume\, and the tools that make the job easier\nOn-site SEO best practice: optimising your content\, page structure\, headings\, metadata\, and internal linking so search engines understand and reward your pages\nTechnical foundations: the behind-the-scenes signals that affect ranking\, from site speed and mobile-friendliness to crawlability and indexing\nOff-site SEO and authority building: how backlinks\, reputation\, and external signals boost your credibility and rankings\, plus practical ways to earn them\nAI-driven search methodology: how AI Overviews\, answer engines\, and chat-based search are changing the game\, and what it means for how you’re found\nOptimising to be cited\, not just clicked: practical tactics for staying visible when AI summarises answers directly in the results\nFuture-proofing your strategy: how to adapt as search continues to evolve\, so your approach stays effective beyond today’s trends\n\nYou’ll leave with actionable tactics you can apply immediately and a clearer understanding of where search is heading next. \nPerfect for: You will already be implementing SEO\, but want a clear\, up-to-date framework that aligns with AI advances. \nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/understanding-seo-and-its-role-in2027-with-blackpool-growth-business-academy/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270203T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270203T130000
DTSTAMP:20261029T162257Z
CREATED:20261029T162257Z
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UID:13424-1801648800-1801659600@blackpoolunlimited.com
SUMMARY:What the hell’s my P&L – demystify the money in your business
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for: Growth businesses with £75k+ turnover \n10am till 1pm at Peel House\, FY4 5JX with Nikki Hesford \nTake control of your business finances without relying on your bank balance or your accountant to tell you how things are going. \nThis session will help you: \n\nKnow how much profit you want and need to make\nUnderstand how to make that profit happen\nPlan ahead for cashflow\, VAT and tax\nMake confident financial decisions without the year-end panic\n\nBuild a calmer\, more profitable business with greater financial control. \nBook your place here
URL:https://blackpoolunlimited.com/event/wths-my-p-l-demystify-the-money-in-your-business/
LOCATION:Peel House
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