June Bulletin

June - Business Tip of the month:

Reduce running costs and market effectively by:

1. Implement an intranet/extranet for staff, clients, and partners which provides support and documentation 24/7.
2. Automate and integrate your business processes such as invoicing, expense tracking, task management, project management, contact management and email marketing. Put the applications for it all under one roof, running off one database and make them available online so you and your staff can access them anytime, anywhere.This is much more efficient than using several applications and separate databases some of which are tied to desktops in the office.
3. Use your website CMS to constantly produce a stream of new pages, events, articles, videos and news items to raise your company profile online and increase the number of business leads generated.

sdesign1 News

The new Liverpool Innovation Park (http://www.liverpoolinnovationpark.com/) website goes live. The following are new features:

• News and events panels
• Gallery
• Video walk through
• Tenant company profiles
• e-newsletter
• Office finder

Mark Tock of Liverpool Innovation Park said, 'We have been delighted to experience a highly collaborative and proactive approach to developing a product which is meeting both our business' needs and those of our client community by delivering an effective vehicle for displaying dynamic content and information whilst maintaining a high level of control'.

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Free Seminar: How to grow your business and reduce running costs using your website.

Date: 6th July
Location: Liverpool Innovation Park.
Time: 9:30 to 12:30
Book: info@sdesign1.com

Other free seminars and networking events:

1. Annual Northwest Business Pitch - Environmental technologies

Date: 29th June
Location: Lancaster Environmental Centre.
Time: 10:30 to 13:30

2. Discover How Apprentices Can Help Your Business

Date: 16th June,
Location: The sessions take place at the Liverpool Chamber, Old Hall Street.
Time: 8.30am - 9.30am, 12.30pm - 1.30pm and 5pm - 6pm.

3. Customer Care breakfast event - Join business leaders at Gardner Systems to listen to two top notch speakers from both a large and a small business will be speaking about how they succeed in delivering excellent customer service

Date: 15th June
Location: Gardner Systems, 1 Faraday Road, Liverpool Innovation Park
Time: Breakfast 8:00, presentations 8:30
More details: bethan.locke@liverpool.gov.uk

4. Demystifying the Procurement Process (Liverpool Businesses only - 1 delegate per company)

Date: 22nd June
Location: Centec Business Centre, Stopgate Lane, Liverpool, L9 6AW
Time: 9.00am to 1.00pm
More details: E: kburkhill@liverpoolvision.co.uk

5. Tender Writing Skills (Liverpool Businesses only - 1 delegate per company)

Date: 7th July
Location: Vauxhall Neighbourhood Council, Silvester Street, Liverpool, L5 8SE
Time: 9.00am to1.00pm
More details: E: kburkhill@liverpoolvision.co.uk

6. Knowledege Economy Business Breakfast

Date: 29th June
Location: Liverpool Science Park, Innovation Centre 2 (ic2) 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF.
Time: 8.30 onwards

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