Name: Free One-Day Business Start Up Course
Start: 2019-4-25T09-09-30-00
End: 2019-4-25T16-16-00-00
Location: IW Chamber of Commerce

Being an IW Chamber member means you’re well connected!

Every month we offer a wide range of opportunities for you to network with like-minded Island businesses. It’s a great way to meet new customers and clients, to promote your business or to catch up with existing contacts.

Our Business Networking Breakfast is long established as a great way to meet business people over a Full English breakfast, along with a guest speaker on a relevant subject.

We’re conscious that early mornings aren’t for everyone, so look out for our lunchtime and evening events too.

New for 2019, try our Tea and Toast morning networking sessions which are free to attend.

Each year the Chamber delivers prestigious business events including the Business Awards For Excellence, the B2B Expo and the Cowes Week Lunch, all of which can provide opportunities for sponsorship and entertaining key clients.

You’ll need to reserve your place in advance for any of our events. If there’s a charge for the event you’ll pay in advance via Paypal. To book on any of our events please click on the relevant link which will take you to the online booking process.

These events are for Chamber members only unless otherwise specified.

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24apr10:00 am12:00 pmIW Chamber Networking Brunch - The Breeze

Event Details

Wednesday 24th April 2019
The Breeze, Newport
10.00am – 12.00pm
£15.00 per person

Come along and join us for our FIRST Networking Brunch hosted by The Breeze who will be providing Hot Drinks + Full English Breakfast plus a fantastic venue for networking with fellow IW Chamber Members.

Your guest speaker on the day will be Leighton Atchison-Warne Founder, Tide Consulting.

Brand values (and how they add value to your business)

In today’s ever-connected world, selling your product, whatever it might be is becoming more and more difficult.It’s no longer good enough ‘just’ to have a great product; consumers want to buy from a great brand. A brand with strong ethics and values. A brand where the consumer feels as if they are buying a tiny part of the brand every time they do business with them.In this short tutorial, we’ll explore what exactly we mean by ‘values’, we’ll look at some examples of brands doing it brilliantly, and you’ll leave with some top tips on how to write your own.

A born and bred Islander, Leighton has spent the past 13 years working for award-winning Island beauty brand, Liz Earle Beauty Co. During that time, he was fortunate to work with the brand during a period of high growth and significant change. This allowed him to work in several different areas of the business, gaining valuable experience in many aspects of multi-channel retailing, from marketing and sales to learning and development, retail and creative. Starting as a Team Leader in the Customer experience team, he saw the opportunity to grow and progress and soon moved to a role in the Service & Education function, where he led a team to deliver the exceptional level of service that is now synonymous with the Liz Earle name. From here, he moved to the Marketing team where he led the brand activation team, delivering large scale events, and launching the brand in international markets, before his final role as Head of Creative, where he was responsible for the overall look and feel of the brand across all touchpoints. Now, after more than a decade, he is embarking on a new venture, Tide Consulting, a brand, marketing and customer experience consultancy. “We’re called ‘Tide’ because we understand that from time-to-time, we’ll all endure those ‘highs and lows’, explains Leighton. “Our experience is in helping people, and brands keep focused on the horizon, knowing that for every ‘low tide’ there’s the promise of an impending high”. Bringing together Leighton’s years of experience and his passion and skill for getting the best out of people, Tide offers a unique service to help businesses realise the power of their brand. Whether it’s help setting your new brand strategy, some advice and direction on creative, a fresh pair of eyes on your customer experience, or simply a bit of help focussing your efforts, Tide Consulting can help.

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Time

(Wednesday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location

The Breeze Restaurant, Island Harbour

The Breeze, Island Harbour Marina, Mill Ln, Newport PO30 2LA

Calendar GoogleCal

may

01may9:00 am10:00 amThe Benefits of Joining the Isle Of Wight Chamber

03may7:30 am9:30 amIW CHAMBER BUSINESS BREAKFAST AT ROYAL OCEAN RACING CLUB

09may7:30 am9:30 amThursday Tea and Toast Networking - Caffe Isola

17may8:00 am2:00 pmTour of Island Tea & Coffee co

23may12:00 pm2:30 pmLUNCH WITH SHAUN SMITH (SMITH + CO) - UKSA

Event Details

Thursday 23rd May 2019
UKSA, Cowes
12.00pm – 14.30pm
£20.00 per person

UKSA welcome you to a Chamber of Commerce Networking Lunch on Thursday 23^rd May at their base in Cowes. We are pleased to announce Founder and internationally recognised Shaun Smith of Smith & Co as our guest speaker. There will also be the opportunity to tour around the newly refurbished and repurposed training centre formally Cowes Youth Centre. UKSA is a Cowes based charity who use the power of the sea to offer transformational opportunities to young people; by widening access to maritime training, enhancing life skills and employment within the sector. With its commitment to the Isle of Wight community UKSA’s Funded Test the Water programme; which offers every Year 6 child the opportunity to have a taster of sailing, to date has seen over 5,000 Isle of Wight young people get on the water.

Food for thought – Three secrets to growing your business profitably

As an Isle of Wight Business Ambassador, Shaun Smith is keen to promote the Island as a place to do business as well as applying what he has learned in over thirty years of speaking and consulting internationally to help local firms. In this engaging presentation he will offer three key insights that you can apply to your business to help it grow for the long-term, whether it be a start-up or a major brand.

About the speaker

Shaun Smith has been a leader in expanding management attention from the narrow focus on customer service to the wider, more strategic drive towards customer experience. He is the founder of Smith+co the leading UK based customer experience consultancy. He is co-author of five acclaimed business books, his most recent being, ‘On Purpose, delivering a branded customer experience people love’. Shaun has worked internationally with brands across many sectors and spoken to audiences in 22 countries. He is one of only a few recipients in the UK of the prestigious PSAE (Professional Speaking Award of Excellence). Shaun is also a keen sailor and participated in a round the world yacht race in 2000 when he learned that success in sailing and success in business are very related.

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