We have received the following information from the National Park’s Live Work & Rural Team on free training for voluntary groups/social enterprises or businesses in the Peak Park:
Dear Live & Work Rural Business
We have responded to high demand for additional FREE LOCAL training around the use of websites to improve your business performance and are working with the Derbyshire Enterprise Agency (DEA) to run the following workshops.
We anticipate demand to be high, so please book early. We have some places reserved for you as L&WR businesses, but it is also being promoted via the DEA website.
You can either phone June Ogterop on 0845 603 8370 or go directly on line www.ebusinessclub.biz to book your place and more details of the contents of the course can be found on the website.
Planning a Successful Website – Action Planning Workshop
Dates:
- 3 March 2010 Losehill Hall, Castleton
- 16 March 2010 Bakewell Agricultural Business Centre
Getting the right mix for your website is a tricky task – it has to say the right things about your company, deliver the information visitors are looking for, work properly on all the different systems it might be viewed on and get a high ranking in the search engines. Meanwhile, it must be accessible to people with disabilities and easy for you to manage and maintain.
The key to a successful website is to plan ahead, armed with the knowledge of best practice in web design and the pitfalls to avoid. Whether you are looking to develop a full online eBusiness or simply wishing to market your products and services on the Internet this one-day workshop covers an extensive array of web design topics and gives you the tools to tackle your existing site or provide a detailed brief to a web designer.
Successful Search Engine Optimisation – Action Planning Workshop
Dates:
- 4 March 2010 Bakewell Agricultural Business Centre
- 8 March 2010 Losehill Hall, Castleton
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is one of the most important aspects of internet marketing for small and medium sizes businesses; when done right, it provides the most cost-effective means of getting website visitors. SEO is centered around ensuring that your website’s content is created and structured in such a way as to be both visually appealing whilst including the factors that are crucial if your website is to be listed highly on the major search engines.
This one-day action planning workshop will guide you through the most important principles of search engine optimisation.


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