Bromley Business Hub

Networking for Business Success
2021-09-30 20:30 - 22:30 (Europe/London) | Bromley Central Library, High Street, Bromley, BR1 1EX, United Kingdom
An exclusive Start Up Bromley members event that will include not only time to speed network but also an interactive workshop that will equip you with skills and knowledge on how to effectively network.
If you wish to attend the event and are not already a member, you will need to register with Start-Up Bromley first.
Jackie Groundsell has been running successful networking events for years through 1230 TWC and we are excited to have her expertise and passion for this event.
Refreshments will be served at the event.
A photographer will be at the event, if you do not wish for your photo to be taken please notify staff upon arrival at the event.

Meeting 24. Bromley Business Network
2021-09-29 06:30 - 09:00
Description: Please note all bookings and cancellations must be made by 1.00pm on the Tuesday before the next meeting. Meetings are held fortnightly, on Wednesdays.
In-person fortnightly meetings
Doors Open from 6.30am. Meeting starts at 7.20am.
Opportunity to open network in the room with a cuppa.
Main meeting with a 45-second(ish) round where you tell us who you are, what you do and how we can help you.
Short break to network and get a coffee / tea refill.
10-minute presentation from a member.
Full English cooked or continental breakfast.
All wrapped up by 9.00am with the opportunity to open network post 9.00am.
Your profile featured on our website (after you’ve attended six meetings).
Fee £20.00

Online fortnightly meetings:
Room will be open at 6.45am
Main Zoom room to network other virtual attendees.
Main meeting with a 45-second(ish) round where you tell us who you are, what you do and how we can help you.
Short break to network and get a coffee / tea refill.
10-minute presentation from a member.
Active chat channel to book your 121s and drop any offers/business details into (this won’t be distributed post meeting).
All wrapped up by 9.00am and the opportunity to network with other virtual attendees.
Your profile featured on our website (after you’ve attended six meetings).
Fee £12.50
Bulk booking offer: 6 meetings for the price of five. Allocate six meeting dates to your basket- use the discount code:

Macmillan Coffee & Cake Day
2021-09-25 10:00 - 16:00
We are really pleased to be holding our 7th Annual Macmillan Coffee & Cake Day on Saturday 25th September between 10am – 4pm at our Shop, 32 Chislehurst Road, Orpington BR6 0DG.
As well as Coffee/ Tea and delicious Cakes, we will also have some competitions plus some amazing prizes on our famous ‘Spinning Wheel’ – this is a day to enjoy, have some fun, sample some delicious Cake and raise money for a fantastic Charity.

7 Secrets To Grow Your Business And Profits
2021-09-22 10:00 - 11:00
22nd September 10-11 am
Bells Accountants have partnered with marketing expert, Darren Hignett, who will be sharing:
· How to price your products in a way that is attractive, yet more profitable
· Ways to position prices and options in a way that makes them irresistible to potential customers
· What goes on in the customers mind when comparing options and how you can use that to grow your sales
This 60-minute live webinar is completely free to attend and won’t be recorded, so make sure to book your place now if you would like to learn more from Darren.
To book please click the Eventbrite link below, we look forward to seeing you there!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/168420609577
PURE B2B MASTERMIND EVENTS
Develop your business ideas through the valuable input of other like-minded successful business owners.
By sharing your insights, you can overcome challenges, take informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes by learning from other members experiences.
Events are held every month in Bromley and Chislehurst.
HOW IT WORKS
At your monthly Board meeting, you can discuss your latest business challenge with the Board. It’s a perfect opportunity to help you take informed decisions and build business plans using the PURE B2B 5 year business planner.
We’ll go round the table for clarification questions, followed by our observations and suggestions to help you move forward.
Our B2B mastermind events run monthly over lunch on every 2nd Tuesday in Chislehurst and 4th Thursdays in Bromley. To book a place at one of these events or for more information please email anna@bellsaccountants.co.uk.

Test Event
2021-09-20 08:00 - 17:00 | Online
This is a test event by Bromley staff

Business Presentation 1 Day Training in Bromley
2021-09-17 09:00 - 17:00
Course Description:
These business presentations training will provide you with the skills and knowledge required to deliver effective and persuasive business presentations that get results. It will help you to present in a style that changes the way people think about the topics they present to them while leaving the audience with key actions to take away.
You will be guided on how to prepare and deliver the message with impact and given the tools and techniques to ensure that their audience feel engaged and influenced by your delivery.
Persuasive presentations that get results, our Business Presentations Training.
Organisations need people that can deliver persuasive business presentations. Here you have the training to help you develop them.
Business presentations are about having the skills to engage and persuade an audience and make a change in their thinking, behaviour or attitude. It’s about preparing and delivering a presentation with impact. This business presentations training course gives you all the tools and expert knowledge to run a professional and effective workshop on presentations that get results.
Perhaps you’re looking to improve the presentation performance of a management or sales team. Or you want to include presentation skills training as part of management and leadership induction sessions. Whatever your need, we provide you with a comprehensive business presentations training to make your life easy.
Why is taking this business presentation training course a good idea?
Well, just imagine if you were better able to:Inspire your audience and achieve your presentation objectives.Deliver presentations that make a sale, gain influence or promote the business.Improve employee engagement and invigorate workers.Create a positive work environment through effective communication.Improve your self-awareness making you better, more productive presenters.Develop presentation content that delivers a winning message.
Ultimately these training allow you to develop presenters that are able to engage audiences and use persuasive techniques to get results. You need persuasive presenters. And now you have the training to help you get them.
These business presentations training is aimed at persuasion and getting results that make the audience alter their thinking, behaviour or attitude as a result of the presentation. As the training is about business presentations it is clearly aimed at making a proposition and getting that proposition acted upon.

Course Topics:
Course Content
Five Types of Presentation – Establishing the five different types of presentation and highlighting the fact that this training focuses on ‘Persuasive’ presentations
Common Presentation Mistakes – Identifying what goes wrong with presentations and understanding what can be done to ensure they go right
Planning – You and the Audience – Define your expertise by developing an effective elevator speech. Understanding your purpose as a presenter and using this knowledge to ensure you adapt your presentation to focus on the audience needs
Writing Structured Content
– The Headline – Constructing an intriguing and interesting headline that encourages the audience to find out more
– Developing Your Draft – Following a clear structure that enables you to pull together a presentation draft in no time at all. This includes:
– The Outline – This provides an in-depth structure to follow and add information
– Brainstorming – This process ensures you have more than enough content
– Presentation Notes – This provides you with an easy reference tool
– Tell a Story – Encouraging a storytelling approach to presenting
Being Persuasive – Using the AIDA persuasion model to move your audience to action
Visual Aids – Understanding the three types of visual aids and how best to use them. Following clear guidelines when using PowerPoint presentations to ensure you get the most out of this common tool
Overcoming Nerves – Clear techniques to ensure you reduce nerves and avoid stress
Delivering Your Presentation – Improving your communication style and appearing charismatic and cool. Getting your pitch, pace and volume right, using positive gestures and movement to engage with the audience and build trust

Course Feature:
At the end of this business presentations training course, you will be able to:
Design and deliver a persuasive presentation that gets results
Benchmark and structure your own presentations with real examples and tips
Explain how audiences listen and respond to presentations
Follow prompts that help them reflect, evaluate and learn from experience

Certification:
Once after the training you receive course completion certificate from Mangates
Who can Attend?
Anybody who is interested in learning Effective Soft Skills.

FSB Bromley lunchtime networking
2021-09-16 11:45 - 13:30 | Online
A regular monthly lunchtime networking event online held normally on the third Thursday of every month. This is an opportunity to build and maintain your business contacts and to have discussions on how we can collaborate to continue to operate our businesses in these challenging times.
Last year, each month the FSB in partnership with Your Bromley BID held sold-out lunchtime networking events at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. With COVID-19 restrictions and the Churchill Theatre, we’ve had to change things up – we’re online! You can still meet up with all your favourite FSB eventers on zoom.
At a glance:
The meeting will be hosted by Chandra Sharma, with Sarah Marsh-Collings, Zeenat Noorani and Piyush Patel delivering the opening introductions.
Please note, this online event starts at 12pm sharp. The zoom room will be opened 15 minutes prior at 11.45am with break out networking rooms, to give everyone time to chat and settle in. Our guest speaker for September is Kev Orkian. Kev is a semi finalist from Britain’s Got Talent in 2010 – he is going to talk about crushing fears through the art of Comedy – here is a short video that Chandra did with Kev recently https://youtu.be/t1BRI17xCQE.

Bromley Virtual Networking
2021-09-16 11:30 - 13:30
Join us for both networking and learning – for all small businesses, and self – employed entrepreneurs and a talk on when best to outsource your business / projects

Event details
A regular monthly lunchtime networking event online held normally on the third Thursday of every month. This is an opportunity to build and maintain your business contacts and to have discussions on how we can collaborate to continue to operate our businesses in these challenging times.
Last year, each month the FSB in partnership with Your Bromley BID held sold-out lunchtime networking events at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. With COVID-19 restrictions and the Churchill Theatre closed for the foreseeable future, we’ve had to change things up – we’re online! You can still meet up with all your favourite FSB eventers on zoom.
At a glance:
The meeting will be hosted by Chandra Sharma, with Sarah Marsh-Collings, Zeenat Noorani and Piyush Patel delivering the opening introductions.
Please note, this online event starts at 12pm sharp. The zoom room will be opened 15 minutes prior at 11.45am with break out networking rooms, to give everyone time to chat and settle in. Our guest speaker for September is Kev Orkian. Kev is a semi finalist from Britain’s Got Talent in 2010 – he is going to talk about crushing fears through the art of Comedy – here is a short video that Chandra did with Kev recently https://youtu.be/t1BRI17xCQE.
There will be time for Q&As before everyone will be invited to deliver a 30 second pitch.
We would like you to say:

Your name
The name of your business
1 change you have made to adapt your business to online
What you are looking for to help your business now

Afterwards, we will providing breakout rooms, forming Collaborative Solutions Groups. This will encourage business owners in similar industries to brainstorm ideas as to how we can support each other and collectively win more business, in spite of social distancing and shutdowns.
Brought to you by FSB members, Chandra Sharma, Piyush Patel and Sarah Marsh-Collings.This free FSB virtual ‘network and learn’ event is open to all businesses – FSB members and non-members are welcome to attend – so please feel free to share with your networks.
Event contact
For help and support regarding this event, please telephone our dedicated events helpline 01253 336028 or email csdeventsupport@fsb.org.uk.

Get ready for business - Start-ups in London Libraries
2021-06-17 10:00 - 2021-09-23 17:00 | Online
Our experts will cover the following steps to help you develop your business idea from concept to market and will include:
Creating a robust business
Reasons why businesses fail
Is it for me?
What are the characteristics of an entrepreneur
What skills, talent or experience are required?
Do I work 9-5 or 5-9?
Why start a business?
Importance of your values
Starting a business in its simplest from – Minimum Viable Product
What is needed for you to start your business?
Researching the market
Testing and validating your idea
Getting started – Legal and operations – the things you need to know!
Company formation
Operations
Finance
Let’s build a simple but effective business plan
Types of business plans – traditional vs modern
The Business Model Canvas
Time to build your plan!

Marketing masterclass - Start-ups in London Libraries
2021-06-16 10:00 - 2021-09-08 17:00 | Online
Join our Marketing Masterclass to discover how to determine and reach customers for your new business venture.
Are you ready to take your business idea to market? Our 2-part marketing masterclass will equip you with the knowledge and resources needed to increase brand awareness and attract more customers. These practical workshops will break down and simplify the marketing strategies and processes you need to succeed. By the end you will leave with a step-by-step guide on how to implement each approach as well as your very own marketing plan for you to use right away. The topics covered during the Marketing Masterclass include:
Part 1
Customer profiling – once we have explored who your customers are and how they think, we will then look at how you can authentically connect with them and the best marketing channels to reach them.
Good & Bad marketing – in the second part of the day we’ll gain an understanding of how to formulate an effective marketing plan by exploring what to do and more importantly, what not to do. You’ll learn how to tell your brand story through your marketing in a compelling and engaging way.
Your strategy for growth – after defining objectives for your business, we’ll then go on look at digital marketing, how to set a marketing budget and how to explore and penetrate new markets as your brand grows.
Part 2
Marketing and sales – we’ll explore the relationship between marketing and sales and identifying how to market your ideas to the right people. We will work through examples and discuss design tools which you can use to create a winning proposal.
Digital marketing – we will look at the different social media channels, touch on search engine optimisation, as well as the steps needed to build our own hashtag and keyword strategies
Partnerships and Brand collaborations – during the final part of the webinar, we will look at the benefits of partnerships, understand what potential partners are looking for and learn the steps we can take to approach the brands we want to work with.

What next for my business idea? (Online) – Start-ups in London Libraries
2021-06-15 10:00 - 2021-09-21 17:00 | Online
Session 1: What next for my business idea? (10.00 – 13.00)
In the first part of the day, you will hear from our in-borough Business Champions on the resources available in boroughs to help you progress with your business research, even from home. Our Business & IP Centre Reference team will then cover:
How you can plan you research, using tools like the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas
Different research sources and methods, including field research, customer development and Minimum Viable Product
Information sources at the British Library’s BIPC.
Session 2: How to Protect a Business Idea (14.00 – 17.00)
In the second session, we will start to delve into what is unique in your business and how you can protect it and make money from it in the future. We will cover:
Patents
Registered Designs
Trademarks
Copyright
Know-how and Trade Secrets
Your business will definitely have some form of intellectual property, whether it is in the design, name, logo, brand or the product itself, so this a crucial stage in the success of your business. We will also cover other sources of IP support available at the British Library.
Throughout the session, there will be generous breaks and time for questions.

Get ready for business: Sales (building a winning sales funnel) - Start-ups in London Libraries
2021-02-18 10:00 - 17:00 | Online
In this workshop, our sales experts will cover the key topics needed to help you identify and engage with your target customers.
Our Start-ups in London Libraries workshops are now available as webinars accessible remotely from wherever you are. To book your place on one of our webinar workshops, please visit our Eventbrite page.
This is a full day workshop with an hour’s lunch break in the middle and it will cover:
Session 1 (10.00 – 13.00): What am I selling and to whom?
Why buy from me? Determining you features, benefits and writing your elevator pitch.
Developing the emotional engagement that encourages customers to purchase.
Profiling people most likely to spend with you and creating customer personas.
How to convert leads to sales and creating a winning sales funnel.
Session 2 (14.00-17.00): Turning sales planning into revenue
Creating a reliable sales pipeline – we will particularly focus on the critical sales activities necessary to bring in the new customers you need.
What motivates a customer to buy? Listening to customers and asking questions that change sales conversations.
How to set price, manage discounts and make money.
We know that a full-day online workshop can seem daunting but there will be lots of breaks, time for questions and some individual and group activities throughout the day.
