Build A Business: Marketing - The Essentials

Schedule

Thu Jan 29 2026 at 09:30 am to 01:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Business & IP Centre, 2nd floor | Manchester, EN

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Understand marketing's must-know basics to get your business out there and noticed
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Marketing - The Essentials

Join Rachel Craig and Karen Macwee from Ruche Marketing who'll be delivering Build a Business's all new marketing workshop to microbusinesses, SMEs, entrepreneurs, pre-startups and startups on the core essentials of marketing to get you started.

Rachel and Karen combined have almost 40 years of marketing experience and have designed this workshop to help give you the skills, knowledge and confidence to market your business successfully.

The workshop will cover:

  • Understanding your customers/customer segmentation
  • Building an effective marketing strategy
  • Planning marketing campaigns
  • Building a brand through consistent marketing
  • Simple search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques
  • Creating effective social media content

They'll also be on hand to answer any specific marketing questions about your business.

Important : To join this workshop you or your business needs to reside within a Greater Manchester local authority (Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Manchester, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford or Wigan).

You also need to be:

The owner of a business

OR

An aspiring entrepreneur with a business idea you want to develop.

Please arrive between 9:30-10:00am to register, workshop starts at 10:00am.

All attendees must complete this to be able to attend . If not completed in advance you will be asked to complete before joining the workshop.

PLEASE NOTE: The Build A Business programme of funded workshops have limited places. Failure to attend on two separate occasions without prior cancellation will result in you being barred from attending future workshops. This is due to the cost of setting up each workshop and making preparations based on the number of sign-ups. This includes Know Your Market; IP - Protect Your Assets; Business Basics; and Marketing: The Essentials.

Build a Business in GM Libraries is part funded by the UK Government.

For more information go to: www.buildabusinessgm.org




Agenda

🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration & refreshments
🕑: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Workshop
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Where is it happening?

Business & IP Centre, 2nd floor, Manchester Central Library, Manchester, United Kingdom

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